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Assembly Committee on Local Crovernment
S u m m a ry o f L e gl s La t L o n 200 r:to02
Sim6n Salinas Chair
VaveCogdiU Lou. Correa Lynn Uau.cher om Harman
La.Su.er Lowenthal
.. Steinberg Helen Thotnson ) u.an Vargas Patricia Wiggins
). Stacey Su.Uivatt Chief Consultant
Joanne M. L Wong Senior Consultant
Frances Chacon Associate Consultant
Dixie Petty Committee Secretary
STATE CAPITOL
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October 15, 2002
To All Interested Parties:
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SIMON SALINAS ASSEMBLYMEMBER. TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT
COMMITTEES:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT (V1ce Chair)
AGRICULTURE EDUCATION HEALTH HOUSI~.JG & COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
SELECT COMMITTEE ON RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (Chair)
The following is a summary of bills reviewed by the Assembly Committee on Local Government during the 2001-2002 legislative session that includes a brief description, separated into two categories: (a) bills approved by the Legislature and sent to the Governor, and (b) bills not sent to the Governor.
For additional information regarding this summary or other activities of the committee, please contact the committee staff at (916) 319-3958.
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Prmted on Recycled Paper
ASSEMBLY LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE 2001-02 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
BILLS SENT TO THE GOVERNOR:
ASSEMBLY BILLS:
AB 15 (Harman) Chapter 1053, Statues of 2002 Applies the existing authorization permitting cities and counties to license and regulate cosmetologists, barbers, and healing arts licensees to independent contractors who are engaged in the business of massage and are employed by these businesses.
AB 38 (Strom-Martin) Chapter 107, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct a study and submit a report, by March 1, 2002, on the forms of governance of water agencies that are governed by boards of supervisors.
AB 49 (Washington) Vetoed Establishes a program to award grants to public libraries for the extension of academic, informational, and mentoring services to teenagers.
AB 88 (Alquist) Chapter 63, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Water District to grant specified exemptions to special taxes for residential parcels owned and occupied by taxpayers who are at least 65 years old, if the total household income is less than an amount approved by the voters of the district.
AB 93 (Wayne) Chapter 946, Statutes of 2001 Creates the San Diego Regional Airport Authority (SDRAA) with the power to plan, site, own, and operate a new regional airport. This bill also assigns SDRAA the power to own and operate San Diego International Airport at Lindbergh Field. This bill shifts these duties and powers from the San Diego Association of Governments and the San Diego Unified Port District to SDRAA.
AB 134 (Kelley) Chapter 929, Statutes of 2001 Specifies statutory provisions under which the Castaic Lake Water Agency may exercise its authority to sell State Water Project water, and authorizes the Coachella Valley Water District to recover specified groundwater replenishment costs.
AB 145 (Robert Pacheco) Chapter 108, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the payment by credit card for the deposit of bail or for any fine for any offense not declared to be a felony.
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AB 152 (Calderon) Chapter 810, Statutes of 2001 Establishes procedures relating to conflict-of-interest provisions for voting members of the San Gabriel Water Quality Authority.
AB 169 (Wiggins) Chapter 381, Statutes of 2001 Standardizes county auditor property tax allocation guidelines and caps reallocation or adjustment of property tax distributions made by counties.
AB 185 (Wright) Chapter 412, Statutes of 2001 Makes changes to the Local Agency Military Base Recovery Act to bring it in line with the Target Area Contract Preference Act and the Enterprise Zone Act.
AB 205 (Koretz) Chapter 36, Statutes of 2001 Prohibits a city or county from requiring business licenses or permits, or imposing taxes on specified income earned from work performed in the home.
AB 206 (Wyland) Vetoed Defines "public agency" and "unincorporated territory" for purposes of a San Diego Municipal Utility District.
AB 209 (Dickerson) Chapter 13, Statutes of 2001 Allows the Glenn County Board of Supervisors to adopt an ordinance and convert the public administrator's office from an elected to an appointed position and to consolidate it with the public guardian.
AB 212 (Correa) Chapter 123, Statutes of 2001 Requires that a portion of the former Tustin Marine Corps Air Station be transferred to the Santa Ana Unified School District and the Rancho Santiago Community College District for construction of school and college facilities.
AB 277 (Kelley) Chapter 38, Statutes of 2001 Provides that if the purpose set forth in a joint powers agreement is to pool the self-insurance claims of two or more local public entities, it shall not be considered an agreement establishing joint and several liability among those public entities.
AB 314 (Chan) Chapter 18, Statutes of 2001 Broadens the list of eligible recipients of county surplus property to include schools and other non-profit programs serving children.
AB 330 (Reyes) Vetoed Authorizes a city, when annexing a specific parcel of land subject to a Williamson Act contract on a specific date, to not be subject to the contract's terms at the time of annexation.
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AB 457 (Canciamilla) Chapter 56, Statutes of 2001 Requires that the local agency approving the issuance of bonds for specified developmentrelated capital improvements must be the city or county with land use jurisdiction over the development project.
AB 553 (Runner) Chapter 225, Statutes of 2001 Converts an appointed directorial position of the Castaic Lake Water Agency board to an elected one. -
AB 589 (Wesson) Chapter 521, Statutes of 2001 Replaces the State-County Property Tax Administration Loan Program with the State-County Property Tax Administration Grant Program.
AB 609 (Kelley) Chapter 57, Statutes of 2001 Eliminates a series of duplicate Government Code sections on public investments and updates and cleans-up language in other code sections.
AB 674 (Dutra) Chapter 847, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Water District, upon approval of its governing body, to use the design-build bidding procedure for public works, under specified conditions; and clarifies a provision of AB 1679 (Shelley), as specified.
AB 682 (Calderon) Chapter 75, Statutes of 2001 Allows the governing boards of mosquito abatement, pest abatement, or vector control districts to determine the travel allowance for their own members.
AB 720 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 388, Statutes of 2001 Makes several technical and non-controversial changes necessary to the revision of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 [AB 2838 (Hertzberg), Chapter 761, Statutes of 2000].
AB 729 (Kehoe) Chapter 664, Statutes of 2001 Temporarily exempts military departments of the United States from paying required fees for complying with waste discharge requirements.
AB 735 (Chan) Chapter 101, Statutes of 2001 Clarifies a conflict of interest provision relating to county children and families commissions.
AB 745 (Cox) Vetoed Modifies procedures public agencies must follow in order to receive reimbursement for costs imposed by state-mandated programs.
AB 771 (Runner) · Chapter 163, Statutes of 2001 Abolishes the Antelope Valley Air Pollution Control District (A V APCD), and instead, cre<ttes the Antelope Valley Air Quality Management District with the same boundaries, governing board structure, and general duties as the former A VAPCD.
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AB 776 (Thomson) Chapter 426, Statutes of 2002 Adds provisions to the Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District Act to authorize service beyond its boundaries.
AB 793 (Cox) Chapter 665, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes a municipal utility district to procure supplies and materials on the basis of "best value at lowest cost" criteria when the expenditure exceeds $50,000.
AB 837 (Briggs) Chapter 186, Statutes of 2001 Provides that the State Treasurer is authorized to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by law.
AB 857 (Wiggins) Chapter 1016, Statutes of 2002 Codifies state land use priorities, requires existing state plans to be consistent with priorities, requires the Governor to develop a process to resolve land use conflicts between two or more state agencies and extends the sunset on a voluntary mediation process to resolve land use disputes.
AB 864 (Thomson) Chapter 390, Statutes of 2001 Changes the makeup of the governing board of the Sacramento County Regional Sanitation District.
AB 948 (Kelley) Chapter 667, Statutes of 2001 Amends portions of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Reorganization Act of 2000 pertaining to special districts.
AB 953 (Simitian) Chapter 23, Statutes of 2002 Clarifies the scope of the type of property that may be exchanged and increases the spending cap for maintenance contracts for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District.
AB 959 (Kelley) Chapter 19, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians to enter into a joint powers agreement to participate in the Salton Sea Authority.
AB 967 (Chan) Chapter 418, Statutes of 2001 Enables specified buildings at the Oakland Army Base to comply with specified state building standards.
AB 1011 (Pavley) Chapter 819, Statutes of 2001 Requires county recorders to maintain a comprehensive index of conservation easements on land within their counties.
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AB 1021 (Goldberg) Chapter 88, Statutes of 2001 States that an owners association is a private entity, but subject to the provisions of the Ralph M. Brown and Public Records Acts.
