BILL NUMBER: AB 504	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2011

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 amended, 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  
former district, as defined,  provided that specified conditions
are met, and would authorize the district so formed to also impose
 a  new special  tax   taxes
 , 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   former
district as defined by Section 35516 of the Education Code, 
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
  new special taxes  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   taxes may  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  noncoterminous  school
districts in the County of Santa Barbara that have merged  in
any manner  to form a unified school district pursuant
to subdivision (b) of Section 35542 of the Education Code  to
continue to impose qualified special taxes imposed in any  of
the predecessor school districts   former district as
defined by Section 35516 of the Education Code,  in order to
provide critical program support in the unified school district in
areas such as music, art, mathematics, and technology.