Bill Text: CA SB782 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Gubernatorial appointments: report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - (Corrected June 6.) [SB782 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB782-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 782
| Introduced by Senator Limón |
February 17, 2023 |
An act to add Section 30342 1305 to the Public Resources Government Code, relating to coastal resources. state government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 782, as amended, Limón.
Coastal resources: public works plan: vegetation management: coastal zone. Gubernatorial appointments: report.
Existing law requires the Governor to appoint every officer whose mode of appointment is not prescribed by law. Existing law also prescribes the manner of the Governor’s appointment of those officers.
This bill would require the office of the Governor, commencing January 1, 2026, to maintain on its internet website a list of every state board and commission that includes, for each state board or commission, the membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and vacancies in the membership.
The bill would require the office of the Governor, on or before January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to create and publish on its internet website a report containing aggregate demographic
information of appointments made by the office during the prior calendar year, as specified.
Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the California Coastal Commission. The act designates the commission as the state coastal zone planning and management agency for any and all purposes, as provided. The act authorizes the commission to prepare and adopt any additional plans and maps and undertake any studies it determines to be necessary and appropriate to better accomplish the purposes, goals, and policies of the act.
This bill would require the commission to develop a public works plan for vegetation management in the coastal zone.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1305 is added to the Government Code, immediately following Section 1304, to read:1305.
(a) Commencing January 1, 2026, the office of the Governor shall maintain on its internet website a list of each state board or commission, as well as the board or commission’s membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and any vacancies in its membership.(b) On or before January 1, 2027, and each January 1 thereafter, the office of the Governor shall create and publish on its internet website a report that contains aggregate demographic information, to the extent available, of appointments by the office of the Governor from January 1 to December 31, inclusive, of the previous year.
(c) For purposes of this section, “demographic information”
includes, but is not limited to, the voluntarily self-reported ethnicity, gender, disability status, region, party affiliation, and veteran status of the appointed individual.
The commission shall develop a public works plan for vegetation management in the coastal zone.