AB 1098 (Havice) Vetoed* Allows Los Angeles County to use the amounts identified for transfer to special districts from the Special District Augmentation Fund (SDAF) rather than actual amounts transferred frcm SD AF, when .calculating-revenue .exemptions undeL the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.
AB 1103 (Papan) Chapter 52, Statutes of 2001 Revises the requirements for law library boards of trustees.
AB 1145 (Jackson) Chapter 24, Statutes of 2002 Allows the Ventura County Board of Supervisors to initiate the formation of a regional park and open-space district by holding a public hearing, adopting a resolution, and calling the election in lieu of the usual petition and hearing requirements.
AB 1163 (Calderon) Chapter 941, Statutes of 2002 Extends current accounting and administrative reforms, based on recommendations from a recently released state audit report, of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California.
AB 1207 (Longville) Chapter 562, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes local governments to provide by ordinance for the installation of small wind energy systems, as defined, and requires local governments that have not provided such authorization by a specified date to approve applications for small wind energy systems by right if certain conditions are met by the applicants.
AB 1367 (Wiggins) Chapter 396, Statutes of 2001 Increases the amount of consultation and information sharing required between local planning agencies and school districts concerning school siting.
AB 1495 (Cox) Chapter 530, Statutes of 2001 Amends the process by which new incorporations occur and how revenues transfer between a county and new city following an incorporation.
AB 1544 (Maldonado) Vetoed Makes an annexation of property to the Cambria Community Services District effective for purposes of calculating property taxes for FY 2002-03.
AB 1553 (Keeley) Chapter 762, Statutes of 2001 Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to develop guidelines for environmental justice at the local level and requires local governments to follow those guidelines.
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AB 1579 (Kehoe) Chapter 41, Statutes of 2001 Requires county boards of supervisors to provide sheriffs with independent legal counsel when a conflict of interest arises with county counsel or the district attorney.
AB 1760 (John Campbell) Chapter 41, Statutes of2002 Requires water producers served by the Orange County Water District to file a basin equity assessment report on or before November 30 of each year.
AB 1785 (Reyes) Chapter 55, Statutes of 2002 Allows the Selma Community Hospital, a private non profit hospital in Fresno County, to enter into joint powers agreements with public agencies.
AB 1823 (Papan) Chapter 841 , Statutes of 2002 Requires the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco) to adopt a capital improvement program for the Bay Area regional water system (system), to be completed by 2015, prescribes policies and procedures for periods of water shortage or supply interruption. Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to conduct an audit of San Francisco's program of maintenance of the system and to ensure the system is operated in compliance with state and federal safe drinking water laws, and makes provisions to be implemented in case a special district is formed to administer the system.
AB 1866 (Wright) Chapter 1062, Statutes of 2002 Requires local governments to use a ministerial process for approving second housing units and prohibits them from applying any development standard that would have the effect of precluding an affordable housing development from receiving a density bonus and concessions.
AB 1892 (Harman) Chapter 79, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes the Orange County Sanitation District to acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and furnish facilities for the diversion, treatment, and reuse of urban runoff.
AB 1939 (Daucher) Vetoed Requires the California Research Bureau to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2004, that analyzes and evaluates the fiscal impact on the state and local jurisdictions of this bill as introduced February 14, 2002.
AB 1945 (Simitian) Chapter 1119, Statutes of 2002 Subjects the willful disclosure of confidential information discussed during local legislative closed meetings to formalized penalties.
AB 1948 (Kelley) Chapter 493, Statutes of 2002 Redefines the formula by which independent special districts pay local agency formation commission net operating expense fees.
AB 1964 (Diaz) Chapter 159, Statutes of 2002 Permits any person to request notice of changes in city ordinances.
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AB 1997 (Thomson) Chapter 613, Statutes of 2002 Prohibits a city or county from granting either a tentative map or a parcel map for land subject to an open-space easement, agricultural conservation easement, or conservation easement.
AB 2038 (Ashburn) Chapter 82, Statutes of2002 Authorizes Tulare County to disburse money from a revolving fund to county service areas without the requirement of reimbursement.
AB 2048 (Salinas) Vetoed Revises and recasts provisions relating to the retention and destruction of video, telephone, and radio recordings for counties, cities and special districts.
AB 2058 (Papan) Chapter 844, Statutes of 2002 Provides for the formation of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BA WSCA) by at least 15 of the 26 public entities in Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties that currently purchase water from the City and County of San Francisco (San Francisco).
AB 2122 (Washington) Chapter 83, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes an increase in the percentage of the portfolio that the City of Los Angeles can invest in commercial paper.
AB 2175 (Daucher) Vetoed Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research to include guidelines for addressing human service matters in its guidelines for the preparation and contents of city and county general plan mandatory elements.
AB 2182 (John Campbell) Chapter 162, Statutes of 2002 Permits local agencies to invest in money market funds.
AB 2193 (Maddox) Chapter 339, Statutes of 2002 Provides that property taxes allocated to the Orange County Fire Authority may only be used for specified purposes.
AB 2224 (Nation) Chapter 341 , Statutes of 2002 Creates the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) District (district) and establishes a comprehensive set of powers and duties regarding the formation, governance, organization, maintenance, operation and potential dissolution of the district.
AB 2227 (Harman) Chapter 548, Statutes of 2002 Makes several non-controversial changes to the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000.
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AB 2292 (Dutra) Chapter 706, Statutes of 2002 Prohibits a city or county from reducing, requiring, or permitting the reduction of residential density on any parcel below the density that was used to determine compliance with the housing element of the its general plan, with specified exceptions.
AB 2320 (Strickland) Chapter 564, Statutes of 2002 Changes the name of the Ventura County Flood District to the Ventura County Watershed Protection District and the act..thatgoverns it to the Ventura County Watershed Protection Act.
AB 2370 (Thomson) Chapter 614, Statutes of 2002 Prohibits local agency formation commissions from approving annexations to, or the expansion of the spheres of influence of, cities or special districts that would include land subject to a farmland security zone contract or Williamson Act contract under specified conditions.
AB 2561 (Vargas) Vetoed Provides a streamlined process for forming a ·business improvement district (BID) incorporating a mass transit station.
AB 2645 (Aanestad) Chapter 1120, Statutes of 2002 Permits, under the "Threat to Public Services or Facilities" exception to the 1953 Ralph M. Brown Act (Brown Act), the governing board of a local agency to hold closed sessions with security consultants in addition to specified law enforcement officials.
AB 2648 (Wyland) Vetoed Allows San Diego County to review claims and expenses for law library facilities' operation and maintenance to determine whether the costs in question are necessary in order for the county to meet its statutory duty to provide sufficient quarters for the law library.
AB 2776 (Simitian) Chapter 496, Statutes of 2002 Requires potential homebuyers to be notified if the house they intend to buy is located within an airport influence area, as defined.
AB 2825 (Wiggins) Vetoed Authorizes any city, county, or city and county to form a fire protection finance agency.
AB 2851 (Cogdill) Chapter 960, Statutes of 2002 Requires additional disclosure for existing and future community facilities districts.
AB 2855 (Strom-Martin) Chapter 660, Statutes of 2002 Requires the State Controller, as an uncodified statute, to reallocate and reapportion moneys collected under the Vehicle License Fee Law, the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law to correct prior apportionments and allocations that were calculated using population ratios based on erroneous prison geocoding contained in the 2000 Census.
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AB 2867 (Kehoe) Chapter 961, Statutes of 2002 Allows the Redevelopment Agency (RA) of the City of San Diego, the Housing Authority of the City of San Diego (Housing Authority), the San Diego Housing Commission (Housing Commission), the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD), and the City of San Diego (City) to enter a joint powers agreement to create a joint powers agency (JPA) to develop and construct a model school project in the City Heights Project Area.
AB 2875 (Vargas) .. Chapter 692. Statutes of 2002 Recommences the start date for Local Agency Military Base Recovery Area (LAMBRA) designations, while maintaining the eight-year limitation term of those designations.
AB 2928 (Matthews) Chapter 1072, Statutes of 2002 Permits the Merced County Board of Supervisors to abolish the office of Marshal and establish a court security division in the sheriff's office.
AB 2936 (Aroner) Chapter 963, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes local agency zoning and permit fees to include costs reasonably necessary to prepare and revise the plans and policies that a local agency is required to adopt before it can make any necessary findings and determinations.
