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 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1426 Diablo Range Conservation Program.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/10/2025 09:00 PM

AB1426:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 10, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 10, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1426

Introduced by Assembly Members Kalra and Bauer-Kahan

February 21, 2025

An act to add Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1460) to Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to the Diablo Range, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1426, as amended, Kalra.
 Diablo Range Conservation Program.

The Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947 establishes the Wildlife Conservation Board within the Department of Fish and Wildlife to investigate, study, and determine what areas within the state are most essential and suitable for wildlife production and preservation, among other things. Under existing law, the board administers various habitat conservation programs.

This bill would require the board to establish and administer, through the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Diablo Range Conservation Program and, pursuant to the program, to approve projects to acquire, preserve, restore, and enhance habitat within the Diablo Range, as defined, consistent with conservation strategies approved by the department. The bill would authorize the board to establish an ad
 hoc advisory committee, as specified. The bill would authorize the board to provide grants to local public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and tribes California Native American tribes to be used for various purposes, including the acquisition, restoration, enhancement, and maintenance and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other natural resources within and adjacent to the Diablo Range. The bill would establish the Diablo Range Conservation Fund in the State Treasury and would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the program. The bill would authorize the board
 to accept moneys, grants, goods, or services contributed to it by public agencies or private entities or persons and would require those moneys to be deposited in the Donation Account, which the bill would establish in the fund. The bill would continuously appropriate the moneys in the account to the board for purposes of the program, thereby making an appropriation.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 1460) is added to Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 4.5. Diablo Range Conservation Program

1460.

 This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Diablo Range Conservation Program Act.

1461.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The Diablo Range is a unique landscape providing agricultural, wildlife, recreational, climate, and other natural infrastructure benefits, covering an area of about 3.5 million acres extending from Carquinez Strait and Mount Diablo in the north to Orchard Peak, Polonio Pass, and Antelope Valley and State Route 46 in the south. The Diablo Range is bounded on the west by the San Francisco Bay, the Santa Clara Valley, State Route 101, and the Salinas Valley, and on the east by the San Joaquin River and Valley, and State Route 5.

(b) The Diablo Range is a resource of statewide significance. The Diablo Range has been subject to intense development pressure and is in need of restoration, conservation, and enhancement.

(c) The Diablo Range is bounded by, and includes, several of the fastest growing cities in California, including the cities of Brentwood, Dublin, Lathrop, San Jose, Morgan Hill, and Hollister.

(d) The Diablo Range provides a critical corridor for wildlife migrating north through the Altamont Pass to Mount Diablo; west to the Santa Lucia Range, Big Sur, and the Santa Cruz Mountains; and south to the Carrizo Plain and the Tehachapi Mountains.

(e) Residents of the San Francisco
 Bay area, the Salinas Valley, and the San Joaquin Valley access the outdoors in the Diablo Range to view wildlife, recre