BILL ANALYSIS �
AB 2131
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2131 (Olsen)
As Amended June 26, 2012
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: | |(May 25, 2012) |SENATE: |36-0 |(August 9, |
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(vote not relevant)
Original Committee Reference: L. GOV.
SUMMARY : Adds tax collection to the kinds of course content
eligible for the continuing education requirements of county
treasurers and tax collectors.
The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill,
and instead, authorize elected and appointed county treasurers,
tax collectors and treasurer-tax collectors to count course
material on tax collection towards meeting their statutory
continuing education program requirements.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Requires a county treasurer, whether elected or appointed, to
complete a valid continuing course of study on or before June
30 of each two-year period, and to provide certification
of completion of that course to the Controller.
2)Requires that continuing education program to consist of, at a
minimum, 24 hours or an equivalent amount of continuing
education units within the discipline of treasury management,
public finance, public administration, governmental
accounting, or directly related subjects, as specified.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill authorized the legislative
body of a local agency to invest up to 5% of the city or
county's aggregate investment funds in Property Assessed Clean
Energy (PACE) bonds or projects financed with PACE bonds.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : State law currently requires county treasurers, tax
collectors and treasurer-tax collectors to complete a prescribed
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course of study during that person's term of office or
employment (48 hours over four years for elected officials, or
24 hours over two years for appointed officials). Eligible
continuing education units must be within the disciplines of
treasury management, public finance, public administration,
governmental accounting, or directly related subjects.
This bill would simply add tax collection to the list of
subjects eligible for continuing education credit.
Similar changes were made by the 1999 Local Agency Omnibus Act
�SB 275 (Local Government Committee), Chapter 550, Statutes of
1999], which added public administration and governmental
accounting to the subject list.
This bill was substantially amended in the Senate, and the
Assembly-approved provisions of this bill were deleted. The
language currently in this bill is identical to that contained
in AB 1957 (Gordon), which also included unrelated and
controversial provisions to permit public notification of
delinquent taxes via the Internet instead of through a newspaper
of general circulation. AB 1957 failed passage in the Assembly
Local Government Committee on April 11, 2012.
Analysis Prepared by : Hank Dempsey / L. GOV. / (916) 319-3958
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