California 2017-2018 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

SB 732 — General plan: agricultural land.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 434, Statutes of 2017.

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    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2017. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 72% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a land use element and an open-space element. Existing law requires the land use element to, among other things, designate the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land for agricultural use. Existing law requires the open-space element to include a plan for the comprehensive and long-range preservation and conservation of open-space land within the city or county that prepares it. This bill would authorize a city and county to develop an agricultural land component of the city or county's open-space element, or a separate agricultural land element. The bill would require a city or county to comply with specified requirements when preparing that component or element, including identifying and mapping, where applicable, using specified data, agricultural lands that are within the city's or county's jurisdiction; establishing a comprehensive set of goals, policies, and objectives to support the long-term protection of agricultural land; identifying and designating priority land for conservation; and identifying and establishing a set of feasible implementation measures designed to promote those goals, policies, and objectives. The bill would authorize the Department of Conservation, to the extent funds are available, to award grants to a city or county to implement these provisions. The bill would, at least 45 days before adopting or amending the open-space element or the agricultural land element, require a city or county to submit to the department a draft of the agricultural land component or amendment, or agricultural land element or amendment, prepared pursuant to these provisions, and any maps used in creating that component or amendment. The bill would authorize the department to review any drafts submitted, and to provide recommendations to the city or county, as provided. The bill would require the department to give priority consideration for grants, bond proceeds, and other local assistance provided by the department to a city or county that complies with specified requirements. The bill would authorize a city or county with an existing agricultural land component of their open-space element or an existing separate agricultural land element that substantially complies with the requirements set out in this bill, and complies with certain procedures, to receive priority consideration as described in the previous sentence. (2) Existing law requires the department to prepare, and to update biennially, Important Farmland Series maps using data compiled by the United States Soil Conservation Service, and collect or acquire information on the amount of land converted to or from agricultural use using specified data for every county for which Important Farmland Series maps exist. Existing law requires the department to submit a report to the Legislature on the data collected pursuant to these provisions by June 30, 1988, and biennially thereafter. Existing law also requires the department to update and send counties copies of current Important Farmland Series maps by August 1, 1986, and biennially thereafter. This bill would require the department to also collect or acquire information on the amount of land converted between agricultural categories. This bill would require the department to submit the report described above to the Legislature by December 31, 2018, and biennially thereafter. The bill would require the department to update and send counties copies of the updated current Important Farmland Series maps by December 31, 2018, and biennially thereafter. This bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (3) Existing law establishes the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the cancellation of a Williamson Act contract under certain circumstances, and authorizes the city or county to charge a cancellation fee in an amount equal to 1212 of the cancellation valuation of the property. Existing law requires these cancellation fees to be transmitted by the county treasurer to the Controller upon collection, and specifies that those cancellation fees are to be deposited in the General Fund, except for a portion of those cancellation fees, as approved in the final Budget Act for each fiscal year, which are to be deposited in the Soil Conservation Fund to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature to support, among other things, the cost of the farmlands mapping and monitoring program of the Department of Conservation. This bill would provide that if funds are available after providing other specified support, that those funds be used for program support costs incurred by the Department of Conservation in carrying out specified duties of the department related to open-space lands. (4) Existing law establishes the Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program within the Department of Conservation to provide planning grants to improve the protection of agricultural lands and grazing lands, including oak woodlands and grasslands. Under existing law, the program authorizes a local government entity, nonprofit organization, authority, or joint powers authority to apply for a grant under the program, to be used for the protection of agricultural lands and grazing lands, and requires those applicants to demonstrate that the changes to the existing goals, objectives, policies, or programs of the city, county, or city and county that will logically result from the grant will improve protection of agricultural land, grazing land, or grasslands. Existing law requires the Department of Conservation, in consultation with certain parties and entities, to develop and adopt guidelines and criteria for awarding grants pursuant to this program. Existing law requires a grant proposal by a park or open-space district, resource conservation district, other special district, nonprofit organization, authority, or joint powers authority to be approved by resolution of the city, county, or city and county, or multiple cities and counties, whose jurisdiction the proposal is intended to benefit. This bill would eliminate the requirement that a proposal by a nonprofit organization be approved by resolution of the city, county, or city and county, or multiple cities and counties, whose jurisdiction the proposal is intended to benefit. The bill would require the Department of Conservation, prior to awarding funds, to instead develop guidelines and selection criteria for awarding grants in accordance with certain criteria, and would additionally specify that the adoption of guidelines and criteria by the Department of Conservation for awarding grants pursuant to these provisions is not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 434, Statutes of 2017.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 12. Page 2836.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 3163.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  11. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 23).

