BILL NUMBER: AB 1644	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Carter

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2012

   An act relating to redevelopment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1644, as introduced, Carter. The California Military Base Reuse
and Preservation Act of 2012.
   The Military Base Reuse Authority Act authorizes cities and
counties to establish an authority with specified powers and duties
relating to the transition of a military base to civilian use; the
Fort Ord Reuse Authority Act authorizes specified local agencies to
establish the Fort Ord Reuse Authority; and existing law designates
the local redevelopment authority recognized by the Department of
Defense as the single local reuse authority for other specified
military bases.
   Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies on February 1, 2012,
and authorizes the designation of successor agencies to act as
successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing
law provides for the continued application of specified provisions of
law relating to redevelopment under specified circumstances.
   This bill would enact the California Military Base Reuse and
Preservation Act of 2012. The bill would make several legislative
findings and declarations relating to the granting of redevelopment
powers to communities affected by federal military base closures and
declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation providing
the option of a successor entity to areas affected by base closures
and the deposit of funds to further redevelop activities in the
affected area.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) Since the Legislature first enacted legislation in 1989,
Assembly Bill 409 of the 1998-89 Regular Session, to address military
base closures in San Bernardino County, the Legislature has adopted
similar military base closure statutes to provide redevelopment
assistance to base closure reuse agencies for Fort Ord, March Air
Force Base, Hamilton Field, Mare Island, Tustin Marine Corps Air
Station, Alameda Naval Air Station, Castle Air Force Base, Mather Air
Force Base, McClellan Air Force Base, and Norton and George Air
Force Bases.
   (b) The state has implemented a policy of granting additional
redevelopment powers to communities affected by federal military base
closures in furtherance of their need to redevelop and improve
military facilities that were conveyed to local communities and other
governmental and nonprofit organizations. Only through these
redevelopment efforts have the base closure communities been able to
begin to address many of the environmental and physical deficiencies
and other problems that remain on the former military base properties
after their closure.
   (c) Extraordinary measures must continue to be taken to mitigate
the effects of the federal government's efforts to reduce the number
of military bases throughout the country and, in particular, the
adverse economic impacts of military base closures within the state.
It is in the best interests of the state to continue to support
statutory provisions mitigating the economic and social degradation
that is faced by communities in jurisdictions that include military
bases that have been ordered to be closed or to be realigned by the
Federal Base Closure Commission.
   (d) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that
allows those areas affected by base closure to have a choice of a
successor agency similar to the one established in Section 3173 of
the Health and Safety Code and that would allow funds to be deposited
in the California Military Base Closure Fund to be used solely for
the sole purpose of redeveloping the affected area.