California Government Code

§ 67770

GOV § 67770 Effective Jan 1, 2026Title 7.85 · Part 2 · Ch. 5

Statute text

(a)(1) As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 67750), each transit operator that the commission allocates funds to pursuant to paragraphs (2) to (9), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 67750 shall verify to the commission that it will maintain its expected level of funding for operations and shall not supplant any sources of operating revenue under its control or fund sources allocated by the commission that were used for transit operations in the preceding three fiscal years.

(2)The expected level of funding for purposes of paragraph (1), which shall be referred to as the maintenance of effort, shall be calculated using the transit operator’s average discretionary operating expenditures for the preceding three fiscal years, two years in arrears as reported to the Controller in its annual report submitted pursuant to Section 99243 of the Public Utilities Code.

(b)(1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a transit operator subject to this chapter may reduce the amount of funding contributed towards its operating budget in proportion to any reduction in operating costs or reduction in operating revenue based on factors outside the control of the operator, including, but not limited to, the expiration of a voter-approved revenue source or the determination based on a statistically valid poll that an expiring ballot measure lacks sufficient support to warrant placement on the ballot.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 740, Sec. 4. (SB 63) Effective January 1, 2026.