Senate Bill 926 was introduced Friday, Jan. 12, by state Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Hayward, as a way to replace her previously introduced legislation Senate Bill 397, which instructs the California State Transportation Agency to develop a plan for the eventual consolidation of the roughly two dozen transit agencies operating in the Bay Area.
SB 397 was introduced as a gut-and-amend bill on Thursday, Jan. 4 — which takes an already-approved bill and substantially alters the language — as a way to expedite what she previously referred to as a public transit system with “too many cooks in the kitchen.” But due to the nature of such a bill, it would have had to go through the Senate by the end of the month, something Wahab’s office regarded as unlikely. Instead, SB 926 will go through committee hearings as part of the regular session.
The bill’s text remains the same, urging movement on a contentious issue that proponents of such a bill call long overdue and opponents deem divisive and even impetuously executed.
The legislation does not require the execution of specific mergers but does instruct the state agency to undergo research and devise a plan on the most feasible and impactful types of consolidation. The plan would have to encompass all agencies under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the regional financing and coordinating body across the Bay Area.
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