(1)Existing law creates the Healthy Stores Refrigeration Grant Program in the Department of Food and Agriculture upon the appropriation of funds. Existing law requires the department to administer the program and to award grants to qualified entities, which is defined to include a small business or corner store, a city or county with representative low-income areas that contain small businesses or corner stores, and certain nonprofit entities that meet specified requirements. Existing law requires grant funds to be provided to corner stores and small businesses that are located within low-income areas or low-access areas, as defined, for the purchase of an energy-efficient refrigeration unit or units. Under existing law, if a city or county is awarded a grant under the program, it is required to provide grant funds to applicant small businesses and corner stores that are located in low-income areas or low-access areas. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or nonprofit entity that is awarded a grant to use up to 10% of the grant funds for technical assistance.

This bill would change the name of the program to the Healthy Refrigeration Grant Program. The bill would expand the definition of “qualified entity” to include a tribal government or tribal organization under certain circumstances and would revise the criteria required for a city, county, tribal government, tribal organization, or nonprofit entity to qualify to apply for a grant. The bill would revise the requirements of a grant recipient under the program and would additionally authorize a grant recipient to provide technical assistance.

This bill would require the department to award at least 3% of the total funds appropriated to the program in each fiscal year to qualified technical assistance providers, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to pay funds to a recipient in advance of the expenditure of funds by the recipient in an amount equal to or less than 90% of the grant amount provided in the recipient’s grant agreement. The bill would increase the amount of grant funds that a city, county, nonprofit entity, tribal government, or tribal organization may use for technical assistance to 20%. The bill would make additional related changes, including by revising other definitions applicable to the program.

(2)Existing provisions in the California Constitution create the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and prescribe its membership, including the requirement that commissioners be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. Existing law, the Public Utilities Act, requires the commissioners to be civil executive officers and their salaries to be fixed and paid in the same manner as those of other state officers. Existing law authorizes the Department of Human Resources to adjust, as needed, the salaries of specified state officers, including the president of the PUC, pursuant to certain requirements. Existing law prescribes the annual salary of members of the PUC, effective as of January 1, 1988, and prescribes a method by which it may be increased.

This bill would provide for an additional increase in the annual compensation of the members of the PUC of 5% in each of the 2021–22, 2022–23, and 2023–24 fiscal years.

(3)Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency, composed of departments, boards, conservancies, and commissions responsible for the restoration, protection, and management of the state’s natural and cultural resources. Existing law establishes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection within the agency and establishes various programs for the prevention and reduction of wildfires. The Budget Act of 2020 appropriates various moneys for purposes of fire prevention and forest health. The Budget Act of 2021, contingent upon future legislation, appropriates from the General Fund $2,500,000,000 for specified purposes, including $258,000,000 from the General Fund on a one-time basis for a wildfire prevention and forest resilience package. The Budget Act of 2021, upon order of the Department of Finance, authorizes up to an additional $500,000,000 of General Fund moneys to be made available for wildfire prevention and forest resilience activities in the 2021–22 fiscal year if the Department of Finance determines additional funding is needed.

This bill would require the agency, on or before April 1, 2022, and annually thereafter on April 1 of each year until April 1, 2026, to develop a report on all programs related to wildfires and forest resilience funded pursuant to the Budget Act of 2020 and the Budget Act of 2021 for the purpose of informing the Legislature and the public on the agency’s implementation of the funded programs. The bill would require the agency to consult with the departments, boards, conservancies, and commissions within the agency, as well as any other state government entities the agency deems appropriate. The bill would require, for each program receiving funding from the budget acts, the agency to include in its report specified information, including, but not limited to, the amount of funding committed to the program and the amount of funding spent on the program from each budget act for the prior fiscal year and a summary of the projects implemented by the program, as provided. The bill would require the agency to publish each report on its internet website, and submit each report to specified legislative committees and to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2027.

(4)Existing law, the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2020, authorizes the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (bank), under the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Program, to provide financial assistance to any eligible sponsor or participating party for eligible climate catalyst projects, as defined, either directly to the sponsor or participating party or to a lending or financial institution, as specified.