AB 2954 (Simitian) Vetoed Requires cities and counties to address the distribution of child care facilities, not including family day care homes, within the land use element of any general plan adopted or revised after January 1 , 2003.
AB 2955 (Pescetti) Chapter 318, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District to assess a specified per-acre assessment for expenses related to the delivery of surface water, groundwater recharge, and related expenses.
AB 2964 (Shelley) Chapter 464, Statutes of 2002 Transfers the Hunter's Point Shipyard trust lands from the United States Department of the Navy to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency instead of the San Francisco Port Commission.
AB 3035 (Judiciary) Chapter 300, Statutes of 2002 Cross-references current disability discrimination law in the state's open meetings laws. Inserts into the open meetings laws a reference to the existing obligations under federal law regarding disability discrimination, and makes a technical change to the language of the race and national origin discrimination ban.
AB 3057 (Matthews) Vetoed Changes the open-space element of a general plan to the agricultural and open-space element, and requires local governments to revise their general plans to minimize or avoid land use conflicts and to promote long-term agricultural viability.
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ACR 228 (Rod Pachedo) Chapter 114, Statutes of 2002 Requests that the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to name an existing or planned county building in Riverside County after Sheriff Larry D. Smith.
SENATE BILLS:
SB 68 (Battin) Chapter 761, Statutes of 2002 Reiterates through clarify~ng language that funds deposited into the Local Agency Investment Fund are not state funds, and may not be withheld or appropriated by the state.
SB 161 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 10, Statutes of 2001 Enacts the First Validating Act of 2001, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 162 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 272, Statutes of 2001 Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2001, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 163 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 273, Statutes of 2001 Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2001, validating the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 195 (Chesbro) Chapter 767, Statutes of 2001 Makes minor changes to several statutes pertaining to counties and districts.
SB 197 (Chesbro) Chapter 360, Statutes of 2001 Requires that electrical systems in or around marinas be inspected every two years.
SB 210 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 176, Statutes of 2001 Makes several technical and non-controversial changes to the laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties, as well as the state statutes on land use and redevelopment.
SB 221 (Kuehl) Chapter 642, Statutes of 2001 Prohibits a planning agency from approving a development agreement that includes a subdivision of more than 500 units unless the development agreement provides that any tentative map prepared for the subdivision will comply with the requirements of this bill.
SB 282 (Dunn) Chapter 288, Statutes of 2001 Requires the State Controller to electronically publish an additional financial report on selected special districts.
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SB 350 (Alpert) Chapter 632, Statutes of 2001 Requires the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to adopt guidelines governing unreserved fund balances.
SB 428 (Oller) Chapter 91, Statutes of2001 Changes the composition of the El Dorado County Water Agency's board of directors from the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors to a five-member board of directors, as specified.
SB 449 (Sher) Chapter 170, Statutes of 2001 Makes technical or clean up amendments to different sections of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Act.
SB 497 (Sher) Chapter 873, Statutes of 2001 Revises provisions of the Subdivision Map Act pertaining to lot line adjustments and certificates of compliance, and repeals provisions of the Map Act concerning dedication of land for bicycle paths and transit facilities.
SB 516 (Johnson) Chapter 537, Statutes of2001 Authorizes Orange County to continue to implement the certified Local Coastal Program (LCP) for a particular region within the county following the area's annexation by the City of Newport Beach, and the city would then have approximately 24 months to develop its own LCP to supercede use of the county's LCP, or face an ongoing late fee until the LCP is completed.
SB 520 (Chesbro) Chapter 671, Statutes of2001 Adds to the list of prohibited housing discrimination and requires the housing element of a general plan to consider housing needs for persons with disabilities.
SB 539 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 636, Statutes of 2001 Conforms a provision of the Parking District Law of 1951, to the statutory procedures for levying assessments to requirements of Proposition 218 (1996), and makes a technical change to assessment ballot tabulation procedures.
SB 544 (Committee on Local Government) Chapter 43, Statutes of 2001 Adds a county to the definition of local agency and a board of supervisors to the definition of legislative body".
SB 609 (Costa) Chapter 606, Statutes of 2001 Makes numerous minor changes to a range of statutes pertaining to provision of water.
SB 610 (Costa) Chapter 643, Statutes of 2001 Expands the requirement for public water systems to prepare water supply assessments for large scale projects, and requires additional information to be included in the assessment.
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SB 621 (Costa) Chapter 1103, Statutes of 2002 * Allocates Proposition 13 bond proceeds to the Tulare County Water Works District No. 1, the Alpaugh Irrigation District, and to Madera County for the Oakhurst area.
SB 655 (Machado) Chapter 280, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the Sacramento Regional Transit District to form "transit-oriented joint development projects".
SB 671 (Poochigian) Chapter 45, Statutes of 2001 Authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to hold closed sessions to discuss a local agency employee's application for early withdrawal of funds in a deferred compensation plan when the application is based on financial hardship arising from an unforeseeable emergency due to illness, accident, casualty, or other extraordinary event.
SB 707 (Local Government) Chapter 15, Statutes of 2001 Revises the Recreation and Park District Law.
SB 720 (Margett) Chapter 143, Statutes of 2001 Makes changes to the make-up of the appointees to the governing body of the commission that oversees Medi-Cal managed care in Los Angeles county and expands the provision that deems that members are not to be interested in a contract entered into by the commission, to include an amendment to a contract.
SB 784 (Torlakson) Chapter 608, Statutes of 2001 Expands the range of projects eligible for funding by the Jobs-Housing Balance Improvement Program Fund, and authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to adjust incentive criteria in order to allow funding to remain available for more than one annual allocation year.
SB 823 (Poochigian) Chapter 21, Statutes of 2002 Amends spending and reporting requirements under the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act of 2000.
SB 883 (Escutia) Chapter 829, Statutes of 2001 Expands conflict-of-interest and competitive bidding provisions of the Water Replenishment District Act.
SB 932 (McPherson) Chapter 85, Statutes of 2001 Extends the deadlines for specified local governments to update their housing elements.
SB 974 (Torlakson) Chapter 832, Statutes of 2001 Reaffirms that charter cities are subject to the Public Contract Code.
SB 1019 (Torlakson) Chapter 221, Statutes of 2002 Cleans up incorrect or out-of-date references in the California Codes concerning responsibilities of county clerks and clerks to boards of supervisors.
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SB 1054 (Knight) Chapter 612, Statutes of 2001 Provides a process for the selection of a "single local base retention entity" to provide a means for affected local entities to partner in base retention efforts by authorizing the creation of a JPA.
SB 1098 (Alarcon) Chapter 939, Statutes of 2001 Makes changes in law relating to interim ordinances and housing element law.
SB 1231 (Local Government) Chapter 221, Statutes of 2002 Enacts the First Validating Act of 2002, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 1232 (Local Government) Chapter 222, Statutes of 2002 Enacts the Second Validating Act of 2002, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 1233 (Local Government) Chapter 223, Statutes of 2002 Enacts the Third Validating Act of 2002, which validates the organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds of the state, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, redevelopment agencies, and other public agencies.
SB 1268 (Battin) Chapter 75, Statutes of 2002 Conforms the Lake Cuyamaca Recreation and Park Districts 1961 statute to recent state law that governs all other recreation and park districts, and makes statutory changes that permits this district to issue general obligation bonds under the same statutory provisions that apply to other recreation and park districts.
SB 1313 (Margett) Chapter 224, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes a county board of supervisors on behalf of the sheriff, and the legislative body of any city on behalf of the chief of police to contract to provide supplemental law enforcement services to private entities on a permanent basis.
SB 1323 (Ackerman) Chapter 94, Statutes of 2002 Modifies bankruptcy statute by changing the definition of "local government entity" to conform with the federal Bankruptcy Act definition of "municipality".
SB 1326 (Local Government) Chapter 454, Statutes of 2002 Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2002 and 19 relative minor, noncontroversial changes to the laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties.
SB 1329 (Chesbro) Chapter 500, Statutes of 2002 Does the following: (1) allows deposits to the Courthouse Construction Fund and the Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Fund in Sonoma County to continue for an additional 10 years; (2) allows Stanislaus County to specify how withdrawals of the redevelopment
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agency property tax increment from jurisdictions are made, and deem any apportionment of property tax revenues made prior to January 1, 2003, to be correct; and (3) contains an appropriation from the Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund to allow the State Controller to all0~o:ate to the service authority in Humboldt County the abandoned vehicle abatement funds for calendar years 2000 and 2001.
