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SB 109 (Ortiz-D) Air pollution: minor violations: stationary sources
Enhances penalties for severe violations of some air pollution control laws and reinstates provisions, that sunsetted on January 1, 2006, subjecting a person who commits a minor violation of an air pollution law only to administrative penalties.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 225 (Soto-D) Carl Moyer program
Allows the Air Resources Board to determine a higher cost effectiveness threshold (in $/ton of oxides of nitrogen) for the purpose of making grants under the Carl Moyer Air Quality Program, based on consumer price index adjustments.
Chapter 627, Statutes of 2006

SB 250 (Campbell-R) Department of Food and Agriculture: hydrogen fuel standards
Requires the establishment of standards for hydrogen fuels and fuel cells.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 459 (Romero-D) Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District to impose a reasonable emissions fee on railroads that operate within its four-county boundaries with the purpose of using those revenues to protect public health from the effects of air pollution.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 760 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement
Imposes a minimum $30 fee on each shipping container processed at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to fund projects to improve the security of ports-related rail transportation and ports facilities and to mitigate pollution caused by ports operations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 761 (Lowenthal-D) Air resources: marine terminals
Imposes specific time limits for truck vehicles to complete loading and unloading operations at a seaport marine terminal, and mandates that a marine terminal implement an appointments system for trucks entering this facility.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 764 (Lowenthal-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District: ports
Establishes a process for restricting future air pollutant emissions generated by activities at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 829 (Murray-D) Air quality: vehicular sources
Allows the State Air Resources Board to develop a feasible quantified methodology to evaluate the impact of transportation projects on conformity with state ambient air quality standards, no later than June 30, 2010.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 863 (Florez-D) California Clean Air Bond Act
Places $5.15 billion in general obligation bonds on the November 7, 2006, statewide ballot for the purpose of clean air projects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 870 (Escutia-D) Air quality: violations: nonvehicular sources
Sets in statute minimum penalties for statutory source air violations.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 931 (Florez-D) Pollution control authority
Prohibits the California Pollution Control Financing Authority from providing financing to animal feeding operations unless specific conditions are met.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 976 (Ashburn-R) Protect California Air Act of 2003: stationary sources
Authorizes an air district reviewing the modification or replacement of a permit for a stationary source on a military installation, to waive the requirement of the Protect California Air Act, created by SB 288 (Sher), Chapter 476, Statutes of 2003, or any regulation implementing that requirement, for a potential to emit analysis, for the provision of emission offsets based on a potential to emit analysis, or for both.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 999 (Machado-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Increases the size of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District board from 11 members to 15 members increasing the number of city representatives from three to five, adding two public members with specified qualifications, and changes the appointment procedures for city representatives.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1205 (Escutia-D) Air pollution: Children's Breathing Rights Act: penalties
Enacts the Children's Breathing Rights Act and increases the penalty caps for specified violations.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1230 (Florez-D) San Joaquin Valley Clean Air Enterprise Zone Program
Establishes clean air enterprise zones within the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District and provides expedited permitting, loan guarantee and low-interest loans to finance capital expenditures that meet and exceed air requirements.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1252 (Florez-D) Air pollution: penalties: particulate matter
Codifies existing air quality regulations and increases civil penalties for violating the states standards.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1286 (Ducheny-D) Binational air pollution
Establishes a binational council to address air quality issues for the air basin encompassing the Cities of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California, contingent on the execution of a memorandum of understanding between any California state agency, the County of Imperial, the State of Baja California and the City of Mexicali.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1368 (Perata-D) Electricity: emissions of greenhouse gases
Requires the Energy Conservation and Development Commission (ECDC) to set emission (e.g., pollution) standards for those entities providing electricity in the state. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to prohibit electricity providers and corporations from entering long-term contracts which do not meet the ECDC's standard.
Chapter 598, Statutes of 2006