Existing law requires the Strategic Growth Council, in consultation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to advise the Legislature of potential categories of climate catalyst projects that would focus on the state’s key climate mitigation and resilience priorities. Existing law requires the bank to submit an annual report to the Strategic Growth Council, the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the President pro Tempore of the Senate on the program, including, among other things, the project category, description, and financial assistance amount for each climate catalyst project.

This bill would remove the requirement that the Strategic Growth Council inform the Legislature of potential categories of climate catalyst projects. The bill would instead, beginning in the 2021–2022 fiscal year, require the bank to meet and consult with specified state agencies to identify potential categories and eligibility criteria of climate catalyst projects that may receive financial assistance under the program, and would require the bank board to adopt that report as a climate catalyst financing plan. The bill would authorize the bank to engage in outreach activities to inform disadvantaged participating parties and disadvantaged sponsors of the categories of financial assistance available under the program. The bill would require the bank to consider applications for financial assistance as they are received, and to provide financial assistance only to projects approved by the bank board prior to July 1, 2025. The bill would require the bank to submit the annual program report commencing October 1, 2022, rather than October 1, 2021, and submit the report to the Legislative Analyst’s Office instead of the Strategic Growth Council. The bill would also require the report to additionally include, among other things, the aggregate amount of third-party financing.

Existing law excludes from the Administrative Procedure Act any criteria, priorities, and guidelines adopted by the bank in connection with the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund Program or other bank program.

This bill would also exclude any climate catalyst financing plan from the Administrative Procedure Act but would require the bank to post the plan on its internet website, as specified, at least 30 calendar days before a bank board meeting at which the plan will be considered for approval.

Existing law creates the Climate Catalyst Revolving Loan Fund within the State Treasury and makes the moneys in the fund available for expenditure for purposes of the program, upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law prohibits the fund from receiving funds from the state.

This bill would delete the prohibition on receiving funds from the state and would make the fund a continuously appropriated fund, except as specified. By changing the fund to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

(5)The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available to the state upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law provides that, through the 2023–24 fiscal year, the annual Budget Act shall include an appropriation of $165,000,000 from the fund to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for healthy forest and fire prevention projects that improve forest health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by uncontrolled wildfires and an appropriation of $35,000,000 to the department for prescribed fire and other fuel reduction projects through proven forestry practices.

This bill would continuously appropriate, beginning in the 2022–23 fiscal year through 2028–29 fiscal year, the sum of $200,000,000 from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the department in each fiscal year for healthy forest and fire prevention programs and projects that improve forest health and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases caused by uncontrolled wildfires and for the completion of prescribed fire and other fuel reduction projects through proven forestry practices consistent with the recommendations of the California Forest Carbon Plan.

(6)Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels.

This bill would rename the program as the Clean Transportation Program, which would continue to be administered by the commission. The bill would include California federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, as defined, as entities that are eligible to receive funding under the Clean Transportation Program.

(7)The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Existing law authorizes the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of certain moneys, and also provides that, beginning in the 2020–2021 fiscal year, and until June 30, 2030, 5% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, up to the sum of $130,000,000, is annually transferred to the fund. Existing law continuously appropriates the moneys in the fund to the state board for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible recipients. Existing law specifies eligible recipients of funding, which include public agencies, nonprofit organizations, mutual water companies, Native American tribes, as provided, administrators, and groundwater sustainability agencies.

This bill would expand the list of eligible funding recipients to include community water systems and technical assistance providers and would define a “technical assistance provider” to mean a person whom the state board has determined is competent to assist a water system by providing administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, as provided. The bill would provide that a privately owned public utility may serve as a technical assistance provider. By expanding the list of recipients eligible for moneys from the continuously appropriated Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

(8)Existing law establishes the California Water and Wastewater Arrearage Payment Program in the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board, following an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for these purposes, to survey community water systems to determine statewide arrearages and water enterprise revenue shortfalls and adopt a resolution establishing guidelines for application requirements and reimbursement amounts for those arrearages and shortfalls, as specified.

Existing law requires a community water system to provide customers with arrearages accrued during the defined COVID-19 pandemic bill relief period a notice that they may enter into a payment plan. Existing law prohibits a community water system that receives program funds from discontinuing water service due to nonpayment before September 30, 2021, or the date the customer misses the enrollment deadline for, or defaults on, a payment plan, whichever is later.

