NOTE: * denotes urgency legislation
SB 715 (Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee) - Taxation: Disaster Relief Provisions Reorders the existing disaster tax relief provisions for taxpayers who suffer uninsured losses during a presidentially-declared disaster to make it easier for taxpayers and tax preparers to follow. Chapter 952, Statutes of 1996 SB 879 (Senate Insurance Committee) - Disaster Revenue Bonds Allows the Department of Insurance to issue revenue bonds at the request of the California Insurance Guarantee Association following a catastrophic disaster to help pay the claims of insolvent insurers, as specified. Chapter 793, Statutes of 1996 SB 1506 (Johnson-R) - Property Tax Relief Provides reimbursement to the Laguna Beach Unified School District for reductions in the amount of property tax revenues received for the 1994-95 fiscal year due to reassessments of property damaged in the October 1993 Orange County fire. Vetoed by the Governor SB 1623 (Rosenthal-D) - Catastrophe Fund Creates the Natural Disaster Catastrophe Fund to provide reimbursement to insurers for a portion of losses arising from an earthquake. (Failed passage in Senate Insurance Committee) SB 2137 (Johannessen-R) - Community Service Districts Grants community service districts the power to build, maintain and operate flood protection works and facilities, subject to specified conditions. Chapter 903, Statutes of 1996 SB 8X (Campbell-R) - Natural Disaster Assistance: Real Estate Transfers Enacts the Disaster Relief Report Act of 1995. Requires that a disclosure statement containing specified information regarding certain natural conditions or hazards be delivered to a prospective purchaser of real property. Creates a new disaster assistance program which is to be the sole and exclusive relief that state government provides to property owners whose properties have been damaged by natural disasters, except to those properties where private insurance was not reasonably available. (Died in Senate Judiciary Committee) SB 9X (Johannessen-R) - Disasters: Restoration of Land Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act repairs to land and buildings damaged by natural or manmade disasters or emergencies. (Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee) SB 11X (Mello-D) - River Maintenance: Flood Control Allows creation of the Pajaro River Basin Flood Control Authority, if participating local agencies elect to create such an entity. (Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee) AB 360 (Hannigan-D) - Delta Levee Maintenance: Emergencies Allows the Department of Water Resources to use maintenance and improvement bonds in an emergency, to prepare a delta emergency response plan for levee failures, and to establish a multi-agency emergency response team to advise on methods to ensure that levee emergencies will be resolved quickly and safely. Chapter 601, Statutes of 1996 AB 386* (Alby-R) - Disaster Relief: 1986 Flood Enacts the 1986 Rio Linda/Strawberry Manor Flood Disaster Relief program to provide compensation to victims for personal and real property loss or damages suffered in the 1986 floods. (Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee) AB 678 (Woods-R) - Disasters: California Environmental Quality Act Exemption Exempts land and any appurtenant structures in need of repairs due to any natural or manmade disaster from the California Environmental Quality Act for the purposes of restoring the land and structures to the state in which they existed immediately prior to the disaster. (Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee) AB 1595* (Brewer-R) - Taxation: Disaster Relief Exempts a basic aid school district that is located in a county where the Governor has declared a disaster in fiscal year 1993-94 from the prohibition against receiving property tax revenue from the supplemental property tax roll. (Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee) AB 1796* (Richter-R) - Yuba County Flood Damages Creates the Yuba County Flood Damages Fund for the purpose of allowing the State Controller to compensate persons who are plaintiffs in a suit against the State of California arising out of the February 1986 floods in Yuba County. (Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee) AB 2103* (Mazzoni-D) - Taxation: Disaster Relief: Marin County Provides property tax relief and income tax relief for losses arising from fires or any other related casualty that occurred in Marin County in October 1995, regardless of whether a presidential disaster declaration was issued with respect to those fires or casualties. (Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee) AB 2292* (Knox-D) - Northridge Earthquake: Property Tax Assistance Prohibits the county assessor from making supplemental assessments on properties that were damaged in the Northridge earthquake and have been repaired, as specified. (Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee) AB 2963 (Firestone-R) - Environmental Quality Exempts projects to maintain, repair or restore non-scenic highways damaged through natural disasters from various permitting and reporting provisions of law such as the California Environmental Quality Act, requirements of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, coastal development contracts, and regional water quality control and waste discharge requirements. Chapter 825, Statutes of 1996 AB 3255* (Caldera-D) - Redevelopment Project Areas Allows the City of Los Angeles and any other municipality's redevelopment project areas that include a disaster area due to the January 1994 Northridge earthquake and aftershocks to calculate their allocation of taxes based on the assessment roll as reduced by the percentage of damages and destruction computed according to law. Chapter 784, Statutes of 1996 AB 5X* (Sher-D) - Flood Plains: Real Estate Transfers Broadens the required disclosure by the seller of real property by requiring that a seller disclose when the property is located within a flood plain of a watercourse that poses a substantial risk of flooding. (Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee) AB 8X (Escutia-D) - Schools: Disaster Kits Requires the governing board of each school district and county superintendent of schools of each county within its jurisdiction to provide an earthquake and flood emergency and disaster preparedness kit, as specified. (Died in Assembly Education Committee)
