34503.5.
(a) There is hereby established in the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency the Strategic Area Freeway Enforcement Task Force, which shall be convened on or before April 1, 2010. The goal of the task force is to develop a work program that will optimize the effectiveness and efficiencies of the commercial vehicle enforcement network in southeast Los Angeles County through a multiagency collaborative effort focused on addressing ongoing commercial vehicle enforcement issues and to recognize the potential benefits from emerging technologies. The activities of the task force are intended to contribute to maintaining the state’s strategic advantage in goods movement through improved decisionmaking and prudent and adequate investment.(b) The task force shall report annually on or before December 31 of each year to the Governor, the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, and the Assembly Committee on Transportation and the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing on the progress made toward adoption of the recommendations developed to improve the commercial vehicle enforcement in southeast Los Angeles County pursuant to the objectives set forth in subdivision (f).
(c) The task force shall consist of four members. The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall appoint one member each from nominations provided by the Gateway Cities Council of Governments (COG), the Director of Transportation (Caltrans), the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). The Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing shall designate a chair and vice chair.
(d) Members of the task force shall serve without compensation, and no state funds may be used to compensate the members for expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(e) The task force shall be responsible for development of a work program and coordinating efforts of the participating agencies in the development, and subsequent progress towards implementation of discrete elements, of the work program. The task force shall consult stakeholders at all task force meetings and seek specific input from stakeholders affected by the individual work plan elements as they are developed in support of the overall work program. The stakeholders should include, at a minimum, representatives from port-related trucking organizations, labor organizations, businesses engaged in commercial vehicle operations, and representatives from the San Pedro Bay Ports as well as other stakeholders, as agreed upon by the task force.
(f) The task force shall consider the following activities, which address areas to be emphasized, including, but not be limited to, major policy issues related to commercial vehicle enforcement:
(1) Review current statutory authority for rerouting vehicles.
(2) Review role of transponders or other technology devices in relation to registration of commercial vehicles including, but not limited to, weigh-in-motion (WIM) devices, vehicle dimension-in-motion (VDIM) devices, automated driver identification (ADI) devices, and automated load identification devices.
(3) Evaluate the siting of truck enforcement facilities in southeast Los Angeles County.
(4) Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages in the development of automated systems for truck enforcement and inspection for southeast Los Angeles County.
(5) Evaluate potential funding sources for the construction, operation, and maintenance of manned and unmanned enforcement facilities.
(6) Provide an assessment of whether the automated devices referenced in paragraph (2) have the potential to improve the efficiency of the goods movement in southeast Los Angeles County and to extend to the state’s goods movement network.
(g) The task force shall provide a summary of its recommendations regarding all action items to each member agency prior to submitting the annual report required pursuant to subdivision (b).
(h) Initial tasks for the task force shall be the development of a work program that results in the development of a series of specific targeted actions in conformance with each of the following four major action steps to address the areas to be emphasized as specified in subdivision (f):
(1) Convening participants.
(2) Gathering and analyzing relevant data.
(3) Brainstorming of actions.
(4) Refinement of actions.
(i) The task force shall not be required to implement the provisions of this section except to the extent that nonstate funds are available to the task force for that purpose.
(j) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends that date.