BILL NUMBER: AB 2156	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 56378 of, and to add Section 56047.7 to,
the Government Code, relating to local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2156, as amended, Achadjian. Local agency formation
commissions: studies.
   Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government
Reorganization Act of 2000, sets forth the powers and duties of a
local agency formation commission, including, among others, the
requirement to conduct studies of existing governmental agencies that
include, but are not limited to, inventorying those agencies and
determining their maximum service area and service capacities. The
commission is authorized to request land use information, studies,
and plans of cities, counties, districts, including school districts,
community college districts, and regional agencies and state
agencies and departments, in connection with conducting the required
studies, and the governmental agencies are required to comply with
the commission's request.
   This bill would include joint powers agencies and joint powers
authorities among the entities from which the commission is
authorized to request land use information, studies, and plans, for
purposes of conducting the studies described above  , and also
would include joint powers agreements in the list of items the
commission may request in conducting those studies  . The bill
would specifically define "joint powers agency" and "joint powers
authority" for purposes of the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local
Government Reorganization Act of 2000.
   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 56047.7 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   56047.7.  "Joint powers agency" or "joint powers authority" means
an agency or entity formed pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers
Act (Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of
Division 7 of Title 1) that is formed for the local performance of
governmental functions that includes the provision of municipal
services.
  SEC. 2.  Section 56378 of the Government Code is amended to read:
   56378.  (a) In addition to its other powers, the commission shall
initiate and make studies of existing governmental agencies. Those
studies shall include, but shall not be limited to, inventorying
those agencies and determining their maximum service area and service
capacities. In conducting those studies, the commission may request
land use information, studies,  joint powers agreements, 
and plans of cities, counties, districts, including school districts,
community college districts, joint powers agencies and joint powers
authorities, regional agencies and state agencies and departments.
Cities, counties, districts, including school districts, community
college districts, joint powers agencies and joint powers
authorities, regional agencies, and state agencies and departments,
shall comply with the request of the commission for that information
and the commission shall make its studies available to public
agencies and any interested person. In making these studies, the
commission may cooperate with the county planning commissions.
   (b) The commission, or the board of supervisors on behalf of the
commission, may apply for or accept, or both, any financial
assistance and grants-in-aid from public or private agencies or from
the state or federal government or from a local government.