Bill Text: CA AB2309 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Court facilities: County of Colusa.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2309 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2309-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2309	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Gallagher and Dodd
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Nielsen)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act relating to the County of Colusa, and making an
appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2309, as introduced, Gallagher. Court facilities: County of
Colusa.
   Existing law establishes the State Court Facilities Construction
Fund for the planning, design, construction, rehabilitation,
renovation, replacement, leasing, or acquisition of court facilities.
Existing law levies a state court construction penalty on every
criminal offense, as specified, to be deposited into the fund.
Existing law requires, with specified exceptions, that 25% of moneys
collected from a county for the fund be designated for implementation
of trial court projects in that county.
   Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to establish in
the county treasury a Courthouse Construction Fund into which shall
be deposited the amounts specified in the resolutions adopted by the
board of supervisors, for the purpose of rehabilitating existing
courtrooms, an existing courtroom building or buildings, or court
facilities, for other uses if a new courtroom, a courtroom building
or buildings, or court facilities are acquired, constructed, or
financed. Existing law requires that any amount in a county's
courthouse construction fund be transferred to the State Court
Facilities Construction Fund at the later of specified dates.
   This bill would transfer $844,000 of the amount that was held in
the Courthouse Construction Fund for the County of Colusa on December
31, 2009, to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, and would
appropriate that amount to the Judicial Council for the purpose of
constructing or renovating facilities, as specified, located within
the courthouse building in the County of Colusa that was transferred
to state responsibility on March 24, 2009.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the County of Colusa.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other law, eight hundred forty-four
thousand dollars ($844,000) of the amount remaining in the fund
established by Section 76100 of the Government Code for the County of
Colusa and held in that fund on December 31, 2009, shall be
transferred to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund and
appropriated to the Judicial Council for the purpose of constructing
or renovating facilities located within the courthouse building in
the County of Colusa that was transferred to state responsibility on
March 24, 2009. These funds also may be used for the construction or
renovation of facilities to be utilized by the probation department
of the County of Colusa, provided that facilities that are located
within the courthouse building, but occupied exclusively by the
probation department on or before January 1, 2016, are transferred to
the state for use as court facilities upon completion of the
construction or renovation.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances in the County of Colusa,
including that there are funds remaining in the county's courthouse
construction fund.