(1) Existing law requires that any moneys appropriated from the Public Resources Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund for programs to protect, restore, enhance, or maintain waterfowl habitat be transferred to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for expenditure for those same purposes.
Existing law requires that any moneys appropriated to the Department of Fish and Wildlife from the California Environmental License Plate Fund in an amount not to exceed the amount transferred to the Department of Fish and Wildlife pursuant to the above provisions be transferred to the Department of Parks and Recreation for expenditure for exclusive trust purposes that include, among other things, the acquisition, preservation, restoration, or any combination thereof, of natural areas or ecological reserves.
This bill would repeal these provisions.
(2) The Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947 authorizes the Wildlife Conservation Board to, among other things, authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife to lease, sell, exchange, or otherwise transfer any real property, interest in real property, or option acquired by or held under the jurisdiction of the board or the department. The law also authorizes the board to authorize the department to lease degraded potential wildlife habitat real property to nonprofit organizations, local governmental agencies, or state and federal agencies if specified conditions are met. The law requires proceeds from specified transactions, including leases, entered into pursuant to these provisions to be deposited into the Wildlife Restoration Fund, except as provided.
This bill would require any moneys received in the Wildlife Restoration Fund from leases pursuant to these provisions to be expended, upon appropriation, by the Department of Fish and Wildlife for the purposes of managing, maintaining, restoring, or operating lands owned and managed by the department.
(3) The California Prompt Payment Act dictates that a state agency that fails to make a timely payment for goods or services acquired pursuant to a contract with a specified business or organization is subject to a late payment penalty. The act requires state agencies, on an annual basis within 90 calendar days following the end of each fiscal year, to provide the Director of General Services with a report on late payment penalties that were paid by the agency during the preceding fiscal year.
This
bill would exclude the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection from the above-described reporting requirements.
(4) Existing law provides for the appointment of Members of the Legislature to various state boards and commissions.
This bill would authorize the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Rules Committee to appoint a Member of the Legislature or legislative staff to serve as an alternate to a Member of the Legislature appointed to a state board or commission within the Natural Resources Agency in the Member’s absence.
(5) Existing law creates the Office of Information Security in the Department of Technology, to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of state systems and applications, and to
promote and protect consumer privacy to ensure the trust of the residents of the state. The office is under the direction of a director. Existing law authorizes the office to conduct, or require to be conducted, independent security assessments of any state agency, department, or office, the cost of which is required to be funded by the state agency, department, or office being assessed.
This bill would prohibit the office from requiring an independent security assessment of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(6) Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to issue a report identifying pipeline leak incident rate trends, reviewing current regulatory effectiveness with regard to pipeline safety, and recommending any necessary changes to the Legislature. Existing law requires a pipeline operator, within 30 days of a pipeline rupture, explosion, or fire, to file a report with the State Fire
Marshal.
This bill would delete these requirements.
(7) Existing law, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, approved by the voters as Proposition 1B at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of $19,925,000,000 of general obligation bonds for specified purposes, including schoolbus retrofit and replacement purposes. Existing law also establishes various programs for the reduction of vehicular air pollution, including the Lower-Emission School Bus Program adopted by the State Air Resources Board. Existing law appropriates funds to the state board and requires the state board to allocate these bond funds in specified ways, including funding to local air pollution control and air quality
management districts.
This bill would require funds authorized by the State Air Resources Board during or subsequent to the 2013–14 fiscal year to be allocated to local air pollution control and air quality management districts by prioritizing to retrofit or replace the most polluting schoolbuses in small local air pollution control and air quality management districts first and then medium local air pollution control and air quality management districts as defined by the state board. The bill would require each allocation to provide sufficient funding for at least one project to be implemented pursuant to the Lower-Emission School Bus Program. The bill, if a local air pollution control or air quality management district has unspent funds within 6 months of the expenditure deadline, would require the local air pollution control or air quality management district to work with the state board to
transfer those funds to an alternative local air pollution control or air quality management district with existing demand.
