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          Bill No:  SB 1
          Author:   Steinberg (D), et al.
          Amended:  9/3/13
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE GOVERNANCE & FINANCE COMMITTEE  :  4-2, 3/13/13
          AYES:  Wolk, Beall, DeSaulnier, Liu
          NOES:  Knight, Emmerson
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Hernandez

           SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE  :  8-3, 4/23/13
          AYES:  DeSaulnier, Beall, Galgiani, Hueso, Lara, Liu, Pavley,  
            Roth
          NOES:  Gaines, Cannella, Wyland

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  5-2, 5/23/13
          AYES:  De León, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
          NOES:  Walters, Gaines

           SENATE FLOOR  :  27-11, 5/28/13
          AYES:  Beall, Block, Calderon, Corbett, De León, DeSaulnier,  
            Evans, Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Jackson,  
            Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Monning, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Roth,  
            Steinberg, Torres, Wolk, Wright, Yee
          NOES:  Anderson, Berryhill, Cannella, Emmerson, Fuller, Gaines,  
            Huff, Knight, Nielsen, Walters, Wyland
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Correa, Vacancy

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  48-28, 9/9/13 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Sustainable Communities Investment Authority
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           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill allows a local government to establish a  
          Sustainable Communities Investment Authority (Authority) and  
          direct tax increment revenues to that Authority in order to  
          address blight by supporting development in transit priority  
          project areas, small walkable communities, and clean energy  
          manufacturing sites.

           Assembly Amendments  (1) provide that if a city, county, or city  
          and county that is part of an Authority declares a fiscal  
          emergency that city, county or city and county must develop a  
          plan for how the county auditor-controller shall reduce the  
          amount of the tax increment revenue allocated to the authority  
          during the period of time of the fiscal emergency; (2) prohibit  
          an Authority from including land that is subject to a contract  
          pursuant to the Williamson Act or more than two acres of prime  
          farmland, farmland of statewide importance, unique farmland, or  
          farmland of local importance as defined by the United States  
          Department of Agriculture (USDA) land inventory and monitoring  
          criteria as modified for California; (3) prohibit an Authority  
          from being formed, as specified, by a city, county, city and  
          county, or special district that has declared a fiscal  
          emergency, unless the city, county, city and county, or special  
          district subsequently declares that the fiscal emergency has  
          been resolved; and (4) make other clarifying changes.

           ANALYSIS  :    The Community Redevelopment Law (CRL) allowed a  
          local government to establish a redevelopment area and capture  
          all of the increase in property taxes generated within the area  
          (referred to as "tax increment") over a period of decades.  

          In 2011, the Legislature enacted AB 26X1 (Blumenfield, Chapter  
          5) which eliminated redevelopment agencies and established  
          procedures for winding down the agencies, paying off enforceable  
          obligations, and disposing of agency assets.  AB 26X1  
          established successor agencies, typically the city that  
          established the agency, to take control of all redevelopment  
          agency assets, properties, and other items of value.  Successor  
          agencies are to dispose of an agency's assets as directed by an  
          oversight board, made up of representatives of local taxing  
          entities, with the proceeds transferred to the county  

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          auditor-controller for distribution to taxing agencies within  
          each county.

          AB 26X1 also included provisions allowing the host city or  
          county of a dissolving redevelopment agency to retain the  
          housing assets and functions previously performed by the agency,  
          except for funds on deposit in the agency's Low and Moderate  
          Income Housing Fund (L&M fund), and thus become a successor  
          housing agency.  If the host city or county chooses not to  
          become the housing successor agency, a local housing authority  
          or the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)  
          takes on that responsibility.

          SB 375 (Steinberg, Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008) required the  
          Air Resources Board (ARB), by September 30, 2010, to provide  
          each region that has a metropolitan planning organization (MPO)  
          with a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction target for the  
          automobile and light truck sector for 2020 and 2035,  
          respectively.  Each MPO, in turn, is required to include within  
          its regional transportation plan (RTP) a sustainable communities  
          strategy (SCS) designed to achieve the ARB targets for GHG  
          emission reduction.  Each MPO must submit its SCS to ARB for  
          review.  ARB must accept or reject the MPO's determination that  
          the SCS submitted would, if implemented, achieve the GHG  
          emission reduction targets.

