State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on the extent of nonsubstantive changes made to highway construction provisions and their practical impact.

Expanding Grant Eligibility for Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation

The bill expands eligibility for grants and cooperative agreements related to off-highway motor vehicle recreation in state parks to include special districts that employ sworn personnel.

What This Bill Does

• Adds special districts that employ sworn personnel as eligible applicants for grants and cooperative agreement under the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003.

Who It Names or Affects

• Special districts that employ sworn personnel
• The Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation

Terms To Know

Off-highway motor vehicle recreation

Activities involving the use of vehicles like ATVs, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles on trails or in designated areas.

Grant

Money given by a government agency to support specific projects or activities.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much funding will be available for these grants.
• It is unclear if the changes to highway construction rules will have any practical impact.

Official Summary Text

SB 563, as amended, Valladares.
Cooperative highway construction and improvement.
State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants.
Existing law, the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Act of 2003, creates the Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation and requires the division to develop and implement a grant and cooperative agreement program for specified purposes, including to support the planning, acquisition, development, maintenance, administration, operation, enforcement, restoration, and conservation of trails, trailheads, areas, and other facilities associated with use of off-highway motor vehicles. Under existing law, eligible grant and cooperative agreement applicants include, among others, cities, counties, districts, state agencies, agencies of the United States, and federally recognized and state-recognized Native American tribes, as specified.
This bill would expand eligible grant and cooperative agreement applicants to include special districts that employ sworn personnel, as provided.
Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of a county, by a vote of not less than
3
5
of its membership, to petition the Department of Transportation to cooperate in the improvement of an existing highway or the construction of a proposed highway in that county when the existing highway connects, or the proposed highway will connect, a forest highway system road or national park road that is already built or under construction, with any state highway. Existing law requires that the connecting highway not exceed 50 miles in length.
Existing law requires, when any highway sought to be improved or constructed under these provisions is situated in 2 or more counties, that the petition, or the concurrence in that petition, be passed by a
3
5
vote of the membership of the board of supervisors of each of those counties to initiate the proceeding.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

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