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          Date of Hearing:   May 14, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

            AB 2762 (Committee on Local Government) - As Amended:  May 6,  
                                        2014 

          Policy Committee:                              Local  
          GovernmentVote:9 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          Yes    Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes several non-controversial changes to the laws  
          affecting local government organization and reorganization  
          (LAFCOs).  Specifically, this bill:

          1)Repeals a provision in current law that grandfathers in all  
            pending applications filed prior to January 1, 2001 (the  
            effective date of Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government  
            Reorganization Act of 2000).  

          2)Makes changes to the independent special district selection  
            committee.

          3)Authorizes, until January 1, 2019, a LAFCO to review and  
            comment on the extension of services into previously unserved  
            territory within unincorporated areas and the creation of new  
            service providers to extend urban type development into  
            previously unserved territory within unincorporated areas.  

          4)Requires submittal of a plan for services whenever a proposal  
            for a change of organization or reorganization is submitted  
            not just when a local agency submits a resolution of  
            application. 

          5)Makes other technical changes.

           FISCAL EFFECT
           
          Negligible GF impact because LAFCOs have fee authority to cover  
          their costs to consider additional factors when making boundary  








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          decisions.

           COMMENTS  

          This is the Assembly Local Government Committee's annual omnibus  
          bill. This bill is sponsored by the California Association of  
          Local Agency Formation Commissions. Supporters argue that the  
          non-controversial changes included in this bill are necessary as  
          LAFCOs implement the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act Local Government  
          Reorganization Act of 2000.  


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jennifer Swenson / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081