Amended in Assembly April 21, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1963

Introduced by Assembly Members Atkins and Dickinson

February 19, 2014

An act to amend Section 34191.3 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to redevelopment begin insert , and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately end insert .

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1963, as amended, Atkins. Redevelopment.

The Community Redevelopment Law authorized the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies, subject to review by oversight boards. The oversight board is required to direct a successor agency to, and a successor agency is required to, among other things, dispose of assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency as directed by the oversight board. Existing law suspends this requirement, except as it applies to the transfer or assets and properties for governmental use, until the Department of Finance has approved a long-range property management plan, as specified. Upon approval of a long-range property management plan, the plan governs and supersedes, all other provisions relating to the disposition and use of the real property assets of the former redevelopment agency. If the department has not approved a long-range property management plan by January 1, 2015, existing law requires the property of a former redevelopment agency to be disposed of according to law.

This bill would begin delete eliminate this latter requirement that would apply the earlier provisions to the disposal of the assets and properties of a former redevelopment agency end delete begin insert instead require the property of a former redevelopment agency to be disposed of according to law if the department has not approved a long-range property management plan by January 1, 2016 end insert .

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This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Vote:  begin delete majority end delete begin insert ²⁄₃ end insert . Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 34191.3 of the Health and Safety Code
is amended to read:

34191.3.  

Notwithstanding Section 34191.1, the requirements
specified in subdivision (e) of Section 34177 and subdivision (a)
of Section 34181 shall be suspended, except as those provisions
apply to the transfers for governmental use, until the Department
of Finance has approved a long-range property management plan
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 34191.5, at which point the
plan shall govern, and supersede all other provisions relating to,
the disposition and use of the real property assets of the former
redevelopment agency. begin insert If the department has not approved a plan
by January 1, 2016, subdivision (e) of Section 34177 and
subdivision (a) of Section 34181 shall be operative with respect
to that successor agency. end insert

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This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

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Because the Legislature’s intent in passing Assembly Bill 1484
(Chapter 26 of the Statutes of 2012) was to prevent the “fire sale”
of property through the approval of long-range property
management plans, it is crucial that each successor agency that
receives a finding of completion is also able to receive an approval
for that successor agency’s long-range property management plan
as quickly as possible.

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