BILL NUMBER: SB 825	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 5, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 4, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

    An act to amend Section 30513 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to coastal resources.   An act to amend
Section 512 of the Public Resources Code,    relating to
state parks and recreation. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 825, as amended, Corbett.  Coastal resources:
California Coastal Act: local coastal programs: zoning requirements.
  State parks and recreation: State Parks and Recreation
Fund.  
   Existing law generally requires that all revenues received by the
Department of Parks and Recreation be paid into the State Treasury to
the credit of the State Parks and Recreation Fund to be available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure for the state
parks. However, existing law requires that money received by the
department from the sale of publications be paid into the State
Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.  
   This bill would instead require that this money be paid into the
State Parks and Recreation Fund.  
   The California Coastal Act of 1976 imposes certain restrictions on
development in the coastal zone of the state and requires each local
government located within the coastal zone to prepare a local
coastal program. The act further requires the local government to
submit to the California Coastal Commission a land use plan,
including zoning ordinances, zoning district maps, and, if required,
other implementing actions.  
   The act authorizes the commission to suggest modifications to
rejected zoning ordinances, zoning district maps, or other
implementing actions. If the local government agrees to adopt those
modifications, they will be deemed approved upon confirmation by the
executive director. The act prohibits the commission from suggesting
modifications in the rejected zoning ordinances if the local
government requests the commission not to suggest modifications.
 
   This bill would delete the restriction on the commission regarding
suggested modifications. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION   1   .    Section 512
  of the   Public Resources Code   is
amended to read: 
   512.   (a)    For the purpose of disseminating
information relating to its activities, powers, duties, or functions,
the department may issue publications, construct and maintain
exhibits, and perform such acts and carry on such functions as in the
opinion of the director will best tend to disseminate such
information. 
   Such 
    (b)     The  publications may be
distributed free of charge to public libraries and to other state
departments and state officers. The department may exchange copies
with contemporary publications. 
   All 
    (c)     All  money received by the
department from the sale of publications shall be paid into the
 State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund 
 State Parks and Recreation Fund  . 
  SECTION 1.    Section 30513 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   30513.  (a) The local government shall submit to the commission
the zoning ordinances, zoning district maps, and, where necessary,
other implementing actions that are required pursuant to this
chapter.
   (b) If within 60 days after receipt of a zoning ordinance, zoning
district map, and other implementing action, the commission, after
public hearing, has not rejected the zoning ordinance, zoning
district map, or other implementing action, it shall be deemed
approved. The commission may only reject a zoning ordinance, zoning
district map, or other implementing action on the grounds that it
does not conform with, or is inadequate to carry out, the provisions
of the certified land use plan. If the commission rejects the zoning
ordinance, zoning district map, or other implementing action, it
shall give written notice of the rejection specifying the provisions
of the land use plan with which the rejected zoning ordinance does
not conform or that it finds will not be adequately carried out
together with its reasons for the action taken.
   (c) The commission may suggest modifications in the rejected
zoning ordinance, zoning district map, or other implementing action,
which, if adopted by the local government and transmitted to the
commission, shall be deemed approved upon confirmation by the
executive director.
   (d) The local government may elect to meet the commission's
rejection in a manner other than as suggested by the commission and
may then resubmit its revised zoning ordinance, zoning district map,
and other implementing action to the commission.