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AB-2280 Sport fishing: license revenues: Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities program.(2003-2004)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 26, 2004
Amended  IN  Senate  June 28, 2004

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2003–2004 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2280

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Cogdill
 (Principal Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Maze)
 (Coauthor(s): Assembly Member Aghazarian, Bates, Berg, Bermudez, Bogh, Calderon, Chavez, Cohn, Cox, Daucher, Dutton, Frommer, Garcia, Harman, Houston, La Malfa, La Suer, Leslie, Maddox, McCarthy, Mountjoy, Runner, Samuelian, Spitzer, Steinberg, Strickland, Vargas, Wyland)
 (Coauthor(s): Senator Ackerman, Denham, Morrow)

February 19, 2004

An act to add Section 13007 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to sport fishing, and declaring the urgency therof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2280, as amended, Cogdill. Sport fishing: license revenues: Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities program.

Under

(1) Under existing law, all money collected under the provisions of the Fish and Game Code is deposited into the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, unless otherwise provided.
Existing law provides that, of the money collected from fees for lifetime sportsman’s licenses, lifetime hunting licenses, and lifetime sport fishing licenses, $20 from the initial issuance of each lifetime license is deposited into the Fish and Game Preservation Fund for the costs of hunting and sport fishing programs, and the rest is deposited in the Lifetime License Trust Account within that fund, the principal of which is to be used for investment, except as specified.
This bill instead would provide that 331/3% of the fees derived from the issuance of all sport fishing licenses, with the exception of revenue currently designated for deposit into the Lifetime License Trust Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, be deposited into the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would provide that moneys in the fund may be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to support the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities program of the Department of Fish and Game, or and to support any other purpose for which the fees may be used.
(2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 13007 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

13007.
 Notwithstanding Section 13001 and paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 13005, 331/3 percent of all sport fishing license fees collected pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 7145) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 6 shall be deposited into the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities Fund, which is hereby established in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to support the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities program of the Department of Fish and Game and to support other activities eligible to be funded from revenue generated by sport fishing license fees.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to ensure that the Department of Fish and Game grants priority to hatchery funding during its 2005–06 budget review process, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.