Bill Text: CA AB1573 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Marine fisheries: experimental fishing permits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 477, Statutes of 2018. [AB1573 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1573-Amended.html
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Assembly Bill | No. 1573 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Bloom |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill
would, until January 1, 2024, authorize the department to issue a letter of authorization to allow for take of marine living resources or to authorize the conducting of activities in marine waters for specified purposes that would otherwise require a license or permit. The bill would require a letter of authorization to be issued for a limited, defined, and finite period of time and would provide that a letter of authorization is intended to meet immediate public safety, public health, research, or environmental needs. The bill would provide that a letter of authorization would cease to be valid if the department determines that the immediate need that the letter of authorization seeks to address has been
satisfied. The bill would require the department to post a letter of authorization in its entirety on its Internet Web site and make the letter of authorization publicly available within 15 calendar days of its issuance. The bill would require the department to post a summary of the activities performed under a letter of authorization on its Internet Web site within 30 calendar days of the expiration of the letter of authorization.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Fisheries Innovation Act of 2018.SEC. 2.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 3.
Section 90 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:90.
The definitions in this chapter govern the construction of Section 1022,SEC. 4.
Section 1022 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:1022.
(a) The commission may authorize, for research, educational, limited testing, data collection, compensation fishing, conservation engineering, or exploratory fishing, or any combination of these purposes, an EFP to be issued by the department that authorizes commercial or recreational marine fishing activity otherwise prohibited by this code or any regulation adopted pursuant to this code, subject, at a minimum, to all of the following:(a)The department may issue a letter of authorization to allow for take of marine living resources or to authorize the conducting of activities in marine waters in support of testing equipment or methods, data collection, environmental cleanup, hazard removal, surveys for health and safety, or marine fishing activities that would otherwise require a license or permit. A letter of authorization shall be issued for a
limited, defined, and finite period of time and is intended to meet immediate public safety, public health, research, or environmental needs.
(b)The department shall post a letter of authorization issued pursuant to subdivision (a) in its entirety on its Internet Web site and shall make the letter of authorization publicly available within 15 calendar days of its issuance. The department shall provide information in the letter of authorization establishing the need for the letter of authorization and justification for the time period that the letter of authorization is valid.
(c)A letter of authorization shall cease to be valid if the department determines that the immediate need that the letter of authorization seeks to address pursuant
to subdivision (a) has been satisfied.
(d)The department shall post a summary of the activities performed under a letter of authorization, including relevant outcomes, on the Internet Web site within 30 calendar days of the expiration of the letter of authorization.
(e)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2024, and as of that date is repealed.