State financed projects: state competitive grant programs.

Existing law authorizes a governmental agency to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction of, and to lease to private entities, specified types of fee-producing infrastructure projects. Existing law prohibits a state agency or specified governmental agencies from using this authorization to design, construct, finance, or operate a state project, defined as including tollroads, state water projects, state park and recreation projects, and state-financed projects. This bill would exclude state-financed projects from the definition of "state projects" and would authorize a state-financed project to pursue, and receive, if selected, state competitive grants or other allocations from programs for which the project is eligible, including, but not limited to, any of specified programs, including, among others, the program commonly known as the Trade Corridor Enhancement Program.