SB 1377 (Soto-D) Air Resources Board: powers and duties
Increases public and community participation in the decision-making process at the Air Resources Board in the development of memoranda of understanding and other board actions.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1416 (Battin-R) Air resources: gasoline supply
Requests the University of California to conduct a study on certain California Phase 3 Reformulated Gasoline issues. Authorizes any gasoline approved for sale in the state by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Clean Air Act to be imported into and sold in the state.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1505 (Lowenthal-D) Fuel: hydrogen alternative fuel
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations that ensure the production and use of hydrogen for transportation purposes contributes to the reduction of green house gas emissions, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants.
Chapter 877, Statutes of 2006

SB 1511 (Ducheny-D) Renewable fuels: regulations
Requires the Air Resources Board to amend its existing regulations to increase the use of renewable fuels.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1601 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: marine ports: emissions
Requires the marine ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland to include as a condition of any new lease or significant renegotiated existing lease between the marine port and any entity to lease any part of port property or any right-of-way include as an express condition that a lessee use best available control technology for reducing particulate matter and nitrous oxide emissions from specified sources (i.e., ocean-going vessels, harbor craft, cargo handling equipment, on-road heavy-duty vehicles, and certain locomotives).
(Died on Senate Floor)

SB 1675 (Kehoe-D) Vehicular air pollution: renewable diesel fuel
Enacts the California Renewable Diesel Standards Act to require that diesel fuel sold in California contain at least two percent renewable diesel and two years thereafter it contain at least five percent renewable diesel.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 1718 (Perata-D) Air pollution
Limits expenditures as they relate to unregulated agricultural sources of air pollution, to the new purchase, retrofit, repower, or add-on of equipment for previously unregulated internal combustion engines that are agricultural sources of air pollution, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1829 (Lowenthal-D) Marine terminals: air emissions
Tightens restrictions on truck idling at marine container terminals and shifts enforcement authority from individual local air districts to the Air Resources Board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1839 (Perata-D) Air pollution: smog check: Inspection and Maintenance Review
Deletes the requirement that a committee review the protocol for a pilot program established by the Department of Consumer Affairs and provides that the committee and its various functions and responsibilities remain in effect only until December 31, 2005.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SCR 34 (Kehoe-D) West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative
Proclaims the Legislature's support for the West Coast Governors' Global Warming Initiative and the Governors' staff recommendations and urges the Governor to move forward expeditiously in the implementation and further development of those recommendations, and in particular, with the adoption of aggressive targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions for the state.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SCR 63 (Florez-D) California school bus emissions reduction
Encourages the Public Utilities Commission to develop a program to retrofit diesel school buses and encourages unregulated public utilities to participate in the program.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SR 23 (Florez-D) Federal clean air regulation
Calls upon the United States Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw a rule published in the Federal Register that would remove air protections from areas of California and other Western states, by providing that rural areas would no longer have to meet federal rules for windblown clouds of dust, and that mining and farming operations also would be exempt from those requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 32 (Pavley-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Enacts the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 which creates a statewide greenhouse gas emission limit that would reduce emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006

AB 184 (Cogdill-R) Air quality: high polluter vehicles
Establishes a vehicle replacement program at the Department of Consumer Affairs through which vehicles that meet certain air emissions standards can be donated to the program to be made available to replace high-polluter vehicles voluntarily turned in to the program by other persons.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 578 (Shirley Horton-R) Air pollution: smog check: repair stations
Permits a specified percentage of high performance test-and-repair smog inspection stations to perform smog inspections on vehicles suspected of high emissions that are presently solely inspected at test-only stations.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 679 (Calderon-D) Air resources: diesel fuel
Allows the importation of diesel fuel that meets specified criteria.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2006

