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Measure AB 1486
Authors Soria  
Coauthors: Aguiar-Curry   Hadwick  
Subject Climate resiliency: research farms: grant program.
Relating To relating to climate resiliency.
Title An act to add Section 33319.6 to the Education Code, relating to climate resiliency.
Last Action Dt 2025-04-03
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
Active? Y
Vote Required Majority
Appropriation No
Fiscal Committee Yes
Local Program No
Substantive Changes None
Urgency No
Tax Levy No
Leginfo Link Bill
Actions
2025-05-23     In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-05-07     In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-22     From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-07     Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
2025-04-03     Read second time and amended.
2025-04-02     From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26).
2025-03-17     Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and NAT. RES.
2025-02-24     Read first time.
2025-02-22     From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21     Introduced. To print.
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Amended Assembly     2025-04-03
Introduced     2025-02-21
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								It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that funds made available pursuant to Section 93570 of the Public Resources Code, as added by the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, are granted to public postsecondary educational institutions that are designated as Agricultural Experiment Stations or Agricultural Research Institutes to develop research farms to improve climate resiliency.
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								On or before July 1, 2026, upon an
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Last Version Text Digest The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor access, and clean air programs. Of these funds, the act makes $300,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for improving climate resilience and sustainability of agricultural lands, including, among other things, by making $15,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, for purposes of providing grants to public postsecondary educational institutions that are designated as Agricultural Experiment Stations or Agricultural Research Institutes, to develop research farms to improve climate resiliency, as specified. This bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, on or before July 1, 2026, to establish a grant program to provide grants to public postsecondary educational institutions that are designated as Agricultural Experiment Stations or Agricultural Research Institutes to develop or expand research farms to improve climate resiliency, in accordance with the above-described provisions.