BILL ANALYSIS Ó SB 1090 Page 1 SENATE THIRD READING SB 1090 (Governance and Finance Committee) As Amended June 15, 2012 Majority vote SENATE VOTE :35-0 LOCAL GOVERNMENT 9-0 APPROPRIATIONS 17-0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Ayes:|Smyth, Alejo, Bradford, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, | | |Campos, Davis, Gordon, | |Blumenfield, Bradford, | | |Hueso, Knight, Norby | |Charles Calderon, Campos, | | | | |Davis, Donnelly, Gatto, | | | | |Hall, Hill, Lara, | | | | |Mitchell, Nielsen, Norby, | | | | |Solorio, Wagner | ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY : Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2012, which proposes twelve technical, noncontroversial changes to state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties. Specifically, this bill : 1)Makes the following changes regarding the annual reports of school districts' financial transactions: a) Requires the State Controller to publish the annual reports of the financial transactions of each school district on the Controller's Internet Web site; and, b) Authorizes the Controller to prescribe the time, manner, and format in which the Superintendent of Public Instruction is required to provide data and other matters required by the Controller pursuant to existing law. 2)Revises the boundary descriptions for the Counties of Fresno and Merced. 3)Clarifies that the copies of the complete text of a charter proposal or of any amended or repealed section ratified by the voters of a city, or city and county, submitted to the county recorder are recorded, and that the copies submitted to the city archives are filed. SB 1090 Page 2 4)Requires the legislative body of a general law city to submit a sidewalk installation charge to the voters and receive a two-thirds vote to approve the charge prior to imposing it, thereby conforming these provisions to existing law.5)Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the Williamson Act as they relate to solar-use easements. 6)Includes within the definition of "abuse of office or position" specified crimes related to bribery or corruption of any executive officer in this state. 7)Authorizes a local agency that has imposed an assessment pursuant to the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982 to bring an action in superior court to determine the validity of the assessment, as specified. 8)Requires a city or county's update of the land use element to include, if a city, an identification of each island or fringe community within the city's sphere of influence that is a disadvantaged unincorporated community, or, if a county, an identification of each legacy community within the boundaries of the county that is a disadvantaged unincorporated community. 9)Eliminates the requirement, pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act, that a city engineer, or city or county surveyor, provide the expiration date of his or her registration number or license for specified maps. 10)Makes the following changes regarding fees and charges related to water, sanitation, storm drainage, or sewerage services and facilities: a) Deletes the 60-day delinquency and notice requirements related to charges for water, sanitation, storm drainage, or sewerage services and facilities, and instead authorizes the amount of unpaid charges to be secured at any time by filing a specified certificate in the office of the county recorder. The amount required to be paid, with interest and a penalty, would constitute a lien on all real property owned by the person or afterwards acquired by him or her before the lien expires; SB 1090 Page 3 b) Requires the transfer, conveyance, or attachment of real property for fees related to water, sanitation, storm drainage, or sewerage services and facilities in a sewer district to occur during the year prior to the date on which the first installment of property taxes that evidence the charges appears on the tax roll, in order to preclude the local public entity's lien from attaching to the real property of the bona fide purchaser or encumbrancer for value; and, c) Requires the transfer, conveyance, or attachment of real property related to charges for water, sanitation, storm drainage, or sewerage services and facilities in a water district to occur during the year prior to the date on which the first installment of real property taxes that evidence the charges appears on the tax roll, in order for the water district's lien to not attach to the real property of the bona fide purchaser or encumbrancer for value. 11)Makes the following changes to Property and Business Improvement District (PBID) Law of 1994: a) Sets forth procedures to apply to a city council that propose to conduct a single proceeding to levy both a new or increased property assessment and a new or increased business assessment, as specified; b) Specifies that, if the improvements and activities in a PBID management district plan proposed for each year of operation are the same, this requirement may be satisfied if the management plan includes a description of the first year's proposed improvements and activities and a statement that the same improvements and activities are proposed for subsequent years; c) Provides that if the total annual amount proposed to be expended in each year of operation of a PBID is not significantly different, the amount proposed to be expended in the initial year and a statement that a similar amount applies to subsequent years may satisfy this requirement. This bill would also authorize this amount to be based upon the assessment rate if the assessment is levied on SB 1090 Page 4 businesses; d) Corrects an erroneous reference within the PBID Law of 1994; and, e) Provides, upon the expiration without renewal of a PBID, for the refund of any specified remaining revenues to the owners of property or businesses then located and operating within the district in which assessments were levied, as specified. 