Bill Text: CA SB295 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Board of Pilot Commissioners: surcharge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-02 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB295 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 295
| Introduced by Senator Dodd (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Grayson) |
February 02, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 1159.1 of the Harbors and Navigation Code, relating to bar pilots, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 295, as amended, Dodd.
Board of Pilot Commissioners: surcharge.
Existing law provides for the regulation and licensing of pilots for Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. Existing law also establishes, in the Transportation Agency, the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun. Existing law prescribes the rates of bar pilotage fees required to be charged by pilots and paid by vessels inward and outward bound through those bays. Existing law also imposes an additional pilot boat surcharge to recover the pilots’ costs of obtaining new pilot boats, including preliminary design and engineering, and of funding design and engineering modifications for the purpose of extending the service life of existing pilot boats, excluding costs for repair or maintenance, and authorizes the board to adjust the amount of the surcharge, as specified. Existing law requires the moneys charged and
collected each month from the surcharge to be paid to the Board of Pilot Commissioners’ Special Fund and credited to the Pilot Boat Surcharge Account, the moneys in which are continuously appropriated to the board to fund the pilot boat costs of obtaining new pilot boats and of funding design and engineering modifications for the purposes of extending the service life of existing pilot boats, excluding costs for repair or maintenance, and to cover the administrative costs of the board with respect to administration of the account. Existing law prohibits the amounts expended from the account for specified fiscal years from exceeding specified limits.
This bill would remove the prohibitions on expenditures above those specified limits, thereby making an appropriation, and would
expressly authorize any funds that remain in the account after any collections or expenditures to be expended in or carried over to any subsequent fiscal years. appropriation.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1159.1 of the Harbors and Navigation Code is amended to read:1159.1.
(a) The Pilot Boat Surcharge Account is hereby established in the Board of Pilot Commissioners’ Special Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the account are hereby continuously appropriated to the board without regard to fiscal years for allocation by the board for both of the following:(1) To fund the pilot boat costs of obtaining new pilot boats and of funding design and engineering modifications for the purpose of extending the service life of existing pilot boats, excluding costs for repair or maintenance, as specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1194.
(2) (A) To cover the administrative costs of the board with respect to administration of the account, including any audits of the usage of the account.
(B) No more than 5 percent of all moneys collected may be used by the board to offset administrative costs and expenses related to managing the pilot boat program, including auditing expenses.
(b)Any funds that remain in the account after any collections or expenditures may be expended in or carried over to any subsequent fiscal years.
(c)
(b) Interest earned on the moneys in the Pilot Boat Surcharge Account shall be allocated to the Pilot Boat Surcharge Account and shall be expended to recover the pilots’ claims submitted pursuant to Section 1194.1.
