SB-427 • 2026

Habitat Conservation Fund.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Blakespear (S) , Stern
Last action: 2025-10-03
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 317, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how the funds are continuously appropriated after June 30, 2035. It only specifies the extension of annual transfers until that date.

Habitat Conservation Fund Extension

This law extends funding for a special fund that helps protect wildlife habitats in California until June 30, 2035.

What This Bill Does

Extends the annual transfer of $30 million from the General Fund to the Habitat Conservation Fund until June 30, 2035.

Who It Names or Affects

The Controller of California
Conservation agencies like the Department of Parks and Recreation and Wildlife Conservation Board

Terms To Know

Habitat Conservation Fund: A special fund that helps protect wildlife habitats in California.
General Fund: The main account where the state keeps money to pay for different programs and services.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify what happens after June 30, 2035.
Does not change how funds are used or who gets them; it only extends when they will be available.

Bill History

2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 317, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-03 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-17 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3074.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 29).
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-07-15 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-15 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2025-06-09 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on W. P., & W.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1407.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1199.) (May 23).
2025-05-16 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
April 21 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-09 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-08 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 707.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-24 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 8.
2025-02-26 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.
2025-02-19 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2025-02-18 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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.

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