BILL NUMBER: SB 977 CHAPTERED BILL TEXT CHAPTER 315 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 19, 2010 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY AUGUST 5, 2010 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 19, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 14, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 12, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 16, 2010 INTRODUCED BY Senator Hollingsworth (Coauthor: Assembly Member V. Manuel Perez) FEBRUARY 8, 2010 An act to add Section 33214.7 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to redevelopment. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 977, Hollingsworth. Redevelopment: Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside. The Community Redevelopment Law provides that the territorial jurisdiction of a county redevelopment agency is the unincorporated territory in that county. This bill would require that the territorial jurisdiction of the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside include (1) specified former agency territory now within the geographic boundaries of the City of Menifee or the City of Wildomar and (2) specified territory within an island of unincorporated territory that is surrounded or substantially surrounded by the City of Indio. The bill would also authorize the agency to apply specified housing units within that territory toward specified low- or moderate-income housing obligations of the agency. This bill would apply its provisions retroactively and prospectively to the above-described former agency territory. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 33214.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 33214.7. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the territorial jurisdiction of the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside shall include all of the following: (1) Former agency territory within the geographic boundaries of the City of Menifee or the City of Wildomar with respect to which the agency, prior to the incorporation of the applicable city, (A) entered into a binding agreement with a third party in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 33334.2 and (B) acquired land or otherwise expended money from its Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund established pursuant to Section 33334.3. (2) Territory currently within an island of unincorporated territory that is surrounded or substantially surrounded by the City of Indio, after the city's annexation of that territory, with respect to which the agency, prior to that annexation, (A) entered into a binding agreement with a third party in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 33334.2 and (B) acquired land or otherwise expended money from its Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund established pursuant to Section 33334.3. (b) This section shall apply retroactively and prospectively to the territory specified in subdivision (a). (c) The agency may apply towards its obligations under subdivision (b) of Section 33413 units described in clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 33413 that are located within the territory specified in subdivision (a). SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique need to redress ambiguity as to the nature of returns on investments by the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside in (1) former agency territory now within the geographic boundaries of the City of Menifee or the City of Wildomar and (2) territory within an island of unincorporated territory that is surrounded or substantially surrounded by the City of Indio.