BILL NUMBER: AB 1179	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 5, 2014
	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.   An act to   add
Section 42872.6 to the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


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

   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.  
   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. 

   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 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 42872.6 is added to the 
 Public Resources Code   , to read:  
   42872.6.  (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.  
  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.