AB 825 (Levine-D) Air resources: binational air quality
Requires, on or before June 1, 2007, the Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency to invite members of the San Diego-Tijuana Air Quality Task Force and the Imperial Valley-Mexicali Air Quality Task Force to meet and discuss, on or before January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter, issues, including making specified recommendations, relating to air quality in the San Diego-Tijuana air basin and the Calexico-Mexicali air basin.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 888 (De La Torre-D) Air pollution: equipment emissions
Authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District to establish a rail yard equipment emission reduction program.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 1012 (Nation-D) Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to ensure that one-half of new passenger and light-duty trucks, beginning in 2020, sold in California are clean alternative vehicles.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1101 (Oropeza-D) Air pollution: diesel magnet sources
Defines diesel magnet sources and establishes the requirements these facilities must meet in order to comply with the Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information and Assessment Act of 1987.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 1231 (Jerome Horton-D) Air pollution
Requires local air quality districts (local districts) to submit regulatory compliance information to the Air Resources Board (ARB) on or before December 31, 2007, and biennially thereafter. Requires the ARB to compile and post this information on its web site on or before March 31, 2008, and biennially thereafter, and revises local district procedures.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 1269* (Pavley-D) Clean air, water, coastal protection and parks
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at an unspecified future statewide election, an unspecified amount of general obligation bonds, from which bond sale proceeds would be allocated to several resources-related projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1292 (Evans-D) School facilities: air quality
Requires each school site council to adopt guidelines that describe the actions of district staff, teachers, and school site staff to ensure good air quality by January 1, 2007, and each year thereafter, and requires a school district, upon approval of the guidelines by the district's governing board, to distribute them to all teachers at the school site, among other things.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1341* (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Financing authorities: grants and loans
Extends the sunset for the California Pollution Control Financing Authority's Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program from 2007 to 2012, and increases the total amount available for grants and loans to cities and counties from $5 million to $7.5 million.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2006

AB 1365 (Ruskin-D) Greenhouse gas emission levels
Requires the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report to include an additional state planning priority of reducing greenhouse gas emissions of at least seven percent by 2010 and 10 percent by 2020, based on the 1990 greenhouse gas emission levels.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1430 (Goldberg-D) Air contaminants
Requires that the Air Resources Board's (ARB's) Advisory Committee on Environmental Justice review each methodology used to calculate the value of air emission reductions credits updated by ARB.
Chapter 851, Statutes of 2006

AB 1678 (Saldana-D) Ports and harbors: vessels: air pollution
Requires the Port of San Diego, on or before January 1, 2007, to provide a report to the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, including: (1) an inventory of air emissions from stationary and mobile sources, (2) an assessment of the number of vessel port visits per year, (3) a standard for ship electrification, as defined, and (4) an economic feasibility study of various air pollution reduction measures, including cold-ironing and a timeline for implementing these measures. Requires the port to establish a task force of stakeholders, including community groups, environmental groups, shippers, cruise lines, other ports, and air district officials, to assist the port in preparing the report.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1803* (Assembly Budget Committee) Resources budget trailer bill
Implements the resources and environmental quality portions of the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, provides a sunset date of January 1, 2008, for the Climate Change Registry and directs the Air Resources Board to establish a greenhouse gas emissions inventory on or after January 1, 2007, and corrects errors related to AB 923 (Firebaugh), Chapter 707, Statutes of 2004, that raised the tire fee to fund the Carl Moyer Air Quality Program.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006

AB 1870 (Lieber-D) Air pollution: motor vehicle inspection and maintenance
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Automotive Repair, to include a visual smog check test to determine presence of smoke in automobile exhaust. Makes changes to the consumer assistance programs available to motor vehicle owners whose vehicles fail smog check.
Chapter 761, Statutes of 2006

