BILL NUMBER: SB 1108	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Allen

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to repeal and add Sections 21505 and 21605 of the Elections
Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1108, as introduced, Allen. Elections: state and local
reapportionment.
   Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to appoint a
committee, composed of county residents, to study the matter of
changing the boundaries of its supervisorial districts. Existing law
directs a committee created pursuant to that provision to report its
findings to the board of supervisors, as specified, and it expressly
states that recommendations of the committee are advisory only.
Existing law similarly authorizes a city council to appoint a
committee, composed of city residents, to study the matter of
changing the boundaries of its council districts, directs a committee
so created to report its findings to the city council, and expressly
states that recommendations of the committee are advisory only.
   This bill would delete those provisions and instead authorize a
county or city to establish a commission, composed of residents of
the county or city, to either change the boundaries of the districts
or recommend to the governing body changes to the boundaries of the
districts. The bill would also require a commission so created to
report to the governing body its findings on the need for changes to
the boundaries, and its adopted or recommended changes, as specified.

   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  Section 21505 of the Elections Code is repealed.

   21505.  The board may appoint a committee composed of residents of
the county to study the matter of changing the boundaries of the
supervisorial districts. The committee shall make its report to the
board of its findings on the need for change of boundaries, and the
recommended changes, within six months after the final population
figures determined in each federal decennial census have been
released, but in any event not later than August 1st of the year
following the year in which the census is taken. Recommendations of
the committee are advisory only. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 21505 is added to the Elections Code, to read:
   21505.  A county may establish a commission composed of county
residents to change the boundaries of the supervisorial districts or
to recommend to the board changes to the boundaries of the
supervisorial districts. The commission shall submit a report to the
board of its findings on the need for changes to the boundaries, and
its adopted or recommended changes, within six months after the final
population figures determined in each federal decennial census have
been released, but in any event not later than August 1st of the year
following the year in which the census is taken.
  SEC. 3.  Section 21605 of the Elections Code is repealed. 
   21605.  The council may appoint a committee composed of residents
of the city to study the matter of changing the boundaries of the
council districts. The committee shall make its report to the council
of its findings on the need for change of boundaries, and the
recommended changes by the first day of August of the year following
the year in which the decennial federal census is taken.
Recommendations of the committee are advisory only. 
  SEC. 4.  Section 21605 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   21605.  A city may establish a commission composed of city
residents to change the boundaries of the council districts or to
recommend to the council changes to the boundaries of the council
districts. The commission shall submit a report to the council of its
findings on the need for changes to the boundaries, and its adopted
or recommended changes, within six months after the final population
figures determined in each federal decennial census have been
released, but in any event not later than August 1st of the year
following the year in which the census is taken.