CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 3183

Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez

February 16, 2024

An act to amend Section 10280 of the Public Resources Code, relating to public resources.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 3183, as introduced, Alvarez. Public resources: agriculture: Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program.
Existing law establishes the Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program within the Department of Conservation to provide planning grants to conserve California’s most productive farmlands and ecologically important rangelands, to advance California’s climate change goals through carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions reductions resulting from the implementation of local plans, and to maintain local food supplies and agricultural economies through the protection of agricultural lands.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive revision to the stated purposes of the program.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 10280 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

10280.
 The Agricultural Protection Planning Grant Program is hereby established within the Department of Conservation, to provide planning grants to do all of the following:
(a) Conserve California’s most productive farmlands and ecologically important rangelands.
(b) Advance California’s climate change goals through carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions reductions reducing emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from the implementation of local plans.
(c) Maintain local food supplies and agricultural economies through the protection of agricultural lands.