  12. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  13. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  14. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 12).

  15. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  16. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  17. Re-referred to Coms. on AGRI. and L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

  18. Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and AGRI.

  19. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  20. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1335.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  21. Published May 26 at 10 a.m.

  22. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  23. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1189.) (May 25).

  24. Set for hearing May 25.

  25. May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  26. Set for hearing May 22.

  27. May 15 hearing postponed by committee.

  28. Set for hearing May 15.

  29. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  30. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 735.) (April 26).

  31. Set for hearing April 26.

  32. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  33. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  34. Withdrawn from committee.

  35. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.

  36. Referred to Com. on T. & H.

  37. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  38. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 8 voted No

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB732 Stern Concurrence

Passed 28 Yea · 12 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 231200
Democratic 5000
Total 281200
% of votes cast 70%30%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Beall — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Dodd — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Cannella — Nay
De León — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Allen — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Hill — Yea
Bates — Nay
Bradford — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Monning — Yea
Moorlach — Nay
Morrell — Nay
Newman — Yea
Pan — Yea
Roth — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Fuller — Nay
Glazer — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Mark Stone — Nay
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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SB 732 Stern Senate Third Reading By CABALLERO

Passed 56 Yea · 18 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 401503
Democratic 15000
Republican 1302
Total 561805
% of votes cast 71%23%0%6%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Not Voting
Kiley — Nay
Maienschein — Yea
Mathis — Nay
Medina — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Obernolte — Nay
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Waldron — Nay
Wood — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Holden — Yea
Salas — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gray — Yea
Levine — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Low — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chu — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Weber — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Gloria — Not Voting
Fong — Nay
Harper — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Mayes — Nay
McCarty — Yea
Melendez — Nay
O'Donnell — Yea
Baker — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Cooper — Yea
Cunningham — Nay
Dababneh — Yea
Steinorth — Not Voting
Voepel — Nay
Daly — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Mark Stone — Yea
Travis Allen — Nay
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Not Voting
Choi, Steven S. Republican Nay
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Nay
Lackey, Tom Republican Not Voting

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 10 Yea · 5 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7402
Democratic 3000
Republican 0100
Total 10502
% of votes cast 59%29%0%12%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Not Voting
Brough — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Gray — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Fong — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Chau — Yea
Obernolte — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Not Voting
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 7 Yea · 1 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 3000
Unaffiliated 3101
Republican 1000
Total 7101
% of votes cast 78%11%0%11%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Waldron — Nay
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Voepel — Not Voting
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government]

Passed 7 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 3000
Unaffiliated 3101
Republican 1001
Total 7102
% of votes cast 70%10%0%20%
How each member voted (10)
Member Party Vote
Mathis — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Gray — Not Voting
Salas — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting

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3rd Reading

Passed 28 Yea · 11 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 231101
Democratic 5000
Total 281101
% of votes cast 70%28%0%3%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Moorlach — Nay
Newman — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Cannella — Not Voting
Dodd — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Allen — Yea
De León — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Anderson — Nay
Bates — Nay
Beall — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Pan — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Nay
Wieckowski — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Galgiani — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Mark Stone — Nay
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Do pass as amended

