Bill Text: CA SB958 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 958

Bill Title: Surplus state property: County of Napa.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 988, Statutes of 2024. [SB958 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB958-Chaptered.html

Senate Bill No. 958

CHAPTER 988

An act to amend Section 11011.24 of the Government Code, relating to state surplus property, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Approved by Governor September 29, 2024. Filed with Secretary of State September 29, 2024. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 958, Dodd. Surplus state property: County of Napa.

(1) Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services, by January 1, 2026, to sell or exchange, at fair market value based upon an appraisal approved by the Department of General Services, all or part of a specified parcel of state property only to the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District upon those terms, conditions, reservations, and exceptions the director determines are in the best interest of the state, and subject to other requirements. Existing law exempts from this authorization the property known as Camp Coombs.

This bill would delete the exemption for the property known as Camp Coombs, thereby authorizing the Director of General Services to sell or exchange that property by January 1, 2026, but would require that the sale or exchange of the property known as Camp Coombs be separate from the above-described sale or exchange.

(2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Napa County and the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District.

(3) The California Constitution requires that the proceeds from the sale of surplus state property be used to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued pursuant to the Economic Recovery Bond Act, until the principal and interest on those bonds are fully paid, the final payment of which was made in the 2015–16 fiscal year, after which these proceeds are required to be deposited into the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, a continuously appropriated fund.

By increasing the amount transferred into the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

(4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

Section 11011.24 of the Government Code is amended to read:

11011.24.

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the Director of General Services may sell or exchange, pursuant to Section 11011.1, at fair market values based upon an appraisal approved by the Department of General Services, only to the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District, upon those terms and conditions and subject to those reservations and exceptions the director determines are in the best interests of the state, all or any part of the following real properties, by January 1, 2026, after which date, if not sold or exchanged to the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District, the property is no longer surplus and shall not be available for sale or exchange:

(1) Approximately 850 acres of property, currently leased to or controlled by the County of Napa as part of Skyline Wilderness Park, located at the Napa State Hospital, 2100 Napa Vallejo Highway, Napa, in the County of Napa.

(2) Approximately 80 acres of property, currently under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals, known as Camp Coombs, located at the Napa State Hospital, 2100 Napa Vallejo Highway, Napa, in the County of Napa.

(b) An agreement for the sale or exchange of the property identified in, and pursuant to, subdivision (a), shall require the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District to retain title to the entire property sold or exchanged for use as a park or wilderness preserve, or in the event of the future sale or exchange of that property by the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District, shall require the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District, by recorded easement, to limit future uses of the property to a park or wilderness preserve.

(c) The sale or exchange of the property identified in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) shall be separate from the sale or exchange of the property identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a).

(d) The Department of General Services shall be reimbursed for any cost or expense incurred in the disposition of the property described in subdivision (a) from the proceeds of the disposition. The net proceeds of any moneys received from the disposition of the property shall be paid into the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties, as established by Section 16418.

(e) The County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District may enter into an agreement with a nonprofit land trust or nonprofit conservation entity for the purpose of sharing the costs associated with making the sale or exchange authorized by this section, provided that all the requirements of this section, including, but not limited to, those of subdivision (b), are met.

SEC. 2.

The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances applicable to the County of Napa and the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District.

SEC. 3.

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to authorize the County of Napa or the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District to acquire and cohesively manage Skyline Wilderness Park and Camp Coombs, thereby addressing presently existing risks to public health and safety relating to wildfire prevention, safety improvements, and public access, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.