California Assembly Bill AB662 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 662INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Atkins, Dickinson, Mitchell, Perea, Ting, and Torres FEBRUARY 21, 2013 An act to amend Section 53395.4 of the Government Code, relating to local government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 662, as introduced, Atkins. Local government: infrastructure financing districts. Existing law authorizes the creation of infrastructure financing districts, as defined, for the sole purpose of financing public facilities, subject to adoption of a resolution by the legislative body and affected taxing entities proposed to be subject to the division of taxes and voter approval requirements. Existing law prohibits on infrastructure financing district from including any portion of a redevelopment project area. Existing law, effective February 1, 2012, dissolved all redevelopment agencies and community development agencies and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as specified. This bill would delete the prohibition on infrastructure financing district including any portion of a redevelopment project area. 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 53395.4 of the Government Code is amended to read: 53395.4.  (a) A district may not include any portion of a redevelopment project area which is or has been previously created pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code, whether the creation is or was proper or improper. A redevelopment project area may not include any portion of a district created pursuant to this chapter.   (b)   (a)  A district may finance only the facilities or services authorized in this chapter to the extent that the facilities or services are in addition to those provided in the territory of the district before the district was created. The additional facilities or services may not supplant facilities or services already available within that territory when the district was created but may supplement those facilities and services as needed to serve new developments.  (c)   (b)  A district may include areas  which   that  are not contiguous.