          SB 375 also created and defines a "transit priority project" as  
          one that:

             Is located within one-half mile of an existing or planned  
             major transit stop or high-quality transit corridor included  
             in the RTP.

             Is consistent with the general plan use designation,  
             density, building intensity, and applicable policies  
             specified for the project area in its SCS, for which ARB has  
             accepted an MPO's determination that the SCS would, if  
             implemented, achieve the GHG emission reduction targets;

             Contains at least 50% residential use, based on total  
             building square footage and, if the project contains between  
             26% and 50% nonresidential uses, a floor area ratio of not  
             less than 0.75;


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             Provides a minimum net density of at least 20 dwelling units  
             per acre; and

             Existing law also defines a "small walkable community  
             project" as a project in an incorporated city, which is not  
             within the boundary of an MPO, and that:

             Is approximately one-quarter mile diameter of contiguous  
             land completely within the existing incorporated boundaries  
             of the city;

             Is a project area that includes a residential area adjacent  
             to a retail downtown area; and

             Has a density of at least eight dwelling units per acre or a  
             floor area ratio for retail or commercial use of not less  
             than 0.50.
          This bill:

           1. Allows an Authority to be formed and specifies that it must  
             comply with the provisions of the CRL, with certain  
             exceptions, and this bill's provisions. 

           2. Requires an Authority to adopt a plan for a sustainable  
             communities investment area. 

           3. Requires a sustainable communities investment plan to  
             terminate on a specified date not to exceed 30 years from the  
             date of the first issuance of bond indebtedness by the  
             Authority. 

           4. Provides that the Authority shall be deemed to be an  
             "agency" as defined in the CRL and shall have all the rights,  
             responsibilities, and obligations of an agency. 

           5. Exempts an Authority from the requirement under the CRL from  
             reporting on its financial information to the State  
             Controller. 

           6. Provides that an Authority is not required to make a finding  
             of blight or conduct a survey of blight in a project area,  
             but can rely upon the legislative findings in this bill to  
             establish blight. 


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           7. Prohibits a city or county that created a redevelopment  
             agency from forming an Authority unless the designated local  
             authority or the successor agency has receive a finding of  
             completion from Department of Finance (DOF) that it has  
             complied with the provisions of AB 26X1. 

           8. Allows an Authority to be formed as follows: 

              A.    A city and county representing the geographic  
                territory of an sustainable communities investment area  
                may form an Authority by entering into a joint powers  
                agreement that establishes the governing board and the  
                sustainable communities investment area; 

              B.    A city may form the governing board and establish the  
                parameters of the proposed economic development within the  
                sustainable communities investment area in an incorporated  
                area of the city provided the economic development  
                parameters and the sustainable communities investment plan  
                are approved by the county; 

              C.    A city and county may appoint a governing board for a  
                sustainable communities investment area comprised of two  
                members appointed by the city with geographic jurisdiction  
                and two appointed by the county with geographic  
                jurisdiction and a fifth member appointed by those  
                members.  The governing board will designate the  
                sustainable communities' investment area in an  
                incorporated area, an unincorporated area or both.  The  
                city and the county must approve the sustainable  
                communities investment plan and any amendments to it. 

              D.    If the sustainable communities' investment area is  
                within an unincorporated area, the county may form an  
                Authority and appoint the governing body. 

              E.    A city may form an Authority and appoint a governing  
                board that designates the sustainable communities  
                investment area without county approval if the area is  
                within the incorporated limits of the city. 

           9. Provides that the governing board of the Authority shall  
             consist of five members, and that members shall be appointed  
             for four-year terms and shall only be removed by the  

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             appointing authority for cause, and provides that the initial  
             appointees to the governing board shall serve either two-year  
             or four-year terms and shall draw their terms by lot. 

