Bill Text: CA SB268 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 268 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-09-05 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. [SB268 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB268-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate March 28, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 268

Introduced by Senator Mendoza

February 08, 2017

An act to amend Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 268, as amended, Mendoza. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in Los Angeles County. The authority is governed by a 14-member board of directors which is consists of the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, 2 public members and one Los Angeles city council member appointed by the mayor, 4 members appointed from the other cities in the county, the 5 members of the board of supervisors, and a nonvoting member appointed by the Governor.

~~This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.~~
Existing law requires the authority to submit a plan to the Legislature for revising the composition of the authority, if the number of members of the board of supervisors is increased, within 60 days of the increase.
This bill would delete this requirement.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 130051 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

130051.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority consists of 14 members, as follows:

(a) ~~(1)~~Five members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

(2)If the number of members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is increased, the authority shall, within 60 days of the increase, submit a plan to the Legislature for revising the composition of the authority.

(b) The Mayor of the City of Los Angeles.

(c) Two public members and one member of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles appointed by the Mayor of that city.

(d) (1) Four members, each of whom shall be a mayor or a member of a city council, appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee. For purposes of the selection of these four members, the County of Los Angeles, excluding the City of Los Angeles, shall be divided into the following four sectors:

(A) The North County/San Fernando Valley sector.

(B) The Southwest Corridor sector.

(D) The Southeast Long Beach sector.

(2) The League of California Cities, Los Angeles County Division, shall define the sectors. Every city within a sector shall be entitled to vote to nominate one or more candidates from that sector for consideration for appointment by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee. A city’s vote shall be weighted in the same proportion that its population bears to the total population of all cities within the sector.

(3) The members appointed pursuant to this subdivision shall be appointed by the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee upon an affirmative vote of its members who represent a majority of the population of all cities within the county, excluding the City of Los Angeles.

(4) The members selected by the city selection committee shall serve four-year terms with no limitation on the number of terms that may be served by any individual. The city selection committee may shorten the initial four-year term for one or more of the members for the purpose of ensuring that the members will serve staggered terms.

(e) One nonvoting member appointed by the Governor.

(f) If the population of the City of Los Angeles, at any time, becomes less than 35 percent of the combined population of all cities in the county, the position of one of the two public members appointed pursuant to subdivision (c), as determined by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles by lot, shall be vacated, and the vacant position shall be filled by appointment by the city selection committee pursuant to subdivision (d) from a city not represented by any other member appointed pursuant to subdivision (d).