Bill > AB2385

This bill, concerning local reconstruction agencies, would update existing law by referring to pre-disaster plans as "disaster recovery plans" and requiring cities and counties to ensure their general plans align with these disaster recovery plans. It also mandates the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation to assess statewide recovery needs and provide guidance, including model ordinance language, for these plans. Crucially, the bill authorizes cities, counties, or other local subdivisions to establish a "local reconstruction agency" through an ordinance, which can be activated after a disaster to coordinate recovery efforts. This agency would be granted broad powers similar to those previously held by community redevelopment agencies, including the ability to sue and be sued, enter into contracts, issue bonds, accept financial assistance, and crucially, to receive and utilize incremental tax revenues from local sales and use taxes or transactions and use taxes to fund disaster recovery activities.

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