BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: May 9, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Cameron Smyth, Chair
AB 2698 (Committee on Local Government) - As Amended: April
30, 2012
SUBJECT : The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government
Reorganization Act of 2000.
SUMMARY : Makes several minor, non-controversial changes to the
laws affecting local government organization and reorganization.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Reorganizes protest provisions contained in the
Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of
2000 (Act).
2)Repeals an outdated exemption contained in the Act for the
Goleta West Sanitary district that expired January 1, 2003.
3)Revises and recasts provisions related to the initiation of a
change of organization or reorganization that affects more
than one special district, as specified.
4)Authorizes the waiver of protest proceedings under specified
circumstances, and sets forth procedures that apply to those
waivers, including the mailing of specified notices.
5)Makes other technical and conforming changes.
EXISTING LAW establishes the procedures for the organization and
reorganization of cities, counties, and special districts.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS :
1)As statutes go into effect, local officials and others often
discover problems or inconsistencies in the language of the
law and approach the Legislature to correct them. These minor
problems do not warrant separate bills, particularly since,
according to the Legislative Analyst, in 2001-02 the average
cost to produce a single bill was $17,890.
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The Assembly Local Government Committee has found that it is
expeditious and relatively inexpensive to respond to multiple
minor, non-controversial requests on related issues by
combining them into an annual "omnibus bill." Since AB 720
(Local Government Committee), Chapter 388, Statutes of 2001,
which was a clean-up bill for AB 2838 (Hertzberg), Chapter
761, Statutes of 2000, the major rewrite of the laws governing
local agency organization and reorganization, the Committee
has focused its omnibus bill efforts on LAFCO-related issues,
most recently with AB 2795, Chapter 47, Statutes of 2010, and
AB 1430, Chapter 300, Statutes of 2011. The Committee has
carried on this practice this year by addressing a number of
minor, but still necessary, changes in this bill. The bill
reflects the concerns of LAFCOs and others who have brought
proposals and issues to the
Committee. All proposals have been thoroughly vetted by a
large number of stakeholders. Any proposal that provokes any
controversy or opposition is rejected for inclusion.
2)Support arguments : This bill provides an efficient and
cost-effective way to make a number of minor technical and
non-controversial changes to law, rather than introducing a
bill for each change.
Opposition arguments : None on file.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions
(CALAFCO) �SPONSOR]
Butte County LAFCO
San Diego County LAFCO
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Debbie Michel / L. GOV. / (916)
319-3958
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