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california legislature—2023–24 regular session
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2776
Introduced by Assembly Members Rodriguez and Gallagher
February 15, 2024
An act to add Part 7 (commencing with Section 75270) to Division 44 of the Public Resources Code, Section 8587.1 to the Go vernment Code, relating to state government.
legislative counsel’s digest
AB 2776, as amended, Rodriguez. Recovery from major federal disasters: disaster or emergency: funding priority.
Existing law, the California Emer gency Services Act, among other things, creates the Office of Emer gency Services (OES), which is responsible for the state’ s emergency and disaster response services, as specified. Existing la w establishes the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) within the Go vernor’s office to pro vide long-range planning and research and to serve as the comprehensive state planning agency. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council (council) and requires the council to administer v arious programs that support the planning and development of sustainable communities, including, the Regional Climate Collaborative Program, the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, the Transformative Climate Communities Program, and the Community Resilience Center Program.
The OES is under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services.
During a state of war emer gency, a state of emer gency, or a local
96 emergency, e xisting law r equires the dir ector to coor dinate the emergency activities of all state a gencies in connection with that emergency.
Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agenc y charged with monitoring and re gulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of mark et-based compliance mechanisms.
Existing la w requires all mone ys, e xcept for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allo wances as part of a mark et-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law continuously appropriates 20% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the council for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, as pro vided. Under its authority, the council established the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program as a component of the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program to provide incentives for conservation of agricultural lands.
This bill would authorize the OES, the OPR, and the council OES to prioritize funding and technical assistance under specified pr ograms, including, but not limited to, for infrastructure and housing reco very projects projects, in communities that suffered a loss in population and businesses due to a major federal disaster disaster, state of emergency, or local emer gency and ha ve unmet reco very needs as a result of a major federal disaster under specified programs, including, among others, the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program and the federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. The bill w ould also authorize the OES, the OPR, and the council to prioritize funding to communities reco vering from major federal disasters under those same specified programs. disaster, state of emergency, or local emergency.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
line 1 SECTION 1. Part 7 (commencing with Section 75270) is added line 2 to Division 44 of the Public Resources Code, to read:
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line 1 PART 7. COMMUNITIES RECOVERING FROM MAJOR
line 2 FEDERAL DISASTERS
line 3
line 4 75270.
line 5 SECTION 1. Section 8587.1 is added to the Government Code, line 6 to read:
line 7 8587.1. (a) The Office of Emergency Services, the Office of line 8 Planning and Research, and the Strategic Growth Council Services line 9 may prioritize funding and technical assistance under any of the line 10 programs listed in subdivision (b), including , but not limited to, line 11 for infrastructure and housing reco very projects pr ojects, in line 12 communities that meet both of the following requirements under line 13 all of the programs listed in subdivisions (b) and (c): requirements:
line 14 (1) Suffered a loss in population and businesses due to a major line 15 federal disaster. disaster, state of emergency, or local emergency. line 16 (2) Have unmet reco very needs as a result of a major federal line 17 disaster. disaster, state of emergency, or local emergency. line 18 (b) The Office of Planning and Research and the Strate gic line 19 Growth Council may prioritize funding and technical assistance line 20 to communities recovering from major federal disasters under all line 21 of the following programs:
line 22 (1) The Re gional Climate Collaborati ve Program (P art 3.6 line 23 (commencing with Section 71130) of Division 34). line 24 (2) The Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities line 25 Program (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 75210) of Part 1), line 26 including the Tribal Capacity Building Pilot Program funded line 27 through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities line 28 Program.
line 29 (3) The Transformative Climate Communities Program (Part 4 line 30 (commencing with Section 75240)).
line 31 (4) The Community Resilience Center Program (P art 5 line 32 (commencing with Section 75250)).
line 33 (5) The Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation Program line 34 (Item 3480-102-0001 of the Budget Act of 2022 (Chs. 43, 45, and line 35 249, Stats. 2022)).
line 36 (c) The Office of Emer gency Services may prioritize funding line 37 and technical assistance to communities reco vering from major line 38 federal disasters under all of the following programs:
line 39 (1)
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line 1 (b) (1) The federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (42 U.S.C. line 2 Sec. 5170c).
line 3 (2) The federal Building Resilient Infrastructure and line 4 Communities program (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5133).
line 5 (3) The California Disaster Assistance Act (Chapter 7.5 line 6 (commencing with Section 8680) of Di vision 1 of Title 2 of the line 7 Government Code). 8680)).
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