BILL NUMBER: ABX1 36INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Solorio (Coauthors: Assembly Members Harkey and Norby) (Coauthor: Senator Correa) JULY 1, 2011 An act to amend Sections 11001.5 and 11005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 36, as introduced, Solorio. Vehicle license fees. Existing law, as proposed to be amended by SB 89 of the 2011-12 Regular Session, would require that a specified amount of motor vehicle license fees deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund be allocated by the Controller, as specified, according to a specified order, with moneys allocated on or after July 1, 2004, but before July 1, 2011, first to the County of Orange, next to each city and county meeting specified criteria, and on or after July 1, 2011, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. This bill would instead require for all of those times that a specified portion of those revenues be distributed first to the County of Orange. By authorizing within the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be used for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would become operative only if SB 89 is chaptered, as provided. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. 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. Section 11001.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended by Section 7 of Senate Bill 89 of the 2011-12 Regular Session, is amended to read: 11001.5. (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 11001, and except as provided in paragraph (2) and in subdivisions (b) and (d), 24.33 percent, and on and after July 1, 2004, 74.9 percent, of the moneys collected by the department under this part shall be reported monthly to the Controller, and at the same time, deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund, as established pursuant to Section 17600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. All other moneys collected by the department under this part shall continue to be deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund and in accordance with the following: (A)Before July 1, 2011, firstFirst allocated to the County of Orange as provided in subdivision(b)(a) of Section 11005 and as necessary for the service of indebtedness as pledged by Sections 25350.6 and 53585.1 of the Government Code and in accordance with written instructions provided by the Controller under Sections 25350.7, 25350.9, and 53585.1 of the Government Code, and the balance shall be allocated to each city and city and county as otherwise provided by law. (B) On and after July 1, 2011, allocated pursuant to subdivision(a)(c) of Section 11005. (2) For the period beginning on and after July 1, 2003, and ending on February 29, 2004, the Controller shall deposit an amount equal to 28.07 percent of the moneys collected by the department under this part in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund. All other moneys collected by the department under this part shall continue to be deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund and allocated to each city, county, and city and county as otherwise provided by law. (b) (1) Notwithstanding Section 11001, net funds collected as a result of procedures developed for greater compliance with vehicle license fee laws in order to increase the amount of vehicle license fee collections shall be reported monthly to the Controller, and at the same time, deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Vehicle License Collection Account of the Local Revenue Fund as established pursuant to Section 17600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. All revenues in excess of fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) in the 2004-05 fiscal year and in any fiscal year thereafter shall be allocated to cities, counties, and cities and counties as follows: (A) (i) Fifty percent shall be paid to the cities and cities and counties of this state in the proportion that the population of each city or city and county bears to the total population of all cities and cities and counties in this state, as determined by the population research unit of the Department of Finance. For purposes of this subparagraph, the population of each city or city and county is that population determined by the last federal decennial or special census, or a subsequent census validated by the population research unit or subsequent estimate prepared pursuant to Section 2107.2 of the Streets and Highways Code. (ii) In the case of a city incorporated subsequent to the last federal census, or a subsequent census validated by the population research unit, the population research unit shall determine the population of the city. In the case of unincorporated territory annexed to a city subsequent to the last federal census, or a subsequent census validated by the population research unit, the population research unit shall determine the population of the annexed territory by the use of any federal decennial or special census, or estimate prepared pursuant to Section 2107.2 of the Streets and Highways Code. In the case of the consolidation of one city with another subsequent to the last federal census, or a subsequent census validated by the population research unit, the population of the consolidated city, for the purpose of this subparagraph, is the aggregate population of the respective cities as determined by the last federal census, or a subsequent census or estimate validated by the population research unit. (B) Fifty percent shall be paid to the counties and cities and counties in the proportion that the population of each county or city and county bears to the total population of all counties and cities and counties, as determined by the population research unit. For purposes of this subparagraph, the population of each county or city and county is that determined by the last federal census, or subsequent census validated by the population research unit, or as determined by Section 11005.6 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. (2) The amendments made to this section by the act that added this paragraph are operative upon the enactment of that act. However, the amendments made by the act that added this paragraph apply to revenues in the Vehicle License Collection Account in excess of fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) in the 2004-05 fiscal year and any fiscal year thereafter. (c) Notwithstanding Section 11001, 25.72 percent of the moneys collected by the department on or after August 1, 1991, and before August 1, 1992, under this part shall be reported monthly to the Controller, and at the same time, deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund, as established pursuant to Section 17600 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. All other moneys collected by the department under this part shall continue to be deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund and allocated to each city, county, and city and county as otherwise provided by law. (d) Notwithstanding any otherprovision oflaw, both of the following apply: (1) This section is operative for the period beginning on and after March 1, 2004. