BILL NUMBER: AB 2389	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Part 5.5 (commencing with Section 10650) to Division
10 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2389, as introduced, Ridley-Thomas. Special districts:
district-based elections: reapportionment.
   Existing law provides for political subdivisions, including
special districts, that encompass areas of representation within the
state. With respect to these areas, public officials are generally
elected by all of the voters of the political subdivision (at-large)
or by or from districts formed within the political subdivision
(district-based). Under existing law, the manner of election of a
governing body of a special district is generally specified in the
statutes creating the district. If a political subdivision changes
from an at-large method of election to a district-based election,
existing law generally requires the political subdivision to submit
to the voter an ordinance or resolution providing for the election of
members of the governing body by district.
   This bill would authorize a governing body of a special district,
as defined, to require, by resolution, that the election of the
members of its governing body be elected using district-based
elections without being required to submit the resolution to the
voters for approval.
   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.  Part 5.5 (commencing with Section 10650) is added to
Division 10 of the Elections Code, to read:

      PART 5.5.  Special District Elections


   10650.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a governing body of a
special district may require, by resolution, that the election of the
members of its governing body be elected using district-based
elections, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 14026, without
being required to submit the resolution to the voters for approval.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "special district" means an
agency of the state formed pursuant to general law or special act for
the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions
within limited boundaries, except a city, county, city and county,
school or community college district, or special assessment district.