BILL NUMBER: AB 1054	CHAPTERED  07/18/05

	CHAPTER  65
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 18, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 18, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 1, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 16, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bogh

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to add Section 7400.5 to the Elections Code, relating to
political party organization.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1054, Bogh  Political parties: Republican Party.
   Existing law requires that candidates for Republican county
central committee appear on the local ballot and specifies the manner
of their election. It requires that in a county containing fewer
than 5 Assembly districts, a committee be elected by supervisor
districts, in accordance with a specified formula. It requires that
in a county containing more than 4 and fewer than 20 Assembly
districts the county central committee be elected from Assembly
districts.
   This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by requiring
that, notwithstanding the above, a committee of not fewer than 30
members be elected in San Bernardino County. The bill would require
members to be elected by supervisor district, and would require that
the number to be elected from any supervisor district be determined
in accordance with a specified formula.
  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 7400.5 is added to the Elections Code, to read:

   7400.5.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 7400 and 7401, in the County
of San Bernardino, the county central committee shall be elected by
supervisor districts, and the number to be elected from any
supervisor district shall be determined as follows:
   (1) There shall be taken the number of votes cast in the
supervisor district at the last gubernatorial election for that party'
s candidate for Governor, or, if the party did not have a candidate
for Governor, for the candidate of the party voted on throughout the
state who received the greatest number of votes and who was the
candidate of that party alone.
   (2) This number shall be divided by one-thirtieth of the number of
votes cast in San Bernardino County for Governor or, where the party
did not have a candidate for Governor, for the candidate mentioned
above. The integer next larger than the quotient obtained by that
division shall constitute the number of members of the committee to
be elected by that party in that supervisor district.
   (b) The San Bernardino County Central Committee shall be composed
of not fewer than 30 members. If the procedure outlined above would
result in fewer than 30 members being elected to the committee, the
number of votes cast for this party's candidate in each supervisor
district shall be divided by an amount sufficiently smaller than
one-thirtieth of the votes cast for Governor in San Bernardino County
as to give a membership on the committee equal to or the nearest
amount that is greater than 30 members.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.