BILL NUMBER: SB 1217	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 6217 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to state lands.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1217, as introduced, Leno. State lands: land use revenue.
   Existing law requires the State Lands Commission to deposit in the
General Fund all revenue, money, and remittances received by the
commission, with the exception of revenue derived from state school
lands and other specified sources. Existing law requires that those
moneys be made available, upon appropriation, for specified purposes,
including refunds, commission expenses, and payments to cities and
counties.
   This bill would require that at least $10,000,000, but no more
than $15,000,000, of those moneys be transferred each year into the
Coastal Adaptation Fund, which the bill would create in the State
Treasury, for use for the preservation and protection of coastal
lands, subject to an appropriation for that purpose in the annual
Budget Act.
   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 6217 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   6217.   (a)    With the
exception of revenue derived from state school lands and from sources
described in Sections 6217.6, 6301.5, 6301.6, 6855, and Sections
8551 to 8558, inclusive, and Section 6404 (insofar as the proceeds
are from property that has been distributed or escheated to the state
in connection with unclaimed estates of deceased persons), the
commission shall deposit all revenue, money, and remittances received
by the commission under this division, and under Chapter 138 of the
Statutes of 1964, First Extraordinary Session, in the General Fund.
Out of those funds deposited in the General Fund, sufficient moneys
shall be made available each fiscal year for the following purposes:

   (1) 
    (a)  Payment of refunds, authorized by the commission,
out of appropriations made for that purpose. 
   (2) 
    (b)  Payment of expenditures of the commission as
provided in the annual Budget Act. 
   (3) 
    (c)  Payments to cities and counties of the amounts
specified in Section 6817 for the purposes specified in that section,
out of appropriations made for that purpose. 
   (4) 
    (d)  Payments to cities and counties of the amounts
agreed to pursuant to Section 6875, out of appropriations made for
that purpose. 
   (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2006. 

   (e) At least ten million dollars ($10,000,000), but no more than
fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) of those funds deposited in the
General Fund shall be transferred each fiscal year into the Coastal
Adaptation Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury, for
use for the preservation and protection of coastal lands, if an
appropriation for that purpose is included in the annual Budget Act.