Bill Text: CA AB2371 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Climate change: Office of Planning and Research: science advisory team: climate adaptation and hazard mitigation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-08 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. [AB2371 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2371-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 16, 2020 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman (Coauthors: Assembly Members |
February 18, 2020 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:For purposes of this part, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a)“Agency” means the Natural Resources Agency.
(b)“Council” means the Strategic Growth Council.
(c)“Framework” means the strategic resiliency framework prepared under Section 71153.5.
(d)“Office” means the Office of Planning and Research.
(e)“Plan” means the Safeguarding California Plan.
(f)“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.
(a)By July 1, 2017, and every three years thereafter, the agency shall update the state’s climate adaptation strategy, known as the plan. As part of the update, the agency shall coordinate with other state agencies to identify a lead agency or group of agencies to lead adaptation efforts in each sector. The updates to the plan shall include all of the following:
(1)Vulnerabilities to climate change by sector, as identified by the lead agency or group of agencies, and regions, including, at a minimum, the following sectors:
(A)Water.
(B)Energy.
(C)Transportation.
(D)Public health.
(E)Agriculture.
(F)Emergency services.
(G)Forestry.
(H)Biodiversity and habitat.
(I)Ocean and coastal resources.
(2)Priority actions needed to reduce risks in those sectors, as identified by the lead agency or group of agencies.
(3)A review of the progress made in implementing past plans and an evaluation of each lead agency’s lead adaptation efforts.
(4)A detail description of the framework developed by the secretary.
(b)By January 1, 2017, and every three years thereafter, the agency shall release a draft plan. Between the release of the draft plan and the publication of the final update of the plan, the agency shall hold at least three public hearings for the purpose of providing an opportunity for the public to review and provide written and oral comments on the draft plan. The public hearings shall be held in northern California, the central valley of California, and southern California.
(c)The agency shall annually report to the Legislature, consistent with Section 9795 of the Government Code, on actions taken by each applicable agency to implement the plan.
(a)On or before January 1, 2022, the secretary shall review the plan and develop a strategic resiliency framework that does all of the following:
(1)Makes recommendations on actions that are necessary to prepare the state for the most significant climate change impacts modeled for 2025, 2050, and beyond.
(2)Makes recommendations for improving climate impacts forecasting and models.
(3)Reviews available funding sources, including any voter-approved bonds and make recommendations for aligning investments with the strategic resiliency framework.
(4)Identifies and provides for special protections of vulnerable communities and industries that are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
(5)Develops timetables and metrics to measure progress in achieving the strategic resiliency framework.
(6)Establishes actions for community and economic resiliency, the ocean and coast, and terrestrial ecosystems.
(b)The secretary shall solicit feedback from the science advisory committee, established pursuant to Section 71157, on the development of the framework before the release of the framework.
(c)The agency shall make the framework publicly available on its internet website.
(a)Each state agency identified in the framework shall report to the secretary on its progress in completing the recommendations and actions set forth in the framework for that agency.
(b)(1)In implementing the framework, state agencies shall collaboratively engage with regional entities, including local agencies and communities, to enhance policy and funding coordination and to promote regional solutions and implementation.
(2)State agencies shall probatively engage communities that have been disproportionately impacted by environmental or socioeconomic burdens to ensure benefits of programs implemented under the framework are provided to those communities
while preventing potential unintended consequences of those programs.