Bill Text: CA AB1963 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Redevelopment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2014. [AB1963 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1963-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1963	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Atkins and Dickinson

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 34191.3 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment  , and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1963, as amended, Atkins. Redevelopment.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorized the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of
blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as
of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor
agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to
wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies,
subject to review by oversight boards. The oversight board is
required to direct a successor agency to, and a successor agency is
required to, among other things, dispose of assets and properties of
the former redevelopment agency as directed by the oversight board.
Existing law suspends this requirement, except as it applies to the
transfer or assets and properties for governmental use, until the
Department of Finance has approved a long-range property management
plan, as specified. Upon approval of a long-range property management
plan, the plan governs and supersedes, all other provisions relating
to the disposition and use of the real property assets of the former
redevelopment agency. If the department has not approved a
long-range property management plan by January 1, 2015, existing law
requires the property of a former redevelopment agency to be disposed
of according to law.
   This bill would eliminate this latter requirement that
would apply the earlier provisions to the disposal of the assets and
properties of a former redevelopment agency   instead
require the property of a former redevelopment agency to be disposed
of according to law if the department has not approved a long-range
property management plan by January 1, 2016  . 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 34191.3 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   34191.3.  Notwithstanding Section 34191.1, the requirements
specified in subdivision (e) of Section 34177 and subdivision (a) of
Section 34181 shall be suspended, except as those provisions apply to
the transfers for governmental use, until the Department of Finance
has approved a long-range property management plan pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 34191.5, at which point the plan shall
govern, and supersede all other provisions relating to, the
disposition and use of the real property assets of the former
redevelopment agency.  If the department has not approved a plan
by January 1, 2016, subdivision (e) of Section 34177 and subdivision
(a) of Section 34181 shall be operative with respect to that
successor agency. 
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   Because the Legislature's intent in passing Assembly Bill 1484
(Chapter 26 of the Statutes of 2012) was to prevent the "fire sale"
of property through the approval of long-range property management
plans, it is crucial that each successor agency that receives a
finding of completion is also able to receive an approval for that
successor agency's long-range property management plan as quickly as
possible.