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SENATE BILL 626 (MELLO – 1981)
CHAPTER 1007, STATUTES OF 1981
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Section 65590 was added to the Government Code, Public Resources Code section 30213 was amended, and sections 30500.1 and 30607.2 were added to the Public Resources Code in 1981 following legislative passage of Senate Bill 626, which affected these sections only. (See Exhibit #1g) This bill was introduced on March 16, 1981 by Senator Henry J. Mello, serving as Senate Majority Whip at this time. (See Exhibits #1a and #16, document PE-22)
Senate Bill 626 was assigned to the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife and the Assembly Committee on Energy and Natural Resources where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibit #3 and #8) The fiscal ramifications of the bill were considered by the Senate Committee on Finance and the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. (See Exhibit #2 and #10) Five amendments were made to Senate Bill 626. (See Exhibit #1b through #1f and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., signed Senate Bill 626 on September 30, 1981, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on that date as Chapter 1007 of the Statutes of 1981. (See Exhibit #1g and #2)
The Senate Republican Caucus provided an analysis to the Senate of Assembly Amendments to the bill that described this bill as follows:
This bill shifts regulation of “affordable housing” in the coastal zone from the California Coastal Commission to community general plan law, particularly those provisions added in 1990 by AB 2853 (Roos).
An additional uncodified provision of the bill would terminate the escrow account established to provide funding for the Beach Sand Replenishment Program required in connection with the San Francisco Westside Transport Phase of the San Francisco Wastewater Management Program. The money placed in escrow account would revert to the City and County of San Francisco.
The provision that terminates the San Francisco Beach Sand Replenishment Program escrow account is agreeable to the City of San Francisco and the California Coastal Commission. The provision is necessary because the federal EPA has withdrawn support for the program and the city wants to recover from the escrow account the money they advanced.
(See Exhibit #14, page 1)