California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill requiring funding plan for state's high-speed rail project

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The California Governor has signed a measure requiring the state's High-Speed Rail Authority to make a backing plan.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 377 connected Wednesday, requiring the obstruction authorization to update outgo estimates, hazard assessments and work initiation options for the Merced to Bakersfield conception successful its 2026 concern plan.

"California's high-speed obstruction task is simply a captious concern successful our future, and we indispensable stay focused connected policies that assistance wide the way to completion," Newsom said successful a signing statement.

The measure was authored by Central Valley assemblymember David Tangipa, who called his measure a necessity.

"My measure is an important measurement to marque definite Fresno and the Central Valley are not near with an unfinished monument of wasted payer dollars..." Tangipa said successful a statement.

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The signing comes arsenic California's High Speed Rail Authority is suing the Trump Administration to support $4 cardinal worthy of national backing for the project.

In June, the High-Speed Rail Authority said it expected trains to beryllium rolling by 2030, 10 years aft the archetypal extremity and good supra the archetypal estimated outgo of $33 billion.

Now, it's expected to outgo betwixt $89 and $128 billion.

Under Governor Newsom's existent budget, the obstruction effort would person $1 cardinal annually implicit the adjacent 20 years to implicit its archetypal operating segment.