AB 1179, as amended, Bocanegra. Strategic Growth Council.
Existing law creates the Strategic Growth Council, consisting of specified state officers and a public member appointed by the Governor, with specified duties relating to coordination of actions of state agencies relative to improvement of air and water quality, natural resource protection, transportation, and various other matters.
This bill would add the Superintendent of Public Instruction or his or her designee to the Strategic Growthbegin delete Council.end deletebegin insert Council but would authorize him or her to vote only on decisions of the council that are within the jurisdiction of that office.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 75121 of the Public Resources Code, as
2amended by Section 6 of Chapter 623 of the Statutes of 2013, is
3amended to read:
(a) The Strategic Growth Council is hereby established
5in state government and it shall consist of the Director of State
6Planning and Research, the Secretary of the Natural Resources
7Agency, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, the Secretary
8of Transportation, the Secretary of California Health and Human
9Services, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and
10Housing, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture,begin delete the Superintendent and one member of
11of Public Instruction or his or her designee,end delete
12the public to be appointed by the Governor. The public member
13shall have a background in land use planning, local government,
14resource protection and management, or community
development
15or revitalization.
16(b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction, or his or her
17designee, shall also be a member of the council but may vote only
18in decisions of the council that are within the jurisdiction of that
19office.
20(b)
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21begin insert(c)end insert Staff for the council shall be reflective of the council’s
22membership.
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