SB 1348 (Brulte) Chapter 321, Statutes of 2002 Requires the Department ofWater Resources (DWR) to take into consideration the degree in which a water agency has implemented or scheduled to implement the water conservation measures identified in its urban water management plan when evaluating applications for grants and loans made by DWR from the Water Conservation Account.
SB 1352 (Chesbro) Chapter 283, Statutes of 2002 Cleans up and revises the statute that governs the Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District.
SB 1384 (Costa) Chapter 969, Statutes of 2002 * Makes various, non-controversial changes regarding local agency formation commission (LAFCO) costs, water supply, and grants for purposes of financing domestic water system improvement projects to specified school districts.
SB 1432 (Alpert) Chapter 711, Statutes of 2002 Establishes that any jurisdiction authorized to self-certify the housing element of its general plan shall be entitled to the same consideration for state bond funds and other funds as those jurisdictions that are deemed to be in substantial compliance with housing element requirements by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
SB 1457 (Johannessen) Chapter 720, Statutes of 2002 * Removes the July 1, 2002, sunset date to funding for rural and small county law enforcement.
SB 1468 (Knight) Chapter 971 , Statutes of 2002 Requires cities and counties to include in their general plans impacts of civilian development on military installations, and requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to prepare a handbook on reducing land use conflicts between civilian development and military readiness.
SB 1480 (Speier) Chapter 972, Statutes of 2002 Revises or extends several provisions of the Outdoor Advertising Act, including those relating to billboard permit procedures and fees, local regulation and penalties for the failure to remove certain nonconforming advertising displays.
SB 1509 (Dunn) Vetoed Reduces a city or county's Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund contribution by an amount equal to the city or county's share of the property tax lost due to new tax-exempt lowincome housing.
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SB 1515 (Machado) Chapter 174, Statutes of 2002 Requires that territory subject to specified easements and contracts not be included in or annexed to community facilities districts, with specified exceptions, and prohibits landowners and local agencies from terminating or canceling specified contracts or easements prior to the release of land from specified liens.
SB 1529 (Johnson) Chapter 262, Statutes of 2002 Adds an additional, condition-of .exemption-from 1he_conflict of interest law for a member of a special commission (commission) that manages and contracts on behalf of county Medi-Cal administrators.
SB 1561 (So to) Chapter 288, Statutes of 2002 Allows the San Bernardino County Flood Control District (district) to issue limited obligation notes for the purpose of financing local flood control projects by a resolution with specified criteria, adopted by a four-fifths vote of all members of the board.
SB 1579 (Brulte) Chapter 76, Statutes of 2002 Requires district officials to measure property owners I protests to the formation of a proposed zone against the value of property in that zone instead of the entire district.
SB 1586 (Haynes) Chapter 547, Statutes of 2002 Requires a special district to make written findings supported by substantial evidence when it requests that a local agency formation commission (LAFCO) terminate a proceeding that includes annexation of territory.
SB 1588 (Local Government) Chapter 395, Statutes of 2002 Enacts the Mosquito Abatement and Vector Control District Law to govern the districts I policies, powers, procedures, and oversight activities.
SB 1636 (Figueroa) Chapter 505, Statutes of 2002 Defines an infill opportunity zone (IOZ) for local development and congestion management program purposes and exempts such a zone from traffic level of service requirements. It requires instead the use of an alternative areawide level, multimodal composite or personal level of service standard for traffic in compact infill development projects and specifies that an area may not be designated an IOZ after December 31, 2009.
SB 1643 (Johnson) Chapter 175, Statutes of 2002 Amends closed meeting provisions to the Ralph M. Brown Act and exemption provisions to the Public Records Act.
SB 1672 (Costa) Chapter 767, Statutes of 2002 Establishes a process by which regional water management groups may develop integrated regional water management plans.
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SB 1703 (Peace) Chapter 743, Statutes of 2002 Creates a consolidated transit agency composed of the San Diego Association of Governments, the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board and the North San Diego County Transit Development Board.
SB 1711 (Costa) Chapter 267, Statutes of 2002 Exempts construction or location of water treatment facilities from local building and zoning ordinances under specified conditions.
SB 1714 (Poochigian) Vetoed Requires the State Controller to annually report to the Legislature, with cooperation of the State Resources Agency and the Department of General Services, the annual loss of property tax revenues in each county resulting from state land acquisitions for purposes such as open space land, agricultural preserves, and state parks, beginning June 1, 2004 until January 1, 2010.
SB 1717 (Machado) Chapter 507, Statutes of 2002 Allows a city to lease noncontiguous property for general sports purposes and detaches the territory if the property ceases to be used for municipal purposes, as defined.
SB 1755 (Soto) Chapter 848, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes municipal water districts and county water districts to own and operate electric power plants whether hydroelectric or otherwise. Power generated from these plants may he used for the district's own purposes. Surplus power may be sold to any public or private entity that sells electricity
SB 1759 (Johannessen) Chapter 976, Statutes of 2002 Authorizes four additional public entities to use the design-build method of contracting for public works.
SB 1789 (Poochigian) Vetoed Requires the State Controller to annually collect data on the total assessed valuation of all taxable property in each school district and to annually report the findings on a county-bycounty basis to the Legislature.
SB 1808 (McPherson) Chapter 424, Statutes of 2002 Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to report to the Governor and Legislature on or before of January 1 of each year on the implementation of the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report (SEGPR), and requires OPR to fund the preparation of the SEGPR out of existing resources.
SB 1815 (Chesbro) Chapter 97, Statutes of 2002 Adds tax-exempt organizations that provide health or human services to the list of organizations to which counties may donate or lease surplus property and corrects the statutory references from nonprofit corporations to tax-exempt organizations.
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SB 1870 (Speier) Chapter 849, Statutes of 2002 Creates the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water System Financing Authority (Authority).
SB 1896 (Peace) Chapter 978, Statutes of 2002 Changes the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority's enabling statute.
SB 1920 (Knight) Chapter 132, Statutes of 2002 Allow air quality districts that .have less than--Dne million jnhabitants to simplify the budget adoption process by combining the review and comment hearing with other business items.
SB 1961 (Polanco) Chapter 981, Statutes of 2002 Require the Department of General Services to develop compliance standards in the State Administrative Manual to inform owners of state property of their duties and responsibilities of their benefit assessment duties and responsibilities pursuant to Proposition 218, and add an unrelated provision that provides the Franchise Tax Board with authority to receive reimbursement from cities for sharing certain tax information.
SB 1989 (Knight) Chapter 328, Statutes of 2002 Requires a local agency that receives a siting application for a small wind energy system within restricted military space, to forward a copy of the application to the governing authority of that airspace and to consider written comments from that authority.
SB 2036 (Morrow) Chapter 400, Statutes of 2002 Repeals the statutory provisions that convert the Los Alisos Water District (District) from a landowner-voter district to a registered-voter district.
SB 2055 (Sher) Chapter 1109, Statutes of 2002 Incorporates the text of AB 857 (Wiggins) that establishes state planning priorities for the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, with minor revisions, and makes five minor changes to the Subdivision Map Act.
BILLS NOT SENT TO THE GOVERNOR:
The following bills, if enacted, would:
AB 3 (Ashburn) Property tax revenue shifts: limitation. Limit the amount of tax dollars that are diverted to the state's ERAF, to the 2000-2001 level. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 86 (Cardenas) Local law enforcement funding. Eliminate the sunset date on the Citizens Option For Public Safety (COPS) program, including both the COPS and the juvenile crime prevention components, making the programs permanent. In Senate. Held at Desk.
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AB 100 (Simitian) Property tax revenue shifts: limitation. Cap the growth on ERAF, allowing local governments to retain any growth in property tax. Would freeze at last year's level any amount of property tax contribution to the ERAF shift. From Assembly Committee on Local Government: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. lO(c) of the Constitution. ·
AB 151 (Reyes) Public libraries: Internet: obscene matter. Require state-funded -libraries.that.pro:v:idepublic.access. to the Internet to install and maintain on computers used by minors software that limits access to obscene material broadcast over the Internet. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 1 O(c) of the Constitution.
