BILL NUMBER: AB 949	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 8879.69 of the Government Code, relating
to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 949, as introduced, Logue. Transportation: State-Local
Partnership Program.
   Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality,
and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, provides for $1 billion of bond
proceeds for the State-Local Partnership Program to be allocated by
the California Transportation Commission to eligible transportation
projects nominated by transportation agencies, subject to
appropriation by the Legislature of moneys from the State-Local
Partnership Program Account. Existing law requires a
dollar-for-dollar match of local funds for projects funded with these
bond funds. Existing law defines eligible local matching funds for
those purposes as any voter-approved local or regional tax or fee
solely dedicated to transportation improvements and uniform developer
fees.
   This bill would expand the definition of eligible local matching
funds for purposes of these provisions to include developer fees,
mineral or resource extraction fees or taxes, and local or regional
fees or taxes solely dedicated to transportation improvements imposed
within a county or any part thereof by voter approval or by the
board of supervisors.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8879.69 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   8879.69.   (a)    Eligible local matching funds
required to obtain funding under the program shall be obtained from
revenues from  any voter-approved   a 
local or regional tax or fee solely dedicated to transportation
improvements,  or  from  uniform 
developer fees  ,   or from mineral or resource
extraction fees or taxes  .  Tax 
    (b)     A local or regional tax  or
fee, for purposes of this section, means a countywide or citywide
sales tax, a property or parcel tax in a county or counties or
district,  and  voter-approved bridge tolls  ,
 or  voter-approved fees dedicated to specific
transportation improvements   a fee or tax imposed
within a county or any part thereof by voter approval or by action of
the board of supervisors  .