BILL NUMBER: AB 1778	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1778, as amended, Williams. Local transportation funds.
   Existing law requires that revenues from 1/4% of the local sales
and use tax rate be transferred to the local transportation fund of
each county for allocation, as directed by the transportation
planning agency, to various transportation purposes, under what is
commonly known as the Transportation Development Act. Existing law
specifies the allowable uses for local transportation funds, and
generally requires, after certain deductions, that the funds
attributed to the area of apportionment of each transit operator be
used solely for transit purposes in counties with a population of
500,000 or more as of the 1970 census. However, in counties with a
population under 500,000 as of the 1970 census and in certain other
counties, these funds may also be used for local streets and roads,
if the transportation planning agency finds that there are no unmet
transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet,
and for other specified purposes. Existing law, effective July 1,
2014, generally requires a county with a population under 500,000 as
of the 1970 census that has a population of 500,000 or more as of the
2000 census or a future census to use funds attributable to the
urbanized area of the county solely for transit purposes, except that
a city with a population of 100,000 or fewer in an urbanized area in
that county would not be so restricted. Existing law provides that
the July 1, 2014, requirements and exemptions do not apply to Ventura
County, and instead generally requires all local transportation
funds in that county to be used for transit purposes as of that date
unless a specified report is submitted by the Ventura County
Transportation Commission to the transportation committees of the
Legislature by December 31, 2011, and a recommended legislative
proposal in that report relative to reorganization of transit
services and expenditure of these funds is enacted by the end of the
2011-12 legislative session.
   This bill  , with respect to Ventura County, would instead
require the Ventura County Transportation Commission to submit the
above-referenced report by January 31, 2013, thereby imposing a
state-mandated local program. The bill  would provide that
local transportation funds in Ventura County would be available
solely for transit purposes beginning July 1, 2013, rather than July
1, 2014, unless  a legislative proposal in the report is
enacted and implemented by June 30, 2013, with respect to a different
allocation of revenues   the legislative proposal
described above is enacted by the   specified date  .

   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   99232.3.  Sections 99232.1 and 99232.2 shall not apply to Ventura
County. The Ventura County Transportation Commission  shall
  may  submit to the Senate Committee on
Transportation and Housing and the Assembly Committee on
Transportation a report analyzing options for organizing public mass
transportation services in the county, for the expenditure of
revenues deposited in the local transportation fund, and a
recommended legislative proposal for implementing the plan by
 January 31, 2013   December 31, 2011  . If
the legislative proposal is not enacted  and implemented by
June 30, 2013   by the end of the 2011-   12
Regular Session of the Legislature  , revenues deposited in the
local transportation fund in that county shall be available for the
fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2013, and each fiscal year
thereafter, solely for claims for Article 4 (commencing with Section
99260) and Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 99275) purposes.

  SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.