BILL NUMBER: AB 2185	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 14400 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to conservation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2185, as introduced, Gonzalez. California Conservation Corps:
nonresidential programs.
   Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the
Resources Agency with the mission to, among other things, increase
awareness of our natural resources, including instilling basic skills
and a healthy work ethic in California youth, building their
character, self-esteem, and self-discipline, and establishing within
them a strong sense of civic responsibility and an understanding of
the value of a day's work for a day's wages. Existing law requires
the corps to develop nonresidential programs in urban communities,
and authorizes it to develop those programs in other than urban
communities, that have high concentrations of ethnic-minority youths,
high levels of youth unemployment, and a need for conservation work.

   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14400 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14400.  The corps shall develop nonresidential programs in urban
communities, and may develop those programs in other than urban
communities,  which   that  have high
concentrations of ethnic-minority youths,  which have
 high levels of youth unemployment, and  which have
 a need for conservation work. Expenditures for programs in
other than urban communities shall not exceed 15 percent of total
funding for programs under this section.