BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER
Senator Fran Pavley, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 232 Hearing Date: July 14,
2015
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|Author: |Travis Allen | | |
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|Version: |February 4, 2015 Introduced |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant:|William Craven |
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Subject: Parks and monuments: operating leases or agreements.
BACKGROUND AND EXISTING LAW
1)Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to
enter into an operating or lease agreement with another public
agency for the care, maintenance, administration, and control,
of lands for the purpose of the state park system.
2)Prohibits an operating lease or agreement between DPR and
another public agency from being entered into or amended
unless one of the following occurs:
a) The Legislature reviews the lease, agreement or
amendment as part of the annual budget process, or
b) Following enactment of the annual Budget Act, the State
Public Works Board does all of the following:
i) Determines that the proposed lease or agreement
could not have been presented to the Legislature for
review during the annual budget process, and it would be
adverse to the public interest to defer the review until
the next budget process;
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ii) Reviews and approves the lease or agreement not
sooner than 20 days after the board provides written
notification to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee, the Chairperson of the Assembly Ways
and Means Committee, and the Chairperson of the Senate
Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.
iii) Reports the action to the Legislature in the next
Governor's Budget.
PROPOSED LAW
Specifically, this bill:
1)Extends from 20 days to 30 days the time period the
Legislature has to review a proposed state park operating
lease, agreement or amendment before it can be approved by the
State Public Works Board;
2)Makes other technical corrections to update this code section.
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT
The author indicates he has introduced this bill to provide more
time for public review of lease agreements for state parks.
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION
None received.
COMMENTS
Current law requires that operating agreements and lease
agreements between DPR and other public agencies be approved by
the Legislature as part of the annual budget process. The
statute provides an alternative process for approval of a lease
agreement by the State Public Works Board (Board), when proposed
agreements are proposed after the budget has been enacted and
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the Board determines that it is not in the interest of the
public to wait for the agreement to be approved the following
year. In that case, the Board must provide the Legislature with
20 day notice before approving the proposed agreement. This
bill would extend the legislative notice requirement to 30 days.
This bill also makes technical changes to update this code
section to reflect the Legislature's current standing
committees.
SUPPORT
None Received
OPPOSITION
None Received
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