BILL NUMBER: AB 946	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 24, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 12, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Butler
  Members   Bonnie Lowenthal   and
Butler 
    (  Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Smyth   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Mitchell   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 95.31 of the Revenue and Taxation
Code, relating to local government finance, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.   An act to
add Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section 4218) to Division 5 of
Title 1 of the Government Code, relating to public contracts, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to   take effect immediately.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 946, as amended,  Butler   Bonnie
Lowenthal  .  Property tax administration: loan program.
  Public contracts: Los Angeles County: regional
interoperable communications system.  
   Under the State Contract Act, the erection, construction,
alteration, repair, or improvement of any state structure, building,
road, or other state improvement of any kind that will exceed a
specified amount, is accomplished by awarding a contract to the
lowest responsible bidder. Similar provisions exist for local agency
contract projects.  
   This bill would authorize the County of Los Angeles or the Los
Angeles Regional Interoperable Communication System Authority to
solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for
the delivery of a regional interoperable communications system and
all related infrastructure to be used by public safety agencies and
emergency responders located in the County of Los Angeles, as
specified.  
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.
 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   Existing property tax law authorized an eligible county, as
defined, upon the recommendation of the assessor and by resolution of
its board of supervisors, to elect to participate in the
State-County Property Tax Administration Loan Program, pursuant to
which a participating county received, in specified fiscal years, a
loan from the state, as specified, for the purposes of providing
supplemental funding for that county's local administration of the ad
valorem property tax.  
   This bill would reauthorize the State-County Property Tax
Administration Loan Program to allow counties to elect to participate
in the program to receive a loan in each fiscal year from the
2011-12 fiscal year to the 2015-16 fiscal year, inclusive. This bill
would also require the California Assessors' Association to report to
the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and the Assembly
Committee on Budget regarding participating counties, as specified.
 
   The California Constitution requires the state to apply a minimum
amount of funding each fiscal year for the support of school
districts and community college districts. The amount of that minimum
funding obligation is required to be determined pursuant to one of
three tests, depending on specified factors.  
   This bill would require that the repayment of loans made pursuant
to the State-County Property Tax Administration Loan Program be made
in the next fiscal year in which school districts and community
college districts receive funding pursuant to either the 2nd or 3rd
of these tests. The bill would require that, for years in which
school districts and community college districts receive funding
pursuant to the first test, the amount of the loan be carried over
to, and repaid in, the next fiscal year in which school districts and
community college districts receive funding pursuant to either the
2nd or 3rd of these tests.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Chapter 3.3 (commencing with Section
4218) is added to Division 5 of Title 1 of the   Government
Code   , to read:  
      CHAPTER 3.3.  REGIONAL INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM IN
LOS ANGELES COUNTY


   4218.  Notwithstanding Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 4525)
of Division 5 of this code, or Part 3 (commencing with Section 20100)
of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, the County of Los Angeles
or the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communication System
Authority may solicit proposals and enter into agreements with
private entities for the delivery of a regional interoperable
communications system and all related infrastructure to be used by
public safety agencies and emergency responders located in the County
of Los Angeles, including, but not limited to, the studying,
planning, design, developing, and financing of the system, the
delivery and installation of equipment, the architectural and
engineering design of the improvements to real property, the
construction of the improvements to real property, and the
maintenance, rebuilding, repair, or operation, or any combination
thereof, pertaining to that regional interoperable communications
system. The solicitation process shall ensure that the contractor is
selected in compliance with a "procurement by competitive proposals"
process as described in Section 24.36(d)(e) of Part 24 of Title 15 of
the Code of Federal Regulations. 
   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 requirements for a
regional interoperable communications system in the County of Los
Angeles. 
   SEC. 3.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to allow the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles
Regional Interoperable Communication System Authority to contract for
a regional interoperable communications system as soon as possible,
it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.  All
matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as
amended in the Senate, August 16, 2011. (JR11)