Bill Text: CA AB453 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sustainable communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB453 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB453-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 453	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to amend Section 75128 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to sustainable communities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 453, as introduced, Mullin. Sustainable communities.
   The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control,
River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative measure
approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general
election, makes about $5,400,000,000 in bond funds available for safe
drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, natural
resource protection, and park improvements. Existing law establishes
the Strategic Growth Council and appropriated $500,000 from the
funding provided by the initiative to the Natural Resources Agency to
support the council and its activities. The council is required to
manage and award grants and loans to a council of governments,
metropolitan planning organization, regional transportation planning
agency, city, county, or joint powers authority for the purpose of
developing, adopting, and implementing a regional plan or other
planning instrument to support the planning and development of
sustainable communities.
   This bill would make a local agency formation commission eligible
for the award of financial assistance for those planning purposes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 75128 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   75128.  (a) To support the planning and development of sustainable
communities, the council shall manage and award financial assistance
to a council of governments, metropolitan planning organization,
regional transportation planning agency, city, county,  local
agency formation commission,  or joint powers authority, to
develop, adopt or implement a regional plan or other planning
instrument consistent with a regional plan that improves air and
water quality, improves natural resource protection, increases the
availability of affordable housing, improves transportation, meets
the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
(Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and
Safety Code), and encourages sustainable land use. The financial
assistance provided pursuant to this section shall be funded from
moneys made available pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 75065.
   (b) In awarding financial assistance pursuant to this section, the
council shall give first priority to an application seeking funding
to add or enhance elements of a regional plan that are not funded
with federal moneys.