BILL NUMBER: SB 437	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Correa

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act  to amend Section 130052 of the Public Utilities Code,
  relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 437, as amended, Correa. Orange County Transportation
Authority.
   Existing law establishes the Orange County Transportation
Authority, which is composed of 18 members, including 10 members from
the supervisorial districts of the county elected by the Orange
County  City  Selection Committee, as specified.
   This bill would, with regard to  certain city members of 
the 10 members elected by the Orange County  City 
Selection Committee,  prohibit the city members from serving more
than 2 consecutive terms on the authority, except as specified. The
bill would also  set forth the intent of the Legislature
 to enact legislation that would require   to
increase  the opportunity for  representation 
 cities to be represented  on the authority  to be
provided to all cities of supervisorial districts in Orange County
 .
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to  enact
legislation that would require   increase  the
opportunity for  representation   cities to be
represented  on the Orange County Transportation Authority
 to be provided to all cities of supervisorial districts in
Orange County, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 130052 of the
Public Utilities Code.   . 
   SEC. 2.    Section 130052 of the   Public
Utilities Code   is amended to read: 
   130052.  The Orange County Transportation Commission shall be
known as the Orange County Transportation Authority and shall be
governed by a board of directors consisting of 18 members appointed
as follows:
   (a) Five members of the Orange County Board of Supervisors
appointed by that board. Terms of office of the five members of the
board of supervisors shall be determined by the board of supervisors.
A board of supervisors member's term shall cease if he or she no
longer serves as a member of the board of supervisors.
   (b) (1) (A) Five city members, with one from each of the five
supervisorial districts, elected by the Orange County City Selection
Committee members within each supervisorial district on a
population-weighted voting basis.
   (B) Five city members, with one from each of the five
supervisorial districts, elected on a "one city, one vote" basis by
the Orange County City Selection Committee members within each
supervisorial district.  No city member elected under this
subparagraph shall serve more than two consecutive terms unless no
other potential city member desires to serve pursuant to this
subparagraph. 
   (2) A city that is within more than one supervisorial district
shall be considered part of the district where the highest percentage
of the city's population resides. Under this circumstance, the
entire city's population shall be used for population-weighted voting
purposes. Each city member shall be a mayor or a city council member
serving within the county. Terms of office of each city member shall
be determined by the Orange County City Selection Committee. A city
member's term shall cease if he or she no longer serves as a member
of a city council or as the mayor of a city.
   (3) A city member serving on the authority on the effective date
of the act amending this section in the 2003-04 Regular Session shall
continue to serve until the earliest of either the expiration of his
or her term or until he or she no longer serves as a mayor or member
of a city council.
   (c) Two public members appointed by a majority vote of the other
15 voting members of the authority. Each public member shall be a
resident of Orange County who is not then serving, and has not within
the last four years served, as an elected official of a city within
the county, as an elected official of any agency or special district
within Orange County, or as an elected official of the county. Each
public member shall serve for a term of four years.
   (d) The Director of Transportation, District 12, who shall be
appointed by the Governor as a nonvoting member. The member shall
serve for a term of four years.