Bill Text: CA AB1555 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1555 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: State Lands Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1555 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1555-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1555

Introduced by Assembly Member Baker

February 17, 2017

An act to amend Section 6102 of the Public Resources Code, relating to state lands.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1555, as introduced, Baker. State Lands Commission.

Existing law establishes the State Lands Commission in the Natural Resources Agency and specifies that the commission is the successor to, and is vested with all the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction formerly vested in, the Department of Finance as successor to the Surveyor General, Register of the State Land Office, State Land Office, and the Division of State Lands.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this law.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 6102 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

6102.

The commission is the successor to, and is vested with all the powers, duties, purposes, ~~responsibilities~~ responsibilities, and jurisdiction that were formerly vested in, the Department of Finance, as successor to the Surveyor General, Register of the State Land Office, and State Land Office, and of the Division of State Lands in the Resources Agency (formerly in the Department of Conservation). ~~Whenever,~~ When, by any statute or law now in force or that may be hereafter enacted, a duty or jurisdiction is imposed or authority conferred upon the Surveyor General, Register of the State Land Office, or State Land Office, or upon the Department of Finance as successor thereto, or upon the Chief of the Division of State Lands, or the Division of State Lands, ~~such~~ the duty, jurisdiction, and authority are hereby transferred to, and imposed and conferred upon, the commission and the appropriate officers and employees ~~thereof~~ of the commission with the same force and effect as though the title of the State Lands Commission had been specifically set forth and named ~~therein~~ in the statute or law in lieu of the Surveyor General, Register of the State Land Office, State Land Office, Department of Finance, Chief of the Division of State Lands, or Division of State Lands, as the case may be.