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4200
Democratic 1000
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Hill — Yea
Bates — Nay
Bradford — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Beall — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

housing environment agriculture
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 732 do?
(1) The Planning and Zoning Law requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a land use element and an open-space element. Existing law requires the land use element to, among other things, designate the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land for agricultural use. Existing law requires the open-space element to include a plan for the comprehensive and long-range preservation and conservation of open-space land within the city or county that prepares it. This bill would authorize a city and county to develop an agricultural land component of the city or county's open-space element, or a separate agricultural land element. The bill would require a city or county to comply with specified requirements when preparing that component or element, including identifying and mapping, where applicable, using specified data, agricultural lands that are within the city's or county's jurisdiction; establishing a comprehensive set of goals, policies, and objectives to support the long-term protection of agricultural land; identifying and designating priority land for conservation; and identifying and establishing a set of feasible implementation measures designed to promote those goals, policies, and objectives. The bill would authorize the Department of Conservation, to the extent funds are available, to award grants to a city or county to implement these provisions. The bill would, at least 45 days before adopting or amending the open-space element or the agricultural land element, require a city or county to submit to the department a draft of the agricultural land component or amendment, or agricultural land element or amendment, prepared pursuant to these provisions, and any maps used in creating that component or amendment. The bill would authorize the department to review any drafts submitted, and to provide recommendations to the city or county, as provided. The bill would require the department to give priority consideration for grants, bond proceeds, and other local assistance provided by the department to a city or county that complies with specified requirements. The bill would authorize a city or county with an existing agricultural land component of their open-space element or an existing separate agricultural land element that substantially complies with the requirements set out in this bill, and complies with certain procedures, to receive priority consideration as described in the previous sentence. (2) Existing law requires the department to prepare, and to update biennially, Important Farmland Series maps using data compiled by the United States Soil Conservation Service, and collect or acquire information on the amount of land converted to or from agricultural use using specified data for every county for which Important Farmland Series maps exist. Existing law requires the department to submit a report to the Legislature on the data collected pursuant to these provisions by June 30, 1988, and biennially thereafter. Existing law also requires the department to update and send counties copies of current Important Farmland Series maps by August 1, 1986, and biennially thereafter. This bill would require the department to also collect or acquire information on the amount of land converted between agricultural categories. This bill would require the department to submit the report described above to the Legislature by December 31, 2018, and biennially thereafter. The bill would require the department to update and send counties copies of the updated current Important Farmland Series maps by December 31, 2018, and biennially thereafter. This bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (3) Existing law establishes the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the cancellation of a Williamson Act contract under certain circumstances, and authorizes the city or county to charge a cancellation fee in an amount equal to 1212 of the cancellation valuation of the property. Existing law requires these cancellation fees to be transmitted by the county treasurer to the Controller upon collection, and specifies that those cancellation fees are to be deposited in the General Fund, except for a portion of those cancellation fees, as approved in the final Budget Act for each fiscal year, which are to be deposited in the Soil Conservation Fund to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature to support, among other things, the cost of the farmlands mapping and monitoring program of the Department of Conservation. This bill would provide that if funds are available after providing other specified support, that those funds be used for program support costs incurred by the Department of Conservation in carrying out specified duties of the department related to open-space lands. (4) Existing law establishes the Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program within the Department of Conservation to provide planning grants to improve the protection of agricultural lands and grazing lands, including oak woodlands and grasslands. Under existing law, the program authorizes a local government entity, nonprofit organization, authority, or joint powers authority to apply for a grant under the program, to be used for the protection of agricultural lands and grazing lands, and requires those applicants to demonstrate that the changes to the existing goals, objectives, policies, or programs of the city, county, or city and county that will logically result from the grant will improve protection of agricultural land, grazing land, or grasslands. Existing law requires the Department of Conservation, in consultation with certain parties and entities, to develop and adopt guidelines and criteria for awarding grants pursuant to this program. Existing law requires a grant proposal by a park or open-space district, resource conservation district, other special district, nonprofit organization, authority, or joint powers authority to be approved by resolution of the city, county, or city and county, or multiple cities and counties, whose jurisdiction the proposal is intended to benefit. This bill would eliminate the requirement that a proposal by a nonprofit organization be approved by resolution of the city, county, or city and county, or multiple cities and counties, whose jurisdiction the proposal is intended to benefit. The bill would require the Department of Conservation, prior to awarding funds, to instead develop guidelines and selection criteria for awarding grants in accordance with certain criteria, and would additionally specify that the adoption of guidelines and criteria by the Department of Conservation for awarding grants pursuant to these provisions is not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.
Who sponsors SB 732?
SB 732 is sponsored by Stern, Henry I. (Democratic).
What is the current status of SB 732?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2017. Enacted.
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