Asm. Chris Holden

This measure would proclaim the week of March 4, 2018, through March 10, 2018, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.

(1) Existing law provides for the development of a congestion management program for each county that includes an urbanized area by a designated congestion management agency. Existing law authorizes the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to jointly adopt a commute benefit ordinance that requires covered employers operating within the common area of the 2 agencies with a specified number of covered employees to offer those employees certain commute benefits. This bill would authorize 2 Go Zone demonstration programs in northern California and 2 in southern California. The bill would define "Go Zone demonstration program" to mean a transportation program that reduces vehicle congestion by targeting highly congested areas with additional transportation choices and decongestion fees that encourage people to take transit, carpool, bike, walk, or adjust trip times at congested times of day. The bill would require the governing body of an eligible participating jurisdiction, as defined, to adopt an ordinance containing various elements, including a decongestion fee element, and would require the proposed ordinance to be approved by the applicable congestion management agency subject to specified findings, including a finding that the proposed demonstration project is likely to be successful. The bill would require a charge by such an ordinance to be imposed consistent with the California Constitution and federal law. The bill would enact other related provisions. (2) Existing law prohibits a local agency from imposing a tax, permit fee or other charge, except as specified, after December 31, 1990, unless the charge had been imposed prior to June 1, 1989. This bill would provide that this prohibition does not apply within a jurisdiction undertaking a Go Zone demonstration program for the duration of that program. This bill, by imposing new duties on congestion management agencies, would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

The California Constitution, with respect to any taxes levied on taxable property in a redevelopment project established under the Community Redevelopment Law, as it then read or may be amended, authorizes the Legislature to provide for the division of those taxes under a redevelopment plan between the taxing agencies and the redevelopment agency, as provided. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. This bill, the Transit-Oriented Redevelopment Law of 2018, would authorize a city or county to propose the formation of a redevelopment agency by adopting a resolution of intention that meets specified requirements, and submitting that resolution to each affected taxing entity and to each owner of land within the district. The bill would require the city or county that adopted that resolution to hold a public hearing on the proposal, as provided, and would authorize that city or county to adopt a resolution of formation at the conclusion of that hearing. The bill would authorize an agency formed pursuant to these provisions to finance affordable housing or transit-oriented development projects, as defined, and to carry out related powers, as specified. This bill would provide for the governing board of the agency consisting of 2 members appointed by the legislative body that adopted the resolution of intention, one member appointed by each affected taxing entity, and 2 members of the public. The bill would require the governing board of an agency to designate an appropriate official to prepare a proposed redevelopment project plan. The bill would authorize the redevelopment project plan to provide for the division of taxes levied upon taxable property, if any, between an affected taxing entity and the agency, as provided. The bill would declare that this authorization fulfills the intent of the above-described constitutional provision. The bill would authorize the agency to issue bonds to finance developments in accordance with specified requirements and procedures. The bill would require the agency to contract for an independent financial and performance audit every 2 years after the issuance of debt. The bill would require the agency to submit an annual report, containing specified information, and a final report of any audit undertaken by any other local, state, or federal government entity to its governing body within specified time periods. The bill would also require the agency to file a copy of the report with the Controller and a copy of any audit report with the Department of Housing and Community Development.

This measure would designate March 2018 as Irish American Heritage Month in honor of the multitude of contributions that Irish Americans have made to the country and state.

This measure would recognize the month of March as the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Student Walkouts and would encourage all Californians to join in commemorating this historic event.