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          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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