BILL NUMBER: AB 711AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 21, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 15, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 5, 2010 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 25, 2009 AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 19, 2009 AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 15, 2009 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2009 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 4, 2009 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 14, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Charles Calderon (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Coto, De La Torre, De Leon, Mendoza, Nava, John A. Perez, V. Manuel Perez, Salas, and Solorio) (Principal coauthors: Senators Calderon, Cedillo, Florez, Negrete McLeod, and Romero) FEBRUARY 26, 2009 An act relating to local government, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 711, as amended, Charles Calderon. Local agency formation commissions: cost of incorporation proceedings. Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, authorizes a local agency formation commission to establish a schedule of fees and costs for proceedings taken pursuant to that act, including incorporation proceedings. The act authorizes the local agency formation commission to request a loan from the General Fund to cover the expenses of incorporation proceedings under specified circumstances. Under existing law, the California Main Street Program Fund is created to fund technical assistance and training for small cities' government, business organizations, merchants, and property owners in order to accomplish community and economic revitalization and development of older central and historic business districts and neighborhoods. This bill would , upon approval and order of the Department of Finance that sufficient moneys in the fund are available, appropriate an amount not to exceed $45,000 from the California Main Street Program Fund to the Controller for allocation to the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission for a loan to the East Los Angeles Residents Association, as specified. The bill would make findings and declarations regarding the need for a special statute. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1.The sum ofUpon approval and order of the Department of Finance that sufficient moneys in the fund are available, an amount not to exceed forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) is hereby appropriated from the California Main Street Program Fund to the Controller for allocation to the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission for a loan to the East Los Angeles Residents Association, pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 56383 of the Government Code. Of the amounts that are deposited in the fund as otherwise required by law, priority shall be given to the appropriation described in this section. SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act is a special law that is necessary because a general law cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission and the East Los Angeles Residents Association. In that respect, the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission and the East Los Angeles Residents Association require this loan to complete incorporation proceedings. SEC. 3. 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 for the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission to grant a loan to the East Los Angeles Residents Association to complete incorporation proceedings and to meet a contractual deadline to pay for and start an economic impact study, it is necessary that this act go into immediate effect.