Bill Text: CA AB277 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation: local retail transaction and use taxes:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-14 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB277 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB277-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 277	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2009

   An act to amend Section 131241 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 277, as introduced, Ammiano. Transportation: local retail
transaction and use taxes: Bay Area.
   The Bay Area County Traffic and Transportation Funding Act
establishes a process for each of the 9 counties in the San Francisco
Bay Area to impose a retail transactions and use tax for
transportation purposes subject to voter approval. Existing law
provides for a county transportation expenditure plan to be developed
in that regard, with expenditures from tax revenues to be
administered by a county transportation authority, or, alternatively,
by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Existing law requires
the membership of a county transportation authority to be specified
either in the county transportation expenditure plan or in the retail
transactions and use tax ordinance.
   This bill would delete the option of specifying the membership of
the authority in the retail transactions and use tax ordinance.
   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 131241 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   131241.  (a) The county transportation authority shall consist of
the members who are elected officials as specified in the county
transportation expenditure plan  or in the retail
transactions and use tax ordinance  , and shall be appointed
by each constituent local government within 45 days after the
authority is created.
   (b) At the first meeting of the county transportation authority,
one-half of the members, and the odd-numbered member if the
membership of the county transportation authority is odd-numbered,
shall be selected by lot to serve terms consisting of the remaining
months of the current calendar year, if any, plus two years, and the
remaining members shall be selected by lot to serve a term consisting
of the remaining months of the current calendar year, if any, plus
three years. Thereafter, appointments for all members shall be for
two-year terms, beginning on January 1.
   (c) If any member or alternate member ceases to be an elected
official, that member shall cease to be a member of the county
transportation authority, and another member shall be appointed for
the remainder of the term by the constituent local government that
that member represents.
   (d) An alternate may be designated for each regular member. A
regular member who, pursuant to the county transportation expenditure
plan, serves by virtue of holding a specified public office, may
designate a person to serve as his or her alternate. In the case of
any other regular member, the appointing constituent local government
may designate an alternate to the regular appointed member. The
alternate's term of office shall be the same as that of the regular
member. When the regular member is not present at the meeting of the
authority, the alternate may act as the regular member and shall have
all the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of the regular
member.