Regional economic development areas.

The Military Base Reuse Authority Act authorizes counties and cities located wholly or partly within the boundaries of a military base to establish a military base reuse authority to prepare, adopt, finance, and implement a plan for the future use and development of the territory occupied by the military base. This bill would create the Regional Economic Development Area Act, which would authorize a city, county, or city and county to designate an area within the city, county, or city and county that includes an active or inactive military base and up to ___ square miles surrounding the military base as a regional economic development area, and submit that area to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development for certification. The bill would provide that a regional economic development area certified pursuant to these provisions would receive priority for any grant of funds from a state agency for projects within that regional economic development area. The bill would require the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to adopt regulations for the implementation of these provisions.