Section 30970.

30970. This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Sea Level Rise Mitigation and Adaptation Act of 2021. (Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 236, Sec. 5. (SB 1) Effective January 1, 2022.)

Section 30971.

30971. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California has 1,264 miles of coastline, and, if small bays and inlets are included, it has up to 3,000 miles of coastline located on the western seaboard of the United States, all of which is prone to the severe and pervasive effects of sea level […]

Section 30972.

30972. (a) (1) There is hereby created within the Ocean Protection Council the California Sea Level Rise State and Regional Support Collaborative. (2) In its role as the collaborative, the Ocean Protection Council shall coordinate with the other state planning and coastal management agencies, including, but not limited to, the Office of Planning and Research, the Strategic Growth […]

Section 30973.

30973. (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, the collaborative shall expend not more than one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) annually from appropriate bond funds and other sources for the purposes of making grants to local and regional governments to update local and regional land use plans to take into account sea […]