This bill would expand this prohibition to all community water systems regardless of funding sources and would change the date described above to December 31, 2021.

(9)Existing law, the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003, states it is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Parks and Recreation should support both motorized recreation and motorized off-highway access to nonmotorized recreation. Existing law establishes the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund and requires the revenues in the fund to be available, upon appropriation, for specified purposes, including the planning, acquisition, development, mitigation, construction, maintenance, administration, operation, restoration, and conservation of lands in state vehicular recreation areas and certain other areas.

The bill would require the department to determine the best use of land known as the “Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area,” which is currently part of the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area, as provided. The bill would prohibit the land from being designated as a state vehicular recreation area. The bill would transfer $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Parks and Recreation Fund for this purpose. The bill would transfer $29,800,000 from the General Fund to the trust fund to be used for the acquisition and development of properties to expand off-highway vehicle recreation, as provided.

Existing law establishes in the department the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, consisting of 9 members, as provided. Existing law requires, in order to be appointed to the commission, a nominee to represent one more specified groups, including biological or soil scientists, groups or associations of predominately rural landowners, and nonmotorized recreation interests. Existing law repeals the provisions relating to the commission on January 1, 2023.

This bill, among other things, would require that a nominee to the commission have expertise in or represent one of a list of specified interests, including, environmental restoration, health and safety, and the public-at-large. This bill would delete the repeal of the provisions relating to the commission and would delete other obsolete language.

(10)The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling and provides for the payment, collection, and distribution of certain payments and fees based on minimum refund values established for beverage containers.

The act requires dealers within a convenience zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is unserved for 60 days, to either (1) submit an affidavit to the department stating that the dealer has met specified standards for empty beverage container redemption, or (2) pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit into the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provisions.

This bill would, until January 1, 2023, exempt from those requirements dealers that have gross annual sales of less than $1,500,000 and are less than 5,000 square feet.

(11)The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.

This bill would, until January 1, 2025, exempt from CEQA projects that conserve, restore, protect, or enhance, and assist in the recovery of California native fish and wildlife, and habitat upon which they depend or that restore or provide habitat for California native fish and wildlife. For the exemption to apply, the bill would require those projects to meet certain requirements. The bill would require the lead agency to obtain the concurrence of the Director of Fish and Wildlife for the lead agency’s determinations required under the bill for the exemption to apply. The bill would require the lead agency, within 48 hours of making a determination that a project is exempt under the provision of the bill, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and would require the Department of Fish and Wildlife to post the concurrence of the Director of Fish and Wildlife on the department’s internet website. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency to report annually to the Legislature all determinations made under the bill. By imposing additional duties on a lead agency, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill would specify that the environmental review set forth in the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Lower Klamath Project License Surrender issued in April 2020 in combination with other environmental review documents related to removal of facilities on the Klamath River prepared and adopted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, as provided, is conclusively presumed to satisfy the requirements of CEQA for any project for the removal of hydroelectric dams and associated facilities, along with associated restoration of formerly inundated lands, hatchery modifications, and implementation of mitigation measures in the Klamath River Basin, undertaken or approved by a public agency if certain conditions are met. Because a lead agency would be required to determine the applicability of this provision, this bill would imposed a state-mandated local program.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Klamath River.

(12)Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy with prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing a program of agricultural land preservation, area restoration, and resource enhancement within the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law prohibits Members of the Legislature and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity or by any body or board of which they are members. Existing law identifies certain remote interests that are not subject to this prohibition and other situations in which an official is not deemed to be financially interested in a contract. Existing law makes a willful violation of this prohibition a crime.

This bill would provide that an officer or employee of the conservancy shall not be deemed to be financially interested in a contract made in their official capacity when specified conditions are met, including that the contract involves a grant of funds approved by the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority to the conservancy.

(13)Existing law authorizes a local governing body to propose eligible parcels of property within its jurisdiction as recycling market development zones, as specified. Existing law requires that parcels of property designated as recycling market development zones retain that designation for 10 years. Existing law requires that applicants for designation of a recycling market development zone be selected based on the applications and inclusion of incentives to attract private sector investment.

