Habitat Conservation Fund.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on continuous appropriations or fund distributions after June 30, 2035.

Habitat Conservation Fund Extension

This law extends funding for a special fund that helps protect wildlife habitats in California.

What This Bill Does

• Extends the requirement for $30 million to be transferred annually from the General Fund to the Habitat Conservation Fund until June 30, 2035.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Controller who manages fund transfers.
• Agencies receiving funding from the Habitat Conservation Fund such as the Department of Parks and Recreation, State Coastal Conservancy, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, California Tahoe Conservancy, and Wildlife Conservation Board.

Terms To Know

General Fund

A main fund in the state budget that holds money for various government expenses.

Habitat Conservation Fund

A special fund used to protect wildlife habitats through acquisition, enhancement, or restoration projects.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens after June 30, 2035.
• It is unclear how the funds will be allocated if there are changes in future budgets.

Official Summary Text

SB 427, Blakespear.
Habitat Conservation Fund.
Proposition 117, an initiative measure approved by the electors at the June 5, 1990, direct primary election, enacted the California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990. The act creates the Habitat Conservation Fund and requires the moneys in the fund to be used for specified purposes generally relating to the acquisition, enhancement, or restoration of wildlife habitat. The act requires the Controller, until June 30, 2020, to annually transfer $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the Habitat Conservation Fund, less any amount transferred to the Habitat Conservation Fund from specified accounts and funds. The act, until July 1, 2020, continuously appropriates specified amounts from the Habitat Conservation Fund to the Department of Parks and Recreation, the State Coastal Conservancy, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and the California Tahoe Conservancy, and continuously appropriates the
balance of the fund to the Wildlife Conservation Board.
Chapter 31 of the Statutes of 2019 requires the Controller to continue to annually transfer $30,000,000 from the General Fund, less any amount transferred to the Habitat Conservation Fund from specified accounts and funds, to the Habitat Conservation Fund until June 30, 2030, and continuously appropriates that amount on an annual basis in the same proportions to the specified entities until July 1, 2030.
This bill would require the Controller to continue to annually transfer $30,000,000 from the General Fund, less any amount transferred to the Habitat Conservation Fund from specified accounts and funds, to the Habitat Conservation Fund until June
30, 2035, and would continuously appropriate that amount on an annual basis in the same proportions to the specified entities described above until July 1, 2035.

Current Bill Text

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