BILL NUMBER: AB 1778	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2012
	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 would provide that local transportation funds in Ventura
County  would   shall  be available solely
for transit purposes beginning  July 1, 2013, rather than
 July 1, 2014,  unless the legislative proposal
described above is enacted by the specified date   as
specified. The bill would also provide that any of those funds that
remain unencumbered for more than one year, or unexpended for more
than 2 years, be returned to the Ventura County Transportation
Commission for reapportionment to other transit operators or transit
service in proportional amounts based on population, contingent upon
specified criteria  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: 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 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
December 31, 2011. If the legislative proposal is not enacted by the
end of the 2011-12 Regular Session of the Legislature, revenues
deposited 
    (a)     Revenues deposited  in the
local transportation fund in  that county  
Ventura County  shall be available for the fiscal year beginning
on July 1,  2013,   2014,  and each fiscal
year thereafter, solely for claims for Article 4 (commencing with
Section 99260) and Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 99275)
purposes. 
   (b) Funds apportioned pursuant to this section that remain
unencumbered for more than one year or unexpended for more than two
years shall be returned to the Ventura County Transportation
Commission for reapportionment to transit operators or consolidated
transportation service in proportional amounts based on population,
if both of the following conditions are met:  
   (1) The transit operator or consolidated transportation service is
eligible to receive funding in proportional amounts based on
population.  
   (2) The transit operator or consolidated transportation service
did not have any funds returned to the commission under this
subdivision in the previous year.