Bill Text: CA SB579 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Fish: Annual Provisional Stocking Document.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 181, Statutes of 2023. [SB579 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB579-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 579
CHAPTER 181
An act to add Section 6404 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to fish.
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Approved by
Governor
September 08, 2023.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 08, 2023.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 579, Umberg.
Fish: Annual Provisional Stocking Document.
Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife and prescribes the functions and responsibilities of the department with regard to the implementation, administration, and enforcement of laws regulating fish and wildlife in the state.
This bill would require the department, before January 1 of each year, to make publicly available on the department’s internet website a specified annual document that contains conditional or provisional plans for freshwater fish plants. The bill would require the department, as part of this document, to include a disclaimer that states that the fish plants are not completely certain to occur as planned and that the department may not be able to adhere to the provisional stocking dates and places due to various
unforeseen conditions, as specified. The bill would also require the disclaimer to include a statement referring the public to the Fish Planting Schedule on the department’s internet website for more up-to-date and accurate information about fish plants.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 6404 is added to the Fish and Game Code, immediately following Section 6403, to read:6404.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make the Annual Provisional Stocking Document available to the public, recognizing that this document expresses the department’s intended plans for fish plants and that the department’s execution of these plans is not guaranteed.(b) The department, before January 1 of each year, shall make an updated Annual Provisional Stocking Document publicly available on the department’s internet website.
(c) The department, as part of the document required pursuant to subdivision (b), shall include a disclaimer stating
that these fish plants are not completely certain to occur as planned. The disclaimer shall include a statement that the department may not be able to adhere to the provisional stocking dates and places due to various unforeseen conditions, including, but not limited to, weather, disease, staffing, and funding. The disclaimer shall also include a statement referring the public to the Fish Planting Schedule on the department’s internet website for more up-to-date and accurate information about fish plants.
(d) As used in this section, the “Annual Provisional Stocking Document,” also known as the “Provisional Fish Release Plans for
the Current Fiscal Year,” means a document used by the department that contains conditional or provisional plans for
freshwater fish plants.
