Amended in Senate August 5, 2014

Amended in Senate June 17, 2014

Amended in Assembly January 6, 2014

Amended in Assembly March 21, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1179

Introduced by Assembly Member Bocanegra

February 22, 2013

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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1179, as amended, Bocanegra. begin delete Strategic Growth Council. end delete begin insert Recycling: waste tires: public works projects. end insert

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The existing California Tire Recycling Act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer a tire recycling program, and imposes a California tire fee on a new tire purchased in the state. The revenue generated from the fee is deposited in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of programs related to waste tires.

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This bill would additionally authorize the department, when awarding grants pursuant to the tire recycling program, to award grants for public works projects to create parklets, greenways, or both, that use tire-derived products and would require the department, if it awards those grants, to give priority for funding to those projects in disadvantaged communities, as defined.

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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.

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This bill would add the Superintendent of Public Instruction or his or her designee to the Strategic Growth Council but would authorize him or her to vote only on decisions of the council that are within the jurisdiction of that office.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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(a) (1) When awarding grants pursuant to Section
42872 to cities, counties, and other local government agencies for
public works projects that use tire-derived products, the department
may, in addition to any other authorized use of those funds, award
grants for public works projects that use tire-derived products,
including recycled tire lumber, to create parklets, greenways, or
both.

(2) If the department awards grants pursuant to this section,
the department shall give priority to public works projects that
use tire-derived products to create parklets, greenways, or both,
in disadvantaged communities.

(b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meanings:

(1) “Disadvantaged community” means a community, as
determined by the department, with an annual median household
income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide median
household income.

(2) “Greenway” means a travel corridor for pedestrians,
bicycles, nonmotorized vehicle transportation, recreation, or a
combination thereof, located along natural landscape features,
such as an urban watercourse.

(3) “Parklet” means a small urban park intended for people
and that provides amenities, including, but not limited to, seating,
tables, bicycle racks, and landscaping.

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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, 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.

(c) Staff for the council shall be reflective of the council’s
membership.

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