Bill Text: CA AB1344 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Enterprise zones.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Died at Desk. [AB1344 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1344-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1344 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mansoor
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to amend Section 7072 of the Government Code, relating to
enterprise zones.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1344, as introduced, Mansoor. Enterprise zones.
The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation of zones
according to specified criteria, pursuant to which certain entities
within each zone may receive regulatory, tax, and other incentives
for economic and employment development and private investment.
Existing law provides definitions for the purposes of the act.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 7072 of the Government Code is amended to read:
7072. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
shall apply:
(a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community
Development.
(b) "Date of original designation" means the earlier of the
following:
(1) The date the eligible area receives designation as an
enterprise zone by the department pursuant to this chapter.
(2) In the case of an enterprise zone deemed designated pursuant
to subdivision (e) of Section 7073, the date the enterprise zone or
program area received original designation by the former Trade and
Commerce Agency pursuant to Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section
7070) or Chapter 12.9 (commencing with Section 7080), as those
chapters read prior to January 1, 1997.
(c) "Eligible area" means any of the following:
(1) An area designated as an enterprise zone pursuant to Chapter
12.8 (commencing with Section 7070), as it read prior to January 1,
1997, or as a targeted economic development area, neighborhood
development area, or program area pursuant to Chapter 12.9
(commencing with Section 7080), as it read prior to January 1, 1997.
(2) A geographic area that, based upon the determination of the
department, fulfills at least one of the following criteria:
(A) The proposed geographic area meets the Urban Development
Action Grant criteria of the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
(B) The area within the proposed eligible area has experienced
plant closures within the past two years affecting more than 100
workers.
(C) The city or county has submitted material to the department
for a finding that the proposed geographic area meets criteria of
economic distress related to those used in determining eligibility
under the Urban Development Action Grant Program and is therefore an
eligible area.
(D) The area within the proposed zone has a history of
gang-related activity, whether or not crimes of violence have been
committed.
(3) A geographic area that meets at least two of the following
criteria:
(A) The census tracts within the proposed eligible area have an
unemployment rate not less than 3 percentage points above the
statewide average for the most recent calendar year as determined by
the Employment Development Department.
(B) The county of the proposed eligible area has more than 70
percent of the children enrolled in public school participating in
the federal free lunch program.
(C) The median household income for a family of four within the
census tracts of the proposed eligible area does not exceed 80
percent of the statewide median income for the most recently
available calendar year.
(d) "Enterprise zone" means any area within a city, county, or
city and county that is designated as an enterprise zone by the
department in accordance with Section 7073.
(e) "Governing body" means a county board of supervisors or a city
council, as appropriate.
(f) "G-TEDA" means a geographically targeted economic development
area, which is an area designated as an enterprise zone, a
Manufacturing Enhancement Area, manufacturing
enhancement area, a targeted tax area, or a local agency
military base recovery area.
(g) "High-technology industries" includes, but is not limited to,
the computer, biological engineering, electronics, and
telecommunications industries.
(h) "Resident," unless otherwise defined, means a person whose
principal place of residence is within a targeted employment area.
(i) (1) "Targeted employment area" means an area within a city,
county, or city and county that is composed solely of those census
tracts designated by the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development as having at least 51 percent of its residents of
low- or moderate-income levels, using either the most recent United
States Department of Census data available at the time of the
original enterprise zone application or the most recent census data
available at the time the targeted employment area is designated to
determine that eligibility. The purpose of a "targeted employment
area" is to encourage businesses in an enterprise zone to hire
eligible residents of certain geographic areas within a city, county,
or city and county. A targeted employment area may be, but is not
required to be, the same as all or part of an enterprise zone. A
targeted employment area's boundaries need not be contiguous. A
targeted employment area does not need to encompass each eligible
census tract within a city, county, or city and county. The governing
body of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction
of the enterprise zone shall identify those census tracts whose
residents are in the most need of this employment targeting. Only
those census tracts within the jurisdiction of the city, county, or
city and county that has jurisdiction of the enterprise zone may be
included in a targeted employment area.
(2) At least a part of each eligible census tract within a
targeted employment area shall be within the territorial jurisdiction
of the city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction for an
enterprise zone. If an eligible census tract encompasses the
territorial jurisdiction of two or more local governmental entities,
all of those entities shall be a party to the designation of a
targeted employment area. However, any one or more of those entities,
by resolution or ordinance, may specify that it shall not
participate in the application as an applicant, but shall agree to
complete all actions stated within the application that apply to its
jurisdiction, if the area is designated.
(3) Each local governmental entity of each city, county, or city
and county that has jurisdiction of an enterprise zone shall approve,
by resolution or ordinance, the boundaries of its targeted
employment area, regardless of whether a census tract within the
proposed targeted employment area is outside the jurisdiction of the
local governmental entity.
(4) (A) Within 180 days of updated United States census data
becoming available, each local governmental entity of each city,
county, or city and county that has jurisdiction of an enterprise
zone shall approve, by resolution or ordinance, boundaries of its
targeted employment area reflecting the new census data. If no
changes are necessary to the boundaries based on the most current
census data, the enterprise zone may send a letter to the department
stating that a review has been undertaken by the respective local
governmental entities and no boundary changes are required.
(B) A targeted employment area boundary approved prior to the 2000
United States census data becoming available that has not been
reviewed and its boundaries revised to reflect the most recent census
data, shall be reviewed and updated, and a new resolution or
ordinance submitted by the appropriate local governmental entity to
the department, by July 1, 2007. However, enterprise zones that
expire on or prior to December 31, 2008, shall be exempt from the
update requirement.
