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Legislative Bill Action The following are summaries of just a few of the legislative bills that are currently being acted upon by the League of California Cities. The league encourages you to review the bills on its Web site at www. cacities.org/ legtracking and contact the appropriate committees to demonstrate your support or opposition of issues. Your assistance is appreciated. REVENUE AND TAXATION HOUSING AND LAND USE AB 81 (Migden). Property Taxation. State As- AB 1891 (Diaz). Housing Trust Funds. AB 1891 sessed Property. This bill reestablishes the responsibility requires the Department of Housing and Community of the Board of Equalization (BCE) to assess proper~y taxes Development to establish matching grants that can be used on power generation facilities, and requires the property by local agencies to provide financing for rental housing tax revenues to be distributed on a situs basis - allocating projects affordable to very Iow income families. The funds property taxes from generating facilities to the city where are appropriated by the Housing and Emergency Shelter they are located. BCE held the ass~ssment :thority ~or Trust Fund Act of 2002, to local agencies or nonprofit to energy deregulation, and distributed th~ ~roperty ,~ entities that have housing trust funds. This bill provides revenues through the county pool. The rationale was that incentives to cities that currently have housing trusts, and power-generating facilities were part of all properties also contains an incentive-based approach to encourage the owned by the electric companies. Following deregulation, creation of additional housing trusts at the local level. these generating plants were sold to other parties, and the Staff: Dan Carrigg, Status: SenHou&ComDev;Hrg-6/17, BCE responded with Regulation 905, shifting property Position: Support. assessment and taxation authority to the counties. The shift resultedinallocationofpropertytaxesonasitusbasis. SB1480(Speier). Outdoor Advertising. $B1480 This transfer raised two issues. First, some assessments makes a number of changes to the Outdoor Advertising Act were tied up in court as owners of the facilities challenged that are positive for local governments, it has been assigned county assessments, Second, properties under county to the Assembly Governmental Organization and Local assessment authority were limited to assessment increases Government Committees. Changes that specifically affect under Proposition 13. This bill attempts to respond to both cities do the following: these concerns. Staff: Jean Korinke, Status: On Governor's Require the applicant for a state billboard permit to Desk, Position: Support. have both the written consent of the affected local govern- ment as well as the owner of the property site for the TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS billboard as a condition of the issuance of the state permit. Authorize any local government entity having land AB 1801;) (Kehoe). Motor Vehicles. Persons with use jurisdiction over the property site for a billboard to Disabilities. AB 1800 runs counter to the requirements enact spacing and size regulations that are more restrictive being put in place by the State and Regional Water Quality than those imposed by the state. Control Boards relative to NPDES and TMDL permits. AB Establish a $10,000 penalty (plus $100/day) for 1800 authorizes, until January 1,2006, a disabled person or billboards which are unlawfully erected and which violate disabled veteran who displays special disabled person license the Act or a local ordinance, and which are not removed plates or a placard, to park in restricted zones designated within 30-days of written notice from the department or for street sweeping, without being issued a parking viola- affected local government. tion. We have suggested amendments to the author to Declare that the department or affected local address our TMDL and water quality issue concerns, Please jurisdiction may enforce the billboard penalty provisions. write your Senator and copy both the League and Assembly State the Legislature's intent to strengthen the Member Kehoe, requesting that the League's amendments be included in AB 1800. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: ability of local government to enforce zoning ordinances SenTrans;Hrg-6/18, Position: Oppose Unless Amended. regarding advertising displays. The real test for this legislation will be in securing the votes to pass the Governmental Organization Committee, PAGE 8/PRIORITY FOCUS Visit the League's Official Web Site--www.cacities.org