BILL NUMBER: AB 694	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rendon

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Sections 31124 and 31125 to the Public Resources
Code, relating to coastal resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 694, as amended, Rendon. State Coastal Conservancy: low-cost
accommodations.
   Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with
prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing and
administering various programs intended to preserve, protect, and
restore the state's coastal areas.
   This bill would require the conservancy to develop, subject to the
availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant,
private low-cost  coastal  accommodations to meet their
operation and maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other
legally binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the
facility continuing to provide low-cost  coastal 
accommodations. This bill would create the Low-Cost Accommodations
Program Account in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund and provide
that moneys in the fund are available upon appropriation by the
Legislature to fund this program.
   This bill would require the conservancy, in consultation with the
California Coastal Commission, the Department of Parks and
Recreation, and other relevant coastal public landholders, to develop
a document containing a list of potential low-cost accommodations
projects in each region of the coast and information on grant or loan
programs. This bill would require the conservancy to provide the
document to the commission and would require the commission to
provide the document to local governments with local coastal
programs. This bill would require the commission to refer to the list
of potential low-cost accommodations projects, as prescribed.
   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 31124 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   31124.  (a) The conservancy shall develop, subject to the
availability of funding, a program to assist, by loan or grant,
private low-cost  coastal  accommodations to meet their
operation and maintenance needs in exchange for an easement or other
legally binding instrument that protects the public benefit of the
facility continuing to provide low-cost  coastal 
accommodations.
   (b) The Low-Cost Accommodations Program Account is hereby created
in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund. Moneys in the account shall
accrue interest and be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to fund the program developed pursuant to this section.
The conservancy may accept and deposit in the account funds from
public and private sources.
  SEC. 2.  Section 31125 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   31125.  (a) The conservancy, in consultation with the commission,
the Department of Parks and Recreation, and other relevant coastal
public landholders, shall develop a document containing a list of
potential low-cost accommodations projects in each region of the
coast and information on grant or loan programs. The document shall
include, but not be limited to, the following:
   (1) Specific projects that will increase low-cost accommodations
at state parks in the coastal zone consistent with recommendations by
the Parks Forward Commission.
   (2) Information on grant programs at the conservancy that assist
public agencies and nonprofits in providing low-cost accommodations
in the coastal zone.
   (3) Information on the program developed pursuant to Section
31124.
   (b) The conservancy shall provide the document developed pursuant
to subdivision (a) to the commission. The commission shall refer to
the list of potential low-cost accommodations projects as options for
mitigation when considering coastal development permits that impact
the availability of low-cost accommodations and when considering how
to expend prior commitments of "in-lieu" public access fees. The
commission shall provide the document to local governments with local
coastal programs.