           10.Deems an Authority a public body subject to the Ralph A.  
             Brown Act, California Public Records Act, Meyers-Milias-Brown  
             Act, and the Political Reform Act. 

           11.Requires a city or county approving participation in an  
             Authority, the governing board, or a sustainable communities  
             investment area to do so through a resolution. 

           12.Excludes a school district from participating in an  
             Authority. 

           13.States that a sustainable communities investment area shall  
             include only the following: 

              A.    Transit priority areas that meet the following  
                parameters: 

                 (1)      A transit priority project including a  
                   high-speed rail station.  The transit stop or corridor  
                   must be completed within the planning horizon  
                   established by specified federal regulations.  The  
                   transit priority area may include a military base reuse  
                   plan that meets the definition of a transit priority  
                   area and it may include a contaminated site within a  
                   transit priority area; 

                 (2)      It is within the geographic boundaries of a MPO  
                   with an approved SCS. 

              A.    Areas that are small walkable communities, as defined,  
                except that small walkable communities may also be  
                designated in a city that is within the area of an MPO.   
                Specifies that no more than one small walkable community  
                project area shall be designated within a city; and 

              B.    Sites that have land use approvals, covenants,  
                conditions and restrictions, or other effective controls  
                restricting the sites to clean energy manufacturing, and  
                that are consistent with the use, designation, density,  
                building intensity, and applicable policies specified for  

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                the sustainable communities investment area in the SCS, if  
                those sites are within the geographic boundaries of an  
                MPO.  Specifies that clean energy manufacturing shall  
                consist of the manufacturing of any of the following: 

                 (1)      Components, parts, or materials for the  
                   generation of renewable energy resources; 

                 (2)      Equipment designed to make buildings more energy  
                   efficient or the component parts thereof; 

                 (3)      Public transit vehicles or the component parts  
                   thereof; or, 

                 (4)      Alternative fuel vehicles or the component parts  
                   thereof. 

           1. Prohibits an Authority from including land that is subject  
             to a contract pursuant to the Williamson Act or more than two  
             acres of prime farmland, farmland of statewide importance,  
             unique farmland, or farmland of local importance as defined  
             by the USDA land inventory and monitoring criteria as  
             modified for California.

           2. Allows a sustainable communities investment plan for an  
             sustainable communities investment area to include a  
             provision for the receipt of tax increment funds providing  
             that the local government with land use jurisdiction has  
             adopted all of the following: 

              A.    A sustainable parking standards ordinance that  
                restricts parking in transit priority project areas to  
                encourage transit use to the greatest extent feasible; 

              B.    An ordinance creating a jobs plan.  Specifies that all  
                entities receiving financial support from the Authority  
                shall, at a minimum, require that any and all agreements  
                approved by the Authority include a jobs plan, which shall  
                describe how the project will further create construction  
                careers that pay prevailing wages, living wage permanent  
                jobs, and create a program for community outreach, local  
                hire, and job training.  Specifies that the plan shall  
                also describe the project developer's commitment to offer  
                jobs to disadvantaged California residents, including  

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                veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, people with a  
                history in the criminal justice system, and single-parent  
                families; 

              C.    For transit priority areas and small walkable  
                communities within an MPO, a plan consistent with the use  
                designation, density, building intensity, and applicable  
                policies specified for the sustainable communities  
                investment area density of at least 20 dwelling units per  
                net acre and for nonresidential uses, provides a minimum  
                floor area ratio of 0.75; 

              D.    Within small walkable communities outside of an MPO, a  
                plan for new residential construction that provides a  
                density of at least 20 dwelling units per net acre and,  
                for nonresidential uses, provides a minimum floor area  
                ratio of 0.75; and 

              E.    An ordinance that prohibits the number of housing  
                units for extremely low-, very low- and low-income  
                households in the sustainable communities investment area  
                from being reduced during the effective period of the  
                sustainable communities investment plan.  And requires the  
                replacement of these housing units within two years of  
                their displacement. 

