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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 528	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2011

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
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	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 528, as amended, 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,  up 
 on  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1, 2012, and are repealed as of January 1, 2013.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1, 2017, to be repealed as of January 1, 2018.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   no
 . 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 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 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, 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, 2017, and,
as of January 1, 2018, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute
that is enacted before January 1, 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
encumbrance by the Department of Fish and Game until December 31,
2014. 
   SEC. 4.  SEC. 3.   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.