BILL NUMBER: SB 230	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Knight

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   An act to amend Section 99247 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 230, as introduced, Knight. Local transportation funds:
performance audits.
   Existing law provides various sources of funding to public transit
operators. Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the
Transportation Development Act, revenues from a 1/4% sales tax in
each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the
transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to
certain requirements for the operator to maintain a specified farebox
ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. The act requires the
transportation planning agency to designate entities other than
itself, a county transportation commission, a transit development
board, or an operator to make a performance audit of its activities
and the activities of each operator to whom it allocates funds. The
act requires the transportation planning agency to consult with the
entity to be audited prior to designating the entity to make the
performance audit and defines "operating cost" for this purpose.
   This bill would correct an obsolete cross-reference in this
definition of operating costs.
   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 99247 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   99247.  For purposes of Section 99246, and as used elsewhere in
this article:
   (a) "Operating cost" means all costs in the operating expense
object classes exclusive of the costs in the depreciation and
amortization expense object class of the uniform system of accounts
and records adopted by the Controller pursuant to Section 99243, and
exclusive of all subsidies for commuter rail services operated under
the jurisdiction of the  Interstate Commerce Commission
  Surface Transportation Board  and of all direct
costs for providing charter services, and exclusive of all vehicle
lease costs.
   (b) "Operating cost per passenger" means the operating cost
divided by the total passengers.
   (c) "Operating cost per vehicle service hour" means the operating
cost divided by the vehicle service hours.
   (d) "Passengers per vehicle service hour" means the total
passengers divided by the vehicle service hours.
   (e) "Passengers per vehicle service mile" means the total
passengers divided by the vehicle service miles.
   (f) "Total passengers" means the number of boarding passengers,
whether revenue producing or not, carried by the public
transportation system.
   (g) "Transit vehicle" means a vehicle, including, but not limited
to, one operated on rails or tracks, which is used for public
transportation services funded, in whole or in part, under this
chapter.
   (h) "Vehicle service hours" means the total number of hours that
each transit vehicle is in revenue service, including layover time.
   (i) "Vehicle service miles" means the total number of miles that
each transit vehicle is in revenue service.
   (j) "Vehicle service hours per employee" means the vehicle service
hours divided by the number of employees employed in connection with
the public transportation system, based on the assumption that 2,000
person-hours of work in one year constitute one employee. The count
of employees shall also include those individuals employed by the
operator which provide services to the agency of the operator
responsible for the operation of the public transportation system
even though not employed in that agency.