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                                                                  AB 2183
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          Date of Hearing:  April 11, 2012

                       ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
                                Cameron Smyth, Chair
                 AB 2183 (Smyth) - As Introduced:  February 23, 2012
           
          SUBJECT  :  Joint exercise of powers.

           SUMMARY  :  Repeals an obsolete section of law related to joint 
          powers agreements.   

           EXISTING LAW  : 

          1)Provides that in addition to other powers, any agency, 
            commission, or board provided for by a joint powers agreement 
            between an irrigation district and a city, is authorized to 
            issue revenue bonds to pay the cost and expense of acquiring, 
            constructing, improving, and financing a project for specified 
            purposes. 

          2)Makes this provision inoperative after December 31, 1973, 
            except as specified.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None

           COMMENTS  :    

          1)This author-sponsored measure aims to update the code related 
            to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (the Act) by deleting an 
            obsolete provision that granted revenue bond authority to a 
            joint powers agreement between a city and an irrigation 
            district for certain capital projects. That provision expired 
            by its own terms in 1973, but the statute was never removed 
            from the books. According to the author, "AB 2183 simply seeks 
            to clean up the Government Code by eliminating this code 
            section, which is no longer operable."  

           2)Support Arguments  :  This bill represents a first step in a 
            larger process of cleaning up the Act, thereby reducing the 
            number of useless laws in the California codes.

           Opposition Arguments  :  None.

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   









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           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Hank Dempsey / L. GOV. / (916) 319-3958