This bill would repeal those requirements.

Existing law creates and continuously appropriates the Recycling Market Development Revolving Loan Subaccount in the Integrated Waste Management Account. Existing law authorizes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to expend the moneys in the subaccount to make loans to local governing bodies, private businesses, and nonprofit entities within recycling market development zones or within areas outside those zones where partnerships exist with other public entities to assist local jurisdictions, as specified.

This bill would authorize the department to expend the moneys in the subaccount within areas outside those zones instead where making the loan will benefit a local jurisdiction or assist a local jurisdiction, as specified.

Existing law imposes various requirements on those loans made by the department from the subaccount, including, but not limited to, requirements related to interest rates, term duration, and prioritization of projects, and prohibits the financing of more than 34 of a project’s costs or $2,000,000, whichever is less.

This bill would revise those requirements to require the department to establish interest rates as low as possible, eliminate the limit on loan-term duration, prioritize projects for circular recycling programs, require the department to establish project eligibility criteria, eliminate the cap on the project costs that the department is authorized to finance, and prohibit the provision of loans for projects that will result in the production of fuels or energy through transformation, engineered municipal solid waste conversion, or other disposal activities, as specified.

By expanding the purposes for which the moneys in the continuously appropriated subaccount may be expended, this bill would make an appropriation.

This bill would require the department to update its regulations relating to the implementation of the market development zone program. The bill would provide that those regulations in effect on September 1, 2021, remain effective only until they are revised or repealed by the department or January 1, 2022, whichever occurs first.

Under existing law, the department succeeded to, and was vested with, all of the authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former California Integrated Waste Management Board.

This bill would update multiple statutory references to the board to instead reference the department.

(14)Existing law establishes the CalRecycle Greenhouse Gas Reduction Revolving Loan Fund in the State Treasury, as part of the CalRecycle Greenhouse Gas Revolving Loan Program, and provides that funds deposited into the fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for specified purposes. Existing law provides that any additional moneys appropriated by the Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the department shall be expended by the department, consistent with specified laws, to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases by promoting in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products. Existing law requires the department to provide grants, incentive payments, contracts, or other funding mechanisms for in-state infrastructure projects or other projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by organic composting and organics in-vessel digestion, among other methods. Existing law specifies the eligible infrastructure projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

This bill would repeal the requirement that any additional moneys appropriated by the Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund be used to administer the grant program and the requirement that financial assistance be used to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by promoting development of specified projects. The bill would instead require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the grant program to provide financial assistance to promote in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products. The bill would continue to require that moneys appropriated by the Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the department be expended consistent with specified laws. The bill would specify that eligible financial assistance be additionally provided for preprocessing organic materials for composting or organics in-vessel digestion and codigestion at existing wastewater treatment plants, and would continue to specify eligible infrastructure projects.

(15)Under existing law, the PUC has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires an electrical corporation to file with the PUC a standard tariff providing for net energy meeting for eligible fuel cell customer-generators and make the tariff available, on a first-come-first-served basis, until the total cumulative rated generating capacity of the eligible fuel cell electrical generating facilities receiving service pursuant to the tariff reaches a level equal to the electrical corporation’s proportionate share of a statewide limitation of 500 megawatts cumulative rated generation capacity served in addition to the total installed capacity as of January 1, 2017. Under existing law, a fuel cell electrical generation facility is not eligible for the tariff unless it commences operation on or before December 31, 2021.

This bill would extend eligibility for the tariff to fuel cell electrical generation facilities that commence operation on or before December 31, 2023.

Under the Public Utilities Act, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime.

Because a violation of an order or decision of the PUC implementing the tariff requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.

(16)Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board for the purpose of providing for the orderly and efficient administration of the water resources of the state.

Existing law requires, with certain exceptions, that each person who, after 1955, extracts groundwater in excess of 25 acre-feet in any year to file a notice of extraction and diversion of water with the board on or before March 1 of the succeeding year.

This bill would establish several specific dates when these notices would have to be filed depending on when the extraction first occurred, as specified. For extractions after September 30, 2021, the bill would require the notice to include extractions during the one-year period from October 1 of each year through September 30, inclusive, of the following year.

Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires each person who, after December 31, 1965, diverts water to file with the board, prior to July 1 of the succeeding year, a statement of diversion and use, as specified, and requires supplemental statements to be filed annually, before July 1 of each year. Existing law provides that the making of any willful misstatement in connection with these provisions is a misdemeanor punishable as prescribed.

This bill would establish several specific dates when these annual statements and supplemental statements would have to be filed depending on when the diversion first occurred, as specified. For diversions after September 30, 2021, the bill would require the statement to include diversions during the one-year period from October 1 of each year through September 30, inclusive, of the following year. By changing the conduct that is punishable by a misdemeanor, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law requires a person, except as specified, who extracts groundwater from a probationary basin or, on or after July 1, 2017, in an area within a high- or medium-priority basin, as provided, to file a report of groundwater extraction by December 15 of each year for extractions made in the preceding water year, and prescribes the manner in which the report shall be filed with the board.

This bill would require that report to be filed by February 1 of each year instead of December 15 of each year.

(17)Under existing law, the State Lands Commission has jurisdiction over tidelands and submerged lands of the state. Existing law authorizes grants to local entities of the right, title, and interest of the state in and to certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust for certain purposes. Existing law grants to the City of Long Beach all of the right, title, and interest of the state in and to all of the tidelands and submerged lands, as specified, that are within the corporate limits of the city, in trust for specified uses and purposes. Existing law establishes rules for how revenue from oil and gas operations on the Long Beach tidelands is divided between the city and the state.

This bill would provide that the state consents to the application of specified city ordinances to the state’s share of oil revenue within the Long Beach tidelands, as defined, for taxes on such production levied and in effect as of October 1, 2021. The bill would prohibit the state’s share of oil revenue within the Long Beach tidelands from being subject to any business license tax, severance tax, oil barrel production tax, or other municipal tax, fee, or assessment not already in existence and levied on or before October 1, 2021, that has the effect of reducing the state’s share of oil revenue, net profits, or remaining oil revenue received into the General Fund, without express statutory authorization for that tax, fee, or assessment.

(18)This bill would make available, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, $150,000,000 in the 2022–23 fiscal year and the same amount in the 2023–24 fiscal year to support programs and activities that mitigate extreme heat impacts.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make available $50,000,000 in the 2022–23 fiscal year to the Department of Conservation, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, for pilot projects in the Sierra Nevadas to create carbon-negative fuels from materials resulting from forest vegetation management.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget act, make available $593,000,000 in the 2022–23 and $175,000,000 in the 2023–24 fiscal years to the Natural Resources Agency, and to its departments, conservancies, and boards, to support programs and activities that advance multibenefit and nature-based solutions, as specified.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make available $350,000,000 in the 2023–23 fiscal year and $150,000,000 in the 2023–24 fiscal year to the State Coastal Conservancy for grants or expenditures for the protection and restoration of coastal and ocean resources from the impacts of sea level rise and other impacts of climate change. The bill would specify the types of projects eligible for the funds and would authorize the State Coastal Conservancy to coordinate with the Ocean Protection Council on project implementation.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, make available $50,000,000 in the 2023–23 fiscal year and $50,000,000 in the 2023–24 fiscal year to the Ocean Protection Council for grants or expenditures for resilience projects that conserve, protect, and restore marine wildlife and healthy ocean and coastal ecosystems, as specified.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available $25,000,000 in the 2022–23 fiscal year and $75,000,000 in the 2023–24 fiscal year to the Office of Planning and Research, through the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program, for the establishment of a grant program for projects that mitigate the impacts of extreme heat or the urban heat island effect, as specified.

This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, make available $25,000,000 in the 2022–23 fiscal year and $75,000,000 in the 2023–24 fiscal year to the Strategic Growth Council, in coordination with the Office of Planning and Research, for the establishment of a community resilience centers grant program, with funding to be available for the construction or retrofit of facilities to serve as community resilience centers that mitigate the public health impacts of extreme heat and other emergency situations exacerbated by climate change on local populations, as specified.

(19)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 116766 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 776 to be operative only if this bill and SB 776 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

(20)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.

(21)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.