14072.6.
(a) (1) The secretary, in consultation with the director, shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, regarding the LOSSAN Rail Corridor that includes all of the following information:(A) Prioritized capacity improvement projects in the corridor necessary to improve current services and accommodate future passenger and freight service growth.
(B) Prioritized resiliency improvement projects in the corridor necessary to ensure the safe and continued movement of trains.
(C) A description of administrative actions taken by the Transportation Agency using authority in
existence before January 1, 2025, to improve the management of the corridor.
(D) Recommendations received pursuant to paragraph (2).
(2) The department and commission, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection, shall submit recommendations to the secretary for inclusion in the report required pursuant to this subdivision regarding updates or changes to state agencies, policies, planning documents, programs, including the state transportation improvement program and the interregional transportation improvement program, and guidelines, needed to support the LOSSAN Rail Corridor. These recommendations shall include a review of how state rail planning documents are implemented, managed, and enforced.
(3) In preparing the report pursuant to this subdivision, the secretary and director shall consult
existing plans and studies for the LOSSAN Rail Corridor, including, but not limited to, the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Optimization Study adopted by the LOSSAN Rail Corridor Agency.
(b) (1) The metropolitan planning organizations for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara shall jointly submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2026, that provides recommendations on all of the following as necessary to ensure the long-term viability of comprehensive and coordinated passenger and freight rail services in the LOSSAN Rail Corridor:
(A) Dedicated and formula funding distributions for passenger rail operations, including intercity and regional rail services along the corridor.
(B) Strategies to increase rail service coordination and reduce
disruptions or delays, including, but not limited to, those caused by climate resiliency, track closures, state of good repair, equipment, and staffing.
(C) Changes to local or regional governance, management structures, and consolidation for intercity and regional rail services.
(D) Changes to state statutes or policies relating to intercity and regional rail services.
(E) Changes to enabling state legislation, policies, rules, or funding.
(F) Opportunities for rail to accelerate and support equity, safety, sustainability, zero-emissions, equipment, and economic development goals.
(G) Opportunities for these metropolitan planning organizations to analyze, describe, and report progress in
operating, maintaining, and improving the corridor consistent with state and local planning documents in their sustainable communities strategies or, if applicable, alternative planning strategies, adopted pursuant to Section 65080.
(H) Opportunities for these metropolitan planning organizations to adopt multiregional goals relating to passenger and freight rail service, capital improvement projects related to those services, and resiliency of those services along the corridor to include in their respective sustainable communities strategies or, if applicable, alternative planning strategies, adopted pursuant to Section 65080.
(2) The report required pursuant to this subdivision shall include meaningful public engagement led by the metropolitan planning organizations and be developed with the support of a steering committee composed of representatives of business, community,
transportation, environmental, labor, and civic organizations. The report shall be adopted by the governing boards of each metropolitan planning organization before submission to the Legislature.
(c) (1) The reports to be submitted pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.