           3. Requires the county auditor controller to allocate to an  
             Authority the tax increment as specified in a an sustainable  
             communities investment plan in proportion to the levied taxes  
             for the city and or county in excess of the amount specified  
             in Health and Safety Code Section 33670 (a). 

           4. Provides that the auditor-controller may only allocate tax  
             increment revenues to an Authority if the taxing agency whose  
             tax increment would be allocated adopts a resolution  
             authorizing the allocation. 

           5. Provides that the adoption of a resolution to allow tax  
             increment to go to the Authority does not prohibit an  
             auditor-controller's authority to revoke the allocation if it  
             conflicts with requirements to pay existing obligations  
             secured by tax increment revenues. 

           6. Provides that if a city, county, or city and county that is  

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             part of an Authority declares a fiscal emergency that city,  
             county or city and county must develop a plan for how the  
             county auditor-controller shall reduce the amount of the tax  
             increment revenue allocated to the authority during the  
             period of time of the fiscal emergency. 

           7. Provides that if an sustainable communities investment area  
             includes in whole or in part a former redevelopment area and  
             the sustainable communities investment plan includes a  
             provision for receipt of tax increment revenues then it shall  
             include a provision that tax increment amounts collected and  
             received by the Authority are subordinate to existing  
             enforceable obligations. 

           8. Defines "net available revenue" as periodic distributions to  
             the city or county from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust  
             Fund once all enforceable obligations are paid. 

           9. Allows a city or county forming the Authority to dedicate  
             any portion of its net available revenue to the Authority  
             through the sustainable communities investment plan which  
             shall include the date upon which the Authority will cease to  
             receive the net available revenue. 

           10.Provides that an Authority that collects tax increment  
             revenues must dedicate no less than 25% of the allocated tax  
             increment for affordable housing purposes. 

           11.Requires a sustainable communities investment plan to  
             include the following, in addition to what is required for a  
             redevelopment plan in the CRL: 

              A.    A fiscal analysis of the projected receipt of tax  
                increment and other revenue and the projected expenses  
                over five-year planning horizons for the life of the  
                Authority; 

              B.    A statement of the principal goals and objectives of  
                the plan with findings of the public purposes and uses  
                that will be achieved; 

              C.    A statement of how the sustainable communities  
                investment plan with relieve blight as follows: 


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                 (1)      How it will implement the goals of a SCS if the  
                   sustainable communities investment area is within an  
                   MPO; 

                 (2)      How it will contribute to a more efficient  
                   transportation; 

                 (3)      How it will contribute to and reduce cost for  
                   the combined costs of housing and transportation; 

                 (4)      How it will contribute to improved public  
                   health; 

                 (5)      How it will promote more efficient water  
                   consumption; 

                 (6)      How it will avoid loss of prime farmland; and, 

                 (7)      How it will reduce air pollution, energy  
                   consumption and GHG emissions by reducing vehicle miles  
                   traveled; 

                 (8)      How it will ensure compliance with the  
                   affordable housing maintenance and preservation  
                   requirements. 

              A.    A statement of how the plan will implement the  
                sustainable parking standards; 

              B.    A statement of how the plan will implement the jobs  
                plan; 

           1. Provides a sustainable communities investment plan, in  
             addition to meeting the housing provisions of the CRL, may  
             include, to the extent applicable to the sustainable  
             communities investment area, the following: 

              A.    Affordable and farmworker housing; 

              B.    Transitional and supportive housing for, including but  
                not limited to, former foster youth, persons with mental  
                health treatment needs, persons with substance use  
                disorder treatment needs, offender populations. 


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              C.    Health and safety related infrastructure investments  
                in disadvantaged rural communities; and

              D.    Infrastructure to support country wide services. 

           2. Requires an Authority to contract for an independent and  
             financial audit every five years, conducted by guidelines  
             established by the Controller, and submit it to the  
             Controller, Director of DOF, and the Joint Legislative Budget  
             Committee. 

           3. Requires the audit to determine compliance with the  
             affordable housing maintenance and replacement requirement  
             including provisions to ensure that the replacement  
             requirements are met within the five year period covered by  
             the audit. 

