Transportation: State-Local Partnership Program.

Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, provides for $1 billion of bond proceeds for the State-Local Partnership Program to be allocated by the California Transportation Commission to eligible transportation projects nominated by transportation agencies, subject to appropriation by the Legislature of moneys from the State-Local Partnership Program Account. Existing law requires a dollar-for-dollar match of local funds for projects funded with these bond funds. Existing law defines eligible local matching funds for those purposes as any voter-approved local or regional tax or fee solely dedicated to transportation improvements and uniform developer fees. This bill would expand the definition of eligible local matching funds for purposes of these provisions to include developer fees, mineral or resource extraction fees or taxes, and local or regional fees or taxes solely dedicated to transportation improvements imposed within a county or any part thereof by voter approval or by the board of supervisors.