Bill Text: CA AB2389 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Special districts: district-based elections: reapportionment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-28 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 754, Statutes of 2016. [AB2389 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2389-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2389	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ridley-Thomas

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Part 5.5 (commencing with Section 10650) to Division
10 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2389, as amended, Ridley-Thomas. Special districts:
district-based elections: reapportionment.
   Existing law provides for political subdivisions, including
special districts, that encompass areas of representation within the
state. With respect to these areas, public officials are generally
elected by all of the voters of the political subdivision (at-large)
or by or from districts formed within the political subdivision
(district-based). Under existing law, the manner of election of a
governing body of a special district is generally specified in the
statutes creating the district. If a political subdivision changes
from an at-large method of election to a district-based election,
existing law generally requires the political subdivision to submit
to the  voter   voters  an ordinance or
resolution providing for the election of members of the governing
body by district.
   This bill would authorize a governing body of a special district,
as defined, to require, by resolution, that  the election of
 the members of its governing body be elected using
district-based elections without being required to submit the
resolution to the voters for approval.  This bill would require
the resolution to include a declaration that the change in the method
of election is being made in furtherance of the purposes of the
California Voting Rights Act of 2001. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Part 5.5 (commencing with Section 10650) is added to
Division 10 of the Elections Code, to read:

      PART 5.5.  Special District Elections


   10650.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a governing body of a
special district may require, by resolution, that the 
election of the  members of its governing body be elected
using district-based elections, as defined in subdivision (b) of
Section 14026, without being required to submit the resolution to the
voters for approval.  A resolution adopted pursuant to this
subdivision shall include a declaration that the change in the method
of electing members of the governing body is being made in
furtherance of the purposes of the California Voting Rights Act of
2001 (Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 14025) of Division 14
  of the Elections Code). 
   (b) For purposes of this section, "special district" means an
agency of the state formed pursuant to general law or special act for
the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions
within limited boundaries, except a city, county, city and county,
school or community college district, or special assessment district.