12)Revises specified provisions of the Kings River Conservation District Act as follows: a) Requires the district board to adopt a resolution on or before May 1, 2013, that divides the district into seven electoral districts, as specified; b) Sets forth the procedure by which the directors of the board may be elected, and would require the board to review the boundaries of the seven districts before November 1 of the year following the year in which each decennial census is taken; c) Prohibits the board from making any changes to the division of the district within the 180 days immediately preceding a general district election; d) Revises the definition of the term "general district election" to mean the election required to be held in the district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year; e) Makes other conforming changes to the act; and, f) Imposes a state-mandated local program by increasing the duties of local officials. 13)Provides that no reimbursement is required by the provisions of this bill 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. SB 1090 Page 5 EXISTING LAW : 1)Requires the Controller to compile and publish reports of the financial transactions of each county, city, and special district within this state, together with any other matter he or she deems of public interest. 2)Requires the Controller to annually publish reports of the financial transactions of each school district within this state, together with any other matter he or she deems of public interest. 3)Sets forth the boundary descriptions of every county in the state, including the Counties of Fresno and Merced. 4)Requires three copies of the complete text of a charter proposal or of any amended or repealed section ratified by the voters of a city or city and county to be certified and authenticated by the chairperson and the clerk of the governing body and attested to by the city clerk, setting forth the submission of the charter to the voters of the city and its ratification by them. 5)Authorizes the legislative body of a general law city to impose a sidewalk installation charge, as specified, upon an affirmative vote of a majority of all of the electors of the city voting on the proposition at an election called for that purpose. The California Constitution conditions the imposition of a special tax on a city, county, or special district upon the approval of two-thirds of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax. Existing law implements this provision of the Constitution. 6)Authorizes the parties to a Williamson Act contract, after approval by the Department of Conservation, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to mutually agree to rescind the contract entered into under the Williamson Act in order to simultaneously enter into a solar-use easement that would require that the land be used for solar photovoltaic facilities for a term no less than 20 years, as specified. 7)Requires, commencing January 1, 2012, any contract executed or SB 1090 Page 6 renewed between a local agency and an officer or employee of the local agency to include a provision that requires an officer or employee of a local agency who is convicted of a crime involving an abuse of his or her office or position, as defined, to fully reimburse the local agency for specified payments made by that local agency to the officer or employee, as specified. 8)Defines the term "abuse of office or position" to include, among other things, a crime against public justice, including, but not limited to, specified crimes related to bribery or corruption of any judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, or umpire, or to any person who may be authorized by law to hear or determine any question or controversy. 9)Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to make available to the Controller, on an as-needed basis, data and other matters required by the Controller pursuant to existing law. 10)Authorizes, pursuant to the Benefit Assessment Act of 1982, local agencies to impose benefit assessments to finance the maintenance and operation costs of drainage, flood control, street lighting, and streets, roads, or highways, if that local agency is authorized to provide those services. 11)Requires each city or county, on or before the due date for the next adoption of its housing element, to review and update the land use element of its general plan to include, if a city, an identification of each unincorporated island or fringe community within the city's sphere of influence, or, if a county, an identification of each legacy community within the boundaries of the county. 12)Requires, pursuant to the Subdivision Map Act, a certificate or statement by the city engineer or surveyor, or county surveyor, to accompany specified maps, and requires the official to provide, among other things, his or her registration or license number with the expiration date, as specified. 