Bill Text: CA SB554 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Delta levee maintenance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-30 - Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5. [SB554 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB554-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 554	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 167 to the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 554, as introduced, Wolk. California Water Commission:
disqualifying financial interest: removal from office.
   Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, prohibits a public
official at any level of state or local government from making,
participating in making, or in any way attempting to use his or her
official position to influence a governmental decision in which he or
she knows, or has reason to know, that he or she has a financial
interest. Existing law provides that a public official has a
financial interest in a decision if it is reasonably foreseeable that
the decision will have a material financial effect, distinguishable
from its effect on the public generally, on the official, a member of
his or her immediate family, or as specified.
   This bill would remove a member of the California Water Commission
from office if after trial a court finds that the commission member
has knowingly participated in any commission decision in which the
member has a disqualifying financial interest in the decision.
   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 167 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   167.  (a) A member of the commission shall not participate in any
commission decision in which the member has a disqualifying financial
interest in the decision within the meaning of Section 87103 of the
Government Code.
   (b) Upon the request of any person, or on the Attorney General's
own initiative, the Attorney General may file a complaint in the
Superior Court for the County of Sacramento alleging that a
commission member has knowingly violated this section and the facts
upon which the allegation is based and asking that the member be
removed from office. Further proceedings shall be in accordance as
near as may be with rules governing civil actions. If after trial the
court finds that the commission member has knowingly violated this
section, it shall pronounce judgment that the member be removed from
office.