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 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-971 State Property: San Pasqual Battlefield State Park.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/28/2025 09:00 PM

AB971:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 28, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 971

Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez

February 20, 2025

 An act to add Section 14673.14 to the Government Code, relating to Native American tribes. state property.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 971, as amended, Alvarez.
 San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians: ancestral lands. State Property: San Pasqual Battlefield State Park.

Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to execute grants to real property belonging to the state in the name and upon behalf of the state, whenever the sale or exchange of real property is authorized or contemplated by law, if no other state agency is specifically authorized and directed to execute the grants.

This bill would require the director to quitclaim to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, at no cost to the tribe, all interests of the state in the land that it owns within the San Pasqual Battlefield State Park, consisting of 3 parcels of land totaling approximately 3.68 acres.

This
 bill would encourage the City of San Diego to transfer to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians all of the city’s interests in the land the city owns within the San Pasqual Battlefield State Park, and if the city agrees to the transfer, would require the state, at no cost to the tribe, to relinquish or transfer to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians all rights and interests that the state has in those lands through lease, permit, or otherwise, and to take any and all other actions necessary to effectuate the city’s transfer of the land to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations related to a gift of public funds.

Existing law governs various interactions between the state and federally recognized Native American tribes within the state. Existing law encourages and authorizes state agencies to cooperate with federally recognized California Indian tribes on matters of economic development and improvement for the tribes.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to return ancestral land to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the follows:

(1) The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indian’s ancestral lands are located in the San Pasqual Valley. The tribe and its people were forcibly and wrongfully removed from those lands due to prior local, state, and federal actions. The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians initially owned this land after the Mexican government established a civil pueblo for the tribe in 1835. The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians were the only California tribe with this designation when the United States obtained the territory in 1848. As a result, the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians were the lawful owners of the San Pasqual Valley when California became a state.

(2) In 1870, the United States government granted the land to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians as a reservation. However, that reservation was rescinded a year later in 1871.

(3) In 1981, the United States Congress passed the Mission Indian Relief Act of 1891 intending to establish a reservation for the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians on the lands that it occupied at the time, which were in the fertile San Pasqual Valley, located in Township 12. However, the reservation was sited incorrectly in Township 11, and the tribe was forcibly removed from the fertile San Pasqual Valley to the rocky, barren land in Township 11, where the reservation is currently located.

(4) Currently, a small portion of the San Pasqual Valley in Township 12 is set aside for the San Pasqual Battlefield State Park. That state park has
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