BILL NUMBER: AB 34	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to add Section 5029.6 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to historical resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 34, as introduced, Roger Hernández. State historical landmark:
Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz Land: Cesar Chavez
   Existing law establishes the State Historical Resources Commission
and the California Register of Historical Resources. Existing law
requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to consider all
recommendations for registration made by the commission, and requires
the department to register, as state historical landmarks, those
buildings, structures, sites, or places that the department deems to
be important historical resources.
   This bill would require the land known as Nuestra Señora Reina de
La Paz, which includes the home and burial site of the late Cesar
Chavez, to be registered in the California Register of Historical
Resources as a state historical landmark.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The state park system was created for the purposes of
preserving outstanding natural and scenic sites of cultural valve and
areas of historical significance.
   (b) Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz, or La Paz, the farm where the
late Cesar Chavez lived, was recently named by President Obama as a
national monument. This designation brings to the forefront the deep
national significance of the land.
   (c) La Paz, located in Kern County, is a historic and culturally
significant land that contains both the house in which the late Cesar
Chavez once lived and his burial site.
   (d) Kern County is home to the origins of the farmworker movement
and contains several sites associated with the movement, including La
Paz and the land known as the Forty Acres.
   (e) Currently, the Office of Historic Preservation does not have
these two sites, or any other site located in Kern County associated
with the farmworker movement, listed as a state historical landmark.
   (f) Further, there is a general deficit of sites and resources
listed in the California's Register of Historical Resources that are
associated with California modern day history and civil rights.
  SEC. 2.  Section 5029.6 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   5029.6.  Notwithstanding Section 5021, the land known as Nuestra
Señora Reina de La Paz, which includes the home and burial site of
the late Cesar Chavez, shall be registered in the California Register
as a state historical landmark.
  SEC. 3.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the necessity to ensure in perpetuity the unique
historical, cultural, and recreational significance of Nuestra Señora
Reina de La Paz in Kern County.