STATEMENT TO

[First Reprint]

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE, Nos. 1110 and 1158

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman Corodemus)

ADOPTED: JULY 18, 1996

            This amendment would remove language that excluded in certain cases the development of lands acquired for recreation and conservation purposes from the retroactive application of the bill with respect to county propositions passed prior to the effective date of the bill.

            The amendment would also provide that counties and municipalities would have to enact resolutions or ordinances, as the case may be, to implement any changes in purposes for which the moneys raised by an existing open space special tax levy may be expended as authorized under the bill.