BILL NUMBER: AB 1384	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Baker

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 30959 of the Streets and Highway Code,
relating to toll facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1384, as amended, Baker. Toll facilities: Metropolitan
Transportation  Commission   Commission. 
   Existing law designates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission
as the regional transportation planning agency for the San Francisco
Bay Area. Existing law creates the Bay Area Toll Authority, governed
by the same board as the commission, with specified powers and
duties relative to the administration of toll revenues from
state-owned toll bridges within the geographic jurisdiction of the
commission. Existing law authorizes the authority to make direct
contributions to the commission in furtherance of the exercise of the
authority's powers, including contributions in the form of personnel
services, office space, overhead, and other funding necessary to
carry out the function of the authority, with those contributions not
to exceed 1% of the gross annual bridge revenues.
   This bill would  make a technical, nonsubstantive change
to this limitation on contributions.   instead limit the
direct contributions by the authority to the commission in any
fiscal year to 1% of funds available to the authority in that fiscal
year, and would impose a similar restriction on loans from the
authority to the commission. 
   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 30959 of the Streets and Highways Code is
amended to read:
   30959.  The authority may make direct contributions to the
commission in furtherance of the exercise of the authority's powers
under this division, including contributions in the form of personnel
services, office space, overhead, and other funding necessary to
carry out the function of the authority, with those contributions
 in any fiscal year  not to exceed an amount equal to 1
percent of the  gross annual bridge revenues.  
funds available to the authority in that fiscal year.  The
authority may also make additional contributions in the form of loans
to the commission on a reimbursement-for-cost  basis;
provided that   basis, if  those loans  in any
fiscal year  do not, independent of the direct contributions,
exceed 1 percent of the  gross annual bridge revenues
  funds available to the authority in that fiscal year
 and are fully repaid with interest at the same interest rate
that would apply for toll bridge revenue bonds of the same duration
as any loan taken by the commission.  As used in this
section, "gross annual bridge revenues" shall have the same meaning
as in Section 30958.