Bill Text: CA SB223 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Division of Boating and Waterways: oversight committee: invasive aquatic plants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB223 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB223-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 223	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to add Section 64.6 to the Harbors and Navigation Code,
relating to aquatic invasive plants.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 223, as introduced, Galgiani. Division of Boating and
Waterways: oversight committee: invasive aquatic plants.
   Existing law designates the Division of Boating and Waterways
within the Department of Parks and Recreation as the lead agency of
the state for purposes of cooperating with other state, local, and
federal agencies in identifying, detecting, controlling, and
administering programs to manage invasive aquatic plants in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, its tributaries, and the Suisun Marsh,
and prescribes the duties of the division with regard to the
management and control or eradication of those plants.
   This bill would require the division, no later than January 1,
2017, to establish an advisory and oversight committee to monitor the
activities of the division relating to the management and control or
eradication of those plants.
   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.  Section 64.6 is added to the Harbors and Navigation
Code, to read:
   64.6.  The division shall, no later than January 1, 2017,
establish an advisory and oversight committee to monitor the
activities of the division relating to the management and control or
eradication of invasive aquatic plants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta, its tributaries, and the Suisun Marsh.