BILL NUMBER: SB 524	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  716
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 19, 2010
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 19, 2010
	PASSED THE SENATE  OCTOBER 8, 2010
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  OCTOBER 8, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  OCTOBER 8, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 7, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 31, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cogdill
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gilmore)

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to transportation, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 524, Cogdill. Transportation funds.
   Existing law, pursuant to Article XIX B of the California
Constitution, requires a specified portion of the sales tax on
gasoline to be transferred from the General Fund to the
Transportation Investment Fund for allocation to the state
transportation improvement program, city and county streets and
roads, and the Public Transportation Account. In order for a city or
a county to receive a streets and roads allocation from the
Transportation Investment Fund, it is required to annually expend
from its general fund for street, road, and highway purposes an
amount not less than the annual average of its expenditures from its
general fund for those purposes during the 1996-97, 1997-98, and
1998-99 fiscal years. Existing law provides that if a city or county
fails to comply with this maintenance of effort requirement in a
particular fiscal year, it may alternatively comply by expending in
that year and the following fiscal year a combined total amount that
is not less than the amount otherwise required to be expended in the
2 fiscal years.
   This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, provide that
the County of Fresno would have until June 30, 2015, to meet the
maintenance of effort requirement applicable to counties in order to
receive a streets and roads allocation from the Transportation
Investment Fund for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the County of Fresno.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 7104.2 of
the Revenue and Taxation Code, the County of Fresno shall have until
June 30, 2015, to meet the maintenance of effort requirement
applicable to counties in order to receive a streets and roads
allocation from the Transportation Investment Fund for the 2009-10
fiscal year.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the California Constitution because of the unique
transportation funding needs in the County of Fresno.
  SEC. 3.  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:
   In order to implement the Budget Act of 2010 as quickly as
possible, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.