Transportation Development Act: County of Stanislaus.

(1) Existing law authorizes transportation planning agencies to administer transit funding made available under the Transportation Development Act. Existing law imposes certain financial requirements on transit operators making claims for transit funds, including requirements that fare revenue collected by the operator cover a specified percentage of operating costs. In certain cases, transit operators are required to meet a higher percentage if they met that standard in the 1978–79 fiscal year. This bill would authorize the Stanislaus Council of Governments, a transportation planning agency, when determining if specified operators have met the requirements for claims for transit funds for the 2018–19 and the 2019–20 fiscal years, to reduce the applicable ratio of fare revenues to operating cost for specified operators by up to 5 percentage points from the ratio that was effective during the 2015–16 fiscal year. If the Stanislaus Council of Governments acts pursuant to this authorization, the bill would require it, before January 1, 2020, to submit a report to the transportation policy committee of each house of the Legislature and to the Department of Transportation analyzing the options for organizing and supporting transit service in the county, as specified. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Stanislaus. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. (4) This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2020, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2021.