Bill Text: CA AB552 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Coastal resources: Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB552 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB552-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 552

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Introduced by Assembly Member Mark Stone

February 13, 2019

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An act to amend Section 5000 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to tortoises.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 552, as introduced, Mark Stone. Tortoises.

Existing law makes it unlawful to sell, purchase, harm, take, possess, transport, or shoot a projectile at, a tortoise of the genus Gopherus.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 5000 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to read:

5000.

 It is unlawful to sell, purchase, harm, take, possess, transport, or shoot a projectile at, a tortoise (Gopherus). of the genus Gopherus. This section does not apply to the taking of a tortoise when authorized by the department.