Bill Text: CA AB124 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 20-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB124 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB124-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 124	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Olsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Bigelow, Chávez, Dahle,
Beth Gaines, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Jones, Linder, Logue, Mansoor,
Melendez, Nestande, Patterson, Wagner, Waldron, and Wilk)

                        JANUARY 14, 2013

   An act to repeal Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of
Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire
prevention.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 124, as introduced, Morrell. State responsibility areas: fire
prevention fees.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire
Protection, on or before September 1, 2011, to adopt emergency
regulations to establish a fire prevention fee in an amount not to
exceed $150 to be charged on each habitable structure on a parcel
that is within a state responsibility area, as defined, and requires
that the fire prevention fee be adjusted annually using prescribed
methods. Existing law requires the State Board of Equalization to
collect the fire prevention fees, as prescribed, commencing with the
2011-12 fiscal year. Existing law establishes the State
Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Fund and prohibits the collection
of fire prevention fees if, commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year,
there are sufficient amounts of moneys in the fund to finance
specified fire prevention activities for a fiscal year. Existing law
requires that the fire prevention fees collected, except as provided,
be deposited into the fund and be made available to the board and
the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for certain specified
fire prevention activities that benefit the owners of structures in
state responsibility areas who are required to pay the fee. Existing
law further requires the board, on and after January 1, 2013, to
submit an annual written report to the Legislature on specified
topics.
   This bill would repeal these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of Part 2 of
Division 4 of the Public Resources Code is repealed.