California Assembly Bill AB621 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 621INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Wagner FEBRUARY 20, 2013 An act to amend Section 65401 of the Government Code, relating to land use. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 621, as introduced, Wagner. Land use: general plan: public works. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or county, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law requires, if a general plan or portion thereof has been adopted, specified local government officials and entities to submit to a designated official agency a list of proposed public works recommended for the ensuing fiscal year. That law also requires the recipient agency to list and classify these recommendations and to prepare a coordinated program of proposed public works for the ensuing fiscal year. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those submission, listing, and coordinated program requirements. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 65401 of the Government Code is amended to read: 65401. If a general plan or part thereof has been adopted, within  such   the time  as may be  fixed by the legislative body, each county or city officer, department, board, or commission, and each governmental body, commission, or board, including the governing body of any special district or school district, whose jurisdiction lies wholly or partially within the county or city, whose functions include recommending, preparing plans for, or constructing  ,  major public works, shall submit to the official agency, as designated by the respective county board of supervisors or city council, a list of the proposed public works recommended for planning, initiation  ,  or construction during the ensuing fiscal year. The official agency receiving the list of proposed public works shall list and classify all  such   of these  recommendations and shall prepare a coordinated program of proposed public works for the ensuing fiscal year.  Such   The  coordinated program shall be submitted to the county or city planning agency for review and report to  said   the  official agency as to conformity with the adopted general plan or part thereof.