AB 226 (Bill Campbell) Property tax: allocation of revenues. Change the allocation of property tax revenues derived from new and repowered powerplant facilities and requires the Public Utilities Commission to issue certain findings during the process of certifying new power generating facilities. From Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 279 (Strom-Martin) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: animal control departments. Redirect revenues from the ERAF established in each county to local animal control departments. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 291 (Corbett) Local Government General Plan Update and Sustainable Communities Grant Program. Direct OPR to implement a grant program for cities and counties to incorporate smart growth principles into their general plans; establishes a maximum grant amount of $250,000 and a sunset date for the program of January 1, 2005. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Hled with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 310 (Goldberg) Quimby Act: fees for park or recreational facilities. ** Authorize a local park and recreation agency to use in lieu fees from a subdivision developer to develop park or recreational facilities outside the subdivision under specified conditions. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Committee on Public Safety by unanimous consent [Chapter 619, Statures of 2002, relating to female parolees].
AB 315 (Dutra) Libraries: special districts. Exempt specified dependent and independent library special districts from shifting property tax revenue to their respective counties' ERAF beginning July 1, 2001, and annually thereafter; require the state to hold harmless the school districts and community college districts from the financial impact of the prescribed exemption. From Assembly Appropriations Committee:
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Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 318 (Chan) Joint powers agreements: children's hospitals. Authorize children's hospitals to enter into JPAs with any public agency. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 321 (Vargas) Mass Transit.Jmpr-Ovement,District Act of 2002. Enacts the Mass Transit Improvement District Act of 2002, which would incorporate provisions similar to the Landscaping and Lighting act of 1973. Authorizes certain local agencies to form an assessment district and levy assessments in order to fund certain improvements and activities within business districts that are within a 5-mile radius of an existing or planned mass transit station, as defined. Allows the legislative body of a local agency creating an assessment district to assign administration of the district to a management corporation consisting of affected property owners within the district. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 368 (Cedillo) Local public capital facilities. ** Authorize redevelopment agencies to use alternative methods of financing public capital facilities and services and would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide additional fmancing methods. In Assembly Local Government Committee: hearing postponed by committee. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Committee on Water, Parks & Wildlife by unanimous consent [Chapter 659, Statutes of 2001, relating to Breed Street Shul].
AB 478 (Canciamilla) Local agency procedures: recordable instruments. Permit the Contra Costa County recorder to accept for indexing and electronic recording, a digitized image of a recordable instrument affecting the right, title or interest in real property in digitized form; sunsets on January 1, 2005. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. JV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 562 (Bogh) Local Jaw enforcement funding. Appropriate $100,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller to be allocated to local law enforcement. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
AB 610 (Kelley) Local agency funds. ** Revise the description of commercial paper with respect to the investment of money in a sinking fund or surplus money and as an eligible security for the investment of money belonging to or in the custody of a local agency. Referred to Assembly Committees on Banking and Finance and Local Government; in Banking and Finance Committee: held without recommendation. From committee chair with author's amendments: withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Committee on Health by unanimous consent [Chapter 121, Statutes of 2002, relating to nonprofit charitable temporary food fac1lities].
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AB 613 (Cohn) Zoning: community college district. Prohibit a school district from exercising its authority to render a city or county zoning ordinance inapplicable to a proposed use of property by the district when that use conflicts with an existing use permit condition proposed by the district and adopted by the city or county without objection by the district, and authorize a city or county to commence an action in superior court if a district has already taken an action as described above in order that th,; court may determine if the action was arbitrary or capricious. Died on Assembly Inactive file.
AB 670 (Strom-Martin) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: local library entities and animal control departments. ** Prohibit the application of reduction and transfer provisions to local library entities as defined, and to animal control departments for FY 2002~03 and each FY thereafter, and require that the reduction, resulting from this prohibition, in the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue deposited in the County's ERAF, be applied exclusively to reduce the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated from that fund to school districts and county office of education, and not community college districts. Relerred to Assembly Committee on Local Government. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn lrom committee and re-relerred to Public Salety by unanimous consent [Chapter 134, Statutes of 2002, relating to animal cruelty, abuse, and neglect}.
AB 680 (Steinberg) Land use: sales tax and property tax revenue allocation. Reallocate sales tax revenue among cities and counties in the greater Sacramento region, state legislative intent to enact a program encouraging cities and counties in the greater Sacramento region to establish smart growth land use projects funded using ERAF revenue, and provide air emission reduction credits to cities and counties that develop land use projects in a regional manner which promotes sustainable growth. In Senate Local Government Committee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 716 (Firebaugh) Parks and Open-Space Recreation Act.. ** Create the Park and Open-Space Recreation Fund in the State Treasury, the money which may be expended, upon appropriation of the Legislature, for the acquisition and development of parklands in cities and counties, and for the expansion, rehabilitation, and renovation of existing facilities at local urban parks. Relerred w Assembly Commiuees Local Governmem and Water, Parks and Wildlile. In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlile Committee: from committee chair, with author's amendments [Chapter 1126, Statutes ol2002, enacts the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Act and creates the California Cultural and Historical Endowment Fund}.
AB 787 (Hertzberg) Regional planning: general plans. ** Consolidate and expand sections of the Government Code pertaining to regional planning and states legislative intent concerning the conclusions of the Speaker's Commission on Regionalism. Relerred to Senate Local Government: from committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Governmental Organization Committee with unanimous consent [VETOED, relating to OPR 's evaluation of various functions of each state department}.
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AB 810 (John Campbell) California water districts. ** Require that a Los Alisos Water District director be a resident of his or her respective division for at least 30 days. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee: from committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee tvith unanimous consent [Chapter 209, Statutes of 2001, relating to diversion and treatment of urban runoff from drainage courses within California water districts].
AB 858 (Wiggins) Land use proposals. ** Expand the requirement for interagency referrals of proposed amendments to city and county land use plans to other local agencies that may be affected. In Senate Local Government Committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee with unanimous consent [Chapter 985, Statutes of 2002, relating to study of the effect of reduced water flows on salmon and steelhead trout in certain North Coast rivers].
AB 859 (Wiggins) Property tax revenue shifts: limitation. Cap the shift of property tax revenues from counties to ERAF over an unspecified multi-year period. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 895 (Wiggins) Joint powers agreements: contracts. ** Add joint powers authorities to the Public Contract Code requiring them to adhere to competitive bidding laws. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Commiuee with unanimous consent [Chapter 785, Statutes of 2001, relating to Public Employees' Retirement System: state peace officer/firefighter members].
AB 924 (Wayne) Land use: Cooperative general plans. Allow a county and the cities in that county and contiguous cities to adopt "cooperative general plans" in lieu of adopting their own individual general plans. In Senate Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 954 (Kelley) Telecommunications: irrigation districts. ** Authorize all irrigation districts to purchase or lease telecommunications services from any agency or entity and to provide for the acquisition, operation, leasing, and control of equipment and facilities for the distribution, sale, and lease of telecommunications services to any persons and entities. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 958 (Chavez) Local government contracts. Allow a newly elected "local legislative body" to review all contracts that are entered into by an outgoing "local legislative body" in it final days in office. From Assembly Local
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Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 964 (Aroner) Property taxation: administration. Allow a county to recover the apportioned costs of property tax administration from school entities and a county's ERAF. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 1 O(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1007 (Rod Pacheco) Property tax revenue allocations. Require Riverside County to repay local agencies for the county property tax revenues it underallocated to those agencies between 1996-97 and 1999-2000. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. I O(c) ol the Constitution.
AB 1020 (Leach) Infrastructure: finance. Require that increasing percentages of annual General Fund revenues, up to a maximum of 5%, be used, upon appropriation, for state and local infrastructure projects. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1022 (Rod Pacheco) Supplemental Firefighting Services Fund. Create the Firefighter Incident and Response Enhancement Act which establishes a supplemental funding program for local fire departments and specified programs of the State Fire Marshall. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. lO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1034 (Florez) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: qualified fire districts. Exempt a qualified fire district from the obligation to shift property tax revenues to the ERAF in its county. Specifically, this bill defines a "qualified fire district" as one that, prior to January 1, 2001, provided fire protection services to a state responsibility area designated by the Board of the Forestry and Fire Protection, but did not provide those services pursuant to a contractual agreement with any state agency. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chiel Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO{c) of the Constitution.
AB 1041 (Richman) Libraries. Allow a person with an advanced degree in administration from an accredited university to also be considered for appointment to the office of county librarian. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chiel Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1050 (Kehoe) Local agency meetings: closed sessions. Implement specified requirements for local agency closed sessions pertaining to real property transactions. Died on Assembly inactive file.
