Bill Text: CA AB2721 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Bay Area Air Quality Management District: district board: compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2022. [AB2721 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2721-Amended.html
board duties, and board duties.SECTION 1.
Bill Title: Bay Area Air Quality Management District: district board: compensation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2022. [AB2721 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2721-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 10, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2721
Introduced by Assembly Member Lee |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to amend Section 40227 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2721, as amended, Lee.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District: district board: compensation and expenses. compensation.
Existing law establishes the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which is vested with the authority to regulate air emissions located in the boundaries of the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara and portions of the Counties of Solano and Sonoma. Existing law establishes a district board to govern the district and prescribes the membership of the district board. Existing law authorizes the district board to provide, by ordinance, compensation not to exceed $100 per day for board members for attending meetings of the board or committees of the board or while on official business of the district and
district and not to exceed $6,000 per year. Existing law also requires board members to receive actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, as specified. duties.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would make changes to the compensation
and expenses that members of the district board receive in the performance of their board duties. revise the amount of compensation that a member of the board may receive for attending a meeting of the board or attending a meeting while on official business of the district to an amount not to exceed $100 per meeting and $200 per day. The bill would also authorize a member of the board to receive compensation for active transportation travel to one of these meetings and would subject this compensation to the $6,000 total annual compensation limit.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 40227 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:40227.
(a) Each member of the bay district board shall receive actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of(b) Each member of
the bay district board may receive compensation, to be determined by the bay district board, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each day attending the meetings board subject to subdivision (c), for any of the following:
(1) Attending a meeting of the bay district board and or a committee meetings thereof, or,
of the bay district board.
(2) Attending a meeting, upon authorization of the bay district board, while on official business of the bay district, but the district.
(3) Active transportation travel to a meeting described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(c) The
compensation provided for attending a meeting pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (b) shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each meeting and shall not exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per day. The compensation provided pursuant to subdivision (b) shall not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) in any one year. Compensation
(d) Compensation pursuant to this section shall be fixed by ordinance.
In order to promote active transportation, reduce air pollution, and protect public health in the bay area region, it is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would make changes to the compensation and expenses that members of the board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District receive in the performance of their board duties.