BILL NUMBER: AB 1769	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Tran

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2010

   An act relating to elections, making an appropriation therefor,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1769, as introduced, Tran. Elections: County of Orange.
   The Budget Act of 2009 appropriated specified amounts from the
General Fund for support of election-related costs.
   This bill would appropriate $1,639,000 from the General Fund to
the Controller to reimburse the County of Orange for the special
election costs incurred by the county to fill a vacancy in the 72nd
Assembly District.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The sum of one million six hundred thirty-nine thousand
dollars ($1,639,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to
the Controller to reimburse the County of Orange for the special
election costs incurred by the county to fill a vacancy in the 72nd
Assembly District, in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) November 17, 2009, Special Primary     804,000
     Election .............................
(2) January 12, 2010, Special General      835,000
     Election .............................


  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   The budget for the County of Orange contains funding authority to
support one statewide election per fiscal year. In order to reimburse
the County of Orange as soon as possible for the costs incurred in
conducting the special primary election and special general election
to fill the vacancy in the 72nd Assembly District, and thereby enable
the county to conduct the regularly scheduled statewide primary
election on June 8, 2010, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.