RCRC-Sponsored PILT Legislation Introduced

Late last week, Senators Lois Wolk (D-Yolo County) and Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), along with a bipartisan coalition of 25 co-authors, introduced RCRC-sponsored Senate Bill 234, which would appropriate $19 million to the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) to make past due Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) payments to California counties.  While the Governor’s 2015-16 proposed Budget includes PILT funding for the upcoming year, annual payments haven’t been made in well over a decade.  

Senators Wolk and Nielsen carried Senate Bill 1410 last year to address the arrearages of past due PILT payments and to provide for funding on an ongoing annual basis to the 36 impacted California counties.  The legislation passed the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water on a unanimous vote, but was held in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

 

The text of SB 234 can be accessed here.  RCRC’s press release on the introduction of SB 234 can be accessed here.