           4. Provides that if the Authority fails to meet the maintenance  
             and replacement requirement for affordable housing it must  
             adopt and submit to a plan with the audit to show how it will  
                                                                                     comply with those provisions within two years. 

           5. Require the Controller to review and approve an Authority's  
             plan to meet the replacement housing requirements and ensure  
             that the plan includes one or more of the following means of  
             achieving compliance: 

              A.    Expenditure of an additional 10% of gross tax  
                increment revenue on increasing, preserving, or improving  
                the supply of low-income housing; 

              B.    An increase in the production by an additional 10% of  
                housing for very low-income households as required under  
                the CRL housing production requirements; and/or 

              C.    The targeting of expenditures from the Low- and  
                Moderate -Income Housing Fund toward rental housing  
                affordable to and occupied by person of very low and  
                extremely low income. 

           6. Requires the Authority to approve any bond financing. 

           7. Specifies that school district property taxes cannot be  
             pledged for the repayment of bonds issued by an Authority. 

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           8. Specifies, in the event a tax increment financing provision  
             is included as part of an sustainable communities investment  
             area, and for the purposes of collecting tax increment under  
             Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution,  
             that the terms "district" and "affected taxing entity" shall  
             exclude a school district and special districts. 

           9. Permits a state or local pension fund system to invest  
             capital in the public infrastructure projects and private  
             commercial residential developments undertaken by an  
             Authority. 

           10.Allows an Authority to exercise the powers granted under the  
             Mello-Roos Act. 

           11.Allows an Authority to implement local transaction and use  
             tax, except that the resolution authorizing the tax may  
             designate the use of the tax. 

           12.Establishes a process to prequalify developers for  
             construction contracts in excess of $1 million. 

           13.Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to monitor  
             and enforce compliance with prevailing wage requirements for  
             projects that include funds from an Authority and shall  
             charge each awarding body or developer for the reasonable and  
             directly related costs of monitoring and enforcing compliance  
             with the prevailing wage requirements of each project. 

           14.Defines, for the purpose of exempting small walkable  
             communities from the California Environmental Quality Act,  
             the following terms: 

              A.    "Floor area ratio" as the ratio of gross building area  
                of development, exclusive of structured parking areas,  
                proposed for the project divided by the total net lot  
                area; 

              B.    "Gross building area" as the sum of all finished areas  
                of all floors of a building included within the outside  
                faces of its exterior walls; and 

              C.    "Net lot area" means the area of a lot excluding  

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                publicly dedicated land, private streets that meet local  
                standards, and other public use areas as determined by the  
                local land use authority. 

           15.Makes legislative findings and declarations. 

           Prior legislation .  This bill is very similar to the final  
          version of last year's SB 1156 (Steinberg, 2012), which Governor  
          Brown vetoed.  The Governor's veto message read in part, "I  
          prefer to take a constructive look at implementing this type of  
          program once the winding down of redevelopment is complete and  
          General Fund (GF) savings are achieved.  At that time, we will  
          be in a much better position to consider new investment  
          authority.  I am committed to working with the Legislature and  
          interested parties on the important task of revitalizing our  
          communities."

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No

          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:

             Potentially major redirection of local property tax revenues  
             from participating local agencies, excluding schools, to an  
             Authority over a period of decades.  Since this bill  
             prohibits schools from participating, there is no state  
             fiscal impact related to the redirection of local property  
             tax revenues.