(8) Existing law requires a state agency to report annually to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery on its progress in meeting recycled product purchasing requirements and requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide this reported information to the Legislature in an agency-specific report.
This bill would exempt the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection from this reporting requirement and would delete the requirement that the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery provide the report to the Legislature.
(9) Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to submit an annual report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee regarding emergency incidents.
This bill would delete this requirement and other obsolete reporting provisions.
(10) Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to submit a report to the Legislature on the actions taken by the board relating to forest practices, as provided. Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to prepare reports for the board setting forth data as to the experiments conducted by the department, and existing law requires the board to make these reports available to the Legislature.
This bill would delete the
requirements that the board provide these reports to the Legislature.
(11) Existing law authorizes the Department of Finance to delegate to the Department of Parks and Recreation the right to exercise the same authority granted to the Division of the State Architect and the Real Estate Services Division in the Department of General Services, to plan, design, construct, and administer contracts and professional services for legislatively approved capital outlay projects. This provision is repealed as of January 1, 2014.
This bill would extend the repeal date to January 1, 2019.
(12) Existing law authorizes the Department of Parks and
Recreation to enter into contracts with natural persons, corporations, partnerships, and associations for the construction, maintenance, and operation of concessions within units of the state park system. Existing law requires those concession contracts to contain certain specified provisions, including a provision that the maximum term shall be 10 years, except that a term of more than 10 years may be provided if the Director of Parks and Recreation determines that the longer term is necessary to allow the concessionaire to amortize improvements made by the concessionaire, to facilitate the full utilization of a structure that is scheduled by the department for replacement or redevelopment, or to serve the best interests of the state. Existing law prohibits, with certain exceptions, the term of a concession contract from exceeding 20 years without specific authorization by statute.
This bill would authorize the term to
exceed 20 years for a concession agreement at Will Rogers State Beach executed prior to December 31, 1997, as provided, without specific authorization by statute upon approval by the director and pursuant to a determination by the director that the longer term is necessary to allow the concessionaire to amortize improvements made by the concessionaire that are anticipated to exceed $1,500,000 in capital improvements. The bill would prohibit the extension of the term from exceeding 15 years.
(13) Existing law, the California Clean Water, Clean Air, and Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002, approved by the voters as Proposition 40 at the March 5, 2002, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,600,000,000, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, restoration, protection, rehabilitation, stabilization,
reconstruction, preservation, and interpretation of park, coastal, agricultural land, air, and historical resources, as specified.
Proposition 40 requires that a specified sum from the proceeds of bonds issued and sold under its provisions, which is available upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to the State Air Resources Board for grants to air pollution control and air quality management districts pursuant to the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program for projects that reduce air pollution that affects air quality in state and local park and recreation areas.
This bill would require that allocations of these funds to the Lower-Emission School Bus Program be prioritized to retrofit or replace the most polluting schoolbuses in small local air quality
management districts first and then to medium local air quality management districts as defined by the state board. The bill would require that each allocation for this purpose provide enough funding for at least one project to be implemented pursuant to the Lower-Emission School Bus Program. The bill, if a local air quality management district has unspent funds within 6 months of the expenditure deadline, would require the local air quality management district to work with the state board to transfer funds to an alternative local air quality management district with existing demand.
(14) Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The act requires that every
convenience zone be served by at least one certified recycling center and the department is required to certify recycling centers and processors for purposes of the act. The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to adopt, by regulation, procedures for the certification of recycling centers and processors.
This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to review whether an application for certification as a recycling center or processor, or renewal of a certification, is complete within 30 working days of receipt and if the department deems an application complete, the department would be required to approve or deny the application no later than 60 calendar days after the date when the application was deemed complete. The bill would also require, on and after January 1, 2014, an applicant for certification as a recycling center or processor, or for
renewal of a certification, to complete a precertification training program and meet all other qualification requirements prescribed by the department, which would be authorized to include requiring the applicant to obtain a passing score on an examination administered by the department.