AB 1901 (Shirley Horton-R) Air pollution: truck retrofit revolving loan program
Establishes the Truck Retrofit Revolving Loan Program at the Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to provide loans to businesses to retrofit large trucks with a SmartWay Upgrade Kit designed to improve the trucks' energy efficiency and reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1997 (Cogdill-R) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop, and the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to administer, a vehicle exchange program to replace high polluting vehicles with donated, smog-compliant vehicles.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2015 (Lieu-D) Air quality: South Coast Air Quality Management District
Expands the size of the South Coast Air Quality Management District's governing board from 12 to 13, and makes other changes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2151 (Villines-R) Environmental Protection Agency: rules: peer review
Adds that a policy adopted by the Air Resources Board or local air district pursuant to the California Clean Air Act, that has the effect of a regulation and that is adopted in order to implement a statute, is subject to peer review.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2276 (Pavley-D) Ozone: indoor air cleaning devices
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop and adopt regulations to reduce emissions of ozone from non-commercial, indoor air cleaning devices by December 31, 2008.
Chapter 770, Statutes of 2006

AB 2388 (Vargas-D) Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee
Imposes an import fee of $0.001 per kilowatt hour on electricity from new power plants in Mexico to fund air pollution control in adjacent California air districts.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee)

AB 2394 (Aghazarian-R) Minor violations: air pollution: water quality
Reinstates provisions that sunset January 1, 2006, that subject a person who commits a minor violation of an air pollution law to administrative penalties instead of civil penalties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2501 (Lieu-D) Aircraft emissions: Santa Monica Airport
Requires the Santa Monica Airport to record the engine type and operation times of the landing and takeoff operation cycles, as defined, of all aircraft operating at the airport and make these data available to the public no later than February 1, 2008.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 2553 (Arambula-D) Air quality: loans
Authorizes loan programs for addressing air quality.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2804* (Salinas-D) Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
Requires the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to reimburse board members for actual and necessary expenses and specifies that the district may pay compensation to board members for attending meetings.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2006

AB 2823 (Ruskin-D) Air pollution: district compliance programs
Requires a local air pollution control district, which serves a population of one million or more, to provide public notification of a notice of violation for public nuisance laws or regulations.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2824 (Ruskin-D) Air pollution: air toxics emissions inventory
Enhances Internet access to air toxics emissions data available to state and local agencies and the general public.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2843 (Saldana-D) Air pollution
Eliminates the sunset date on the statute that requires at least 50 percent of certain air pollution funds to be allocated to disproportionately affected communities.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2006

AB 2880 (Lieu-D) CA Integrated Waste Management Board: green buildings
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to provide information about green buildings and convene a related advisory committee.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2965 (Levine-D) Air pollution: new source review
Deletes a provision requiring the Air Resources Board to provide copies of specified documents for purchase by the public.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 3018 (Lieber-D) Air pollution: indoor air pollution
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop and establish a program for the prevention and control of indoor air pollution.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

ACR 167 (Pavley-D) Nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels
Expresses the Legislature's commitment to achieve a clean transportation future based upon the use of nonpetroleum, clean alternative fuels.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

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Coastal Resources

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SB 153 (Chesbro-D) Water, safe neighborhood parks and coastal protection
Earmarks the proceeds of bond funds authorized for park purposes through two state general obligation bond propositions, if approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006 statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

SB 200 (Machado-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program
Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program within the Coastal Conservancy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 606 (Kehoe-D) Parks and recreation: lifeguards
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to establish a new civil service classification for a permanent non-peace officer lifeguard position and requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to fill positions in the lifeguard classification with a full-time employee when the position is not of a seasonal nature and can be performed on a year-round basis by a single individual.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 929* (Kehoe-D) California Coastal Commission: administrative actions
Provides that any person who communicates with the California Coastal Commission (Commission) members regarding an administrative action of the Commission and who qualifies as a lobbyist is required to comply with the requirements of the Political Reform Act of 1974, and defines administrative action for purposes of proceedings before the Commission.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 1126 (Chesbro-D) Tidelands: City of Eureka
Provides that, until January 1, 2010, the tideland revenues paid by the City of Eureka to the state in lieu of all obligations incurred by Eureka in connection with the Humboldt Bay Fund be deposited by the state in a special subaccount of the Humboldt Bay Fund, to be used by Eureka to further its protection and enhancement of public trust lands while remaining under the control of the state.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1342 (Chesbro-D) Natural resources
Redirects, for five years starting July 1, 2007, $55.3 million of tidelands oil revenue from the General Fund to various resources and housing-related funds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1701 (Migden-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: Richardson Bay
Authorizes the State Lands Commission to exchange publicly owned tidelands at the Steckler Pacific Marina on Richardson Bay in Marin County on which houseboats are located for more, and more valuable, acreage of privately owned tidelands.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2006