13)Authorizes various local public entities to prescribe fees or other charges for services and facilities furnished by them in connection with their water, sanitation, storm drainage, or SB 1090 Page 7 sewerage system, as well as for the privilege of connecting to these sanitation or sewerage facilities. These charges, under specified circumstances, may be collected on the tax roll in the same manner as property taxes and the amount of the charges constitutes a lien against the lot or parcel against which the charge has been imposed, unless the real property has been transferred or conveyed to a bona fide purchaser for value, or a lien of a bona fide encumbrancer for value has been created and attached prior to the date upon which the first installment of the property taxes would become delinquent. 14)Requires the charges for water, sanitation, storm drainage, or sewerage system services and facilities to remain delinquent for 60 days and the imposing entity to provide the assessee with notice of the delinquency, in order for the charges to constitute a lien against the lot or parcel of land for which the service was provided. 15)Provides procedures for the collection of unpaid charges by a water district for water or other services. These unpaid charges become a lien on the parcel of land upon which the water and other services were used, unless the real property has been transferred or conveyed to a bona fide purchaser for value, or a lien of a bona fide encumbrancer for value has been created and attached prior to the date of which the first installment of taxes would become delinquent. 16)Provides procedures to a city council that proposes to levy a new or increased property assessment or a new or increased business assessment. 17)Requires, pursuant to the PBID Law, a management district plan for a district to include, among other things, the improvements and activities proposed for each year of operation of the district and the maximum cost thereof. 18)Requires, pursuant to the PBID Law, a management district plan for a district to include, among other things, the total annual amount proposed to be expended for improvements, maintenance and operations, and debt service in each year of operation of the district. 19)Provides, pursuant to the PBID Law, that a city council may SB 1090 Page 8 adopt a resolution for the disestablishment of a district under specified circumstances, further requires, upon the disestablishment of a district, any specified remaining revenues to be refunded to the owners of the property or businesses then located and operating within the district in which assessments were levied, as specified. 20)Establishes, pursuant to the Kings River Conservation District Act (Act), the Kings River Conservation District, and authorizes the board of the district to exclude specific territory within the district. The Act divides the district into divisions for purposes of elections, and requires the board of the district to revise the divisions upon adding or removing territory from the district, except that the board is prohibited from revising the division of districts within the three months immediately following the preceding general district election. The Act additionally defines the term "general district election" to mean the election required to be held in the district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. 21)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. FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the fiscal impact of this bill is negligible. Although keyed a state mandate, no reimbursement is required 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. COMMENTS : The Local Government Omnibus Act of 2012 compiles twelve sets of noncontroversial changes to state laws affecting local agencies and land use into a single bill. Each year, local officials discover problems with the state statutes that affect counties, cities, special districts, and redevelopment agencies, as well as the laws on land use planning and development. Legislators respond by combining several of these minor topics into an annual "omnibus bill." According to the author, sending a bill through the legislative process costs around $18,000. By drafting one omnibus bill instead of twelve SB 1090 Page 9 small clean-up bills, the Committee's measure avoids roughly $198,000 in legislative costs. Although the practice may violate a strict interpretation of the single-subject and germaneness rules, it is an expeditious and relatively inexpensive way to respond to multiple requests. Furthermore, the author conducts a very public review of each item. More than 100 public officials, trade groups, lobbyists, and legislative staffers see each proposal before it goes into the Committee's bill. According to the author, "Ŭs]hould any item in SB 1090 attract opposition, the Committee will delete it. In this transparent process, there is no hidden agenda. If it's not consensus, it's not omnibus." SB 1090 proposes the following changes to the state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties: 1)Obsolete voter approval requirements for special taxes. Proposition 13 (1978), Proposition 62 (1986), and Proposition 218 (1996) all require voter approval for new and increased local taxes. Proposition 218 specifically requires special taxes to be approved by a two-thirds vote (California Constitution, Article XIIIC, Section 2(d)). Some older statutes which were enacted before the constitutional voter-approval requirements took effect appear to allow local governments to impose special taxes with only majority voter approval. The author aims to update these archaic statutes by cross-referencing the statutory requirements for voter approval of special taxes. SB 1090 deletes archaic majority voter approval language and inserts cross-references to voter approval requirements for special taxes into a statute authorizing cities to impose charges for sidewalk installation. 