(15) Existing law specifies requirements for the reports, claims, and information required to be submitted to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery pursuant to the act.
This bill would instead require a person otherwise subject to these requirements to use the Division of Recycling Integrated Information System (DORIIS) or other system designated by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for reporting, making, or claiming payments or providing other information
for purposes of the act.
(16) Existing law requires certified recycling centers to accept any empty beverage container from a consumer or dropoff or collection program and pay the refund value, which can be based on weight. Existing law requires the department to review and calculate the commingled rates paid for beverage containers and postfilled containers paid to curbside recycling programs, collection programs, and recycling centers.
This bill would require, on and after September 1, 2013, a certified recycling center, for beverage containers redeemed by consumers, to pay the refund value based on the applicable segregated rate. The bill would delete recycling centers from those entities for which the department is required to calculate a commingled rate.
(17) Existing law provides that a violation of the act is an infraction. The act also provides that a person who, with intent to defraud, takes specified actions, is guilty of fraud, punishable as specified.
This bill would additionally provide that a person who violates a regulation adopted pursuant to the act is guilty of an infraction. The bill would instead specify that a person who, with intent to defraud, takes those actions knowingly is guilty of a crime, punishable as specified.
(18) Because a violation of the act is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating new crimes with regard to the submission of information to the department, the payment of refund values, and
the violation of a regulation.
(19) The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdiction over all public utilities, as defined. The Reliable Electric Service Investments Act required the Public Utilities Commission to require the state’s 3 largest electrical corporations, until January 1, 2012, to identify a separate electrical rate component, commonly referred to as the “public goods charge,” to collect specified amounts to fund energy efficiency, renewable energy, and research, development, and demonstration programs that enhance system reliability and provide in-state benefits. Existing decisions of the Public Utilities Commission institute an Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) to fund renewable energy and research, development, and demonstration programs.
Existing law creates in the
State Treasury the Electric Program Investment Charge Fund to be administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and requires moneys received by the Public Utilities Commission for those programs the Public Utilities Commission has determined should be administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to be forwarded by the Public Utilities Commission to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission at least quarterly for deposit in the fund.
This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in administering moneys in the fund for research, development, and demonstration programs, to develop and administer the EPIC program for the purpose of awarding funds to projects that may lead to technological advancement and breakthroughs to overcome barriers that prevent the achievement of the
state’s statutory energy goals and that may result in a portfolio of projects that is strategically focused and sufficiently narrow to make advancement on the most significant technological challenges. The bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, no later than April 30 of each year, to prepare and submit to the Legislature an annual report regarding the EPIC program.
This bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from requiring the collection of moneys pursuant to a specified decision and any amendments to that decision in an annual amount greater than the amount set forth in that decision of the Public Utilities Commission.
(20) Existing law establishes the Emerging Renewable Resources Account, a continuously appropriated account, within the Renewable
Resource Trust Fund for specified purposes related to renewable energy.
This bill would additionally authorize the use of the moneys in the account for the purposes of funding the New Solar Homes Partnership. Because the bill would expand the purposes of a continuously appropriated account, the bill would make an appropriation.
(21) Existing law defines a PACE program as a program that is financed by a PACE bond. Existing law requires the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to develop and administer a PACE Reserve program to reduce the overall costs to property owners of a Property Assessed Clean Energy bond, or PACE bond, issued by an applicant that has established a Property Assessed Clean Energy program, or PACE program, by providing a reserve of no more than 10%
of the initial amount of the PACE bond. Existing law, in 2010, appropriates, until January 1, 2015, $50,000,000 from the Renewable Resource Trust Fund for the above purpose.
This bill would additionally require the authority to develop and administer a PACE risk mitigation program for PACE loans to increase their acceptance in the marketplace and protect against the risk of default and foreclosure. The bill would additionally include a PACE loan program as a PACE program. Because this bill would expand the use of the moneys appropriated by existing law, this bill would make an appropriation.
