BILL NUMBER: AB 1318	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 16, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to amend Section 24011 of the Government Code, relating to
county officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1318, as amended, Evans.  County officers: public
administrators.
   Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors of specified
counties to provide, by ordinance, that the public administrator be
appointed by the board.  Existing law also authorizes the boards
of supervisors of specified counties, by ordinance, to appoint 
 the same person to the offices of public administrator, veteran
service officer, and public guardian. 
   This bill would include Sonoma County within those counties whose
boards of supervisors are authorized to provide for the appointment
of the public administrator by the board  and within those
counties whose boards of supervisors are authorized to appoint the
same person to the offices of public administrator, veteran service
officer, and public guardian  .  
   This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 24011 of
the Government Code, proposed by SB 282, to be operative only if SB
282 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or
before January 1, 2006, and this bill is chaptered last. 
   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 24011 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   24011.
   Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24009:
   (a) The Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County, Madera County,
Mendocino County, Napa County, Solano County, Sonoma County, Trinity
County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may, by ordinance, provide
that the public administrator shall be appointed by the board.
   (b) The Boards of Supervisors of Madera County, Mendocino County,
Napa County, Trinity County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may
appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator,
veteran service officer, and public guardian. The  Board
  Boards  of Supervisors of Glenn County 
and Solano   , Solano County, and Sonoma  County
may, by ordinance, appoint the same person to the offices of public
administrator and public guardian.
   (c) The Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County, Madera County,
Mendocino County, Napa County, Trinity County, Tuolumne County, and
Lake County may separate the consolidated offices of district
attorney and public administrator at any time in order to make the
appointments permitted by this section. Upon approval by the board of
supervisors, the officer elected to these offices at any time may
resign, or decline to qualify for, the office of public administrator
without resigning from, or declining to qualify for, the office of
district attorney.
   SEC. 2.    Section 24011 of the   Government
Code   is amended to read: 
   24011.
   Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 24009:
   (a) The Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County,  Lassen County,
 Madera County, Mendocino County,  Monterey County, 
Napa County, Solano County,  Sonoma County,  Trinity County,
Tuolumne County, and Lake County may, by ordinance, provide that the
public administrator shall be appointed by the board.
   (b) The Boards of Supervisors of Madera County, Mendocino County,
Napa County, Trinity County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may
appoint the same person to the offices of public administrator,
veteran service officer, and public guardian. The Board of
Supervisors of Glenn County  and   Lassen
County, Monterey County,  Solano County  , and Sonoma County
 may, by ordinance, appoint the same person to the offices of
public administrator and public guardian.
   (c) The Boards of Supervisors of Glenn County  , Lassen County
 , Madera County, Mendocino County, Napa County, Trinity
County, Tuolumne County, and Lake County may separate the
consolidated offices of district attorney and public administrator at
any time in order to make the appointments permitted by this
section. Upon approval by the board of supervisors, the officer
elected to these offices at any time may resign, or decline to
qualify for, the office of public administrator without resigning
from, or declining to qualify for, the office of district attorney.

   SEC. 3.   
   Section 2 of this bill incorporates amendments to Section 24011 of
the Government Code proposed by both this bill and Senate Bill 282.
It shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted and
become effective on or before January 1, 2006, (2) each bill amends
Section 24011 of the Government Code, and (3) this bill is enacted
after Senate Bill 282, in which case Section 1 of this bill shall not
become operative.