STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AUDITORS

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Meeting Held at State Controller’s Office, Sacramento

March 14, 2014

X – Attended meeting in Sacramento

C – Call in

E–Excused

A – Absent

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

X / LeRoy Anderson, Tehama County / C / Arlene Barrera, Los Angeles County / E / Debi Bautista, Tuolumne County / E / Bob Campbell, Contra Costa County
C / Tracy Drager, San Diego County / C / Donna Dunk, Sonoma County / C / Jennie Ebejer, Siskiyou County / C / Pam Elias, Riverside County
C / Jim Erb, San Luis Obispo County / C / Bob Geis & Ed Price, Santa Barbara County / C / Joe Paul Gonzalez, San Benito County / X / Dave Houser, Butte County
X / Lauren Klein, Stanislaus County / C / Irene Lui & Kim Le, Santa Clara County / C / Steve Manning, Alameda County / X / Marcia Salter, Nevada County
A / Simona Padilla-Scholtens, Solano County / C / Tracy Schulze, Napa County / C / Peggy Scroggins, Colusa County / X / Andy Sisk, Placer County
C / Mary Jo Walker, Santa Cruz County

STATE CONTROLLER’S OFFICE:

A / Anita Dagan / X / JimReisinger / X / Carol Dirksen / X / GGene Hughes

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCATE:

X / Matt Siverling

GUESTS:

  1. Call Meeting to Order – Andy Sisk, Chair

Time:9:32am

Approval of Minutes –

A motion was given by Dave and seconded by Leroyapproving the January 17, 2014minutes.

  1. Legislative Report –Matt Siverling

Matt stated 1,200 bills were introduced in the previous week and overall for the month of February 1,800 bills were introduced. Matt mentioned that he expects new bills to be introduced. Many of these bills may be SPOT bills that act as placeholders until ready. May 30th is the last day bills can move out of origin.

  • AB 471 - The bill was signed into law. The changes to the bill that Santa Clara County worked hard to implement were accepted as part of the approved bill. These changes pertained to the housing entity administrative cost allowance and the property disposition deadline. Matt mentioned the bill author Assembly Member Atkins appears to be well placed to be the new leader of the Assembly.
  • AB 2109, 2114 and 2211 – Matt said these bills will most likely go through without any opposition.

AB 2109 – Sacramento County posts an example on their website under the Department of Finance Auditor-Controller’s section. The bill requires certain information related to parcel taxes.

AB 2114 – Matt said he would reach out to the bill’s author and CSAC regarding issues related to ERAF. This bill imposes a tax on renting qualified heavy equipment.

AB 2211 – Andy, Bob and Matt will be meeting with Assembly Member Ting to continue discussions regarding our concerns with the requirements of this bill.

  1. Prior Legislative Issues
  • Assessor’s Property Tax Proposal–not a bill currently but Matt mentioned it will most likely end up in the Budget process as a trailer bill. The Treasurer Tax Collector’s group has issued a protest letter as they are not included in the proposal. CSAC has asked if the Auditor-Controller’s wish to take the same position as the Treasurer Tax Collector’s. There was mention that we did not want to jeopardize the Assessor’s chances of receiving grant monies. Andy suggested we draft a letter to be sent to the Assembly Member. It was decided that Andy and Matt would draft a letter and then send out to the group. Ed also pointed out that LAO has a publication on the proposal. Ed will send the link to the LAO publication to the group.
  • AB 1442 – Matt will draft a letter of concern.
  • SB 921 – Matt asked Arlene and Irene to send him information.
  • SB 1129 – Issues with timing of a 10 day turnaround time. How is this bill different than AB 471? Santa Clara County will provide a letter of concern.
  1. Current and Proposed Legislation

Committee Vote on Bills

D – Drop
O - Oppose
S -Support
W - Watch
AB 1172 / W / AB2211 / O / SB903 / W
AB 1442 / W / AB2231 / W / SB921 / W
AB 1448 / D / AB 2234 / D / SB 983 / D
AB 1449 / W / AB 2257 / W / SB 1021 / D
AB 1521 / W / AB 2280 / W / SB 1113 / W
AB 1582 / W / AB 2290 / D / SB 1129 / W
AB 1583 / D / AB 2298 / D / SB 1152 / W
AB 1587 / W / AB 2393 / D / SB 1203 / W
AB 1712 / D / AB 2403 / D / SB 1214 / W
AB 1760 / D / AB 2412 / W / SB 1230 / D
AB 1933 / W / AB 2510 / W / SB 1231 / D
AB 1948 / W / AB 2549 / D / SB 1232 / D
AB 1963 / W / AB 2611 / W / SB 1260 / W
AB 1998 / D / AB 2618 / D / SB 1327 / W
AB 2024 / W / AB 2647 / D / SB 1353 / W
AB 2040 / W / AB 2676 / W / SB 1359 / W
AB 2097 / W / AB 2717 / W / SB 1393 / W
AB 2109 / W
AB 2114 / W
AB 2119 / W
AB 2151 / W
AB 2170 / W
AB 2194 / D
  1. Schedule of Future Meeting

The next meeting is scheduled during the Spring Conference held in Santa Clara County. The meeting will be held the morning of April 22, 2014.

  1. Other Business

None

  1. Adjournment

Time:11:08A.M.

Respectfully submitted by:

Lauren Klein, CPA

Auditor-Controller

Stanislaus County