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the total amount deposited by the Controller in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund for the 2003-04 fiscal year be equal to the total amount that would have been deposited to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund if paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) was applied during that entire fiscal year. The department shall calculate and notify the Controller of the adjustment amounts that are required by this paragraph to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund. The amounts deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to have been deposited during the 2003-04 fiscal year. (e) This section does not amend nor is it intended to amend or impair Section 25350 and following of, Section 53584 and following of, the Government Code, or any other statute dealing with the interception of funds. SEC. 2. Section 11005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, as amended by Section 9 of Senate Bill 89 of the 2011-12 Regular Session, is amended to read: 11005. After payment of refunds therefrom and after making the deductions authorized by Section 11003 and reserving the amount determined necessary by the Pooled Money Investment Board to meet the transfers ordered or proposed to be ordered pursuant to Section 16310 of the Government Code, the balance of all motor vehicle license fees and any other money appropriated by law for expenditure pursuant to this section, deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, and remaining unexpended in that account at the close of business on the last day of the calendar month, shall be allocated by the Controller by the 10th day of the following month in accordance with the following:(a) On and after July 1, 2011, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as established by Section 30025 of the Government Code, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties.(b) On or after July 1, 2004, but before July 1, 2011:(1)(a) First, to the County of Orange. For the 2004-05 fiscal year, that county shall be allocated fifty-four million dollars ($54,000,000) in monthly installments. For the 2005-06 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that county shall receive, in monthly installments, an amount equal to the amount allocated under this section for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the percentage change in the amount of revenues credited to the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund from the revenues credited to that account in the prior fiscal year. Moneys allocated to the County of Orange under this subdivision shall be used first for the service of indebtedness as provided in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11001.5. Any amounts in excess of the amount required for this service of indebtedness may be used by that county for any lawful purpose. (b) On and after July 1, 2004, but before July 1, 2011:(2)(1) Second, to each city, the population of which is determined under Section 11005.3 on August 5, 2004, in an amount equal to the additional amount of vehicle license fee revenue, including offset transfers, that would be allocated to that city under Sections 11000 and 11005, as those sections read on January 1, 2004, as a result of that city's population being determined under subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 11005.3.(3)(2) Third, to each city that was incorporated from an unincorporated territory after August 5, 2004, in an amount equal to the product of the following two amounts: (A) The quotient derived from the following fraction: (i) The numerator is the product of the following two amounts: (I) Fifty dollars ($50) per year. (II) The fraction determined as the total amount of vehicle license fee revenue collected during the most recent fiscal year divided by the total amount of vehicle license fee revenue collected during the 2004-05 fiscal year. (ii) The denominator is the fraction determined as the actual population, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 11005.3, of all cities during the most recent fiscal year, divided by the actual population, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 11005.3, of all cities in the 2004-05 fiscal year. (B) The city's population determined in accordance with Section 11005.3.(4)(3) Fourth, to each city that was incorporated before August 5, 2004, in an amount equal to the product of the following two amounts: (A) The quotient derived from the following fraction: (i) The numerator is the product of the following two amounts: (I) Fifty dollars ($50) per year. (II) The fraction determined as the total amount of vehicle license fee revenue collected during the most recent fiscal year divided by the total amount of vehicle license fee revenue collected during the 2004-05 fiscal year. (ii) The denominator is the fraction determined as the actual population, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 11005.3, of all cities during the most recent fiscal year, divided by the actual population, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 11005.3, of all cities in the 2004-05 fiscal year. (B) The actual population, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 11005.3, residing in areas annexed after August 5, 2004, as of the date of annexation.(5)(4) Fifth, to the cities and cities and counties of this state in the proportion that the population of each city or city and county bears to the total population of all cities and cities and counties in this state, as determined by the Demographic Research Unit of the Department of Finance. For the purpose of this subdivision, the population of each city or city and county shall be determined in accordance with Section 11005.3. (c) On or after July 1, 2011, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as established by Section 30025 of the Government Code, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. SEC. 3. This act addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation on January 20, 2011, pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 10 of Article IV of the California Constitution. SEC. 4. 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 not adversely affect the County of Orange due to the enactment of Senate Bill 89, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately. SEC. 5. This bill shall become operative only if Senate Bill 89 of the 2011-12 Regular Session is chaptered and amends Sections 11001.5 and 11005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.