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Sacramento legislative update: cap-and-trade settlement preserves transit funding through 2045 and several bills affect SolTrans services
Summary
Michael Pimentel, SolTrans's legislative advocate in Sacramento, told the board that negotiations preserved previously committed transit funds through 2030 and continued similar funding levels through 2045 under the session's revised cap-and-trade plan.
Michael Pimentel, the board's Sacramento legislative advocate, briefed Solano County Transit (SolTrans) directors on the end of the 2025 legislative session and a set of measures the agency should track.
Pimentel said the governor and legislature negotiated a new cap-and-trade package (reframed in session materials as "cap and invest") that maintains previously committed transit monies through 2030 and continues similar funding levels for transit through 2045. He said the package includes specified dollar commitments for programs such as the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP) and Low Carbon Transit Operations Program (LC TOP), and that the state assigned priority tiers for how cap-and-trade revenues will be spent.
Why it matters: SolTrans receives formula and competitive funds that flow from statewide…
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