Bill Text: CA AB908 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 908 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Natural Resources Agency: statewide natural resources inventory.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB908 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB908-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 908

Introduced by Assembly Member Frazier

February 17, 2021

An act to add Section 12805.7 to the Government Code, relating to natural resources.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 908, as introduced, Frazier. Natural Resources Agency: statewide natural resources inventory.

Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency in state government and requires the agency, in consultation with each department, board, conservancy, and commission within the agency, to develop and maintain a database of lands and easements that have been acquired by the departments and boards within the agency.

This bill would require the Natural Resources Agency, to the extent a specified appropriation is made, to prepare a comprehensive, statewide inventory of the natural resources of the state and establish treatment measures necessary to protect those resources, and to post its initial inventory on its internet website on or before January 1, 2023, with annual updates on or before January 1 of each year thereafter.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 12805.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12805.7.

(a) (1) The Natural Resources Agency shall prepare a comprehensive, statewide inventory of the natural resources of the state and establish treatment measures necessary to protect those resources.

(2) The Natural Resources Agency shall post its initial inventory completed pursuant to subdivision (a) on its internet website on or before January 1, 2023, and annual updates on or before January 1 of each year thereafter.

(b) This section shall be implemented only to the extent an appropriation is made for these purposes from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code.