Amended in Assembly July 3, 2013

Amended in Senate May 14, 2013

Amended in Senate April 30, 2013

Senate BillNo. 203


Introduced by Senator Pavley

February 7, 2013


An act to repeal, add, and repeal Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 203, as amended, Pavley. Local transportation funds: Ventura County.

Existing law requires that 14% of the local sales and use tax be transferred to the local transportation fund of each county for allocation, as directed by the transportation planning agency, for various transportation purposes. Existing law specifies the allowable uses for local transportation funds, and generally requires these funds to be used for transit purposes in urban counties, while in counties with a population under 500,000 as of the 1970 census and certain other counties, these funds may also be used for local streets and roads, if the transportation planning agency finds that there are no unmet transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet, and for other specified purposes.

Existing law, beginning July 1, 2014, for counties with a population of less than 500,000 as of the 1970 decennial census, but that have a population of 500,000 or more as of the 2000 decennial census or at a subsequent census, requires the local transportation funds apportioned to the urbanized areas of those counties to generally be allocated for public transit purposes and not for street and road purposes, except that cities in those counties with a population of 100,000 or fewer are exempt from this requirement. Under existing law, local transportation funds apportioned to the nonurbanized areas in those counties remain available for allocation to street and road purposes and for other specified purposes. Existing law exempts Ventura County from these provisions and instead authorized the Ventura County Transportation Commission to submit, by December 31, 2011, a report to the Legislature analyzing options for organizing public mass transportation services in the county and for expenditure of revenues in the local transportation fund, along with a recommended legislative proposal. Under existing law, if a legislative proposal was not enacted by the end of the 2011-12 Regular Session of the Legislature, local transportation funds in Ventura County would be required to be available solely for transit purposes beginning July 1, 2014.

This bill would repeal the provisions specifically relating to Ventura County and the expenditure of local transportation funds there. This bill would also require the Ventura County Transportation Commission tobegin delete submitend deletebegin insert post on its Internet Web siteend insert an annual reportbegin delete to the Legislatureend delete for 5 years, beginning September 1, 2014, on transit service within the county, thereby imposing 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.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code is
2repealed.

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SEC. 2.  

Section 99232.3 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
4to read:

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99232.3.  

(a) On or before September 1, 2014, and for four
6years annually thereafter, the Ventura County Transportation
7Commission shallbegin delete submitend deletebegin insert post on its Internet Web siteend insert a reportbegin delete to
8the Legislatureend delete
on transit service within the County of Ventura.
9The report shall include, but not be limited to, a description of
P3    1transit route changes, changes to service levels on transit routes,
2and ridership numbers for all transit routes operating within the
3county. The report shall include annual budget numbers for transit
4services provided by the commission, Gold Coast Transit, other
5multiagency operators, and individual municipal operators.begin delete The
6report shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795 of the
7Government Code.end delete

8(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2019,
9and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that
10is enacted before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends that date.

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SEC. 3.  

No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
12Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
13the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
14district are the result of a program for which legislative authority
15was requested by that local agency or school district, within the
16meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code and Section
176 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.



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