Bill Text: CA SB203 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Local transportation funds: Ventura County.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 464, Statutes of 2013. [SB203 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB203-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 203	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2013

   An act to repeal Section 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 203, as introduced, Pavley. Local transportation funds: Ventura
County.
   Existing law requires that 1/4% of the local sales and use tax be
transferred to the local transportation fund of each county for
allocation, as directed by the transportation planning agency, for
various transportation purposes. Existing law specifies the allowable
uses for local transportation funds, and generally requires these
funds to be used for transit purposes in urban counties, while in
counties with a population under 500,000 as of the 1970 census and
certain other counties, these funds may also be used for local
streets and roads, if the transportation planning agency finds that
there are no unmet transit needs or no unmet transit needs that are
reasonable to meet, and for other specified purposes.
   Existing law, beginning July 1, 2014, for counties with a
population of less than 500,000 as of the 1970 decennial census, but
that have a population of 500,000 or more as of the 2000 decennial
census or at a subsequent census, requires the local transportation
funds apportioned to the urbanized areas of those counties to
generally be allocated for public transit purposes and not for street
and road purposes, except that cities in those counties with a
population of 100,000 or fewer are exempt from this requirement.
Under existing law, local transportation funds apportioned to the
nonurbanized areas in those counties remain available for allocation
to street and road purposes and for other specified purposes.
Existing law exempts Ventura County from these provisions and instead
authorized the Ventura County Transportation Commission to submit,
by December 31, 2011, a report to the Legislature analyzing options
for organizing public mass transportation services in the county and
for expenditure of revenues in the local transportation fund, along
with a recommended legislative proposal. Under existing law, if a
legislative proposal was not enacted by the end of the 2011-12
Regular Session of the Legislature, local transportation funds in
Ventura County would be required to be available solely for transit
purposes beginning July 1, 2014.
   This bill would repeal the provisions specifically relating to
Ventura County and the expenditure of local transportation funds
there.
   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 99232.3 of the Public Utilities Code is
repealed. 
   99232.3.  Sections 99232.1 and 99232.2 shall not apply to Ventura
County. The Ventura County Transportation Commission may submit to
the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Assembly
Committee on Transportation a report analyzing options for organizing
public mass transportation services in the county, for the
expenditure of revenues deposited in the local transportation fund,
and a recommended legislative proposal for implementing the plan by
December 31, 2011. If the legislative proposal is not enacted by the
end of the 2011-12 Regular Session of the Legislature, revenues
deposited in the local transportation fund in that county shall be
available for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2014, and each
fiscal year thereafter, solely for claims for Article 4 (commencing
with Section 99260) and Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 99275)
purposes.