Bill Text: CA AB3198 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Joint powers agreements: retail electric services.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-22 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV. [AB3198 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3198-Amended.html
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Amended
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April 16, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3198
| Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to repeal Section 6515 of add Section 6502.1 to the Government Code, relating to joint powers agreements.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3198, as amended, Garcia.
Joint powers agreements: revenue bonds. retail electric services.
Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, if authorized by their legislative or other governing bodies, to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as provided. That act requires, among other things, that the agreement state the purpose of the agreement or power to be exercised and provide for the method by which the purpose will be accomplished or the manner in which the power will be exercised.
This bill would authorize a public agency with the authority to provide retail electric services to enter into a joint powers agreement with one or more public agencies with jurisdiction within the Coachella Valley Service Area, as
defined, to jointly exercise the authority to provide retail electric services notwithstanding an inability of a party to the joint powers agreement to exercise that power independently.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Coachella Valley Service Area, as defined.
The Joint Exercise of Powers Act, under a provision that has become inoperative, authorized an entity created by a joint powers agreement between an irrigation district and a city and having the power to acquire, construct, maintain, or operate facilities and property for supplying water for specified purposes to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs of acquiring, constructing, improving, or financing these facilities.
This bill would repeal this provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 6502.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:6502.1.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 6502 or any other law, a public agency with the authority to provide retail electric services may enter into a joint powers agreement with one or more public agencies with jurisdiction within the Coachella Valley Service Area to jointly exercise the authority to provide retail electric services notwithstanding an inability of a party to the joint powers agreement to exercise that power independently.(b) For purposes of this section, “Coachella Valley Service Area” means the territory within the Imperial Irrigation District’s sphere of influence within the County of Riverside as determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission of the County of Riverside as set forth in Resolution No. 2020-10-3 adopted on April
23, 2020 and the land within the exterior boundaries of the Torres Martinez Reservation.
