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THIRD READING
Bill No: ACR 160
Author: Gordon (D), et al.
Amended: 7/2/14 in Assembly
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 57-20, 8/4/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Sea level rise
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution encourages the Ocean Protection
Council (OPC) to work with state agencies and non-state partners
to consider establishing coastal climate adaptation goals and
planning principles to help prepare the state's shoreline and
coastal communities for the impacts of climate change, including
sea level rise, coastal erosion, and extreme storm-related
events.
ANALYSIS : Existing law:
1.Authorizes the State Coastal Conservancy to address the
impacts and potential impacts of climate change on coastal
resources and to award grants to public agencies and nonprofit
organizations for this purpose.
2.Requires a local trustee of granted public trust lands whose
annual gross public trust revenues exceed $250,000 to prepare
and submit to the State Lands Commission an assessment of how
it proposes to address sea level rise.
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3.Pursuant to Executive Order S-13-08 (Schwarzenegger), ordered
the Natural Resources Agency, through the Climate Action Team,
to coordinate with local, regional, state and federal public
and private entities to develop, by 2009, a state Climate
Adaptation Strategy. Ordered the strategy to summarize the
best known science on climate change impacts to California,
assess California's vulnerability to the identified impacts,
and outline solutions that can be implemented within and
across state agencies to promote resiliency. (This strategy
was updated in 2013 by the draft Safeguarding California
Plan.)
This resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1.Makes various findings and declarations regarding sea level
rise.
2.Encourages OPC, in its convening role, to work with the
California Coastal Zone Management Agencies (the Coastal
Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, and State Coastal Conservancy, State Lands
Commission, other state agencies, and non-state partners to
consider establishing coastal climate adaptation goals and
planning principles to help prepare the state's shoreline and
coastal communities for the impacts of climate change,
including sea level rise, coastal erosion, and extreme
storm-related events. (The establishment of these goals and
planning principles would implement a recommendation from the
Safeguarding California Plan to form a state coastal
leadership group on sea level rise to help guide state
activities, enhance agency coordination, and facilitate
adaptation strategies.)
3.Encourages state agencies to engage and communicate with the
public; local, regional, and federal agencies; and nonprofit
organizations and businesses regarding the risks of sea level
rise and the development and implementation of adaptive and
protective measures.
4.Directs the Chief Clerk of the Assembly to transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
This resolution encourages the OPC to work with state agencies
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and non-state partners to consider establishing coastal climate
adaptation goals and planning principles to help prepare the
state's shoreline and coastal communities for the impacts of
climate change, including sea level rise, coastal erosion, and
extreme storm-related events.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/6/14)
The Nature Conservancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 57-20, 8/4/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Ch�vez, Chesbro, Cooley, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman,
Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gray, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Levine,
Lowenthal, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea,
John A. P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber,
Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NOES: Allen, Bigelow, Conway, Dahle, Donnelly, Beth Gaines,
Grove, Hagman, Harkey, Jones, Linder, Logue, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Melendez, Olsen, Patterson, Wagner, Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gorell, Nestande, Vacancy
RM:nl 8/6/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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