Existing law establishes the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation in the Governor's office for the purpose of serving the Governor and the Governor's cabinet as staff for long-range planning and research and constituting the comprehensive state planning agency.
This bill would require the office, on or before July 1, 2027, to compile, standardize, maintain, and make publicly available through a centralized online platform a core set of statewide standardized spatial planning datasets, as defined. The bill would require the datasets to include specified categories of information, including hazardous risk data, natural resource sensitivity data, and agricultural value data, as provided. The bill would also require the office, on or before January 1, 2028, to develop and publish guidance for regional planning agencies, as defined, on methods and best practices for incorporating and documenting use of the datasets in regional planning processes. The bill would require the office to update those datasets at least every 3 years, as provided.
This bill would require a regional planning agency that adopts or substantially amends a regional planning document on or after January 1, 2028, to incorporate and use the datasets published by the office when developing specified land use strategies and plans, except as provided. The bill would also require a regional planning agency to take other actions as part of the adoption or amendment of those regional planning documents, including mapping and disclosing how the datasets were used in the development of the planning document, and would require a regional planning agency to apply a planning prioritization approach, as specified. The bill would require the office to provide technical assistance to a regional planning agency, upon request, to support compliance with these provisions. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Statutes affected:
SB1423: 14526 GOV, 14526 GOV, 14527 GOV, 14527 GOV, 2380 SHC, 2380 SHC, 2381 SHC, 2381 SHC, 2382 SHC, 2382 SHC, 8654.10 GOV
02/20/26 - Introduced: 8654.10 GOV
03/25/26 - Amended Senate: 14526 GOV, 14526 GOV, 14527 GOV, 14527 GOV, 2380 SHC, 2380 SHC, 2381 SHC, 2381 SHC, 2382 SHC, 2382 SHC, 8654.10 GOV
SB 1423: 8654.10 GOV