Bill Text: CA AB37 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Unemployment insurance: reporting requirements: status of funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Cannella. [AB37 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB37-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 37	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 20, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to  amend, repeal, and add Section 21167.6 of, and
to add and repeal Section 21167.6.2 of, the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality   add Section 10544.5
to the Water Code, relating to water resources  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 37, as amended, Perea.  Environmental quality:
California Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings.
  Integrated regional water management plans: funding:
disadvantaged communities.  
   Existing law, the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning
Act of 2002, authorizes a regional water management group, as
defined, to prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management
plan. The act requires an integrated regional water management plan
to address specified water quality and supply matters.  
   Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply,
Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an
initiative bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 84 at the
November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorized the issuance
of bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000 for the purposes of
financing a safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood
control, and resource protection program. Existing law, with regard
to these bond funds, appropriates $181,791,000 to the State
Department of Public Health for integrated regional water management
activities, and requires, for certain of those funds, that the
department allocate not less than 10% to facilitate and support the
participation of disadvantaged communities in integrated regional
water management planning and for projects that address critical
water supply or water quality needs for disadvantaged communities.
 
   This bill would require in each integrated regional water
management region that not less than 10% of any funding for
integrated regional water management planning purposes be used to
facilitate and support the participation of disadvantaged communities
in integrated regional water management planning and for projects
that address critical water supply or water quality needs for
disadvantaged communities.  
   (1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a
lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and
certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a
project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a
significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative
declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative
declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the
environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that
effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as
revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA
establishes a procedure for the preparation and certification of the
record of proceedings upon the filing of an action or proceeding
challenging a lead agency's action on the grounds of noncompliance
with CEQA.  
   This bill would require, until January 1, 2017, for specified
projects or upon the request of a project applicant and the consent
of the lead agency, that the lead agency among other things, prepare
a record of proceedings concurrently with the preparation of negative
declarations, mitigated negative declarations, EIRs, or other
environmental documents for specified projects. Because the bill
would require, for specified projects, a lead agency to prepare the
record of proceedings as provided, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.  
   (2)  The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program:  yes
  no  .


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 10544.5 is added to the 
 Water Code   , to read:  
   10544.5.  In each integrated regional water management region, not
less than 10 percent of any funding for the purposes of this part
shall be used to facilitate and support the participation of
disadvantaged communities in integrated regional water management
planning and for projects that address critical water supply or water
quality needs for disadvantaged communities.  All matter
omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as amended in
the Assembly, March 18, 2013. (JR11)