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AB 1076 (Canciamilla) Local government finance. Clarify that the allocation of property tax revenues received by local jurisdictions would include ERAF; also correct erroneous cross references in these provisions. From Assembly Local Government Commiuee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. lO(c) of the Consdrution.
AB 1104 (Maddox) Fire protection: joint powers agency member. Provide that when a county allocates ,specified tax_ proceeds to a joint powers agency formed to provide fire protection services, those funds may not be appropriated by the agency in a manner that provides a financial advantage to any city participating in the agency over the other participating agencies. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 1 O(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1137 (Hollingsworth) Property tax revenue apportionments. Require the County of Riverside to compensate for past property tax revenue allocation errors. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint R"!Jle 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1138 (Pescetti) Incorporation. Set August 19, 2002, as the deadline to close the protest hearing on the proposed Rancho Cordova incorporation, and extend the deadline for calling the election on the proposed incorporation. To Assembly inactive file on motion ofAssembly Member Pesceui.
AB 1209 (La Suer) State-mandated local programs. Require any new legislation mandating a new program or a higher level of service on a local government to sunset no later than six years after taking effect, except under specified circumstances. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1244 (Wiggins) Affordable housing: condominiums. State legislative intent to examine methods to increase the supply of housing affordable to all income groups, promote fairness in the distribution of housing and plan adequately for housing sites that integrate the need for housing with the needs of other land uses. Withdrawn from Senate Rules Committee: rereferred to Committee on Housing and Community Development.
AB 1271 (Bill Campbell) State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Permit cities, counties, and cities and counties to implement building standards requiring the use of solar water heating or photovoltaic systems without demonstrating cost-effectiveness to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Referred to Assembly Commiuees on Utilities and Commerce and Local Government. From Utilities and Commerce Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuam to Joim Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) ofthe Constitution.
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AB 1274 (Bill Campbell) Natural gas drilling. Require a county to review and respond to a natural gas drilling application within 30 calendar days of receipt of the application. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Utilities and Commerce. From Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1284 (Lowenthal) Job-Center, Community Infill Housing Development Incentive Act of2001. Allow local governments in areas of the state with a serious imbalance of housing supply to create "Housing Opportunity Districts" within which the local government will receive an increased share of the property tax increment that results from new housing development. The funds received from the district may be spent for any lawful purpose. In Senate Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 1314 (Havice) Joint powers agreements: private hospitals. ** Authorize private hospitals eligible to participate in the disproportionate share hospital program pursuant to Section 14105.98 of the Welfare and Institutions Code to enter into joint powers agreements with any local public agency. In Senate Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request ofauthor. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee andre-referred to Committee on Rules [Chapter 640, Statutes of2002, relating to parking}.
AB 1355 (Daucher) Local government reorganization. Require local governments to enter into negotiations with respect to the allocation of a specified portion of the annual property tax increment. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1362 (Wiggins) General plans: elements. ** Require a planning agency to provide opportunities for the involvement of citizens, public agencies, public utility companies, and civic, education, and other community groups through public hearings during the preparation or amendment of elements of subjects in a general plan. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from commiaee andre-referred to Business and Professions Committee by unanimous consent.
AB 1378 (Wyman) Property tax revenue allocations: recendy incorporated rural cities: fiscal relief. Increase the City of Hesperia's share of the property tax and reduces the County of San Bernardino's share by an equivalent amount. From Assembly Appropriations Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution
AB 1381 (Florez) Open-space subventions. ** Require the Controller, upon receiving certification from the Secretary for Resources, to pay qualifying cities, counties, or cities and counties 50% of the subvention payments owed them
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under the Open-Space Subvention Program by December 10, and the remaining 50% by April 10, of the same FY in which the local government receives reduced property tax revenues from the qualifying land. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Natural Resources. In Assembly Natural Resources Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn from committee and re-rereferred to Higher Education Committee by unanimous consent.
AB 1410 (Hollingsworth) Vessels: use prohibitions. Require the Department of Boating and Waterways to withhold numbering fees, sales taxes, and property taxes derived from types of undocumented vessels from counties and cities that prohibit use of those types of vessels. Prohibit grants to be made to those counties for public launch ramps or boating facilities. Referred to Assembly Committees on Transportation and Local Government. From Transportation Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1422 (Thomson) Mental health advocacy. ** Create a Mental Health Advocacy Commission for five years to promote improved access to mental health services and combat stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness. Referred to Assembly Committees on Health and Local Government. Amend, andrerefer to Committee on Health (Local Govermnent portion amended out) [VETOED].
AB 1436 (Correa) Military base reuse: Orange County. Authorize a single local reuse entity to negotiate and award design-build contracts, notwithstanding certain competitive bidding requirements, for various projects, exceeding specified dollar amounts, that support redevelopment at the site of a closed military base. Require the contract to be entered into within seven years after the execution of a deed or lease in furtherance of the conveyance by the United States Department of Defense to a single local reuse entity that has authority over the property on which the improvements will be located. Require the Legislative Analyst to report to the Legislature on the use of the design-build method by single use entities. On Senate Floor: To inactive file on motion of Senator Alarcon.
AB 1514 (Canciamilla) General plans: Urban Growth Boundary. Require land use elements of general plans to include an Urban Growth Boundary that indicates the area to which the city or county intends to extend urban services over the next 20 years. Require the land use element to include policies that, among other things, encourage urban growth within this boundary and require that the boundary be consistent with the objectives of the State Comprehensive Plan. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1540 (Strickland) Open-space lands. Provide that any action by a county or city to set aside or dedicate open-space land pursuant to any provision of law and to establish any related easement or other benefit shall not become
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effective until approved by 2/3 of the voters voting on the issue in the county or city in which the land is situated. From Assembly Local Government. Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1576 (Dickerson) Law enforcement funding. Establish a pilot program to assist in the funding of law enforcement in counties that have a ratio of less than .05 peace officers per square mile. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerkpursuant toJoint.Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1595 (Wyman) Redevelopment: Victor Valley. Provide that inclusionary housing requirements, that apply to units built by redevelopment agencies, will not apply to a redevelopment plan adopted in connection with the reuse of George Air Force Base until such time that tax increment revenues are generated. Require tax increment revenues be distributed on or after January 1, 2000. Died on Assembly inactive file.
AB 1604 (Bill Campbell) Fuel tax apportionments: cities and counties. Define "county" and "city" for the purpose of receiving apportionment to provide that a "city and county" is eligible to receive only funds available to cities and not from funds available to counties. Referred to Assembly Commiaees on Local Government and Transportation. From Local Government Commiaee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1606 (Bates) Low-income housing: military base. Provide that a city shall be deemed to have satisfied a portion of its share of the regional housing need on the basis of two units of credit for each unit of housing on a decommissioned military base that is converted to low-income housing. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. lO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1641 (John Campbell) County recorders: digitized images. Allow all county recorders to accept a digitized image of a recordable instrument subject to specified conditions. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. JO(c) of the Constitution.
AB 1740 (Cogdill) Local government finance. Deem correct the ERAF reduction and transfer offset of Madera County's ERAF for FY 1993-94. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Died pursuanr tu Art. IV, Sec. 10(() of the Constitution.
AB 1779 (Strickland) Harbor districts. Increase the amount of money that harbor districts can borrow, by issuance of promissory notes, from $1 to $2 million to purchase personal property. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, final hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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AB 1829 (Robert Pacheco) Local planning: housing elements. Require the Department of Housing and Community Development to include congregate housing for seniors in its determination of whether a city or county meets its share of the regional housing need. Referred to Committees on Housing and Community Development and to Local Government. In Housing and Community Development: Hearing for testimony only.
AB 1836 (Cardoza) Animals. Provide a funding framework for local agencies if they choose to develop a memorandum of understanding or create a joint powers authority for the purpose of handling "high volume animal cruelty cases." To Assembly inactive file.
AB 1851 (Kelley) Local agency joint powers agreements: hospitals. Authorize private nonprofit health care corporations to participate in joint powers agreements (JPAs) with public agencies to pool self-insurance. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1852 (Runner) Charter schools: joint powers agreements. Authorizes a charter school to be considered a public agency, as defined by the Joint Exercise of Powers Act. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1865 (Canciamilla) Local government finance. Cap the property tax shifts from cities, counties, and special districts to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 1927 (Kehoe) Neighborhood Infrastructure Bond Act. Authorize the issuance of $6 billion in general obligation bonds for the purpose of financing a program to address local infrastructure needs. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 1940 (Matthews) Land use: lot line adjustments. Make the Subdivision Map Act inapplicable to a lot line adjustment between four or fewer existing adjacent parcels. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 1941 (Havice) Rave parties: permits. Require local permit granting authorities of rave parties and its promoter to notify law enforcement when considering issuance of a permit. In Senate Public Safety Committee: failed passage.
