Bill Text: CA AB1385 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1385 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Riverside County Transportation Commission: transaction and use tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 578, Statutes of 2023. [AB1385 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1385

Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 17, 2023

An act to amend Section 99268.3 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1385, as introduced, Garcia. Local transportation funds: transit operators.

Existing law provides various sources of funding to public transit operators. Under the Mills-Alquist-Deddeh Act, also known as the Transportation Development Act, revenues from a ¹/₄% sales tax in each county are available, among other things, for allocation by the transportation planning agency to transit operators, subject to certain financial requirements for an operator to meet in order to be eligible to receive funds. Existing law sets forth alternative ways an operator may qualify for funding, including a standard under which the allocated funds do not exceed 50% of the operator’s total operating costs, as specified, or the maintenance by the operator of a specified farebox ratio of fare revenues to operating costs. Existing law establishes the required farebox ratio as 20% in urbanized areas and 10% in nonurbanized areas.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision relating to operator eligibility in urbanized areas based on the farebox ratio.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 99268.3 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:

99268.3.

(a) In the case of an operator that is serving an urbanized area, and that was eligible for funds under this article during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not required to be in compliance with Section 99268 or that commenced operation after that fiscal year, the operator shall be eligible for those funds in any fiscal year, commencing with claims for the 1980–81 fiscal year, if it maintains, for the fiscal year, a ratio of fare revenues to operating cost, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 99247, at least equal to one-fifth.

(b) In the case of an operator that is serving an urbanized area, and that was in operation during the 1978–79 fiscal year even though not then eligible for funds under this article, but that has since become eligible for those funds, the operator shall be eligible for the funds in any fiscal year, commencing with the 1980–81 fiscal year, if it complies with either of the ~~following:~~ following requirements:

(1) The requirements of Section 99268.

(2) The requirements of subdivision (a).