BILL NUMBER: SB 53	CHAPTERED  05/04/01

	CHAPTER  9
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  MAY 4, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  MAY 4, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 19, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  MARCH 15, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Torlakson

                        DECEMBER 21, 2000

   An act to repeal Section 34009 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 53, Torlakson.  Community Redevelopment Disaster Project Law.
   The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of
redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of
blight in those communities.  The Community Redevelopment Disaster
Project Law authorizes a community to establish a redevelopment
agency in an area in which a disaster has occurred, and to adopt and
implement a redevelopment plan and to undertake and carry out a
redevelopment project in the area.  The Community Redevelopment
Disaster Project Law prohibits a community from adopting a
redevelopment plan pursuant to its provisions on or after January 1,
2001.
   This bill would repeal that prohibition, thereby extending the
operation of the Community Redevelopment Disaster Project Law
indefinitely.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 34009 of the Health and Safety Code is
repealed.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, tidal waves, and
other catastrophes are disasters that can harm the public health,
safety, and welfare.  After disasters, the extraordinary powers of
community redevelopment agencies have been and can be useful in the
reconstruction of buildings and in stimulating local economic
activity.  The statute that provided communities with alternative
procedures and requirements for redevelopment after disasters expired
on January 1, 2001.  In order to restore those procedures and
requirements at the earliest possible time, it is necessary for this
act to take effect immediately.