Bill Text: CA AB57 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-07-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2012. [AB57 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB57-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 57 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 88
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JULY 13, 2012
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR JULY 13, 2012
PASSED THE SENATE JULY 5, 2012
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY JULY 5, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 20, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 5, 2012
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 19, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 27, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY FEBRUARY 2, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Beall
(Principal coauthor: Senator Alquist)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Bonilla, Buchanan, Campos,
Fong, Gordon, Skinner, Swanson, Wieckowski, and Yamada)
(Coauthor: Senator Hancock)
DECEMBER 6, 2010
An act to amend Sections 66503 and 66504 of the Government Code,
relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 57, Beall. Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission Act creates the
Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a regional agency in the
9-county San Francisco Bay Area with comprehensive regional
transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing
law requires the commission to consist of 19 members, including 2
members each from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara, and one
member appointed by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission, and establishes a 4-year term of office for
members of the commission.
This bill would, instead, require the commission to consist of 21
members, including one member appointed by the Mayor of the City of
Oakland and one member appointed by the Mayor of the City of San
Jose. The bill would require the initial term of those 2 members to
end in February 2015. The bill would prohibit more than 3 members of
the commission from being residents of the same county, as specified.
The bill would require the member from the San Francisco Bay
Conservation and Development Commission to be a member of that
commission, a resident of San Francisco, and to be approved by the
Mayor of San Francisco. By imposing new requirements on a local
agency, this bill would 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 no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 66503 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
66503. The commission shall consist of 21 members as follows:
(a) Two members each from the City and County of San Francisco and
the Counties of Contra Costa and San Mateo, and three members each
from the Counties of Alameda and Santa Clara. With respect to the
members from the City and County of San Francisco, the mayor shall
appoint one member and the board of supervisors shall appoint one
member. With respect to the members from Alameda, Contra Costa, San
Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties, the city selection committee
organized in each county pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with
Section 50270) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5, shall
appoint one member and the board of supervisors shall appoint one
member. The Mayor of the City of Oakland shall be self-appointed or
shall appoint a member of the Oakland City Council to serve as the
third member from the County of Alameda. The Mayor of the City of San
Jose shall be self-appointed or shall appoint a member of the San
Jose City Council to serve as the third member from the County of
Santa Clara.
(b) One member each from Marin, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma Counties.
The city selection committee of these counties shall furnish to the
board of supervisors the names of three nominees and the board of
supervisors shall appoint one of the nominees to represent the
county.
(c) One representative each appointed by the Association of Bay
Area Governments and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission. The representative appointed by the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission shall be a
member of the commission and a resident of the City and County of San
Francisco, and shall be approved by the Mayor of San Francisco.
(d) One representative, who shall be a nonvoting member, appointed
by the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(e) One representative each appointed by the United States
Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban
Development. However, these representatives shall serve only if the
agencies they represent are amenable to these appointments. These
representatives shall be nonvoting members.
(f) Public officers, whether elected or appointed, may be
appointed and serve as members of the commission during their terms
of public office.
(g) No more than three members appointed pursuant to subdivisions
(a), (b), and (c) shall be residents of the same county.
SEC. 2. Section 66504 of the Government Code is amended to read:
66504. Each commissioner's term of office is four years;
provided, however, that the commissioners appointed by the Mayor of
the City of Oakland and the Mayor of the City of San Jose shall have
an initial term of office ending in February 2015. A commissioner
appointed as a public officer vacates his or her commission seat upon
ceasing to hold such public office unless the appointing authority
consents to completion of the term of office. Commissioners shall be
selected for their special familiarity with the problems and issues
in the field of transportation.
SEC. 3. No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district are the result of a program for which legislative authority
was requested by that local agency or school district, within the
meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code and Section 6 of
Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
