Bill Text: CA AB1237 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1237

Introduced

Bill Title: County of Los Angeles: sporting events: ticket charge: public transit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - Introduced. To print. [AB1237 Detail]

Download: California-2025-AB1237-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1237

Introduced by Assembly Member McKinnor

February 21, 2025

An act to add Section 130051.29 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1237, as introduced, McKinnor. County of Los Angeles: sporting events: ticket charge: public transit.

Existing law creates the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) with specified powers and duties relative to transportation planning, programming, and operations in the County of Los Angeles.

This bill would authorize LA Metro to impose a charge of up to $5 on the purchaser of a ticket from a ticket vendor to a sporting event in the County of Los Angeles for the 2026 FIFA World Cup or the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as specified. The bill would require LA Metro to use any revenues collected from that charge to support its transit operations. The bill would require LA Metro, if it imposes this charge, to allow any person to use its transit services at no charge on the day of a sporting event in the County of Los Angeles for the 2026 FIFA World Cup or the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games if the person presents a ticket to that sporting event at the location where LA Metro collects fares for transit services.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 130051.29 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:

130051.29.

(a) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority may impose a charge of up to five dollars ($5) on the purchaser of a ticket from a ticket vendor to a sporting event in the County of Los Angeles for the 2026 FIFA World Cup or the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority may only impose the charge on the initial purchase of the ticket and shall not impose the charge on any subsequent resale of the ticket. A ticket vendor shall be responsible for collecting the charge from the purchaser and remitting the revenues from that charge to the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

(b) The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority shall use any revenues collected pursuant to subdivision (a) to support its transit operations.

(c) If the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority imposes a charge pursuant to subdivision (a), it shall allow any person to use its transit services at no charge on the day of a sporting event in the County of Los Angeles for the 2026 FIFA World Cup or the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games if the person presents a ticket to that sporting event at the location where the authority collects fares for transit services.