Bill Text: CA AB2185 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Coastal Conservancy: low-cost accommodations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2185 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2185-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2185	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to  amend Section 14400 of   add
Sections 31124 and 31125 to  the Public Resources Code, relating
to  conservation.   coastal resources 
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	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2185, as amended, Gonzalez.  California Conservation
Corps: nonresidential programs.   State Coastal
Conservancy: low-cost   accommodations.  
   Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with
prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing and
administering various programs intended to preserve, protect, and
restore the state's coastal areas.  
   This bill would require the conservancy to develop, subject to the
availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant,
private low-cost coastal accommodations to meet their operation and
maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other legally
binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the facility
continuing to provide low-cost coastal accommodations. This bill
would create the Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account in the State
Coastal Conservancy Fund and provide that moneys in the fund are
available upon appropriation by the Legislature to fund this program.
 
   This bill would require the conservancy, in consultation with the
California Coastal Commission, the Department of Parks and
Recreation, and other relevant coastal public landholders, to develop
a document containing a list of potential low-cost accommodations
projects in each region of the coast and information on grant or loan
programs. This bill would require the conservancy to provide the
document to the commission and would require the commission to
provide the document to local governments with local coastal
programs. This bill would require the commission to refer to the list
of potential low-cost accommodations projects, as prescribed. 

   Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the
Resources Agency with the mission to, among other things, increase
awareness of our natural resources, including instilling basic skills
and a healthy work ethic in California youth, building their
character, self-esteem, and self-discipline, and establishing within
them a strong sense of civic responsibility and an understanding of
the value of a day's work for a day's wages. Existing law requires
the corps to develop nonresidential programs in urban communities,
and authorizes it to develop those programs in other than urban
communities, that have high concentrations of ethnic-minority youths,
high levels of youth unemployment, and a need for conservation work.
 
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 31124 is added to the 
 Public Resources Code   , to read:  
   31124.  (a) The conservancy shall develop, subject to the
availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant,
private low-cost coastal accommodations to meet their operation and
maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other legally
binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the facility
continuing to provide low-cost coastal accommodations.
   (b) The Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account is hereby created
in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund. Moneys in the account shall
accrue interest and be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to fund the program developed pursuant to this section.
The conservancy may accept and deposit in the account funds from
public and private sources. 
   SEC. 2.   Section 31125 is added to the  
Public Resources Code   , to read:  
   31125.  (a) The conservancy, in consultation with the commission,
the Department of Parks and Recreation, and other relevant coastal
public landholders, shall develop a document containing a list of
potential low-cost accommodations projects in each region of the
coast and information on grant or loan programs. The document shall
include, but not be limited to, the following:
   (1) Specific projects that will increase low-cost accommodations
at state parks in the coastal zone consistent with recommendations by
the Parks Forward Commission.
   (2) Information on grant programs at the conservancy that assist
public agencies and nonprofits in providing low-cost accommodations
in the coastal zone.
   (3) Information on the program developed pursuant to Section
31124.
   (b) The conservancy shall provide the document developed pursuant
to subdivision (a) to the commission. The commission shall refer to
the list of potential low-cost accommodations projects as options for
mitigation when considering coastal development permits that impact
the availability of low-cost accommodations and when considering how
to expend prior commitments of "in-lieu" public access fees. The
commission shall provide the document to local governments with local
coastal programs.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 14400 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   14400.  The corps shall develop nonresidential programs in urban
communities, and may develop those programs in other than urban
communities, that have high concentrations of ethnic-minority youths,
high levels of youth unemployment, and a need for conservation work.
Expenditures for programs in other than urban communities shall not
exceed 15 percent of total funding for programs under this section.