BILL NUMBER: SB 1217	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

    An act to amend Section 6217 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to state lands.   An act to add Section
12805.4 to the Government Code, relating to climate change. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1217, as amended, Leno.  State lands: land use revenue.
  Climate change: preparedness.  
   Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency and requires
the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to develop a strategic
vision for the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Fish and Game
Commission that includes reforms necessary to take on the challenges
of the 21st century, including, among other things, climate change
and adaptation. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council
and requires the council to, among other things, identify and review
activities and funding programs of its member state agencies that
may be coordinated to, among other things, meet the goals of the
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.  
   This bill would require the agency, on or before January 1, 2016,
and every 2 years thereafter, to prepare a climate risk assessment
and strategy evaluation of the state's vulnerability and risk for
climate change impacts. The bill would require the council, in
consultation with appropriate state agencies, to consider the impacts
of climate change on state projects and to identify projects that
would provide climate adaptation or resiliency to the state. 

   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 12805.4 is added to the 
 Government Code  , to read:  
   12805.4.  (a) On or before January 1, 2016, and every two years
thereafter, the Natural Resources Agency shall prepare a climate risk
assessment and strategy evaluating California's vulnerability and
risk for climate change impacts, such as sea level rise.
   (b) The Strategic Growth Council shall, in consultation with
appropriate state agencies, do both of the following:
   (1) Consider the impacts of climate change on capital outlay and
other state projects.
   (2) Identify projects that would provide climate adaptation and
resiliency to the state.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 6217 of the Public Resources
Code is amended to read:
   6217.  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:
   (a) Payment of refunds, authorized by the commission, out of
appropriations made for that purpose.
   (b) Payment of expenditures of the commission as provided in the
annual Budget Act.
   (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.
   (d) Payments to cities and counties of the amounts agreed to
pursuant to Section 6875, out of appropriations made for that
purpose.
   (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.