BILL NUMBER: AB 773	CHAPTERED  08/28/06

	CHAPTER  161
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 28, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 28, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 29, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 13, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2005

   An act to amend Section 33378 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 773, Mullin  Redevelopment: referendum.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects
of blight, as defined, in those communities and prescribes certain
requirements applicable to referendum petitions circulated in cities
or counties with over 500,000 in population, relating to a
redevelopment plan that is subject to a referendum, including, among
other things, that the petition be submitted to the clerk of the
legislative body within 90 days of the adoption of the ordinance.
   Existing law generally requires that referendum petitions,
together with all sections thereof, be filed in municipal elections
within 30 days from the date of the adoption of the ordinance to
which it relates.
   This bill would, notwithstanding any other provision of law, make
this 90-day requirement applicable to all cities and counties.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 33378 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   33378.  (a) With respect to any ordinance that is subject to
referendum pursuant to Sections 33365 and 33450, the language of the
statement of the ballot measure shall set forth with clarity and in
language understandable to the average person that a "Yes" vote is a
vote in favor of adoption or amendment of the redevelopment plan and
a "No" vote is a vote against the adoption or amendment of the
redevelopment plan.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the
charter of any city or city and county, referendum petitions
circulated in cities or counties over 500,000 population shall bear
valid signatures numbering not less than 10 percent of the total
votes cast within the city or county for Governor at the last
gubernatorial election.
   (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the
charter of any city or city and county, or Section 9242 of the
Elections Code, the referendum petitions of all cities and counties
shall be submitted to the clerk of the legislative body within 90
days of the adoption of an ordinance subject to referendum under this
article.
   (c) With respect to any ordinance that is subject to referendum
pursuant to Sections 33365 and 33450 and either provides for
tax-increment financing pursuant to Section 33670 or expands a
project area that is subject to tax-increment financing, the
referendum measure shall include, in the ballot pamphlet, an analysis
by the county auditor-controller and, at the option of the
legislative body, a separate analysis by the agency, of the
redevelopment plan or amendment that will include both of the
following:
   (1) An estimate of the potential impact on property taxes per each
ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of assessed valuation for taxpayers
located in the city or county, as the case may be, outside the
redevelopment project area during the life of the redevelopment
project.
   (2) An estimate of what would happen to the project area in the
absence of the redevelopment project or in the absence of the
proposed amendment to the plan.