What new legislative action or law would help YOU and YOUR AGENCY?
Each legislative session, your CPRS A-Team works in conjunction with your CPRS legislative advocate, Doug Houston and his team, who are charged with identifying bills of importance to park and recreation professionals.
Doug and his team then endeavor to influence outcomes for the benefit of CPRS members and member agencies. Recent examples include last year's SB 867 (Proposition 4 - Climate and Resources Bond); ACR 66 Parks Make Life Better (CPRS Sponsored); AB 2285 (CPRS-Sponsored), which sought to codify the California's First Partner (Jennifer Siebel Newsom) "Outdoors for All Initiative," and AB 3147, a bill creating a trails conservancy within the California Natural Resources Agency. In addition to proactively working to influence legislation, CPRS and your lobbyists also dive into policy and funding matters which shape the California Budget. Such actions have resulted in tens of millions of additive competitive funding for programs such as the Outdoor Equity, Urban Greening, and Statewide Park Program.
In an effort to better position CPRS as a leader in the parks and outdoor space within the state Capitol, we are in constant search of ideas for legislative concepts that benefit CPRS and park and outdoor advocates as a collective. To that end, and to maximize member engagement in this process, CPRS and its legislative advocates are soliciting your "There Ought to be a Law" ideas.
Use this form to share your thoughts and concepts, whether they are ideas that assist agencies operationally, assist in the pursuit of funding or underwriting programs or projects, assist in permitting or in the administration of programs/activities. Concepts might also include a local operations and maintenance specific statewide bond, relaxation of rules and laws around labor contracts, or contracting or force account limits, etc.
The deadline to introduce new legislation at the Capitol is February 21, 2025, and CPRS is calling on its membership to put on its collective "thinking cap" to bring ideas forth for legislative consideration.
The deadline for concept submission will be February 10, 2025, so we may vet out any/all of these great ideas.
Thank you!
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Stephanie Stephens
Executive Director
California Park & Recreation Society
(916) 665-2777
stephanie@cprs.org------------------------------