Bill Text: CA AB1778 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Local transportation funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-07-02 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1778 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1778-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1778	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2012

   An act to amend Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1778, as amended, Williams. Local transportation funds.
   Existing law requires that revenues from 1/4% of the local sales
and use tax rate be transferred to the local transportation fund of
each county for allocation, as directed by the transportation
planning agency, to various transportation purposes, under what is
commonly known as the Transportation Development Act. Existing law
specifies the allowable uses for local transportation funds, and
generally requires, after certain deductions, that the funds
attributed to the area of apportionment of each transit operator be
used solely for transit purposes in counties with a population of
500,000 or more as of the 1970 census. However, in counties with a
population under 500,000 as of the 1970 census and in certain other
counties, these funds may also be used for local streets and roads,
if the transportation planning agency finds that there are no unmet
transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are reasonable to meet,
and for other specified purposes. Existing law, effective July 1,
2014, generally requires a county with a population under 500,000 as
of the 1970 census that has a population of 500,000 or more as of the
2000 census or a future census to use funds attributable to the
urbanized area of the county solely for transit purposes, except that
a city with a population of 100,000 or fewer in an urbanized area in
that county would not be so restricted. Existing law provides that
the July 1, 2014, requirements and exemptions do not apply to Ventura
County, and instead generally requires all local transportation
funds in that county to be used for transit purposes as of that date
unless a specified report is submitted by the Ventura County
Transportation Commission to the transportation committees of the
Legislature by December 31, 2011, and a recommended legislative
proposal in that report relative to reorganization of transit
services and expenditure of these funds is enacted by the end of the
2011-12 legislative session.
   This bill would provide that local transportation funds in Ventura
County shall be available solely for transit purposes beginning July
1, 2014, as specified. The bill would also provide that any of those
funds that remain unencumbered for more than one year, or unexpended
for more than 2 years, be returned to the Ventura County
Transportation Commission for reapportionment to other transit
operators or transit service in proportional amounts based on
population, contingent upon specified criteria.
   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 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   99232.3.  Sections 99232.1 and 99232.2 shall not apply to Ventura
County.
   (a)  Revenues deposited in the local transportation fund in
Ventura County shall be available for the fiscal year beginning on
July 1, 2014, and each fiscal year thereafter, solely for claims for
Article 4 (commencing with Section 99260) and Article 4.5 (commencing
with Section 99275) purposes.
   (b) Funds apportioned pursuant to this section that remain
unencumbered for more than one year or unexpended for more than two
years shall be returned to the Ventura County Transportation
Commission for reapportionment to transit operators or consolidated
transportation service in proportional amounts based on population,
if both of the following conditions are met:
   (1) The transit operator or consolidated transportation service is
eligible to receive funding  in proportional amounts based
on population   under Article 4 (commencing with Section
99260) and Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 99275)  .
   (2) The transit operator or consolidated transportation service
did not have any funds returned to the commission under this
subdivision in the previous year.