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SB-1464 State agencies: Resources Agency.(2007-2008)

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Senate Bill No. 1464
CHAPTER 205

An act to amend Section 12800 of, to add Section 12802 to, and to repeal and add Section 12805 of, the Government Code, relating to state agencies.

[ Approved by Governor  July 25, 2008. Filed with Secretary of State  July 25, 2008. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1464, Maldonado. State agencies: Resources Agency.
Existing law establishes the Resources Agency in state government and sets forth the entities that are within that agency.
This bill would rename the Resources Agency the Natural Resources Agency, would revise the provision identifying the entities within the agency to reflect its current composition, and would make related changes. The bill would prohibit any supplies, forms, insignias, signs, or logos from being destroyed or changed as a result of the name change and would require their continued use until exhausted or unserviceable.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 12800 of the Government Code is amended to read:

12800.
 There are in the state government the following agencies: State and Consumer Services; Business, Transportation and Housing; California Environmental Protection; California Health and Human Services; Labor and Workforce Development; Natural Resources; and Youth and Adult Correctional.
Whenever the term “Agriculture and Services Agency” appears in any law, it means the “State and Consumer Services Agency,” and whenever the term “Secretary of Agriculture and Services Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Secretary of State and Consumer Services.”
Whenever the term “Business and Transportation Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Business, Transportation and Housing Agency,” and whenever the term “Secretary of the Business and Transportation Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing.”
Whenever the term “Health and Welfare Agency” appears in any law, it means the “California Health and Human Services Agency,” and whenever the term “Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Secretary of California Health and Human Services.”
Whenever the term “Resources Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Natural Resources Agency,” and whenever the term “Secretary of the Resources Agency” appears in any law, it means the “Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.”

SEC. 2.

 Section 12802 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12802.
 (a) The Natural Resources Agency shall succeed to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction previously vested in the Resources Agency.
(b) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency shall succeed to, and is vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction previously vested in the Secretary of the Resources Agency.

SEC. 3.

 Section 12805 of the Government Code is repealed.

SEC. 4.

 Section 12805 is added to the Government Code, to read:

12805.
 (a) The Resources Agency is hereby renamed the Natural Resources Agency. The Natural Resources Agency consists of the departments of Forestry and Fire Protection, Conservation, Fish and Game, Boating and Waterways, Parks and Recreation, and Water Resources; the State Lands Commission; the Colorado River Board; the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission; the Central Valley Flood Protection Board; the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission; the Wildlife Conservation Board; the Delta Protection Commission; the Native American Heritage Commission; the California Conservation Corps; the California Coastal Commission; the State Coastal Conservancy; the California Tahoe Conservancy; the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy; the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy; the San Joaquin River Conservancy; the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy; the Baldwin Hills Conservancy; the San Diego River Conservancy; and the Sierra Nevada Conservancy.
(b) No existing supplies, forms, insignias, signs, or logos shall be destroyed or changed as a result of changing the name of the Resources Agency to the Natural Resources Agency, and those materials shall continue to be used until exhausted or unserviceable.