BILL NUMBER: SB 1350	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 5002.3 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to parks and recreation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1350, as introduced, Kehoe. Parks and recreation: State Park
and Recreation Commission hearings.
   Existing law requires the State Park and Recreation Commission to
classify units of the state park system. The commission is required
to schedule a public hearing to consider the classification or
reclassification of a unit or approval of the Department of Parks and
Recreation's general plan for a unit. Existing law establishes
notice requirements for the hearing, including that if the notice of
hearing is in a weekly newspaper, a requirement that it appear in the
newspaper on at least 2 different days of publication, or that if
the notice is in a newspaper that is published more often, a
requirement that there be at least 5 days from the first to the last
day of publication. Existing law also requires the hearing to be held
not less than 30 days, and not more than 60 days, after the last
date of publication of the notice.
   This bill instead would require the notice to appear on at least 3
different days of publication if the notice is in a weekly
newspaper, or, if the notice is in a newspaper that is published more
often, that there be at least 7 days from the first to the last day
of publication. The bill instead would require the hearing to be held
not less than 45 and not more than 90 days after the last date of
publication of the notice.
   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 5002.3 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   5002.3.   (a)    A public hearing shall be
scheduled by the State Park and Recreation Commission to consider
each matter of classification or reclassification of a unit and of
approval of the department's general plan for a unit. Notice of the
hearing shall be posted in plain sight at one or more places within
the affected unit, published in one or more newspapers of general
circulation in each county within which the affected unit is located,
and mailed to every person who has filed a request for notice of the
hearing with the commission. If the notice of hearing is published
in a weekly newspaper, it shall appear therein on at least 
two   three  different days of publication; and if
in a newspaper published more often, there shall be at least 
five   seven  days from the first to the last day
of publication, both days included. The content of the notice of
hearing shall substantially comply with the requirements of Section
11346.5 of the Government Code. 
    Copies 
    (b)     Copies  of the department's
inventory of features, in the case of a hearing on classification or
reclassification, or copies of the department's general plan, in the
case of a hearing on approval of the plans, shall be made available
to the public at the department's appropriate regional and district
offices on the last date of publication of the notice. 
    The 
    (c)     The  hearing shall be held by
the commission in, or within a radius of 100 miles of, the City of
San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Eureka,
Redding, Fresno, Ukiah, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, or
Sacramento, whichever is closest to the unit affected, not less than
 30   45  days, nor more than  60
  90  days, after the last date of publication of
the notice. The hearing shall be conducted in the manner specified in
Section 11346.8 of the Government Code. The vote of each individual
member of the commission on each matter of classification or
reclassification and of approval of the department's general plan
shall be recorded when the final decision of the commission is
announced.