Bill Text: CA AB474 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: California Coastal Commission: ex parte communications: disclosure forms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 125, Statutes of 2014. [AB474 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB474-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 474	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  125
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 16, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 16, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 3, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 29, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Stone

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to amend Section 30324 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to coastal resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 474, Stone. California Coastal Commission: ex parte
communications: disclosure forms.
   Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, establishes the
California Coastal Commission and prohibits a member of the
commission from conducting an ex parte communication unless the
commission member fully discloses and makes public that
communication, as specified. The act further requires the commission
to adopt standard disclosure forms for reporting ex parte
communications that include specified information relating to the
date, time, and location of the communication, the identity of the
person or persons initiating and the person receiving the
communication, and a complete description of the content of the
communication.
   This bill would revise the information to be included in those
standard disclosure forms to also include the identity of the person
on whose behalf the communication was made, the identity of all
persons present during the communication, and a complete,
comprehensive description of the content of the ex parte
communication, including a complete set of all text and graphic
material that was part of the communication.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 30324 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   30324.  (a) No commission member, nor any interested person, shall
conduct an ex parte communication unless the commission member fully
discloses and makes public the ex parte communication by providing a
full report of the communication to the executive director within
seven days after the communication or, if the communication occurs
within seven days of the next commission hearing, to the commission
on the record of the proceeding at that hearing.
   (b) (1) The commission shall adopt standard disclosure forms for
reporting ex parte communications which shall include, but not be
limited to, all of the following information:
   (A) The date, time, and location of the communication.
   (B) (i) The identity of the person or persons initiating and the
person or persons receiving the communication.
   (ii) The identity of the person on whose behalf the communication
was made.
   (iii) The identity of all persons present during the
communication.
   (C) A complete, comprehensive description of the content of the ex
parte communication, including a complete set of all text and
graphic material that was part of the communication.
   (2) The executive director shall place in the public record any
report of an ex parte communication.
   (c) Communications shall cease to be ex parte communications when
fully disclosed and placed in the commission's official record.