BILL NUMBER: AB 2280	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 50474.22 to the Government Code, relating to
rental companies, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2280, Ridley-Thomas. Rental companies: customer facility
charge.
   Existing law authorizes airports to require rental companies to
collect a customer facility charge for specified purposes and
requires airports to provide certain audits and reports regarding
those fees to specified committees of the Legislature.
   This bill would authorize the Los Angeles International Airport to
charge those same fees for additional specified purposes and would
require that airport to provide certain audits and reports regarding
those fees to specified committees of the Legislature.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles International
Airport.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 50474.22 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   50474.22.  (a) For purposes of this section, "customer facility
charge" means any fee, including an alternative fee, required by the
Los Angeles International Airport to be collected by a rental company
from a renter for any of the following purposes:
   (1) To finance, design, construct, or otherwise improve
consolidated airport vehicle rental facilities.
   (2) To finance, design, construct, operate, maintain, or otherwise
improve common-use transportation systems that move passengers
between airport terminals and those consolidated vehicle rental
facilities, and acquire vehicles for use in that system.
   (3) To finance, design, construct, or otherwise improve terminal
modifications solely to accommodate and provide customer access to
common-use transportation systems. The fees designated as a customer
facility charge shall not otherwise be used to pay for terminal
expansion, gate expansion, runway expansion, changes in hours of
operation, or changes in the number of flights arriving or departing
from the airport.
   (b) The aggregate amount to be collected shall not exceed the
reasonable costs, as determined by an audit by an independent auditor
paid for by the airport, to finance, design, construct, operate,
maintain, or otherwise improve, as applicable, those facilities,
systems, and modifications. The auditor shall independently examine
and substantiate the necessity for, and the amount of, the customer
facility charge, including whether the airport's actual or projected
costs are supported and justified, any steps the airport may take to
limit costs, potential alternatives for meeting the airport's revenue
needs other than the collection of the fee, and whether and to what
extent rental companies or other businesses or individuals using the
facility or common-use transportation system may pay for the costs
associated with these facilities and systems apart from the fee from
rental customers, or whether the airport did not comply with any
provision of this section. Copies of the audit shall be provided to
the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary, the Assembly
Committee on Transportation, and the Senate Committee on
Transportation and Housing and shall be posted on the airport's
Internet Web site. In the case of a customer facility charge for a
common-use transportation system, the audit also shall consider the
reasonable costs of providing the transit system or busing network
pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a). Any audit required by
this subdivision may be included as a part of an audit of an airport'
s finances.
   (c) The authorization under this section for an airport to impose
a customer facility charge shall become inoperative when bonds,
capital contributions, availability payment contracts, lease
agreements, or other forms for financing are paid or reimbursed. The
maximum term for financing under this section shall not exceed 35
years.
   (d) This section shall not apply to any fee, including an
alternative fee, required by an airport other than the Los Angeles
International Airport to be collected by a rental company from a
renter.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances and operations of the Los Angeles
International Airport.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to efficiently address pressing public safety concerns at
the Los Angeles International Airport by providing necessary
financing tools, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.