BILL ANALYSIS �
Bill No: AB
1019
SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
Senator Roderick D. Wright, Chair
2011-2012 Regular Session
Staff Analysis
AB 1019 Author: Buchanan
As Amended: June 27, 2012
Hearing Date: July 2, 2012
Consultant: Paul Donahue
SUBJECT
Delta Stewardship Council and California Science Center;
Reorganization
DESCRIPTION
This bill proposes legislative changes to the Governor's
Reorganization Plan No. 2 (GRP 2), which will become
effective by operation of law on July 3, 2012 unless either
house of the Legislature adopts a resolution disfavoring it
before that date. Specifically, this bill :
1)Enacts the provisions of law proposed by GRP 2 to
transfer jurisdiction over the California Science Center
to the Natural Resources Agency.
2)Does not make corresponding changes proposed by GRP 2 to
revise the organizational relationships among the
California Science Center, the Exposition Park, the
African American Museum and the Exposition Park Manager.
3)Departs from the provisions of GRP 2 by excluding the
Delta Stewardship Council from the list of departments
and state entities that comprise the Natural Resources
Agency.
4)Enacts the provision of law proposed by GRP 2 that
revises various departments and state entities that
comprise the Natural Resources Agency, except that this
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bill specifically excludes the Delta Stewardship Council
from that agency.
5)Provides that this bill will become operative on July 1,
2013, and only if GRP 2 becomes effective.
EXISTING LAW
1)Establishes the Delta Stewardship Council as an
independent agency of the state pursuant to the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009.
2)Declares that the Natural Resources Agency consists of
various departments and state entities, not including the
Delta Stewardship Council.
3)Establishes the Sixth District Agricultural Association,
aka the California Science Center, as a tax-exempt
organization and instrumentality of the state under the
administrative jurisdiction of the State and Consumer
Services Agency.
4)Specifies that a reorganization plan submitted by the
Governor shall become effective the first day after 60
calendar days of continuous session of the Legislature
after the date on which the plan is transmitted to each
house, or at a later date as may be provided by the plan,
unless, prior to the end of the 60 days, either house of
the Legislature adopts a resolution disfavoring the
reorganization.
BACKGROUND
1)Purpose : This bill is one of several measures that amend
various provisions of GRP 2, which is a comprehensive
reorganization of state government agencies and
departments. This bill is intended to be submitted for
consideration by the Governor as a companion measure to
GRP 2.
2)Delta Stewardship Council : In 2009, the Legislature
enacted SBX7 1 (Simitian), which enacted the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 and among
other things established the Delta Stewardship Council as
an independent agency of the state. The Council is
required to develop, adopt, and commence implement a
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comprehensive management plan for the Delta.
If a state or local public agency proposes to undertake
specified activities within the boundaries of the Delta
or the Suisun Marsh, the agency must prepare and submit
to the Council a written certification that the proposed
action is consistent with the Delta Plan prior to taking
those actions. The Act established an appeal process by
which a person may claim that a proposed action is
inconsistent with the Delta Plan. The appeals are heard
by the Delta Stewardship Council.
3)Because the Council is in a position to hear appeals that
may challenge a proposed action by a state agency or a
department housed within the Natural Resources Agency,
the author and the proponents of this bill believe that
the Council should remain separated in all respects from
the Natural Resources Agency. This bill accomplishes
this by excluding the Council from the list of entities
comprising the Natural Resources Agency, thereby
preserving the status quo with respect to the Delta
Stewardship Council.
4)California Science Center : Under existing law, the
California Science Center (aka the 6th District
Agricultural Association) includes the California African
American Museum, has jurisdiction over certain facilities
at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, and is required to
create (and supervise) the position of the Exposition
Park Manager, who is charged with administering
Exposition Park-related events.
The GRP 2 revises the organizational relationships
between the California Science Center, the California
African American Museum, and the Exposition Park Manager.
It provides that Exposition Park Manager, the California
African American Museum and the California Science Center
are included within a new entity known as Exposition
Park.
Thus, the California Science Center would no longer be
the governing body. Governance would be shared among the
Science Center, the Exposition Park Manager and the
African American Museum.
This bill restores the organizational governance
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structure to that which is in existing law, while
continuing to transfer administrative jurisdiction over
the Science Center from the State and Consumer Services
Agency to the Natural Resources Agency, as provided for
in the GRP 2.
PRIOR/RELATED LEGISLATION
Governor's Reorganization No. 2 (2011-2012 Session)
transfers jurisdiction over the California Science Center
from the State and Consumer Services Agency to the Natural
Resources Agency. GRP 2 also includes Delta Stewardship
Council in the list of departments and state entities that
comprise the Natural Resources Agency. (Pending in Senate)
SUPPORT:
None on file
OPPOSE:
None on file
FISCAL COMMITTEE: Senate Appropriations Committee
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