BILL NUMBER: AB 57 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 2, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Beall
DECEMBER 6, 2010
An act to amend Section 65086 of the Government Code,
relating to transportation. An act to amend Sections
66503 and 66504 of the Government Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 57, as amended, Beall. Transportation planning.
Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Act creates the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a regional agency in the
9-county San Francisco Bay Area with comprehensive regional
transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing
law requires the commission to consist of 19 members, including 2
members each from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara, and
establishes a 4-year term of office for members of the commission.
This bill would, instead, require the commission to consist of 21
members, including one member appointed by the Mayor of the City of
Oakland and one member appointed by the Mayor of the City of San
Jose. The bill would require the initial term of those 2 members to
end in February 2015. The bill would, effective with the commission
term commencing February 2015, prohibit more than 3 members of the
commission from being residents of the same county, as specified. By
imposing new requirements on a local agency, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
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 no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to engage
in various transportation planning activities, including long-term
state highway system planning to identify future highway improvements
in consultation with transportation planning agencies, county
transportation commissions, counties, and cities.
This bill would also require those activities to be done in
consultation with metropolitan planning organizations.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no yes .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 66503 of the
Government Code is amended to read:
66503. The commission shall consist of 19
21 members as follows:
(a) Two members each from the City and County of San Francisco and
the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa ,
and San Mateo, and three members each from
the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara. With respect to the
members from San Francisco, the mayor shall appoint one member and
the board of supervisors shall appoint one member. With respect to
the members from Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and Santa Clara
Counties, the city selection committee organized in each county
pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 50270) of Chapter 1
of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5, shall appoint one member and the
board of supervisors shall appoint one member. The Mayor of the
City of Oakland shall be self-appointed or shall appoint a member of
the Oakland City Council to serve as the third member from the County
of Alameda. The Mayor of the City of San Jose shall be
self-appointed or shall appoint a member of the San Jose City Council
to serve as the third member from the County of Santa Clara.
(b) One member each from Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma Counties.
The city selection committee of these counties shall furnish to the
board of supervisors the names of three nominees and the board of
supervisors shall appoint one of the nominees to represent the
county.
(c) One representative each appointed by the Association of Bay
Area Governments and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission.
(d) One representative, who shall be a nonvoting member, appointed
by the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(e) One representative each appointed by the United States
Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban
Development. However, these representatives shall serve only if the
agencies they represent are amenable to these appointments. These
representatives shall be nonvoting members.
(f) Public officers, whether elected or appointed, may be
appointed and serve as members of the commission during their terms
of public office.
(g) Effective with the commission term commencing February 2015,
no more than three members appointed pursuant to subdivisions (a),
(b), and (c) shall be residents of the same county.
SEC. 2. Section 66504 of the Government
Code is amended to read:
66504. Each commissioner's term of office is four years ;
provided, however, that the commissioners appointed by the
Mayor of the City of Oakland and the Mayor of the City of
San Jose shall have an initial term of office ending in February
2015 . A commissioner appointed as a public officer vacates his
or her commission seat upon ceasing to hold such public
office unless the appointing authority consents to completion of the
term of office. Commissioners shall be selected for their special
familiarity with the problems and issues in the field of
transportation.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district are the result of a program for which
legislative authority was requested by that local agency or school
district, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code
and Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
SECTION 1. Section 65086 of the Government Code
is amended to read:
65086. The Department of Transportation, in consultation with
metropolitan planning organizations, transportation planning
agencies, county transportation commissions, counties, and cities,
shall carry out long-term state highway system planning to identify
future highway improvements.