AB 2568, as introduced, Bloom. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Existing law, the County Transportation Commissions Act, creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and authorizes the authority to enter into contracts pertaining to transportation services. The act prohibits a member, alternate member, or employee of the authority who has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation, evaluation, award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves the authority from accepting, within 3 years of leaving the authority, employment with any company, vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as a result of his or her participation, evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract.
This bill would prohibit a chief executive officer hired on or after January 1, 2015, from accepting employment with any such company, vendor, or business entity within one year of leaving the authority.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 130051.20 of the Public Utilities Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) (1) No construction company, engineering
4firm, consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business
5entity seeking a contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
6Transportation Authority shall give to a member, alternate member,
7or employee of the authority, or to any member of their immediate
8families, a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or
9amount. A “contribution” includes contributions to candidates or
10their committees in any federal, state, or local election.
11(2) Neither the owner, an employee, or any member of their
12immediate families, of any construction company, engineering
13firm, consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business
14entity seeking a contract
with the authority shall make a
15contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount to a
16member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, or to any
17member of their immediate families.
18(3) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority,
19or member of their immediate families, shall accept, solicit, or
20direct a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount
21from any construction company, engineering firm, consultant,
22legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a
23contract with the authority.
24(4) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority
25shall make or participate in, or use his or her official position to
26influence, a contract decision if the member, alternate member, or
27employee has knowingly accepted a contribution of over ten dollars
28($10) in value in the past four years from a participant, or its agent,
29involved
in the contract decision.
30(5) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority,
31or member of their immediate families shall accept, solicit, or
32direct a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount
33from a construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal
34firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity that has contracted
35with the authority in the preceding four years.
36(b) A member, alternate member, or employee of the authority
37who has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation,
38evaluation, award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves
P3 1the authority shall not, within three years of leaving the authority,
2accept employment with any company, vendor, or business entity
3that was awarded a contract as a result of his or her participation,
4evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract.
5(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a chief executive officer
6hired on or after January 1, 2015, shall not, within one year of
7leaving the authority, accept employment with any company,
8vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as a result
9of his or her participation, evaluation, award, or implementation
10of that contract.
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