(22) Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to regulate the protection of marine plants and animals in marine protected areas, as defined.
Existing law
establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government, and prescribes the membership, terms of office, and functions and duties of the council.
This bill would require that, commencing on July 1, 2013, the Ocean Protection Council assume responsibility for the direction of policy of marine protected areas.
(23) Existing law requires that at the Ocean Protection Council’s first meeting in a calendar year, the council elect a chairperson from among its voting members.
This bill would delete that requirement and would instead require that the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency serve as the chairperson of the Ocean Protection Council, and that the Secretary for Environmental Protection serve as the vice chairperson of the council. The bill would require that the Assistant Secretary for Coastal Matters at the Natural Resources Agency be designated as
the Deputy Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for Ocean and Coastal Policy, and would require the deputy secretary to also serve as the executive director for the council.
(24) Existing law authorizes the Legislature to make appropriations directly to the State Coastal Conservancy for expenditures authorized by the council for specified purposes related to the regulation of coastal development and protection.
This bill would instead authorize the Legislature to make those appropriations directly to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for those expenditures authorized by the council for specified purposes related to the regulation of coastal development and protection. The bill would also require that any bond funds received by the State Coastal Conservancy, on or before July 1, 2013, authorized to fund Ocean Protection Council’s programs be transferred to the Natural Resources Agency
for use for those programs. The bill would provide for the transfer to the secretary of certain functions and duties of the State Coastal Conservancy with regard to the implementation of contracts and grants on behalf of the council.
(25) The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state, individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, to submit a carpet stewardship plan to the department. A manufacturer or carpet stewardship organization submitting a carpet stewardship plan is required to pay the department an annual administrative fee, as determined by the department. The department is also required to identify the direct development or regulatory costs incurred by the department prior to the submittal of carpet stewardship plans and to
establish a fee in an amount adequate to cover those costs, that is required to be paid in 3 equal payments by a carpet stewardship organization that submits a carpet stewardship plan. Existing law establishes the Carpet Stewardship Account in the Integrated Waste Management Fund and requires these fees to be deposited in that account, for expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the department’s cost to implement the carpet stewardship program provisions.
This bill would instead require a carpet stewardship organization to pay these fees quarterly to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and would make conforming changes regarding those requirements.
(26) The act requires a manufacturer of architectural paint or
designated stewardship organization to submit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery an architectural paint stewardship plan to develop and implement a recovery program to manage the end of life of postconsumer architectural paint. A stewardship organization is required to pay the department an annual administrative fee in the amount that is sufficient to cover the department’s full costs of administering and enforcing the program. The fee is required to be deposited in the Architectural Paint Stewardship Account in the Integrated Waste Management Fund, which may be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the department’s costs to implement the architectural paint stewardship program provisions.
This bill would require the stewardship organization to pay the fees quarterly and would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to
impose the fees in an amount that includes any program development costs or regulatory costs incurred by the department prior to the submittal of the stewardship plans.
(27) Existing law establishes the Office of Education and the Environment in the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to implement the statewide environmental educational program and requires the office, in cooperation with the State Department of Education and the State Board of Education, to develop and implement a unified education strategy on the environment for elementary and secondary schools in the state. The Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 2012, which will become effective July 1, 2013, provides that CalRecycle is transferred from the Natural Resources Agency to the California Environmental Protection Agency.
This bill would make conforming changes with regard to the establishment of the office in the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
(28) Existing law requires the Office of Education and the Environment to develop a model environmental curriculum incorporating certain environmental principles and to submit the model curriculum to the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission for review, as prescribed.
This bill would instead require the model curriculum to be submitted to the Instructional Quality Commission for review.
(29) Existing law requires the State Department of
Education to make the curriculum available electronically and requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to assume the costs associated with the printing of the approved model curriculum.