2)Property and Business Improvement Districts. The PBID Law allows property owners to petition a city or county to set up an improvement district and levy assessments on property owners, business owners, or both, to pay for promotional activities as well as for physical improvements. Practitioners who work with PBIDs have identified errors and ambiguities in the PBID Law. They ask that the Legislature amend four code sections to make the following corrections and clarifications: SB 1090 Page 10 a) Management district plans. State law requires each PBID's management district plan to include specified information. Among other things, every management plan must contain the improvements and activities proposed for each year of operation of the district; and, the total annual amount proposed to be expended for improvements, maintenance and operations, and debt service in each year of operation of the district SB 1090 permits a management plan to contain only a description of the proposed improvements and activities for a PBID's first year of operation if the plan states that the improvements and activities proposed for each year of operation are the same. Similarly, SB 1090 permits a management plan to contain only the amount proposed to be expended for improvements, maintenance and operations, and debt service in the PBID's first year of operation if the plan states that the amount proposed to be expended in each year of operation is not significantly different; b) District name correction. SB 1090 corrects an erroneous reference to a "parking and business improvement area" by replacing that phrase with "property and business improvement district;" and, c) Disposition of revenues after a PBID expires. State law requires PBIDs to be established for a limited initial term and specifies the procedures by which PBIDs can be renewed for subsequent terms of up to 10 years. State law also specifies procedures by which a city council or board of supervisors can disestablish a PBID and imposes requirements on the disposition of revenues remaining after a disestablishment. SB 1090 clarifies that district revenues remaining after a district expires without renewal are subject to the same requirements that apply to revenues remaining after a disestablishment. 3)Water and sewer districts' lien priority. State law authorizes local governments that provide water or sewer service to collect specified charges for services and infrastructure using the same laws that apply to the levy, collection, and enforcement of property taxes. Statutes authorizing water and sewer service providers to collect charges using property tax billing procedures typically allow a public agency to impose a SB 1090 Page 11 levy on real property for delinquent taxes and charges. The levy becomes a lien - or "encumbrance" - on the property when that property is sold. The statutes, however, provide an exception to this encumbrance, when the sale occurs before the charge becomes delinquent. This exception was intended to cover only sales and new mortgage liens occurring in the "gap period" after the agency submits the charge for placement on the tax bill but before the tax bill becomes due. However, a 1981 court decision, County of Butte v. North Burbank Public Utility District, interpreted the exception more broadly. That decision expanded the exception to cover any existing mortgage lien. The court held that, when a lender holding an existing mortgage forecloses and sells the property, later-added unpaid tax liens for delinquent utility charges are wiped out, regardless of when they were added. This interpretation of the bona fide encumbrance exception raises questions about the priority of liens that water and sewer providers use to collect unpaid taxes and charges. In response to the Butte decision, the Legislature amended the public utility district statutes involved in that decision and the Irrigation District Law. Those amendments narrowed the exception to apply only to transfers and encumbrances created during a specified window preceding the tax bill showing the charges. That bill, however, did not amend any of the other statutes with the bona fide encumbrance exception to include this clarification. Last year, the Legislature approved AB 741 (Huffman), Chapter 106, Statutes of 2011, which authorized sewer service providers, at a property owner's request, to construct sewer improvements on private property and charge the property owner for the costs. Irvine Ranch Water District officials are concerned that local governments will face risks in implementing AB 741 unless statutes that authorize water and sewer districts to use tax bill collection procedures are conformed to the language enacted by prior legislation. This bill narrows the bona fide encumbrance exception to protect sewer and other water agencies using the tax bill collection mechanisms from the Butte decision's expansive interpretation of the exception. SB 1090 Page 12 4)Fresno and Merced Counties' boundaries. State statutes recite the official boundary descriptions of all 58 counties. State law also allows counties to adjust their mutual boundaries. After counties use this procedure, they ask the Legislature to revise their statutory boundary descriptions to match the new realities. In 2007, Fresno and Merced county officials used these procedures to shift 4,175 acres from Fresno County to Merced County near the City of Dos Palos. After those boundary changes took effect on January 1, 2008, the Legislature then corrected the counties' statutory boundary descriptions ŬSB 894 (Senate Local Government Committee), Chapter 699, Statutes of 2010]. County officials recently identified errors in the new boundary descriptions that were enacted in 2010 and ask the Legislature to correct these errors. SB 1090 corrects Fresno and Merced Counties' statutory boundary descriptions. 