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 03/28/25 - Amended Senate
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 SB-556 Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/17/2025 09:00 PM

SB556:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 17, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 10, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 28, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 556

Introduced by Senator Hurtado
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Macedo)

February 20, 2025

An act to add Section 1350.5 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to habitat conservation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 556, as amended, Hurtado.
 Habitat enhancement and restoration: floodplains.

Existing law establishes the Wildlife Conservation Board within the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Under existing law, the board administers various habitat conservation and restoration programs.

This bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the sum of $21,500,000 to be allocated to the board for floodplain acquisition, habitat restoration, and associated conservation projects on floodplains in the Counties of Kern, Kings, and Tulare. Tulare, as provided.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Counties of Kern,
 Kings, and Tulare.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 1350.5 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

1350.5.

 Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute, statute for the purposes of this section, the sum of twenty-one million five hundred thousand dollars ($21,500,000) shall be allocated to the Wildlife Conservation Board for floodplain acquisition, habitat restoration, and associated conservation projects on floodplains in the Counties of Kern, Kings, and Tulare.

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 uncontrolled flooding and groundwater depletion circumstances existing at the various waterways in the Counties of Kern, Kings, and Tulare.