This bill would instead require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to make the curriculum available electronically and would delete the requirement with regard to the assumption of those costs. The bill would require the department to coordinate with specified state agencies to facilitate use of the model environmental curriculum and would authorize the department and those state agencies to collaborate with other specified entities to implement the program.
(30) Existing law establishes the Environmental Education Account in the State Treasury and
authorizes the California Environmental Protection Agency to expend the moneys in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the program.
This bill would instead authorize the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to expend the funds in the account.
(31) Existing law establishes the Division of Ratepayer Advocates within the Public Utilities Commission to represent the interests of public utility customers and subscribers, with the goal of obtaining the lowest possible rate for service consistent with reliable and safe service levels. Existing law requires the Director of the Division of Ratepayer Advocates to submit a budget to the Public Utilities Commission for final approval. Existing law authorizes the director of the division to
appoint a lead attorney to represent the division and requires all attorneys assigned by the Public Utilities Commission to perform services for the division to report to and be directed by the lead attorney for the division.
This bill would rename the Division of Ratepayer Advocates the Office of Ratepayer Advocates and would require that the director of the office develop a budget for the office that would be submitted to the Department of Finance for final approval. The bill would require the lead attorney to obtain adequate legal personnel for the work to be conducted by the office from the Public Utilities Commission’s attorney and requires the Public Utilities Commission’s attorney to timely and appropriately fulfill all requests for legal personnel made by the lead attorney for the office, provided the office has sufficient moneys and positions in its budget for the services requested.
(32) Existing law establishes the Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account and authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to annually determine a fee to be paid by every public utility providing service directly to customers or subscribers and subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, except for a railroad corporation. The Public Utilities Commission is required to establish the fee, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to produce a total amount equal to that amount established in the authorized Public Utilities Commission budget for the same year, and an appropriate reserve to regulate public utilities, less specified sources of funding.
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to conduct a zero-based budget for all of its programs by January 10, 2015.
(33) Existing law authorizes certain public utilities, including
electrical corporations and gas corporations, as defined, to propose research and development programs and authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to allow inclusion of expenses for research and development in rates. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to consider specified guidelines in evaluating the research, development, and demonstration programs proposed by electrical corporations and gas corporations.
This bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission, in implementing the 21st Century Energy System Decision, as defined, from authorizing recovery from ratepayers of any expense for research and development projects that are not for purposes of cyber security and grid integration and would limit total funding for research and development projects for the purposes of cyber security and grid integration from exceeding $35,000,000. The bill would require that all cyber security and grid
integration research and development projects be concluded by the 5th anniversary of their start date. The bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from approving recovery from ratepayers of certain program management expenditures proposed in the 21st Century Energy System Decision proceeding. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to require the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas and Electric Company to ensure that research parameters reflect a new contribution to cyber security and grid integration and that there not be a duplication of research being done by other private and governmental entities. The bill would require the participating electrical corporations to jointly report specified information to the Public Utilities Commission by December 1, 2013, and 60 days following conclusion of all research and development projects, and would require the Public Utilities Commission, upon
determining that each report is sufficient, to report that information to the Legislature.
(34) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, by January 10 of each year, to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature on all sources and amounts of funding and actual and proposed expenditures, including any costs to ratepayers, related to specified entities or programs established by the Public Utilities Commission by order, decision, motion, settlement, or other action, including, but not limited to, the California Clean Energy Fund, the California Emerging Technology Fund, and the Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council, and any entities or programs, other than those expressly authorized by statute, that are established by the Public Utilities Commission under specified statutes.
This bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission, by order, decision, motion, settlement, or other action, from establishing a nonstate entity, as defined, with any moneys other than those moneys that would otherwise belong to the public utility’s shareholders. The bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from entering into a contract with any nonstate entity in which a person serves as an owner, director, or officer while serving as a commissioner. The bill would provide that any contract between the Public Utilities Commission and a nonstate entity is void and ceases to exist by operation of law if a person who was a commissioner at the time the contract was awarded, entered into, or extended, on or after January 1, 2014, becomes an owner, director, or officer of the nonstate entity while serving as a commissioner.
