BILL NUMBER: AB 504	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add Section 50079.2 to the Government Code, relating to
taxation.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 504, as introduced, Williams. School districts: County of Santa
Barbara: special taxes.
   Existing law authorizes any school district to impose qualified
special taxes, as defined, within the school district pursuant to
specified procedures.
   This bill would, when any school district in the County of Santa
Barbara is in any manner merged with one or more school districts so
as to form a single district, as specified, authorize the district so
formed to continue to impose any qualified special taxes imposed in
any of the predecessor school districts provided that specified
conditions are met, and would authorize the district so formed to
also impose a new special tax, as provided.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Barbara.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 50079.2 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   50079.2.  Notwithstanding any other law, when any school district
in the County of Santa Barbara is in any manner merged with one or
more school districts so as to form a single district pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 35542 of the Education Code, the district
so formed may do both of the following:
    (a) Continue to impose any qualified special taxes imposed in any
of the predecessor school districts provided that the revenues
derived from those qualified special taxes remain segregated on a
geographical basis conforming to the former boundaries of the school
districts prior to unification.
   (b) Subject to Section 4 of Article XIII A and Article XIII C of
the California Constitution, impose a new special tax pursuant to the
procedures established in Article 3.5 (commencing with Section
50075). The revenues derived from the imposition of the new special
tax shall be segregated on a geographical basis conforming to the
former boundaries of the school districts prior to unification.
  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 allow school districts in the County of
Santa Barbara that have merged in any manner to form a unified
school district to continue to impose qualified special taxes imposed
in any of the predecessor school districts in order to provide
critical program support in the unified school district in areas such
as music, art, mathematics, and technology.