Bill Text: CA AB1789 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Outdoor recreation: California Recreational Trails System Plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 522, Statutes of 2022. [AB1789 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1789-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 21, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 19, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 06, 2022 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett |
February 03, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires improvements undertaken within state parks to be for public enjoyment and education in a manner consistent with the preservation of natural, scenic, cultural, and ecological values for
present and future generations. Existing law authorizes improvements to provide for recreational activities including, among other things, camping.
This bill would also include biking in that list of recreational activities.
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.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 535.6 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:535.6.
(a) The commission may do all of the following:(a)State parks consist of relatively spacious areas of outstanding scenic or natural character, oftentimes also containing significant historical, archaeological, ecological, geological, or other similar values. The purpose of state parks shall be to preserve outstanding natural, scenic, and cultural values, indigenous aquatic and terrestrial fauna and flora, and the most significant examples of ecological regions of California, such as the Sierra Nevada, northeast volcanic, great valley, coastal strip, Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains, southwest mountains and valleys, redwoods, foothills and low coastal mountains, and desert and desert mountains.
(b)Each state park shall be managed as a composite whole in order to restore, protect, and maintain its native environmental complexes to the extent compatible with the primary purpose for which the park was established.
(c)Improvements undertaken within state parks shall be for the purpose of making the areas available for public enjoyment and education in a manner consistent with the preservation of natural, scenic, cultural, and ecological values for present and future generations. Improvements may be undertaken to provide for recreational activities, including, but not limited to, camping, biking, picnicking, sightseeing, nature study, hiking, and horseback riding, so long as those improvements do not involve major modification of lands, forests, or waters. Improvements that do not directly enhance the public’s enjoyment of the
natural, scenic, cultural, or ecological values of the resource, which are attractions in themselves, or that are otherwise available to the public within a reasonable distance outside the park, shall not be undertaken within state parks.
(d)State parks may be established in the terrestrial or nonmarine aquatic (lake or stream) environments of the state.
SEC. 3.
Section 5070.3 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:5070.3.
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern construction of this article:(b)“Committee” means the California Recreational Trails Committee.
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(d)
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SEC. 4.
Section 5070.7 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:5070.7.
(1)
(2)
(3)
(b)(1)Notwithstanding Section 5073, on or before January 1, 2024, the director
shall prepare and provide to the Legislature a full update of the plan. The plan shall be submitted to the Legislature in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2)The requirement to submit a report established pursuant to this subdivision shall become inoperative on January 1, 2028, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
SEC. 5.
Section 5071.5 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:5071.5.
In the preparation ofSEC. 6.
Section 5072 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:5072.
Upon preparation ofSEC. 7.
Section 5072.5 of the Public Resources Code is repealed.The director shall consider any advice offered by the Legislature, and, after considering such advice and making such modifications in the proposed plan as the director deems appropriate, shall complete and formally transmit the plan to appropriate federal and state agencies, and to concerned cities, counties, and districts throughout the state.
SEC. 8.
Section 5072.7 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:5072.7.
FollowingSEC. 5.SEC. 9.
Section 5073 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:The plan shall be continuously reviewed, revised, and updated by the director. Every
5073.
(a) On or before January 1, 2024, the director shall prepare and provide to the Legislature a full update of the plan.
SEC. 10.
Section 5075 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:Following review of the plan by the Legislature as provided in Section 5072.3, the director shall prepare a list of recommended priority system projects for the system. Projects recommended for funding during each fiscal year shall be submitted to the Governor for consideration for inclusion in the Budget Bill. When acquisition of private lands for state trail purposes is proposed, the director shall provide information supporting the necessity for such acquisition, including verification that there is no feasible alternative to the proposed acquisition, and that the proposed acquisition would be an essential part of the system, to the Governor and to any standing committee of the Legislature that requests such information.
No