The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000.

Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, sets forth the powers and duties of a local agency formation commission. The act authorizes a local agency formation commission to approve, after notice and hearing, a petition for a change of organization or reorganization of a city, if the petition was initiated on or after January 1, 2010, and before January 1, 2014, and waive protest proceedings entirely if certain requirements are met. This provision applies only to territory that does not exceed 150 acres. This bill would delete the January 1, 2014, date and make conforming changes. Existing law provides that the authority to initiate, conduct, and complete specified changes in organization or reorganizations does not apply to any territory that, after January 1, 2000, became surrounded or substantially surrounded by the city to which the annexation is proposed, except for islands that were created after January 1, 2000, as a result of boundary adjustments between 2 counties. This bill would instead provide that the authority to initiate, conduct, and complete specified changes in organization or reorganizations does not apply to any territory that, after January 1, 2014, became surrounded or substantially surrounded by the city to which the annexation is proposed, except for islands that were created after January 1, 2014, as a result of boundary adjustments between 2 counties. The act additionally authorizes a local agency formation commission to approve, after notice and hearing, a petition for a change of organization or reorganization of a city that was initiated on or after January 1, 2014, if certain requirements are met, and requires the commission to follow specified procedures in making this approval. This bill would repeal these provisions.