Bill Text: CA ABX18 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transportation bond funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-09-12 - Died at Desk. [ABX18 Detail]

Download: California-2011-ABX18-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ABX1 8	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act to amend Section 8879.61 of the Government Code, relating
to transportation, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 8, as introduced, Ma. Transportation bond funds.
   Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality,
and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, authorizes the issuance of
general obligation bonds for various transportation purposes.
Existing law requires that $1,000,000,000 of those funds be deposited
in the Transit System Safety, Security, and Disaster Response
Account, administered by the California Emergency Management Agency
(Cal EMA), for capital projects that provide increased protection
against a security and safety threat, and for capital expenditures to
increase the capacity of transit operators to develop disaster
response transportation systems, as specified. Existing law requires
25% of the available funds to be allocated to certain regional public
waterborne transit agencies. Existing law requires entities
receiving funds from the account to expend those funds within 3
fiscal years of the fiscal year in which the funds were allocated and
requires that funds remaining unexpended after those 3 years revert
to Cal EMA for reallocation in subsequent fiscal years.
   Notwithstanding these provisions, this bill would provide that
entities receiving an allocation of the funds set aside for regional
public waterborne transit agencies, relative to allocations of funds
made prior to June 30, 2011, shall have 4 fiscal years from the last
day of the fiscal year in which the funds were received by that
entity to expend those funds.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8879.61 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   8879.61.  (a)  (1)    Entities described in
subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 8879.57 receiving an
allocation of funds pursuant to this article shall expend those funds
within three fiscal years of the fiscal year in which the funds were
allocated. Funds remaining unexpended thereafter shall revert to the
California Emergency Management Agency, as applicable, for
reallocation  under this article  in subsequent fiscal
years. 
   (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), for an allocation of funds made
prior to June 30, 2011, to an entity described in subdivision (b) of
Section 8879.57, that entity shall have four fiscal years from the
last day of the fiscal year in which the funds were received by that
entity to expend those funds. 
   (b) Entities that receive grant awards from funds allocated
pursuant to subdivisions (b) or (c) of Section 8879.57 are not
eligible to receive awards from the funds allocated pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 8879.57.
   (c) Funds appropriated for the program established by this article
in the Budget Act of 2007 shall be allocated consistent with the
allocation schedule established in Section 8879.57.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure that regional public waterborne transit
agencies have sufficient time to complete projects using certain
transportation bond funds, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.