BILL NUMBER: AB 1219	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 99313.6 of, and to add Section 99233.12
to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1219, as introduced, Evans. Public transportation: Solano
County Transportation Authority.
   The Transportation Development Act, also known as the
Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, provides for the allocation of local
transportation funds in each county from 1/4 of 1% of the sales tax
to various transportation purposes, including transportation
planning, transit operations, and in some cases, local streets and
roads. The act is administered by the transportation planning agency
having jurisdiction and specifies the sequence of allocations to be
made by that agency to eligible claimants.
   This bill would authorize the Solano County Transportation
Authority, a joint powers agency, to file a claim with the
transportation planning agency for up to 2% of local transportation
funds available to the county and city members of the authority for
countywide transit planning and coordination relative to Solano
County.
   Existing law creates the State Transit Assistance program as one
of the transit programs funded by the Public Transportation Account
from certain fuel sales tax revenues. Under the program, available
funds are apportioned by the Controller to transportation planning
agencies for allocation to transit operators and for other related
purposes within the agency's jurisdiction. Apportionments are made
under 2 different formulas, one based on population and the other
based on operator revenue.
   This bill would specifically provide for the Solano County
Transportation Authority to be an eligible claimant for State Transit
Assistance funds apportioned under the population formula, to be
used for public transportation purposes, including countywide transit
planning and coordination relative to Solano County.
   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 99233.12 is added to the Public Utilities Code,
to read:
   99233.12.  Notwithstanding anything in Sections 99233 to 99233.9,
inclusive, to the contrary, the Solano County Transportation
Authority may file a claim, and the transportation planning agency
may allocate, for the area representing the cumulative areas of the
authority's member agencies, up to 2 percent of annual revenues for
countywide transit planning and coordination purposes relative to
Solano County. Funds allocated to the authority pursuant to this
section shall be allocated after allocations are made pursuant to
Sections 99233.1 and 99233.2 but prior to other allocations.
  SEC. 2.  Section 99313.6 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to
read:
   99313.6.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), each
transportation planning agency and county transportation commission,
and the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Development Board, shall
create a state transit assistance fund and deposit therein the funds
allocated to it pursuant to Sections 99313 and 99314 for allocations
to operators, and to claimants for the purposes specified in Section
99275 and in subdivisions (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 99400,
within the area on which its allocation was determined.
   (b) From funds allocated to it pursuant to Sections 99313 and
99314, the Los Angeles County  Transportation Commission
  Metropolitan Transportation Authority  may
allocate funds to itself for the planning, design, and construction
of an exclusive public mass transit guideway system.
   (c) An allocation of funds from a state transit assistance fund
for a transit capital project may be used for the payment of the
principal of, and interest on, equipment trust certificates, bonded
or other indebtedness, or in accomplishment of a defeasance of any
outstanding revenue bond indenture issued for that project.
   (d) From funds allocated to it pursuant to Section 99313, the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission may allocate funds to itself
for projects to achieve regional transit coordination objectives.

   (e) From funds allocated to the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission pursuant to Section 99313, upon a request of the Solano
County Transportation Authority, the commission may allocate a
reasonable amount of funds to the authority for public transportation
purposes, including countywide transit planning and coordination
relative to Solano County.