AB 2698 Summary

• Modifies voter approval requirements for local government reorganizations by requiring confirmation of registered voters (rather than residents) for annexations of disadvantaged communities

• Changes sphere of influence determinations to require commissions identify spheres for each city and special district separately, and makes filing written statements about district services optional rather than mandatory

• Establishes new protest thresholds and voter approval procedures for various reorganizations including dissolutions, consolidations, mergers, and subsidiary district formations, with different standards based on whether territory is inhabited

• Requires voter approval only for incorporations, disincorporations, and certain reorganizations meeting specific protest thresholds; allows commission-initiated dissolutions to proceed without elections or protests under specified circumstances

• Repeals exemption for Goleta Sanitary District and Goleta West Sanitary District from reorganization requirements that were previously excluded from proposals filed before January 1, 2003