BILL NUMBER: AB 1179	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bocanegra

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 75121 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to planning.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 Growth  Council.
  Council but would authorize him or her to vote only on
decisions of the council that are within the jurisdiction of that
office. 
   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 75121 of the Public Resources Code, as amended
by Section 6 of Chapter 623 of the Statutes of 2013, is amended to
read:
   75121.  (a) The Strategic Growth Council is hereby established in
state government and it shall consist of the Director of State
Planning and Research, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency,
the Secretary for Environmental Protection, the Secretary of
Transportation, the Secretary of California Health and Human
Services, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing,
the Secretary of Food and Agriculture,  the Superintendent of
Public Instruction or his or her designee,  and one member
of the public to be appointed by the Governor. The public member
shall have a background in land use planning, local government,
resource protection and management, or community development or
revitalization. 
   (b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction, or his or her
designee, shall also be a member of the council but may vote only in
decisions of the council that are within the jurisdiction of that
office.  
   (b) 
    (c)  Staff for the council shall be reflective of the
council's membership.