Bill Text: CA SB30 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Insurance: climate change.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 614, Statutes of 2018. [SB30 Detail]

Download: California-2017-SB30-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 30

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Introduced by Senator Lara

December 05, 2016

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An act to add Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8900) to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to infrastructure.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 30, as introduced, Lara. California-Mexico border: federally funded infrastructure.

Existing law establishes the border between the United States and Mexico, which includes the southern border of California.

This bill would require any federally funded infrastructure project along California’s southern border that exceeds a cost of $1 billion to first be approved by a majority of the voters voting on the issue at a statewide general election. The bill also would make related findings and declarations.

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.

 Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8900) is added to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:

CHAPTER  15. Federally Funded Infrastructure on the California-Mexico Border

8900.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) California and Mexico share more than 130 miles of an international border. The border region is home to tremendous cultural history and economic commerce between the United States and Mexico.

(2) In 2015, the value of California’s exports to Mexico was twenty-six billion eight hundred million dollars ($26,800,000,000), making up 17.4 percent of the state’s total exports, and approximately 177,000 California jobs are related to the commercial relationship with Mexico. Commerce, tourism, and foreign direct investment from Mexico support more than 200,000 jobs in California.

(3) California’s border region is also home to numerous threatened and endangered species of plant and animal life, including California’s official state amphibian, the California red-legged frog, and the endangered arroyo toad.

(4) A recent binational agreement between the United States and Mexico aims to address pollution, including sewage, waste tires, and polluted stormwater, in the Tijuana River watershed. The river flows through both California and Baja California, impacting bird and wildlife habitat and water quality at local beaches.

(5) A proposed border wall between California and Mexico would do serious economic, social, and environmental harm to the state.

(6) A federally funded infrastructure project along California’s southern border that exceeds a cost of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) may cause harm to California’s precious environmental resources and cause social and economic impacts.

(b) Any federally funded infrastructure project along California’s southern border that exceeds a cost of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) shall first be approved by a majority of the voters voting on the issue at a statewide general election.

(c) For purposes of this section, separate infrastructure projects that are physically connected or adjacent to each other shall be deemed to constitute a single project.