BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 232| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONSENT Bill No: AB 232 Author: Travis Allen (R) Introduced:2/4/15 Vote: 21 SENATE NATURAL RES. & WATER COMMITTEE: 9-0, 6/23/15 AYES: Pavley, Stone, Allen, Hertzberg, Hueso, Jackson, Monning, Vidak, Wolk SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8 ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 5/14/15 - See last page for vote SUBJECT: Parks and monuments: operating leases or agreements SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This bill authorizes the State Public Works Board (Board) to review and approve a proposed lease or agreement, or amendment, no earlier than 30 days after it has provided written notification to the chairpersons of those legislative committees, as provided. ANALYSIS: 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 AB 232 Page 2 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 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; 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. 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 Board. 2)Makes other technical corrections to update this code section. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:YesLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified7/8/15) None received AB 232 Page 3 OPPOSITION: (Verified7/8/15) None received ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT: The author indicates he has introduced this bill to provide more time for public review of lease agreements for state parks. ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 5/14/15 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden, Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder, Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins Prepared by:William Craven / N.R. & W. / (916) 651-4116 7/8/15 15:42:25 **** END ****