既然加利福尼亚州立法机关已从11月开始的新的12美分天然气税批准了10年新利18备用网址的10年内，则在2018年初可能会批准524亿美元的新公路项目竞标浪潮。该法案称为SB-1，还包括零排放车辆的新费用。

Lawmakers approved SB-1 late in the evening on April 6. By April 7, Caltrans already was working on a list of projects that could start construction by summer 2018.

Counties and cities are looking forward to $1.5 billion a year in new revenue for maintenance and improvement to local roads. Mike Penrose, director of the Sacramento County Dept. of Transportation, told California counties that the new funds would be leveraged with federal dollars to fix structurally deficient bridges. But he also said the funds would not be enough to cover all the deferred maintenance needs. “Additional funding sources will have to be developed to address the entire funding shortfall for local streets,” he said.

Caltrans发言人Skip Allum指出，加利福尼亚州估计有60亿美元的年度无资金维护需求。仅冬季天气就增加了9亿美元的损失。

卡尔特兰（Caltrans）中央海岸地区代理总监吉姆·希弗斯（Jim Shivers）说，风暴在那里造成了8200万美元的损失。例如，Pfeiffer桥被撞倒，将大型Sur区域搁浅，直到2017年9月下旬，当时2400万美元的替换桥将到位。

As part of the negotiations process, promises were made to include projects in key districts in other funding packages: for example, $400 million for the Altamont Commuter Express rail-line extension in the Central Valley and $427 million for a highway in Riverside.

根据Allum的说法，这些资金将在州和地方机构之间分配，可以翻新估计有17,000条车道的人行道，这是该州总道路的三分之一。此外，需要修复55,000个涵洞，这是导致危险的下沉的问题。

Associated General Contractors of California Chief Executive Officer Tom Holsman heralded the bill as a way to create up to 1.5 million jobs.