The bill, AB 377, unanimously passed the Assembly Transportation Committee with full bipartisan support and now heads to the Appropriations Committee.
“Without a clear financial roadmap, the project risks leaving Fresno with an incomplete, unusable infrastructure — a modern-day Stonehenge,” said bill author Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, through whose district the train would run. “By statutorily requiring a funding plan, AB 377 forces accountability before more taxpayer money is wasted on government mismanagement.”