5)Williamson Act and photovoltaic solar facilities. Statutes enacted by SB 618 (Wolk), Chapter 596, Statutes of 2011, authorize a city or county and a landowner to simultaneously rescind a Williamson Act contract on marginally productive or physically impaired lands and enter into a solar-use easement that restricts the use of land to photovoltaic solar facilities. Some of the statutes enacted by SB 618 contained drafting errors and inconsistent terminology: one statute incorrectly refers to agricultural "productively" instead of "productivity"; two statutes incorrectly refer to the time an easement "terminates" instead of the time it "is extinguished"; and, one statute incorrectly refers to an easement's "abandonment" instead of its "termination." To help local governments and land owners use SB 618's provisions properly, Williamson Act practitioners ask the Legislature to correct these errors. 6)"Abuse of office or position" definition. State law requires a local agency's employment contracts to contain a provision to reimburse the local agency for specified salary, legal, and settlement costs if an employee is convicted of a crime involving an abuse of his or her office or position ŬAB 1344 (Feuer), Chapter 692, Statutes of 2011]. For the purposes of this requirement, Government Code Section 53243.4 defines "abuse of office or position" as either an abuse of public SB 1090 Page 13 authority, including, but not limited to, waste, fraud, and violation of the law under color of authority; or, a crime against public justice, including, but not limited to, a crime described in Title 7 (commencing with Section 92) of Part 1 of the Penal Code. Some law enforcement officials worry that this definition's cross-reference to the Penal Code excludes important crimes that are defined in Title 5 of Part 1 of the Penal Code. This bill adds a cross-reference to the Penal Code to more accurately define the phrase "abuse of office or position." 7)Benefit Assessment Act of 1982 validations. Numerous statutes authorize a local government to file a validation lawsuit, asking a superior court to determine the validity of actions the local government has taken. The Benefit Assessment Act of 1982 allows local governments to levy assessments on real property to pay for the maintenance and operation costs of drainage, flood control, and street lighting services. Unlike many other benefit assessment acts, the 1982 Act does not expressly authorize local governments to use validation lawsuits to validate 1982 Act assessments. The California Central Valley Flood Control Association asks the Legislature to allow local governments that levy benefits assessments under the 1982 Act to use validation suits to confirm their actions. This bill adds language to the 1982 Act that mirrors the validation language that was added to the North Delta Water Agency's governing statutes by the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2009 ŬSB 113 (Senate Local Government Committee) Chapter 332, Statutes of 2009]. 8)Engineers' and surveyors' seals on subdivision maps. The Subdivision Map Act governs how cities and counties approve applications to convert large properties into smaller parcels for sale, lease, or financing. A major subdivision creates five or more parcels and requires both a tentative map and a final map. A minor subdivision (lot split) creates four or fewer parcels and usually needs only a parcel map. Final maps and parcel maps must be certified by a licensed engineer or land surveyor, who must "indicate his or her registration or license number with expiration date and the stamp of his or her seal" on a certified map. The Legislature recently repealed the requirement that an expiration date appear on the seal that licensed engineers and surveyors stamp on specified SB 1090 Page 14 engineering and land surveying documents ŬAB 645 (Niello), Chapter 368, Statutes of 2009]. The California Land Surveyors Association asks the Legislature to conform the Subdivision Map Act to these changes. This bill deletes the requirement that final maps and parcel maps must be stamped with a seal that indicates the expiration date of an engineer's or surveyor's license. 9)Kings River Conservation District's elections. The Kings River Conservation District (District) of Fresno County is a special act special district that provides flood control, water resource management, and power generation services to communities within its 1.2 million acre jurisdiction. The District is governed by a seven-member elected board of directors. Six of the directors represent six electoral divisions within the District and the seventh director represents the entire District. Because the boundaries of these electoral divisions are defined in the District's special act, using metes and bounds descriptions, the boundaries can only be adjusted by the Legislature, not by the District's board of directors. The Legislature last amended the statute describing the District's electoral boundaries in 1955. District officials worry that the antiquated statutes governing their board of directors' electoral divisions prevent the District from complying with federal Voting Rights Act requirements. They ask the Legislature to repeal and amend outdated provisions of the Kings River Conservation District Act governing the district's electoral divisions. Specifically, this bill: a) Repeals the statutory descriptions of the District's electoral boundaries; b) Repeals other antiquated statutory provisions governing district