Coastal resources: Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access.

(1) Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission jurisdiction over specified public lands in the state, including tidelands and submerged lands. The California Coastal Act of 1976 also establishes the California Coastal Commission and requires that commission to regulate development in the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law creates the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program to be administered by the Office of Planning and Research, and requires the Director of State Planning and Research, no later than January 1, 2017, to establish the program to coordinate regional and local efforts with state climate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as specified. This bill would establish the Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access for the purpose of funding specified activities intended to help the state prepare, plan, and implement actions to address and adapt to sea level rise and coastal climate change. The bill would create the Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access Fund in the State Treasury, and would authorize the California Coastal Commission and specified state agencies to expend moneys in the fund, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to take actions, based upon the best scientific information, that are designed to address and adapt to sea level rise and coastal climate change, as prescribed. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency to annually make available information regarding any activity funded under the program on a publicly accessible internet website. The bill would also require the Director of State Planning and Research to consider the program in its administration of the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program. (2) Existing law requires the State Lands Commission, with specified exceptions, to deposit all revenue, money, and remittances received by the commission from certain state lands in the General Fund, and requires that sufficient moneys from those deposits be made available each fiscal year for payments for expenditures of the commission, specified payments to cities and counties pursuant to agreements covering transferred lands, mineral rights, and oil and gas well removal and remediation, as prescribed. This bill would require, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, an amount not less than 30% of those funds received by the commission and required to be deposited into the General Fund by the commission pursuant to those provisions, except as provided, to be transferred to the Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access Fund and made available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, for expenditure for purposes of the Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access.