7215.1.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, all of the following apply:(a) The board shall segregate into a separate account that amount of sales and use tax revenue, net of refunds, that is collected pursuant to returns filed in accordance with this part in the greater Sacramento region as a result of the application of a 1 percent sales or use tax rate imposed pursuant to this part by either a qualified county or a qualified city, or by a county or city making an election under subdivision (e).
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (3), for the first calendar quarter of 2004 and each calendar quarter thereafter, the board shall apportion the revenue segregated pursuant to subdivision (a) as follows:
(1) Each qualified county or qualified city, qualified city, and each county and city that made an election under subdivision (e) shall be apportioned its base quarter revenue amount.
(2) The remaining revenues segregated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be allocated as follows:
(A) One-third of the revenues shall be apportioned, in two or more installments, among the qualified counties and qualified cities, qualified cities, and counties and cities that made an election under subdivision (e) in which the taxable sales or uses occurred, in the manner required by Section 7204.
(B) One-third of the revenues shall be apportioned, in two or more installments, among qualified counties and qualified cities, qualified cities, and counties and cities that made an election under subdivision (e) in shares determined by multiplying that portion of the revenues by the most recent jurisdictional share determined for each qualified county and qualified city, qualified city, and each county and city that made an election under subdivision (e) pursuant to Section 7215.2.
(C) One-third of the revenues shall also be apportioned in shares determined in the same manner as required by subparagraph (A), except that any share that is so calculated with respect to a qualified county or qualified city, qualified city, or county or city that made an election under subdivision (e) that is not housing eligible for that calendar year shall instead be apportioned to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments for apportionment as provided in Section 65501 of the Government Code.
(3) (A) If in any calendar quarter commencing on or after January 1, 2005, the board determines that the amount of sales and use tax revenue segregated pursuant to subdivision (a) is less than the amount segregated pursuant to that subdivision in the corresponding calendar quarter in the immediately preceding calendar year, adjusted for inflation as described in subparagraph (B), then sales and use tax revenue in that calendar quarter shall be transmitted in the manner required by Section 7204.
(B) In each calendar quarter commencing on or after January 1, 2005, for purposes of making the determination described in subparagraph (A), the board shall do all of the following:
(i) Determine the amount of sales and use tax revenue segregated pursuant to subdivision (a) in the corresponding calendar quarter in the immediately preceding calendar year.
(ii) Determine the sum of the following amounts:
(I) The amount determined pursuant to clause (i).
(II) The product of the following:
(ia) The amount determined pursuant to clause (i).
(ib) An inflation factor that is the percentage change, rounded to the nearest one-thousandth of 1 percent, from December of the immediately preceding year to December of the current year in the California Consumer Price Index for all items, as determined by the California Department of Industrial Relations.
(c) For purposes of this chapter, all of the following apply:
(1) (A) “Base quarter revenue amount” means an amount of sales and use tax revenue that is equal to the amount of sales and use tax revenue that a qualified county or qualified city, qualified city, or county or city that made an election under subdivision (e) in the greater Sacramento region received pursuant to returns filed in the corresponding calendar quarter in the year 2003, adjusted for inflation pursuant to subparagraph (B), except that for newly incorporated cities the “base quarter revenue amount” is the amount of sales and use tax revenue collected in the incorporated area in the corresponding calendar quarter in the year immediately preceding incorporation, adjusted for inflation as provided in subparagraph (B). If in any calendar quarter in the year 2003, the sales and use tax revenue received by a qualified county or a qualified city,, qualified city, or a county or city that made an election under subdivision (e) pursuant to returns filed in that quarter, is less than the amount of sales and use tax revenue received by that county or city in the corresponding calendar quarter in the year 2002, pursuant to returns filed in that quarter, the “base quarter revenue amount” of that county or city for that quarter is the arithmetic mean of the amounts of sales and use tax revenue collected in the corresponding calendar quarter during the year 2000, the year 2001, the year 2002, and the year 2003, as adjusted for inflation pursuant to subparagraph (B).
(B) On and after January 1, 2005, the “base quarter revenue amount” for a qualified county or qualified city, qualified city, or a county or city that made an election under subdivision (e) is the sum of the following amounts:
(i) The “base quarter revenue amount” determined for that county or city under subparagraph (A).
(ii) The product of the following:
(I) The “base quarter revenue amount” described in subparagraph (A).
(II) An inflation factor that is the percentage change, rounded to the nearest one-thousandth of 1 percent, from December of the immediately preceding year to December of the current year in the California Consumer Price Index for all items, as determined by the California Department of Industrial Relations.
(2) “Greater Sacramento region” means the region encompassing the total combined area of the County of El Dorado, the County of Placer, the County of Sacramento, the County of Sutter, the County of Yolo, and the County of Yuba, but does not include the region, as defined in subsection (a) of Article II of Public Law 96-551, governed by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, as described in Article III of Public Law 96-551.
(3) “Qualified city” means a city in the greater Sacramento region that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part and that has a population growth rate of more than one-half of 1 percent.
(4) “Qualified county” means a county in the greater Sacramento region that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part, and has a population growth rate of more than one-half of 1 percent.
(5) A “qualified city” or “qualified county” is “housing eligible” for a calendar year if the city or county is in compliance with the housing element contained in its general plan.
(d) A city or county in the greater Sacramento region, that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part but is not a qualified city or a qualified county a qualified county, or a county or city that made an election under subdivision (e), shall be allocated sales and use tax revenue as otherwise required by this part in the absence of this section.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a city or a county in the greater Sacramento region that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part and that has an annual population growth rate of less than one-half of 1 percent may elect, by a resolution enacted by a majority of its governing body, to participate in the allocation of sales and use tax revenue according to this section.
7215.2.
(a) No later than March 1 of 2004 and each year thereafter, and within 30 days of determining new population estimates pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c), the board shall calculate the jurisdictional shares, determined pursuant to subdivision (b), for those counties and cities imposing a sales and use tax pursuant to this part in the greater Sacramento region.(b) The board shall, for each county or city imposing a sales and use tax pursuant to this part in the greater Sacramento region, determine a jurisdictional share in accordance with the following formula:
(1) Determine the total population of the greater Sacramento region.
(2) Determine the total population of the relevant county or city. In the case of a county, total population means the total population of only the unincorporated area of that county.
(3) Divide the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (2) by the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1), rounded to the nearest one-thousandth of 1 percent.
(c) (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), the population determinations described in subdivision (b) shall be made upon the basis of annual population estimates that are made by the population research unit in the Department of Finance for purposes of this section, and are transmitted to the board not later than February 1 in each year.
(2) (A) For the 2003 calendar year, the population determinations described in subdivision (b) shall be made on the basis of the later of the following:
(i) The most recent population estimates for counties and cities in the greater Sacramento region, as otherwise required or authorized by law, that have been made by the population research unit in the Department of Finance.
(ii) The most recent census validated by the population research unit in the Department of Finance.
(B) The population research unit in the Department of Finance shall newly estimate the population of the affected city, and any other affected city or county in the greater Sacramento region, and provide those new estimates to the board within 30 days after any of the following occur:
(i) A newly incorporated city in the greater Sacramento region imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part.
(ii) A city in the greater Sacramento region that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part completes the annexation of additional territory.
(iii) A consolidation of one city in the greater Sacramento region with another city in that region results in a consolidated city that imposes a sales and use tax pursuant to this part.