elections; c) Requires district directors to establish seven electoral divisions that must be, as far as practicable, equal in population, using the most recent federal census data as a basis; SB 1090 Page 15 d) Allows directors, when establishing division boundaries, to consider the topography, geography, cohesiveness, contiguity, integrity, compactness of territory, and the community of interests of the electoral divisions; e) Requires directors to review and, if necessary, adjust the District's electoral division boundaries following each decennial census; f) Requires a candidate for the board of directors to reside in the electoral division for which he or she is a candidate; g) Requires a director to continue to reside within the electoral division during his or her term of office; h) Prohibits a change in boundaries of an electoral division from affecting an incumbent director's term of office; i) Establishes a schedule for conducting elections for each division; j) Defines directors' terms of office; and, aa) Requires the District to conduct elections in accordance with the Uniform District Election Law. 1)Annual reports of school districts' financial transactions. Since 1949, state law has required the Controller to annually publish reports of the financial transactions of each school district. The Controller's staff has been unable to comply with this requirement because a recent software conversion at the California Department of Education (CDE) is incompatible with the computer system that the Controller's Office uses to collect the data and publish the annual financial transactions reports. The proposed law allows the Controller's Office to meet its school district financial transactions reporting requirement by making the CDE's financial transactions data available on the Controller's Web site. 2)Recording counties' and cities' voter-approved charter language. State law requires that a certified and authenticated copy of the complete text of a charter proposal SB 1090 Page 16 or of any revised, amended, or repealed section ratified by the electors of a county must be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county. State law requires that a certified and authenticated copy of the complete text of a charter proposal or of any amended or repealed section ratified by the voters of a city or city and county must be filed with the recorder of the county in which the city is located. City clerks worry that the discrepancy between the requirement that counties must record charter language with a county recorder and the requirement that cities must file charter language with a county recorder creates uncertainty and confusion about recording city charter language. The proposed law conforms the statutory requirements for submitting charter language to a county recorder by clarifying that city charter language must be recorded in a county recorder's office. 3)Planning for disadvantaged communities. State law requires local agencies to plan for specified disadvantaged communities through the Local Agency Formation Commission planning process and general plan updates. A recently-enacted statute ŬSB 244 (Wolk), Chapter 513, Statutes of 2011] bill defines the terms "disadvantaged unincorporated community," "unincorporated fringe community," "unincorporated island community," and "unincorporated legacy community." The statute requires a city, on or before the next due date for adopting the housing element of its general plan, to review and update the land use element of its general plan to include an identification of each unincorporated island or fringe community within the city's sphere of influence. The statute requires a county, on or before the due date for the next adoption of the housing element of its general plan, to review and update the land use element of its general plan to include an identification of each legacy community within the boundaries of the county, but not including any area within the sphere of influence of any city. Based on conversations with stakeholders involved with last year's bill, Senator Wolk's staff asked to clarify these statutory definitions and requirements. The proposed law clarifies that: a) A city council or board of supervisors must review and update the land use element of its general plan to include an analysis, based on specified data, of unincorporated island, fringe, or legacy communities inside or near its boundaries; SB 1090 Page 17 b) A city does not need to identify every unincorporated island or fringe community within its sphere of influence, but must identify only those island or fringe communities that also are disadvantaged unincorporated communities; and, c) A county does not need to identify every legacy community within its boundaries, but must identify only those legacy communities that are also disadvantaged unincorporated communities. Certain provisions of this bill conflict with those contained in SB 186 (Kehoe). The author may wish to consider 'chaptering-out' amendments to resolve the conflict. 1)Support arguments: According to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, sending a bill through the legislative process costs around $18,000. By drafting one omnibus bill instead of twelve small clean-up bills, the Committee's measure avoids roughly $198,000 in legislative costs. Moreover, the sponsor adds "Ŭs]hould any item in SB 1090 attract opposition, the Committee will delete it. In this transparent process, there is no hidden agenda. If it's not consensus, it's not omnibus." Opposition arguments: None on file. Analysis Prepared by : Hank Dempsey / L. GOV. / (916) 319-3958 FN: 0004873