Committee on Agriculture
Author
Existing law establishes the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act, to be administered generally by the Department of Conservation, and provides that it is the intent of the act to, among other things, encourage voluntary, long-term private stewardship of agricultural lands by offering landowners financial incentives, encourage local land use planning for orderly and efficient urban growth and conservation of agricultural land, and encourage improvements to enhance long-term sustainable agricultural uses. The act creates the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund and requires moneys in the fund from gifts, donations, and federal grants, which are continuously appropriated to the department, and other moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, to be used for the purposes of the California Farmland Conservancy Program, which include, among other things, the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, fee title acquisition grants, and land improvement and planning grants. The act requires an agricultural conservation easement to be granted to any organization or entity authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements, as specified. This bill would revise and recast provisions of the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act to, among other things, expressly authorize the interest earned on those continuously appropriated moneys to be deposited into the fund, authorize the California Farmland Conservancy Program to offer financial assistance, including grants or contracts, for projects and activities on agricultural lands that support agricultural conservation and sustainable land management, expand the authorization of the department to pay direct costs associated with the acquisition of an easement or fee title, and revise requirements on the department to be fulfilled before disbursing funding under the program, as specified. To the extent the bill would continuously appropriate additional moneys or expand the purposes for which those continuously appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 502, Statutes of 2022.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5366.).
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11).
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.)
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From printer. May be heard in committee April 14.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB2964 | HTML |
| 03/14/22 - Introduced | |
| 06/29/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/22/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/02/22 - Enrolled | |
| 09/23/22 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/26/22- Assembly Agriculture | |
| 05/16/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/20/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/17/22- Senate Agriculture | |
| 06/23/22- Senate Natural Resources and Water | |
| 07/29/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/13/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/23/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/31/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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