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9 -A -i1 Legislative Bill Action ................................ ............................... general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: AsLab &Emp, Position: Review and Comment. SB 110 (Margett). Public Contracts. Con- tract Specifications. SB 110 authorizes a bid specification of a certain product if the awarding authority makes a finding that a particular material or service is designated by a brand or trade name in order to (1) obtain a genuinely necessary and unique item'that is only available from one source, (2) obtain an item under circumstances in which competition is completely unavailing, or (3) respond to a local or state declared emergency. Also declares that the changes made by this bill codify existing California case law. This bill is similar to AD 2666 (Mountjoy) of last year. The sponsor is the Engineering Contractors' Association. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: SenFlr, Position: Review and Comment. planning. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: Sen. Third Reading, Position: Oppose the mandate to divert 25% of the funding, Support the reduc- tion of the voting threshold. ACA 7 (Dutra). Transportation Funding. Sales and Use Tax. ACA 7 authorizes a county, city and county and regional transportation agency to impose an additional sales and use tax for a period of 20 to 30 years at a rate of 0.5% exclusively for transportation purposes within the jurisdiction of the county, city and county or regional transportation agency if the additional tax is approved by 55% of the voters. ACA 7 requires the revenues from these taxes be deposited in the Local Transporta- tion Infrastructure Account to be used for specified transportation purposes. Staff: Natasha Fooman, Status: AsTrans; Hrg. 4/21, Position: Support. SCA 2 (T orlakson). Local Government. Sales Taxes. Trans & Smart Growth Planning. The California Constitution conditions the imposi- tion of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 2/3 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax, and prohibits these entities from imposing an ad valorem tax on real property or a transactions or sales tax on the sale of real property. SCA 2 would authorize a county, a city and county, a local transportation authority, or a regional transporta- tion agency, as defined, with the approval of a majority of its voters voting on the proposition, to impose a special tax for the privilege of selling tangible personal property at retail that it is other- wise authorized to impose, if the tax is imposed exclusively to fund transportation projects and services and smart growth planning, as defined. CSAC and the League strongly support the need to retain the current revenues generated from the existing transportation sales taxes that are due to expire, as well as, the opportunity for additional counties to impose such a tax. SCA 2 by reducing the voting threshold would provide critical revenues to transportation at a great time of need. However, we must express serious concern with the provision that would mandate in every county the expenditure of 25 percent of the monies for smart growth HOUSING AND LAND USE AD 980 (Salinas). Production -Based Hous- ing Element Self Certification. AB 980 is a production -based certification bill developed by the League of California Cities' Housing Opportunity Task Force. The legislation would authorize communities that are producing, or have committed to produce, at least 15% of its assigned low or very low regional housing needs allocation to adopt certify its housing element, without sending it to the Department of Housing for additional review. The jurisdiction will also have to make findings, based upon substantial evidence, that its housing element also complies with the key components of housing element law. On April 9, AS 980 was heard before the As- sembly Local Government Committee. Susan Lien, a San Bernardino City Council member and mem- ber of the League's Housing Opportunity Task Force testified in support of the bill along with a number of other local government representatives. Although suggestions for fine- tuning the bill's 15% provision were considered during the hearing, AD M was approved by the Committee by a convinc- ing 6 -0 margin. It next goes to the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Visit the League's Official Web Site-- www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS /PAGE 11