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          Date of Hearing:   April 18, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                 AB 2042 (Huber) - As Introduced:  February 23, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                              
          TransportationVote:14-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill sunsets, as of January 1, 2022, the Board of Pilot 
          Commissioners and transfers, as of that date, the board's duties 
          to Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing. 

           FISCAL EFFECT 
          
          Negligible costs to transfer the board's duties to the 
          secretary, which will include fee authority to allow the 
          secretary to cover the costs of administering the board's 
          programs. 

          COMMENTS 

          1)Rationale.  The author intends the sunset created by this bill 
            to make the board eligible for review by the Joint Sunset 
            Review Committee. 

           2)Background  . AB 1659 (Huber, Chapter 666, Statutes of 2010) 
            established the Joint Sunset Review Committee to identify and 
            eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government 
            agencies and to conduct a comprehensive analysis of every 
            eligible agency, as defined, to determine if the agency is 
            still necessary and cost effective. The commission is 
            authorized to review only those government agencies for which 
            statute has established a sunset date. 

           3)Related Legislation.  AB 656 (Huber) would have eliminated the 
            board and transferred its duties to the secretary, effective 
            January 1, 2011.  The bill passed the Assembly 76-0 and was 
            subsequently amended in the Senate to remove all reference to 








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            the board and its duties.  

           4)There is no support or opposition formally registered to this 
            bill.  

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081