(35) The California Constitution provides that the Legislature may
remove a commissioner of the Public Utilities Commission for incompetence, neglect of duty, or corruption, 2/3 of the membership of each house concurring.
This bill would, beginning June 1, 2014, provide that a commissioner who acts as an owner, director, or officer of a nonstate entity that was established prior to January 1, 2014, as a result of an order, decision, motion, settlement, or other action by the Public Utilities Commission in which the commissioner participated, neglects his or her duty and may be removed pursuant to the California Constitution.
(36) The Public Utilities Act provides for the imposition of fines and penalties by the Public Utilities Commission for various
violations of the act and provides that any public utility that violates any provision of the California Constitution or the act, or that fails or neglects to comply with any order, decision, decree, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the Public Utilities Commission, where a penalty has not otherwise been provided, is subject to a penalty of not less than $500 and not more than $50,000 for each offense. The act authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to bring an action to recover fines and penalties imposed pursuant to the act in the superior court and requires that all fines and penalties recovered by the state in an action filed in the superior court, together with the costs of bringing the action, be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.
This bill would prohibit the Public Utilities Commission from distributing, expending, or encumbering any moneys received by the Public Utilities Commission as a result of any Public Utilities
Commission proceeding or judicial action until the Public Utilities Commission provides the Director of Finance with written notification of the receipt of the moneys and the basis for these moneys being received by the Public Utilities Commission and the director provides not less than 60 days written notice to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairpersons of the appropriate budget subcommittees of the Assembly and Senate of the receipt of the moneys and the basis for those moneys being received by the Public Utilities Commission.
(37) Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission adopted the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to undertake certain steps in implementing the California Solar Initiative. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to ensure that the total cost of the California Solar Initiative over the duration of the program does not
exceed $3,350,000,000, including $400,000,000 from the Emerging Renewable Resources Account within the Renewable Resource Trust Fund, for programs for the installation of solar energy systems, as defined, on new construction administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, known as the New Solar Homes Partnership Program.
This bill would authorize the Public Utilities Commission, if it is notified by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission that funding available pursuant to the Emerging Renewable Resources Account for the New Solar Homes Partnership Program has been exhausted, to require an electrical corporation to continue administration of the program pursuant to the guidelines established for the program by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, until the funding limit of $400,000,000 has been reached. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation
with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to supervise the administration of the continuation of the New Solar Homes Partnership Program by an electrical corporation. The bill would authorize an electrical corporation to elect to have a 3rd-party administer the utility’s continuation of the program.
(38) Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to acquire real property for state highway purposes. Existing law specifies various procedures to be followed by the department when it determines that real property acquired for state highway purposes is no longer necessary for those purposes, generally under terms and conditions established by the California Transportation Commission.
This bill would require the Department of Transportation to transfer certain real property it owns in the City of San Diego to the
Department of Parks and Recreation for incorporation into the state park system. The bill would require the transfer to be completed within 90 days of the effective date of the bill. The bill would make various findings and declarations in that regard.
(39) Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Project and exercises other functions relating to the state’s water resources. Under the Federal Power Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, is responsible for the relicensing of federally licensed hydroelectric power projects.
This bill would require the Director of Finance to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee of any hydroelectric power project relicensing proposal for the FERC that, if approved by the Department of Water
Resources, would obligate the General Fund in the current or future years. This bill would authorize the department to approve that relicensing proposal not less than 30 days after the director notifies the committee.
(40) Existing law, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009, establishes the Delta Stewardship Council, consisting of 7 voting members. Existing law prohibits a member of the council from serving 2 consecutive terms, but permits a member to be reappointed after a period of 2 years following the end of his or her term.
This bill would eliminate the above-described prohibition.
(41) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(42) This bill would reappropriate to the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy the balance of a specified appropriation made in the Budget Act of 2010, the moneys to be available for capital outlay or local assistance until June 30, 2016.
(43) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.