Bill Text: CA AB2064 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State and local government: salary disclosure.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-31 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. Joint Rules 61(b)(15) and 62(a) suspended. (Page 5080.) Re-referred to Com. on G.O. [AB2064 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2064-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2064	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 6, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Members   John A.
Perez     and Bass  
Member   Huber 
    (   Coauthors:  
Assembly Members   Ammiano,  
  Bradford,    
Cook,     Eng,  
  Feuer,     Fong,
    Fuentes,  
  Furutani,    
Galgiani,     Gilmore, 
   Jones,   
 Ma,     Saldana, 
   Swanson,   
 Torlakson,     and Torres
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

    An act to add Section 50802.6 to the Health and Safety
Code, relating to housing, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.   An act to add Sections 9133.3 and
53087.7 to, and to add Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 12790) to
Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2 of, the Government Code, relating to
government salaries. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2064, as amended,  John A. Perez   Huber
 .  Emergency Housing Shelter Operations Grant Account:
notice of funding availability.   State and local
government: salary disclosure.  
   Under existing law, local governments are authorized to provide
for the compensation of local elected and appointed officials, as
specified.  
   The California Constitution authorizes the California Citizens
Compensation Committee to establish the salaries for state officers,
including constitutional officers and members of the Legislature.
 
   This bill would require each general law or charter city, county,
city and county, special district, school district, and joint powers
agency to post on its official Internet Web site, and annually
update, annual salary information pertaining to specified persons,
including, among others, each elected or appointed official of that
entity, thus imposing a state-mandated local program.  
   This bill would require each house of the Legislature to post on
its official Internet Web site, and annually update, the annual
salary for Assembly Members, Senators, and employees of the
Legislature.  
   This bill would require each constitutional officer to post on his
or her official Internet Web site, and update on an annual basis,
the annual salary for that constitutional officer, any appointed or
exempt deputies, and any appointed or exempt employees.  
   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.  
   Existing law establishes the Emergency Housing and Assistance
Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, that appropriates money to
the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes
of carrying out the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to issue a notice or notices of funding availability to
potential applicants and designated local boards as soon as possible
after funding becomes available for the Emergency Housing and
Assistance Program.  
   This bill would require the Department of Finance to make a timely
determination as to the amount of General Fund moneys within the
Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund. The bill would require the
Department of Housing and Community Development to issue a notice of
funding availability to potential applicants and local boards, as
applicable, indicating the amount of General Fund moneys, as
determined by the Department of Finance, that is available for the
shelter operations program, no later than 30 days after the effective
date of the bill and to grant awards pursuant to the notice within
180 days of its receipt.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  2/3   majority  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program:  no
  yes  .


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 9133.3 is added to the 
 Government Code  , to read:  
   9133.3.  Each house of the Legislature shall post on its official
Internet Web site, and update on an annual basis, the annual salary
for the Assembly Members, Senators, and employees of each house of
the Legislature. 
   SEC. 2.    Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 12790)
is added to Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the  
Government Code   , to read:  
      CHAPTER 10.  COMPENSATION DISCLOSURE


   12790.  Each constitutional officer subject to this part shall
post on his or her official Internet Web site, and update on an
annual basis, the annual salary for that constitutional officer, any
appointed or exempt deputies, and any appointed or exempt employees.

   SEC. 3.    Section 53087.7 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   53087.7.  Each general law or charter city, county, city and
county, special district, school district, and joint powers agency
formed pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Act (Chapter 5
(commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1) shall post
on its official Internet Web site, and update on an annual basis, the
annual salary received from the local governmental entity by each
elected or appointed official, superintendent, deputy superintendent,
assistant superintendent, associate superintendent, general manager,
city manager, county administrator, and other similar chief
administrative officer or executive officer. 
   SEC. 4.    In enacting this act, the Legislature
finds and declares that the disclosure of salary information for city
and county elected and appointed officials directly contributes to
the fiscal integrity and stability of local governmental agencies in
this state, and is therefore an issue of statewide concern and not a
municipal affair as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of
the California Constitution. Therefore, this act shall apply to all
cities and counties, including charter cities and charter counties.

   SEC. 5.    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.  
  SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares
all of the following:
   (a) In recent years, California has seen a substantial increase in
its homeless population as a result of the national economic
downturn.
   (b) The state's homeless population includes many of our society's
most vulnerable, including children, emancipated foster youth, the
unemployed, families undergoing home foreclosure or other severe
financial stress, individuals with mental health and drug addiction
issues, and veterans (who make up approximately 20 percent of the
state's homeless population).
   (c) The Department of Housing and Community Development, through
the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, awards facility
operations grants from the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund for
emergency shelters, transitional housing projects, and supportive
services to assist homeless individuals and families.
   (d) It is critically important that these facility operations
grants be made available as soon as possible to fund the shelters,
projects, and services necessary to alleviate the unfortunate plight
of the many Californians who are currently homeless. 

  SEC. 2.    Section 50802.6 is added to the Health
and Safety Code, to read:
   50802.6.  (a) For purposes of this section, the Department of
Finance shall make a timely determination as to the amount of General
Fund moneys in the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund.
   (b) No later than 30 days after the effective date of the act
adding this section, the Department of Housing and Community
Development shall issue a notice of funding availability to potential
applicants and local boards, as applicable, indicating the amount
specified in subdivision (a) that is available for the shelter
operations program. The department shall grant awards pursuant to the
notice of funding availability within 180 days after issuing that
notice.  
  SEC. 3.    This act is an urgency statute
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health,
or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and
shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity
are:
   In order to make funds available for shelter operations as soon as
possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.