BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1403
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 1403 (Eng)
As Amended April 28, 2009
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 14-0
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|Ayes:|Eng, Jeffries, | | |
| |Blumenfield, Hayashi, | | |
| |Conway, Furutani, | | |
| |Galgiani, Garrick, Bonnie | | |
| |Lowenthal, Miller, | | |
| |Niello, John A. Perez, | | |
| |Solorio, Torlakson | | |
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SUMMARY : Deletes the $1 million cap on allocations of
Transportation Development Account (TDA) funds to the Southern
California Association of Governments (SCAG), effective July 1,
2011.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Provides two major sources of funding for public
transportation: the Local Transportation Fund (LTF) and the
State Transit Assistance fund (STA). These funds are for the
development and support of public transportation needs that
exist in California.
2)Directs % of the state sales tax to the LTF in each county
for various transportation purposes, including transportation
planning and programming, public transit and, under limited
circumstances, local streets and roads.
3)Allocates LTF funds to transportation authorities, which may
use up to a specified percentage of their LTF funds for
planning and programming purposes. Limits, in the SCAG
region, the LTF allocations for this purpose to up to of 1%,
but no more than $1 million annually.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
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COMMENTS : According to the author, the purpose of this bill is
to allow SCAG to receive its full apportionment of of 1% of
LTF allocation, as authorized for all the other 16
Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the state.
SCAG cites the following reasons for eliminating the cap:
4)SCAG's duties have increased and grown in complexity over 30
years (e.g. air quality conformity analysis, change and
expansion in federal and state regional planning requirements,
development of sustainable community strategies), which
necessitates the full allocation of TDA funds to support these
federal and state mandated activities;
5)SCAG needs a stable, predictable revenue source for
administrative and federal matching funds;
6)Removal of the cap would not impact the allocation formula or
allocations to other parts of the state. It would affect only
the four county agencies within the SCAG region (Los Angeles,
Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties) which,
according to SCAG, are in agreement with the proposal to lift
the $1 million cap; and,
7)Removing the cap would increase LTF allocations to SCAG from
the existing $1 million cap to a total of $4.6 million
annually.
Analysis Prepared by : Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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