Bill Text: CA AB1941 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-28 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. [AB1941 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1941-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1941	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Holden

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1941, as amended, Holden. Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.
   Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties relative to
transportation planning, programming, and operations in Los Angeles
County. The authority is governed by a 14-member board of directors,
including the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, 2 public members and
one Los Angeles city council member appointed by the mayor, 4 members
appointed from the other cities in the county, the 5 members of the
board of supervisors, and a nonvoting member appointed by the
Governor.
   This bill would  expand   provide that 
the board of directors  to 16 members by adding members
appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on
Rules.   consists of an unspecified number of members,
including an unspecified number of public members appointed by the
Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and an unspecified number of members
appointed from other cities in the county.  
   By requiring 
    To the extent the bill would require  the board
membership to be expanded, the bill would  thereby 
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   130051.  The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
Authority consists of  16   ____  members,
as follows:
   (a) Five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
   If the number of members of the Los Angeles County Board of
Supervisors is increased, the authority shall, within 60 days of the
increase, submit a plan to the Legislature for revising the
composition of the authority.
   (b) The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles.
   (c)  Two   _____  public members and one
member of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles appointed by
the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles.
   (d)  Four   ____  members, each of whom
shall be a mayor or a member of a city council, appointed by the Los
Angeles County City Selection Committee. For purposes of the
selection of these  four  members, the County of Los
Angeles, excluding the City of Los Angeles, shall be divided into
the following four sectors:
   (1) The North County/San Fernando Valley sector.
   (2) The Southwest Corridor sector.
   (3) The San Gabriel Valley sector.
   (4) The Southeast Long Beach sector.
   The League of California Cities, Los Angeles County Division,
shall define the sectors. Every city within a sector shall be
entitled to vote to nominate one or more candidates from that sector
for consideration for appointment by the Los Angeles County City
Selection Committee. A city's vote shall be weighted in the same
proportion that its population bears to the total population of all
cities within the sector.
   The members appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be
appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee upon an
affirmative vote of its members which represent a majority of the
population of all cities within the county, excluding the City of Los
Angeles.
   The members selected by the city selection committee shall serve
four-year terms with no limitation on the number of terms that may be
served by any individual. The city selection committee may shorten
the initial four-year term for one or more of the members for the
purpose of ensuring that the members will serve staggered terms.
   (e) If the population of the City of Los Angeles, at any time,
becomes less than 35 percent of the combined population of all cities
in the county, the position of one of the  two 
public members appointed pursuant to subdivision (c), as determined
by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles by lot, shall be vacated, and
the vacant position shall be filled by appointment by the city
selection committee pursuant to subdivision (d) from a city not
represented by any other member appointed pursuant to subdivision
(d). 
   (f) One member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. 

   (g) One member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.
 
   (h) 
    (f)  One nonvoting member appointed by the Governor.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.