AB 2028 (Canciamilla) General plans: Urban Growth Boundary. Require the land use element of a general plan to include an Urban Growth Boundary that indicates the area to which a city or county intends to extend urban services over the next years. In Assembly Local Government Committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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AB 2073 (Canciamilla) Local government finance: revenues derived from electric generation facilities. Provide that if a city annexes territory containing a power plant, then the county retains and will continue to receive all property tax, franchise fees, and surcharge revenue derived from the facility. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2076 (Briggs) County law-enforcement funding. Allocate $500,000 to the Tulare County sheriff's department for FY 2002-03, subject to funding in the 2002 Budget Act for rural and small county law enforcement. In Senate Public Safety Committee: set, second hearing. Failed passage.
AB 2095 (Kehoe) San Diego Regional Agency. Create the San Diego Regional Authority to serve as the transportation planning agency for the San Diego region; authorizes the agency to call an election, including an advisory election, on measures regarding regional governance or the agency's powers or duties. In Senate Transportation Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2100 (Simitian) Property tax revenue shifts: limitation. Phase in a limit on the amount of property tax revenues allocated to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund beginning in 2005 if certain criteria are met. In Senate Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 2129 (Kelley) Local capital investment incentives: qualified manufacturing facilities. Expand the definition of a qualified manufacturing facility eligible for local capital investment incentive amounts to include an electricity powerplant that uses solar, wind, geothermal, solid-fuel biomass, or digester gas, require the community services agreement to include a provision that the agreement terminates and be subject to renegotiations after 10 years, and change the references to the Trade and Commerce Agency to the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency. In Senate Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2199 (Dickerson)Local agency formation commissions. Provide that no portion of the net operating expenses of a local agency formation commission shall be apportioned to a district formed under the Local Health Care District Law. Amend and rerefer lO Assembly Local Governmem Committee.
AB 2204 (Daucher) Local government: fire protection services. Define the term "fire protection" to mean fire prevention, fire suppression, emergency medical services, emergency transportation services, hazardous materials response, and the provision of facilities, equipment, and personnel for such purposes. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 2209 (Chu) Property taxation: pension funding. Remove a cap on pension programs funded through a voter-approved property tax levy, allowing specified local agencies to impose a higher property tax rate that would specifically
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contribute and support pension programs approved by local voters before July 1, 1978. In Assembly Local Government Committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2234 (Vargas) Specific plans: local agencies. ** Require that in addition to current standards and criteria for specific plans, design guideliines and standards for the conservation, development, and utilization of natural and scenic resources be included. Referred 10 Assembly.LocaiDovernment Committee: fTom committee chair, with author's amendments. Withdrawn fTom committee andre-referred to Natural Resources Committee by unanimous consent.
AB 2247 (Salinas) Real estate signs. Permit property owners or their agents to display temporary signs advertising the sale of the property on the public right-of-way. Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments and whereby the bill was enrolled and presented to the Governor. To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Chan.
AB 2250 (Ashburn) Public contracts: surety bonds. Requires, with respect to bids on public contracts for construction work in counties having a population of more than 500,000 persons, unless waived by the county with respect to a person to whom the contract is awarded provide (1) a payment bond, as defined, if the person is an original contractor, as defined, and (2) a bond that is executed by an admitted surety insurer that meets all surety industry performance standards and financial strength ratings as may be set by the county and is approved by the board of supervisors for the faithful performance of the contract. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 2345 (Ashburn) Pest control: Pierce's disease. Enact the Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District Law for the purpose of combating Pierce's Disease and the glassy-winged sharpshooter. In Senate Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 2411 (Corbett) Building standards: local agencies. Allow local building officials to submit code change proposals to the California Building Standards Commission in the same manner as that of state agencies. In Assembly Local Government Committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2439 (Bill Campbell) Airports: land use. Impose a state-mandated local program by requiring each airport land use commission, in the case of a federal military airport that has been deemed closed, to review any related comprehensive land use plan not later than two years from the date the real property containing the former military airport is transferred to new ownership. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2515 (Keeley) Zoning: community college district. Require the West Valley-Mission Community College District to comply with the conditional use permit issued by the City of Saratoga in 1967 and amended in 1979 for the District's West
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Valley Campus. In Assembly Local Governmem Commi'ttee: set, first heanng. Heanng canceled at the request of author.
AB 2641 (Leonard) Taxation: local government finance. Cap ERAF transfers at their FY 2000-01 level and transfers any growth to an Emergency Response Augmentation Fund for Local Public Health and Safety for allocation among local agencies proportionate to these agencies I share of the county Is ERAF. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set.- first hearing .. Hearing canceled at the request otauthor.
AB 2644 (Havice) Water Replenishment District of Southern California. Extend the repeal date of certain specified provisions until January 1, 2006, thereby continuing to impose the duties and responsibilities on the district and the State Auditor. Referred to Assembly Commiuees on Local Government and Water, Parks and Wildlife. Amend, and rerefer to Local Government Commiuee. Withdrawn andre-referred ro Water, Parks and Wildlife by unanimous consem.
AB 2658 (Aanestad) Health care districts. Cap the total assessment that could be imposed on any special district; ensures that assessments imposed on health care districts reflect actual NET revenues, based on date from Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development; and exempt any health care district that is operating under bankruptcy, or is operating with a net deficit. Referred ro Assembly Local Government Commitfee.
AB 2730 (Washington) Public libraries: resources for youth. Establish a program to award grants to public libraries for the extension of academic, informational, and mentoring services to teenagers. In Senate Education Committee: set, first hearing. Held without recommendation.
AB 2742 (Pavley) Law enforcement funding: surveillance. Allow for the use of Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Fund money for the acquisition and use of video surveillance cameras for lawful purposes in or outside of police or sheriffs' stations, railroad stations, airports, bus depots, or port or harbor authority facilities or wh~n there is an articulable suspicion that a facility is either a place where felony conduct has occurred or is occurring or is a potential target of terrorist activities. In Senate Public Safety Commiuee: set, final hearing. Failed passage.
AB 2836 (Wiggins) State Public Works Board: construction: local fire protection agencies. Authorize the State Public Works Board to issue lease-revenue bonds on behalf of any city, county, or city and county, to finance buildings and equipment for the purpose of fire protection. In Senate Appropriations Commiuee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
AB 2843 (Thomson) Local agency formation. Require local agency formation commissions (LAFCOs) to follow policies intended to promote infill development and encourage the preservation of agricultural lands. In Assembly: Read third time, passage refused.
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AB 2847 (Florez) Animal control. State that the Legislature encourages any entity that provides animal law enforcement services to provide its investigative employees with education in animal husbandry, handling, and training of animals exhibited under authority of a valid Department of Fish and Game permit. in Senate Water, Parks and Wildlife Commiuee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2863 (Longville) Land use: housing element. Address issues involving the development of regional housing need projections; resolve issues and problems associated with the distribution of regional housing needs within a council of governments; clarify and improve the housing element review process: develop a neutral dispute resolution process and fair enforcement alternatives to deal with disputes over questions of compliance; develop fiscal tools and incentives to assist local government s in their efforts to encourage housing and finance the infrastructure to support housing, as well as establish an ongoing state commitment to funding affordable housing; require state laws and policies that affect housing and land use to be internally consistent; and establish additional legal protections to local agencies that approve affordable housing and that establishes local proactive affordable housing policies. In Assembly Local Government Committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2864 (Wiggins) Local planning agencies: duties. ** Correct drafting errors in previous legislation pertaining to annual reports from local planning agencies. In Senate: From inactive file. Read second time, amended, andre-referred to Commiuee Oil Budget and Fiscal Review.
AB 2878 (Wiggins) Local government finance. Restructure the state-local fiscal relationship by shifting sources of discretionary local government revenue. From Assembly Revenue and Taxation Commitlee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
AB 2882 (Cardenas) Military base reuse: community college facilities. Require military base reuse authorities, in the preparation, adoption, review, and revision of these plans, to give first priority to the consideration of the reuse of the base for community college facilities. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 2896 (Simitian) Local planning: housing elements. Expand the definition of "residential unit" to include housing types for purposes of the housing element requirements. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 2901 (Wiggins) Law enforcement funding: high-technology equipment. Require funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for grants for the purchase of hightechnology equipment to be allocated by the Controller to counties, cities, and specified special districts. ln Senate Public Safety Commiaee: ser first heaJing. Fa1JeJ passage. Reconsideration granted.
