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SB 563: State parks: Off-highway Motor Vehicle Recreation: grants: eligible applicants.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Senate

Current Status:

In Progress

(2025-08-29: August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

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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.

Discussed in Hearing

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations6SEC
May 5, 2025

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations

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