(1)  Existing law, the County Regional Justice Facilities Financing Act, authorizes the counties of Humboldt, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura to establish county regional justice facilities financing agencies, as specified, to have various specified powers and duties with respect to justice facilities financing for adult and juvenile detention facilities, countywide law enforcement facilities, court facilities, and other necessary structures, including the authority to supplement existing local revenues being used for the development of county regional justice facilities by the imposition of a transactions and use tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law, as specified, upon approval of a majority of the electors of the county voting thereon at a special election called for that purpose by the agency. The ballot proposition for the transactions and use tax may include authorization to issue bonds payable from the proceeds of the tax and to establish the appropriation limit of the agency, as specified.

(2)  Existing law establishes the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which includes the counties in (1), as a “district” for purposes of that law if it is authorized to impose transactions and use taxes, as specified.

(3)  Existing law also limits the combined rate of local sales or transactions and use taxes in those counties in (1), as specified.

This bill would enact similar provisions that would allow Stanislaus County to establish a county regional justice facilities financing agency.