State parks: state beaches: County of Los Angeles: Manhattan State Beach: deed restrictions: taxation.
Existing law requires the Director of Parks and Recreation, upon the adoption of a specified resolution by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, to grant to the County of Los Angeles, in trust for the people of California, all of the rights, title, and interest of the State of California in specified state beach property, including a portion of Manhattan State Beach. Existing law requires the grant to be made upon the express condition that the County of Los Angeles use, operate, and maintain the granted lands and improvements only for public recreation and beach purposes in perpetuity. Existing law subjects the transfer of those rights, title, and interest in the granted lands to specified restrictions, including prohibitions on new or expanded commercial development on those granted lands and on the sale, transfer, or encumbrance of those granted lands.
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California Legislature
20212022
SB 796
California SB 796 (20212022)
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State parks: state beaches: County of Los Angeles: Manhattan State Beach: deed restrictions: taxation.
California SB 796 (20212022) — State parks: state beaches: County of Los Angeles: Manhattan State Beach: deed restrictions: taxation.
Existing law requires the Director of Parks and Recreation, upon the adoption of a specified resolution by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, to grant to the County of Los Angeles, in trust for the people of California, all of the rights, title, and interest of the State of California in specified state beach property, including a portion of Manhattan State Beach. Existing law requires the grant to be made upon the express condition that the County of Los Angeles use, operate, and maintain the granted lands and improvements only for public recreation and beach purposes in perpetuity. Existing law subjects the transfer of those rights, title, and interest in the granted lands to specified restrictions, including prohibitions on new or expanded commercial development on those granted lands and on the sale, transfer, or encumbrance of those granted lands.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Bradford — primary (person)
Allen — principal coauthor (person)
Bloom — coauthor (person)
Burke — principal coauthor (person)
Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
Kamlager — coauthor (person)
Laird — coauthor (person)
Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
Muratsuchi — principal coauthor (person)
Stern — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
2021-03-03 Referred to Coms. on ED., PUB. S., and APPR. referral-committee
2021-03-10 Set for hearing March 17.
2021-03-12 March 17 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2021-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-03-25 Withdrawn from committee.
2021-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2021-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
2021-04-09 Set for hearing April 27.
2021-04-12 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-04-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 939.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-05-07 Set for hearing May 17.
2021-05-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2021-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-20 From consent calendar on motion of Senator Bradford.
2021-05-20 Ordered to third reading.
2021-05-28 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-28 Ordered to second reading.
2021-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1383.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. referral-committee
2021-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on W.,P., & W. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-07-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-09-02 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
2021-09-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2896.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2589.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2021-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 435, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6f35798-17a7-4a19-857b-5d96a85a81c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).