             Estimated one-time costs to the Controller's Office in the  
             range of $100,000 to $200,000 (GF) to establish guidelines  
             for periodic financial and performance audits that include  
             provisions for determining compliance with affordable housing  
             requirements as well as secondary review and compliance  
             measures for failure to achieve initial compliance on the  
             regular audit schedule.  (Staff assumes 1.5 to 2 personnel  
             year (PY) of regulatory staff to establish guidelines)

             Estimated ongoing Controller's Office costs in the range of  
             $150,000 (GF) on a periodic basis for accepting audits and  
             reviewing and approving secondary compliance plans submitted  
             by Authorities who fail to comply with initial audit  
             requirements.  (Staff assumes approximately one PY of audit  
             work on a periodic basis)

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             Estimated ongoing costs in the range of $150,000 to $200,000  
             (GF) to the DOF to review and approve completed audits on a  
             periodic basis.  This bill requires audits to be submitted to  
             the Controller's Office, DOF, and Joint Legislative Budget  
             Committee, and specifies that the Controller's Office is not  
             required to review and approve completed audits.  (Staff  
             assumes 1.5 to 2 PY of DOF staff would be required to handle  
             this workload to determine compliance with guidelines)

             Unknown costs to the Department of Industrial Relations  
             (State Public Works Enforcement Fund) to monitor and enforce  
             prevailing wage requirements for Authority projects.  These  
             costs would be reimbursed in arrears by charges on an  
             awarding body or developer for each project.

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  9/9/13)

          Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
          Alliance for Community Transit-Los Angeles
          California Association of REALTORS
          California Labor Federation
          California Special Districts Association
          California State Association of Counties
          California State Council on Developmental Disabilities
          California Transit Association
          Capacity Builders, Inc.
          City of West Sacramento
          Counties of Alameda, Lassen
          East Los Angeles Community Corporation
          Emeryville Chamber of Commerce
          Green Technical Education and Employment
          Housing California
          Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
          Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades  
          Council
          Metropolitan Transportation Commission
          Mission Bay Development Group
          Natural Resources Defense Council
          Sacramento Area Council of Governments
          Sacramento Housing Alliance
          Southeast Asian Community Alliance
          State Building and Construction Trades Council
          Western Center on Law and Poverty

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           OPPOSITION  :    (Verified  9/9/13)

          Air Conditioning Trade Association
          California Farm Bureau Federation
          California Right to Life Committee, Inc.
          California Taxpayers Association 
          Contra Costa Taxpayers Association
          Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association of California
          State Board of Equalization, Third District, Vice-Chair,  
          Michelle Steel
          Western Electrical Contractors Association

           ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT  :    Eliminating redevelopment agencies did  
          not eliminate the need for California communities to build more  
          affordable housing, eliminate blight, foster business activity,  
          clean up contaminated brownfields, and create jobs.  This bill  
          establishes a new approach to local economic development and  
          housing policy that is focused on building sustainable  
          communities and creating high skill, high wage jobs.  This bill  
          fosters collaboration between cities and counties on local  
          economic development efforts and mitigates the zero-sum  
          competition for scarce property tax revenues among cities,  
          counties, and school districts.  This bill offers local  
          governments flexibility by allowing an authority to use a  
          variety of tools, including tax increment financing, CRL powers,  
          local sales taxes, infrastructure financing districts, and the  
          ability to leverage public pension fund investments.

           ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION  :    Opponents object to the taxation,  
          bonding, and eminent domain powers that this bill confers to the  
          Authorities.  They are concerned about how high sales tax rates  
          could go up in the project areas and about how Authorities would  
          structure the public votes for such sales tax increases as well  
          as for bonds.  The opponents are also concerned that the  
          imposition of sales taxes of varying levels in many small areas  
          throughout the state could result in significant administrative  
          challenges and compliance problems for small businesses.   
          Finally, they are opposed to assigning eminent domain power to  
          the Authorities.  
           
           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  48-28, 9/9/13
          AYES:  Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta,  
            Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,  

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            Chesbro, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Frazier, Garcia,  
            Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hall, Roger Hernández,  
            Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lowenthal, Mitchell, Mullin,  
            Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez,  
            Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski,  
            Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
          NOES:  Achadjian, Allen, Bigelow, Chávez, Conway, Cooley, Dahle,  
            Donnelly, Fox, Beth Gaines, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Harkey,  
            Jones, Linder, Logue, Maienschein, Mansoor, Melendez, Morrell,  
            Nestande, Olsen, Patterson, Salas, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Medina, Quirk, Vacancy, Vacancy


          AB/RM:k  9/9/13   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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