BILL NUMBER: AB 2574 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 17, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Rodriguez
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to add Section 9600.6 to amend
Sections 132400 and 132450 of the Unemployment
Insurance Public Utilities Code, relating to
employment development the Metro Gold Line
Foothill Extension Construction Authority .
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2574, as amended, Rodriguez. Employment Development
Department: workforce needs: biennial report. Metro
Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority.
Existing law creates the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Construction Authority for purposes relating to the development of a
light rail project extending from the City of Los Angeles to the
Cities of Pasadena and Montclair.
This bill would provide for the extension of the project to the
City of Ontario, instead of the City of Montclair.
Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (LACMTA) and requires LACMTA to assume
responsibility for operating all completed phases of the light rail
project. Existing law grants LACMTA the authority to operate the
portion of the light rail project that extends approximately one-half
mile from the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County line to the
Montclair Transit Center, subject to approval by the San Bernardino
Associated Governments (SANBAG) of an operations and maintenance
agreement, as specified, with respect to the portion of the project
on the right-of-way owned by SANBAG.
This bill would instead grant LACMTA authority to operate the
portion of the light rail project that extends from the Los Angeles
and San Bernardino County line to the LA/Ontario International
Airport, subject to the approval of SANBAG described above.
Because this bill would require a local authority to assume
additional responsibilities, it would create a state-mandated local
program.
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.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to
administer various job training and placement programs and services
for eligible persons, as provided, and requires that the department,
among other things, develop a statewide plan and area plans to
coordinate all programs it administers, as specified. Existing law
requires the director of the department to prepare an annual report
for the Governor, the Legislature, and the California Workforce
Investment Board regarding the training expenditures made by local
workforce investment boards in the prior fiscal year, as specified.
This bill would require the department to develop a biennial
report regarding state workforce need projections and credential
production, as specified. The bill would also require the department,
by January 1, 2015, and every 2 years thereafter, to provide a copy
of the report to the appropriate policy committees in both the
Assembly and Senate, to the Governor, to the Board of Regents of the
University of California, the Board of Trustees of the California
State University, and to the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, and to collaborate with the State Department of Education
in providing the report to the public school districts. The bill
would authorize the department to provide the report electronically.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no yes .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 132400 of the Public
Utilities Code is amended to read:
132400. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have
the following meanings:
(a) The "authority" is the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension
Construction Authority created under this chapter, formerly known as
the Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority.
(b) The "board" is the governing board of the authority.
(c) The "commission" is the California Transportation Commission.
(d) The "LACMTA" is the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.
(e) The "project" is the Los Angeles-Pasadena Foothill Extension
Gold Line light rail project, formerly known as the Los
Angeles-Pasadena Metro Blue Line, extending from Union Station in the
City of Los Angeles to Sierra Madre Villa Boulevard in the City of
Pasadena and any mass transit guideway that may be planned east of
Sierra Madre Villa Boulevard along the rail right-of-way extending to
the City of Montclair. Ontario.
(f) The "extension cities" are the Cities of Arcadia, Monrovia,
Duarte, Irwindale, Azusa, Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona,
Claremont, and Montclair. Montclair, Upland,
and Ontario.
SEC. 2. Section 132450 of the Public
Utilities Code is amended to read:
132450. (a) (1) The LACMTA shall assume responsibility for
operating all completed phases of the project.
(2) Subject to subparagraph (A), the LACMTA shall have the
authority to operate the portion of the project located in the County
of San Bernardino, which extends approximately one-half
mile from the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County line to
the Montclair Transit Center. LA/Ontario
International Airport.
(A) With respect to the portion of the project on the right-of-way
owned by the San Bernardino Associated Governments, the LACMTA's
authority to operate the project shall be contingent upon the
approval of the board of directors of the San Bernardino Associated
Governments, acting as the county transportation commission, through
approval of an operations and maintenance agreement with the LACMTA.
(B) The operations and maintenance agreement shall provide that
the San Bernardino Associated Governments reimburse the LACMTA for
the costs of operating that portion of the line located in the County
of San Bernardino.
(C) Prior to the commencement of construction of the portion of
the project in the County of San Bernardino, the authority shall
enter into a construction agreement with the San Bernardino
Associated Governments, acting as the county transportation
commission.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require the
LACMTA to allocate funds to the project beyond funds that have been
allocated as of January 1, 2012.
(b) The authority shall be dissolved when project construction has
been completed.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act
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, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code
and Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
SECTION 1. Section 9600.6 is added to the
Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:
9600.6. (a) The department shall, in consultation with the
University of California, the California State University, the
California Community Colleges, the California Workforce Investment
Board, and any other entity deemed appropriate by department, develop
a biennial report regarding state workforce-need projections and
credential production. The report is to be produced to the extent
practicable within available existing resources and subject to data
currently collected by and accessible to state agencies. The report
shall do all of the following:
(1) Indicate the state's anticipated workforce needs and the
number of degrees, certificates, and other credentials that public
and private institutions of higher education expect to issue.
(2) Indicate the state's anticipated number of degrees,
certificates, and other credentials that high school career and
technical programs, apprenticeship programs, and other public or
private workforce training programs expect to issue.
(3) Identify any workforce needs, including areas of
specialization within a particular vocation, that may not be met by
the education, training, and apprenticeship programs as reported
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2).
(4) Identify institutions, whether public or private, that may
meet projected workforce needs.
(b) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
the department shall, by January 1, 2015, and every two years
thereafter, provide a copy of the report to the appropriate policy
committees in both the Assembly and Senate, to the Governor, to the
Board of Regents of the University of California, the Board of
Trustees of the California State University, and to the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges.
(c) The department shall collaborate with the State Department of
Education in providing the report to the public school districts in
this state.
(d) The report required by this section may be provided
electronically.