Bill Text: CA AB767 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 767 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Capitol Park.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB767 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB767-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly March 22, 2021

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 767

Introduced by Assembly Member Cooley

February 16, 2021

An act to ~~amend Section 9123 of~~ add Section 9149.18 to the Government Code, relating to the Legislature.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 767, as amended, Cooley. ~~Legislative Office Facilities.~~ Capitol Park.

Existing law establishes the Historic State Capitol Commission for the purpose of, among others, reviewing and advising the Legislature on any development, improvement, or other physical change in any aspect of the historic State Capitol, as defined to include Capitol Park upon the adoption of a master plan regarding Capitol Park by the Joint Rules Committee.
This bill would require any development, improvement, or other physical change in any aspect of Capitol Park to be approved by the Joint Rules Committee regardless if a master plan regarding Capitol Park has been adopted by the Joint Rules Committee, as specified.
Existing law provides that title to specified legislative office facilities is vested in the Legislature. A provision of existing law requires that the space in the legislative office facilities be allocated from time to time by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules in accordance with their determination of the needs of the Legislature, as specified.
~~This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.~~

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 9149.18 is added to the Government Code, to read:

9149.18.
Notwithstanding Sections 9149.1 and 9149.7, any development, improvement, or other physical change in any aspect of Capitol Park shall be approved by the Joint Rules Committee. This section does not alter, limit, or negate the authority of the Department of General Services or the Department of the California Highway Patrol to establish rules and regulations pertaining to the State Capitol building and grounds as authorized by Section 14685.

SECTION 1.Section 9123 of the Government Code is amended to read:
9123.
(a)Title to the buildings and property bounded by 10th, 11th, N, and O Streets in the City of Sacramento shall vest in the Legislature on the effective date of this act. The Legislature may transfer title for the purposes of any financing of the project, however, at the conclusion of any financing, title shall revest in the Legislature.
~~(b)The Legislature shall have jurisdiction over the project.~~
(c)All space in the legislative office facilities and all annexes and additions thereto shall be allocated from time to time by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules in accordance with their determination of the needs of the Legislature and the two houses thereof. The committees shall allocate the space as they determine to be necessary for facilities and agencies in dealing with the Legislature as a whole, including, but not limited to, press quarters, billrooms, telephone rooms, and offices for the Legislative Counsel, Legislative Analyst, California State Auditor, and for committees created by the two houses jointly. The committees shall allocate to the Senate and the Assembly, respectively, the space they determine to be needed by the houses and their committees and the members, their officers, employees, and attaches thereof. The space for members thus allocated to the Senate and to the Assembly shall be allotted from time to time proportionately, according to party affiliation, by the Senate Committee on Rules and the Assembly Committee on Rules, respectively.