AB 198 (Wayne) California Coastal Commission: Appointments
AB 198 would revise Coastal Commissioner appointment procedures to clarify that, in regions composed of 3 counties, the board of supervisors and the city selection committee in each county within the region nominate one or more supervisors and one or more city council members. The bill would require all regional nominations to be made within 45 days from the date of receipt of a request for nominations by the appointing authority and would decrease to 45 days the time within which the names of additional nominees must be sent to the appointing authority following rejection of the original nominations.
AB 1022 (Lempert) Coastal Resources: Development Permits: Lobbyists
AB 1022 would prohibit any interested person who communicates with a member of the commission for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the commission member with respect to any matter that is pending before the commission from making any gift of a value of $5 or more, including gifts of food or beverages, to any member of the commission, unless the interested person, immediately upon making the gift, discloses and reports the gift by submitting a written report of the gift to the executive director, who shall immediately place the report in the commission's official record. This bill would also place the same reporting requirements on Coastal Commissioners.
AB 1084 (Bowen) Coastal Resources: Commissions: Membership
AB 1084 would remove the 4 nonvoting members (ex officio members) from the California Coastal Commission and would prohibit a person from being eligible to serve on either the California Coastal Commission or the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission if that person has been the subject of an enforcement action, as described, for a violation of any provision of law that is subject to the jurisdiction of the commission.
AB 1581 (Keeley) Coastal Resources: Budget Augmentations
AB 1581 is a budget trailer bill that would appropriate $1,520,000 from the General Fund, $685,000 of which would be appropriated to the California Coastal Commission for administration and support of the commission and for grants to local jurisdictions for the preparation of local coastal programs (LCPs), $415,000 of which would be appropriated to the Resources Agency to purchase computers and to contract for services to upgrade the Commission' s computer system, and $420,000 of which would be appropriated to the State Water Resources Control Board for water quality monitoring activities