BILL NUMBER: SB 544	CHAPTERED  07/05/01

	CHAPTER  43
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 4, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JUNE 21, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 14, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Local Government (Senators Torlakson
(Chair), Ackerman, Machado, Margett, Perata, and Soto)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to amend Section 53227.2 of the Government Code, relating
to public officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 544, Committee on Local Government.  Local agency officials:
eligibility.
   Existing law prohibits an employee of a local agency from being
sworn into office as an elected or appointed member of the
legislative body of that local agency unless he or she resigns as an
employee.  Existing law excludes a county from the definition of
local agency for the purposes of this prohibition and does not
include the board of supervisors of a county in the definition of
legislative body.
   This bill would define local agency for purposes of this
prohibition to include a county and would define legislative body to
include a county board of supervisors.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 53227.2 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   53227.2.  For purposes of this article, the following definitions
apply:
   (a) "Local agency" means a city, city and county, county,
district, municipal or public corporation, political subdivision, or
other public agency of the state.
   (b) "Legislative body" means the board of supervisors of a county
or a city and county, the city council of a city, or the governing
body of a district, municipal or public corporation, political
subdivision, or other public agency of the state.