Bill Text: CA AB2800 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Climate change: state infrastructure planning: Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-24 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 118, Statutes of 2020. [AB2800 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2800-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 04, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2800

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Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk

February 20, 2020

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An act to amend Section 4130 71155 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire prevention. climate change.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2800, as amended, Quirk. Fire prevention: state responsibility areas. Climate change: infrastructure planning.

Existing law requires state agencies to take into account the current and future impacts of climate change when planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining and investing in state infrastructure, as provided. Existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency to establish a Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group for the purpose of examining how to integrate scientific data concerning projected climate change impacts into state infrastructure engineering, including oversight, investment, design, and construction. Existing law requires the working group, by July 1, 2018, to make recommendations to the Legislature and the Strategic Growth Council that address specified climate change issues. Existing law requires these provisions to be inoperative on July 1, 2020, and repeals them on January 1, 2021.

This bill would delete the above inoperative and repeal dates, thereby extending the above provisions indefinitely.

Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to classify all lands within state responsibility areas into types of land based on cover, beneficial use of water from watersheds, probable damage from erosion, and fire risks and hazards, and to determine intensity of protection to be given to each type of land. Existing law requires the state board to prepare a plan for adequate statewide fire protection of state responsibility areas, as provided.

This bill would require the state board to consider the impacts of climate change upon an update of the land classifications or when making modifications to the plan, described above.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 71155 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

71155.

 (a) Consistent with this part, state agencies shall take into account the current and future impacts of climate change when planning, designing, building, operating, maintaining and investing in state infrastructure.

(b) (1) By July 1, 2017, the agency shall establish a Climate-Safe Infrastructure Working Group for the purpose of examining how to integrate scientific data concerning projected climate change impacts into state infrastructure engineering, including oversight, investment, design, and construction.

(2) The working group shall consist of the following:

(A) Professional engineers registered in accordance with Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code with relevant expertise in state infrastructure design from the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of General Services, and other relevant state agencies, as applicable.

(B) Scientists from the University of California, the California State University, and other institutions who have expertise in climate change projections and impacts across California.

(C) Licensed architects with relevant experience in state infrastructure design, as applicable.

(3) The two groups specified in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) shall be equitably represented in the membership of the working group, to the extent reasonable and appropriate.

(4) The working group shall work in coordination with other state climate adaptation planning efforts and shall consider and build upon existing information produced by the state, including information from the most recent California Climate Change Assessment conducted pursuant to Executive Order S-3-05, the plan, and the State of California Sea-Level Rise Guidance Document completed pursuant to Executive Order S-13-08, among other resources.

(5) The working group shall work in coordination with other state agencies that advance sustainability in infrastructure, including the council and the Government Operations Agency.

(c) The working group shall consider and investigate, at a minimum, the following issues:

(1) The current informational and institutional barriers to integrating projected climate change impacts into state infrastructure design.

(2) The critical information that engineers responsible for infrastructure design and construction need to address climate change impacts.

(3) How to select an appropriate engineering design for a range of future climate scenarios as related to infrastructure planning and investment.

(d) (1) By July 1, 2018, the working group shall make recommendations to the Legislature that address the issues listed in subdivision (c), including recommendations for all of the following:

(A) Integrating scientific knowledge of projected climate change impacts into state infrastructure design.

(B) Addressing critical information gaps identified by the working group.

(C) A platform or process to facilitate communication between climate scientists and infrastructure engineers.

(2) By July 1, 2018, the recommendations submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) also shall be submitted to the council to inform its review, conducted pursuant to Section 75125, of the five-year infrastructure plan developed pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 13100) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(e)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2020, and, as of January 1, 2021, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2021, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

SECTION 1.Section 4130 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

4130.

The board shall classify all lands within state responsibility areas into types of land based on cover, beneficial use of water from watersheds, probable damage from erosion, and fire risks and hazards, and shall determine the intensity of protection to be given to each type of land. A plan for adequate statewide fire protection of state responsibility areas shall be prepared by the board in which all land of each type shall be assigned the same intensity of protection, and the estimated cost of such intensity of protection shall be determined. The board shall consider the impacts of climate change upon an update of the land classifications or when making modifications to the plan, pursuant to this section.