BILL NUMBER: SB 1773	CHAPTERED  09/18/04

	CHAPTER  590
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 21, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 8, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 11, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 28, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Soto

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2004

   An act to add Section 33021 to the Public Utilities Code, relating
to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1773, Soto.  Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
   Existing law permits the board of the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, upon meeting specified
requirements, to form special benefit assessment districts and to
levy special benefit assessments on real property within those
districts.  Existing law authorizes an owner of real property within
a benefit assessment district to petition for the exclusion of all or
part of the property from the assessment, or for reduction of the
assessment.
   This bill would require a petition for exclusion or reduction to
be commenced within two years after the making of the payment sought
to be refunded.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 33021 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to
read:
   33021.  Notwithstanding Section 5097 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, any petition or claim for refund seeking an exclusion of real
property or the reduction of an assessment on any grounds for the
2004-05 fiscal year or in any subsequent fiscal year pursuant to this
chapter shall be filed within two years after the making of the
payment sought to be refunded.