Local government: reorganization.

Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization, reorganization, and sphere of influence changes for cities and districts, as specified. Existing law requires an applicant seeking a change of organization or reorganization to submit a plan for providing services within the affected territory. Existing law requires a petitioner or legislative body desiring to initiate proceedings to submit an application to the executive officer of the local agency formation commission, and requires the local agency formation commission, with regard to an application that includes an incorporation, to immediately notify all affected local agencies and any applicable state agency, as specified. This bill would define the term "successor agency," for these purposes to mean the local agency a commission designates to wind up the affairs of a dissolved district. This bill would also make clarifying changes to the above provisions. Existing law establishes procedures for determining the exchange of property tax revenues between a city and a county in the case of a jurisdictional change that consists of a city's qualified annexation of unincorporated territory, defined to mean an annexation of unincorporated territory for which an application or resolution was filed on or after January 1, 1998, and on or before January 1, 2021. This bill would expand the above-described definition of a qualified annexation of unincorporated territory to include an annexation for which an application or resolution was filed on or before January 1, 2028.