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                                 THIRD READING


          Bill No:  AB 182
          Author:   Assembly Budget Committee
          Amended:  9/4/09 in Senate
          Vote:     27 - Urgency

           
           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Not relevant

           SENATE FLOOR  :  23-6, 9/12/09 (FAIL)
          AYES:  Alquist, Calderon, Cedillo, Corbett, DeSaulnier,  
            Ducheny, Florez, Hancock, Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal,  
            Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Romero, Simitian,  
            Steinberg, Wiggins, Wolk, Wright, Yee
          NOES:  Correa, Denham, Dutton, Hollingsworth, Runner,  
            Strickland
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Aanestad, Ashburn, Benoit, Cogdill, Cox,  
            Harman, Huff, Maldonado, Negrete McLeod, Walters, Wyland


           SUBJECT  :    Budget Act of 2008:  community redevelopment 

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill provides additional flexibility to  
          Redevelopment Agencies (RDA) in making the required  
          transfers and specifies the use of more recent RDA data in  
          the calculation of the revenue shift.

           Senate Floor Amendments  delete the prior version of the  
          bill, which stated legislative intent to the Budget Act of  
          2009, and instead adds the current language.

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           ANALYSIS :    The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the  
          establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to  
          address the effects of blight, as defined, in blighted  
          areas in those communities known as project areas. 

          Section 16 of Article XVI of the California Constitution  
          authorizes a redevelopment agency to receive funding  
          through tax increments attributable to increases in  
          assessed property tax valuation of property in a project  
          area due to redevelopment.  Not less than 20 percent of tax  
          increments generated from a project area are required to be  
          used by a redevelopment agency to increase and improve the  
          community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing.   
          Redevelopment agencies are required in the 2009-10 fiscal  
          year to remit to the county auditor an amount of revenue  
          for deposit in the Supplemental Educational Revenue  
          Augmentation Fund in each county for allocation to school  
          entities. 

          Existing law authorizes the agency, in order to make the  
          full allocation, to borrow the amount required to be  
          allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund,  
          pursuant to existing law, unless executed contracts exist  
          that would be impaired if the agency reduced the amount  
          allocated to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.

          Under existing law, the amount of revenue a redevelopment  
          agency is required to remit to the county auditor during  
          the 2009-10 and 2010-11 fiscal years is determined in  
          accordance with specified calculations made by the Director  
          of Finance and is based, in part, on a specified report of  
          the Controller.

          This bill makes the following statutory changes in the area  
          of community redevelopment in order to amend the 2009  
          Budget Act:

           1.Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund Borrowing  .  To help  
            fund the 2009-10 and 2010-11 shifts to the Supplemental  
            Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, existing law  
            authorizes RDAs to borrow from that year's contribution  
            to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.  Any  
            borrowing must be fully repaid within five years.  This  
            bill additionally allows RDA's to borrow from the  







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            existing balance in the Low and Moderate Income Housing  
            Fund for the purposes of making the 2009-10 transfer.   
            This borrowing would also have to be fully repaid within  
            five years.

           2.Use of Updated Data  .  This bill allows the Department of  
            Finance to use the 2007-08 edition of the Controller's  
            Community Redevelopment Agencies Annual Report, should  
            that report be available in time for Director of  
            Finance's calculation of each RDA's obligation.  If the  
            2007-08 edition of the report is not available, the  
            Director of Finance will use the 2006-07 report.   
            However, the Director of Finance would be required to  
            adjust the data in the 2006-07 report to exclude amounts  
            apportioned to any RDA from any territory that has been  
            deleted from any project area prior to August 1, 2009.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  No

          JA:nl  10/12/09   Senate Floor Analyses 

                       SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED

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