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AB 2924 (Wiggins) Water appropriations: protected areas. Prohibit the State Water Resources Control Board from approving an application or permit to appropriate water from a certain specified area, for use outside that specified area, unless the board of supervisors of the county or counties within which the appropriation is to be made approves the transfer. Referred to Assembly Committees on Water, Parks and WjjdJife and to Local Government. In Water, Parks and Wildlife: Joint Rule 61 (b)(5) suspended.
AB 2951 (Aroner) Law.enforcement funding: .districts. Simplify language relating to special districts that provide police protection that qualify to receive supplemental law enforcement funding. To Assembly inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Aroner.
AB 3046 (Committee on Higher Education) Zoning: community college district. Provide that the non-educational facilities, as defined in a Government Code section on zoning, consist of those facilities that are not considered educational facilities within an existing Education Code definition. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 3056 (Cogdill) Local government finance: property tax apportionment. Forgive part of the underallocation of property tax revenues made to ERAF in Madera and Tuolumne counties and provides for repayment to ERAF over an extended period of time. In Senate Appropriations Committee: set. second hearing. Held under submission.
ACA 10 (Cogdill) Local government finance: property tax revenue allocation: local agency relief Phase out the property tax shifts to ERAF in each county over nine years, beginning in 2002-03, by freezing the shifts at declining percentages of the amounts shifted in 2000-01 over the phase-out period. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Held under submission.
SB 27 (Brulte) Technology grants for public safety. ** Provide that an unspecified amount is appropriated in the Budget Act to be allocated to county sheriffs, city police chiefs, and certain cities and special districts for the purpose of funding technology grants and technology-related acquisitions to enhance public safety. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair with author's amendments. Withdrawn andre-referred to Committee on Governmental Organization.
SB 68 (Battin) Local agency investments. Revise the maximum maturity periods for two types of debt instruments available to local agencies for investing surplus public funds. To Assembly Committees on Banking and Finance and Local Government. Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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SB 74 (Speier) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: dependent and independent library special districts. Grant a prospective ERAF exemption to dependent and independent library special districts beginning FY 2003-04. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 92 (Torlakson) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: special districts: fire protection and fire suppression districts. Grant a prospective exemption from the FY 1992-93 ERAF property tax shift for special districts that provide fire protection or fire suppression services beginning in FY 2003-04. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 93 (Figueroa) Property tax revenue shifts: exemption: recreation and park districts. Exempt recreation and park districts, as defined, from the obligation to shift property tax revenues to the ERAF in their respective counties, beginning in 2003-04. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 94 (Torlakson) Property tax revenue allocations: county general fund library. Grant a prospective ERAF exemption for County Free Libraries funded primarily from county general funds. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 207 (Knight) Local agencies: powerplants. Authorize local agencies to issue bonds under the Revenue Bond Law of 1941 to provide funds for construction of facilities for generating, producing, distributing, or transmitting electric energy for lighting, heating, and power for public or private uses subject to specified conditions, including voter approval, provide that local agencies have the right of first refusal for electricity generated by these facilities. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Utilities and Commerce. In Local Government Committee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. Joint Rule 61 (a)(9) suspended.
SB 213 (Perata) Local planning. Require the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) to evaluate if local governments in the San Francisco Bay Area are implementing their fair share of housing starts and are participating in regional congestion reduction plans, and require MTC and ABAG to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2003. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 269 (Alarcon) Expanded municipal utilities: employee rights and benefits. Require an electric municipal utility that expands its service operations by acquiring a public utility to hire and retain non-management employees, abide by labor contracts for two years, and guarantee no reduction in wages and benefits. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Labor and Employment. In Local Government Commiuee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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SB 452 (Oller) Property tax revenue allocations: county service area: ambulance service. Exempt county service areas that only provide ambulance service from contributing to their respective ERAF beginning in FY 2003-04. In Assembly Appropriall·ons Commiaee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 498 (Dunn) General plans: housing elements. Reform state housing element law and imposes fines on jurisdictions that fail to comply by having a housing element certified by.the Department of Housing and Community Development. Read third time. Amended. Re-referred ro Committees on Housing and Community Development and Local Governmenl and Appropriations pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Set, first hearing. Failed passage in commitlee.
SB 617 (Ortiz) Special advisory election: Sacramento Area Council of Governments. ** Allow the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SA COG) to call a special advisory election in each jurisdiction that is a member of SA COG, on the question of whether the region's Metropolitan Transportation Plan should be approved. In Assembly Local Government Commitlee: set, first heanng. Hearing canceled at the request of author. From committee chair with author's amendments. Withdrawn andre-referred to Committee on Judiciary with unanimous consent.
SB 810 (Ackerman) Property tax revenue allocations: property tax revenue shifts: single-county transit districts. Grant a prospective exemption from the FY 1992-93 ERAF property tax shift for singlecounty transit districts beginning FY 2003-04. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second heanng. Held 1n commiuee and under submission.
SB 820 (Costa) Local government finance: Tulare County. Partially forgive Tulare County from the obligation to repay the Trial Court Trust Fund (Trust Fund) and Trial Court Improvement Fund (Improvement Fund) for under-remitted court fines and forfeiture revenue for FY 1996-97 through FY 1999-2000. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 864 (Torlakson) Metropolitan Transportation Commission: ABAG Create the Regional Growth Council (RGC) as a part of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and transfer the land use responsibilities currently held by the Association of Bay Area Governments to RGC. Read third time. Amended. Re-referred to Committees on Local Governmenl and Transponation and Appropriations pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. In Local Government Commitlee: set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 874 (Dunn) Redevelopment. ** Prohibit a redevelopment agency from incurring debt based on the schools share of property tax increment revenues unless the agency signs a mutually agreeable contract with school districts that have overcrowded conditions. Action rescinded whereby bill read third time, passed, and ro Senate. Amended. Re-referred ro Commitree on Education pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
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SB 910 (Dunn) General plans: housing elements. Require that specified transportation funding be reduced to any city or county that fails to have an approved housing element. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Housing and Community Development. In Housing and Community Development: Joint Rule 6l(b)(12) refused suspension.
SB 1119 (Margett) Bid solicitations: charter cities. Require charter cities to include language in their bid solicitations that explicitly states that the Public Contract Code may not apply. Referred to Assembly Committees on Local Government and Business and Professions. In Business and Professions Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the requesr olaurhor.
SB 1228 (Monteith) Property tax revenue allocations: County of Tuolumne. Address individual fiscal issues in the counties of Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Humboldt. From Assembly Local Government Committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 0.)
SB 1229 (Johnson) School facilities funding: local match: donated military base reuse property. Allow a school district to apply the appraised value of donated military base reuse property toward meeting the local matching share requirement for a new school construction project funded pursuant to the state School Facilities Program. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 1243 (Torlakson) Metropolitan Transportation Commission: ABAG Create the Regional Growth Council (RGC) as a pan of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and transfers the land use responsibilities currently held by the Association of Bay Area Governments to RGC. In Assembly Local Government Committee: Joint Rule 6l(b) (12) & (13) relused suspension.
SB 1521 (Kuehl) Land use: model planning practices and policies. Require the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to develop model planning practices and policies, and requires that any city or county that adopts and implements practices and policies substantially comparable to the model being given priority in the award of specified competitive grants. In Assembly Appropriations Committee: set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
SB 1871 (Monteith) Root Creek Water District. Modify requirements relating to the composition of, and manner of election of directors to the board of the Root Creek Water District and expand the purposes of the district. In Assembly Local Government Committee: set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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SB 1939 (Machado) General plans. Require Governor's Office of Planning and Research to notify the Attorney General if a general plan has not been revised within eight years. Referred to Assembly Local Government Committee.
SB 1942 (Alarcon) City of Los Angeles. Establish the Commission on the Effective Governance of the City of Los Angeles to conduct a study to develop alternative models of .governance .of the city. In Assembly Appropdations Committee: set, first hearing. Failed passage.
* Floor analysis provided by Committee staff, although bill not heard by Assembly Local Government Committee.
** Summary of bill as pertaining to jurisdiction of the Assembly Local Government Committee; bill subsequently amended and subject matter changed.
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