Bill Text: CA AB528 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Fish and game: steelhead trout.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 217, Statutes of 2011. [AB528 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB528-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 528	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to amend Sections 7381 and 7382 of the Fish and Game Code,
relating to fishing, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 528, as introduced, Chesbro. Fish and game: steelhead trout.
   Existing law requires a person taking steelhead trout in inland
waters, in addition to a valid California sport fishing license and
any applicable sport license stamp, to have in his or her possession
a valid nontransferable steelhead trout fishing report-restoration
card issued by the Department of Fish and Game. Under existing law,
the base fee for the card was $5 for the 2004 license year, and is
authorized to be adjusted annually pursuant to a specified index.
Existing law requires revenues to be deposited in the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund and to be available for expenditure, appropriation
by the Legislature, to monitor, restore, or enhance steelhead trout
resources consistent with specified law, and to administer the
fishing report-restoration card program. Existing law requires the
department to report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2007,
regarding the steelhead trout fishing report-restoration card program'
s projects undertaken using revenues derived pursuant to that
program, the benefits derived, and its recommendations for revising
the fishing report-restoration card requirement, if any. These
provisions become inoperative as of July 1, 2012, and are repealed as
of January 1, 2013.
   This bill would extend the operation of those provisions to July
1, 2017, to be repealed as of January 1, 2018. The bill would require
the department to report to the Legislature regarding the card
program's projects by July 1, 2016. The bill would appropriate
$500,000 from the steelhead trout fishing report-restoration card
revenues deposited in the fund to the department to monitor, restore,
or enhance steelhead trout resources consistent with specified law,
and to administer the fishing report-restoration card program.
   Because this bill would extend the operation of the
report-restoration card requirements, the violation of which would be
a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 7381 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   7381.  (a) Revenue received pursuant to Section 7380 may 
only  be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
 only  to monitor, restore, or enhance steelhead trout
resources consistent with Sections 6901 and 6902, and to administer
the fishing report-restoration card program. The department shall
submit all proposed expenditures, including proposed expenditures for
administrative purposes, to the Advisory Committee on Salmon and
Steelhead Trout for review and comment  prior to 
 before  submitting a request for inclusion of the
appropriation in the annual Budget Bill. The committee may recommend
revisions in any proposed expenditure to the Legislature and the
commission.
   (b) The department shall report to the Legislature on or before
July 1,  2007   2016  , regarding the
steelhead trout fishing report-restoration card program's projects
undertaken using revenues derived pursuant to that program, the
benefits derived, and its recommendations for revising the fishing
report-restoration card requirement, if any.  The report
submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in
compliance with Section 9795 of the   Government Code. 

  SEC. 2.  Section 7382 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

   7382.  This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 
2012   2017  , and, as of January 1,  2013
  2018  , is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute that is enacted before January 1,  2013 
 2018  , deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes
inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 3.  The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is
hereby appropriated from the steelhead trout fishing
report-restoration card revenues deposited in the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 7380 of the
Fish and Game Code to the Department of Fish and Game for the
purposes authorized pursuant to Section 7381 of the Fish and Game
Code. The money appropriated in this section shall be available for
expenditure by the Department of Fish and Game until December 31,
2014.
  SEC. 4.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.