AB 2568, as amended, 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 wouldbegin insert insteadend insert prohibit
abegin delete chief executive officer hired on or after January 1, 2015, from accepting employment with any such company, vendor, or
business entityend deletebegin insert 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,end insert within one year of leaving the authoritybegin insert, 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, if that participation took place within one year prior to the member, alternate member, or employee leaving the authorityend insert.
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
P3 1from a construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal
2firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity that has contracted
3with the authority in the preceding four years.
4(b) A member, alternate member, or employee of the authority
5who has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation,
6evaluation, award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves
7the authority
shall not, withinbegin delete three yearsend deletebegin insert one yearend insert of leaving the
8authority, accept employment with any company, vendor, or
9business entity that was awarded a contract as a result of his or her
10participation, evaluation, award, or implementation of that contractbegin insert,
11if that participation took place within one year prior to the member,
12alternate member, or employee leaving the authorityend insert.
13(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a chief executive officer
14hired on or after January 1, 2015, shall not, within one year of
15leaving the authority, accept employment with any company,
16vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract as a result
17of his or her participation, evaluation, award, or implementation
18of that contract.
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