BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SCR 156| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: SCR 156 Author: Berryhill (R), et al. Introduced:6/20/16 Vote: 21 SUBJECT: California Conservation Corps: 40th Anniversary SOURCE: Author DIGEST: This resolution recognizes the contributions of the California Conservation Corps on the 40th anniversary of its creation. ANALYSIS: This resolution makes the following legislative findings: 1)The California Conservation Corps (CCC) was created through legislation signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on July 7, 1976, and has grown over 40 years from small beginnings to the oldest and largest state conservation corps program in the nation. 2)With the elimination of its "sunset clause" in 1983, the CCC became a permanent state department and then consolidated various centers, added several dozen nonresidential satellite facilities, and created the California Conservation Corps Foundation. 3)Throughout its history, the CCC has established more than two dozen centers and sites throughout the state, in urban, rural, and suburban locations, has hired approximately 3,000 people SCR 156 Page 2 each year from all over the state to reflect the diversity of California, and is now the only state program with year-round residential centers. 4)As a cost-effective labor force working for more than 250 local, state, and federal agencies, with crews tackling more than 900 projects annually, the CCC has generated more than $26,000,000. 5)The CCC has contributed 69 million hours to natural resource work throughout the state by providing more than 9.6 million hours of emergency response on nearly every major California natural disaster since 1976, installing water-saving devices and water-efficient irrigation systems, removing turf in favor of drought-tolerant plants, and devoting more than 500,000 hours to fighting wildfires in 2015 alone. 6)In addition to natural resource work, the CCC has focused on advancing education and fostering a service ethic and has had more than 4,000 corpsmembers work to complete their high school diplomas in the last three years with several hundred young people earning scholarships to advance their education. Corpsmembers provided more than 74,000 community volunteer hours in 2015 alone. This resolution recognizes the contributions of the California Conservation Corps on the 40th anniversary of its creation, and all of its former and current corpsmembers, and supports the continued and steadfast efforts of current corpsmembers in the protection and restoration of California's environment and responding to disasters. FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.:NoLocal: No SUPPORT: (Verified6/27/16) SCR 156 Page 3 None received OPPOSITION: (Verified6/27/16) None received Prepared by: Karen Chow / SFA / (916) 651-1520 6/29/16 15:56:07 **** END ****