Bill Text: CA AB2568 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-06 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2568 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2568	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 130051.20 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2568, as introduced, Bloom. Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority.
   Existing law, the County Transportation Commissions Act, creates
the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and
authorizes the authority to enter into contracts pertaining to
transportation services.  The act prohibits a member, alternate
member, or employee of the authority who has participated as a
decisionmaker in the preparation, evaluation, award, or
implementation of a contract and who leaves the authority from
accepting, within 3 years of leaving the authority, employment with
any company, vendor, or business entity that was awarded a contract
as a result of his or her participation, evaluation, award, or
implementation of that contract.
   This bill would prohibit a chief executive officer hired on or
after January 1, 2015, from accepting employment with any such
company, vendor, or business entity within one year of leaving the
authority.
   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.  Section 130051.20 of the Public Utilities Code is
amended to read:
   130051.20.  (a) (1) No construction company, engineering firm,
consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity
seeking a contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority shall give to a member, alternate member, or
employee of the authority, or to any member of their immediate
families, a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or
amount. A "contribution" includes contributions to candidates or
their committees in any federal, state, or local election.
   (2) Neither the owner, an employee, or any member of their
immediate families, of any construction company, engineering firm,
consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity
seeking a contract with the authority shall make a contribution of
over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount to a member, alternate
member, or employee of the authority, or to any member of their
immediate families.
   (3) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, or
member of their immediate families, shall accept, solicit, or direct
a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount from any
construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or
any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a contract with the
authority.
   (4) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority
shall make or participate in, or use his or her official position to
influence, a contract decision if the member, alternate member, or
employee has knowingly accepted a contribution of over ten dollars
($10) in value in the past four years from a participant, or its
agent, involved in the contract decision.
   (5) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, or
member of their immediate families shall accept, solicit, or direct a
contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount from a
construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or
any company, vendor, or business entity that has contracted with the
authority in the preceding four years.
   (b) A member, alternate member, or employee of the authority who
has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation, evaluation,
award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves the authority
shall not, within three years of leaving the authority, accept
employment with any company, vendor, or business entity that was
awarded a contract as a result of his or her participation,
evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract. 
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), a chief executive officer
hired on or after January 1, 2015, shall not, within one year of
leaving the authority, accept employment with any company, vendor, or
business entity that was awarded a contract as a result of his or
her participation, evaluation, award, or implementation of that
contract.