SB 1843 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Natural resources: California Coastal Act
Makes changes to the state law regarding the California Coastal Act.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2006

SB 1845 (Kuehl-D) Natural resources: Ocean Protection Council
Adds two public members to the Ocean Protection Council.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2006

AB 359 (Gordon-D) Parks and recreation: dog beach
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, the California Coastal Commission, the County and City of Los Angeles, and all other interested parties to develop a memorandum of agreement to establish, manage, and evaluate a one-year, off-lease, dog beach pilot program at Dockweiler State Beach, located in Los Angeles County.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 392 (Chan-D) Coastal zone drilling: leases
Imposes a moratorium on oil and gas drilling from the coastal zone into state waters.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 848 (Berg-D) Ocean ecosystem conservation and management
Establishes, by January 1, 2008, that either the Department of Fish and Game, the Coastal Conservancy, or the Ocean Ecosystem Resource Information System to serve as a coordinating repository of data related to ecosystem conservation and the management of offshore waters and marine resources.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1269* (Pavley-D) Clean Air, Clean Water, Coastal Protection, and Parks Act
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at an unspecified future statewide election, an unspecified amount of general obligation bonds, from which bond sale proceeds will be allocated to several resources-related projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1557 (Karnette-D) California Coastal Commission: dedication of real property
Requires the California Coastal Commission to forward a copy of evidence of recordation of an offer to dedicate real property for access to or along the coast and a description of the real property of the Resources Agency.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1803* (Assembly Budget Committee) Coastal resources
Implements the resources and environmental quality portions of the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, establishes the Coastal Wetlands Account to provide restoration and management funding for coastal wetlands statewide and requires the California Coastal Commission to report annually to the Legislature on the acceptance of offers to dedicate.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006

AB 1940 (Koretz-D) Environment: marine debris: plastic discharges
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to implement measures to control plastic discharges.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2134* (Harman-R) Natural resources: funding: coastal wetlands maintenance
Transfers the sum of $5,000,000 annually from the Resources Trust Fund to the Coastal Wetlands Account, which would be an interest-bearing account administered by the State Treasurer.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2299 (Harman-R) California Coastal Act: aquaculture
Modifies fiscal resources available to the Department of Fish and Game to prepare currently-required programmatic environmental impact reports for commercial aquaculture operations located in inland and coastal areas of the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2324 (Canciamilla-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg: conveyance
Repeals existing legislative grants to the City of Pittsburg, and enacts a new grant of tide and submerged lands, subject to specified conditions, in trust for public trust purposes. Requires revenue from those lands, which are currently leased by the state and designated as specified state lease numbers, to remain revenue of the state and be transmitted to the state by the trustee.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2006

AB 2838 (Pavley-D) Coastal Environment Motor Vehicle Mitigation Program
Authorizes a fee of up to $6, in coastal and Bay Area counties, to be paid with vehicle registrations and renewals in order to fund specified environmental mitigation projects.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 3028 (Laird-D) California Coastal Trail
Authorizes a state agency providing a grant or a permit for a public development project located along the California Coastal Trail to require that the project provide public access to the trail.
Vetoed by the Governor

AJR 55 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium
Memorializes the Congress of the United States to continue the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for fiscal year 2007, and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy legislation.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2006

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Environmental Quality

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SB 427 (Hollingsworth-R) California Environmental Quality Act: scoping meetings
Requires a lead agency to provide notice of at least one scoping meeting to transportation planning agencies or public agencies required to be consulted for projects of statewide, regional or area-wide significance and will extend consultation requirements to include the project's effects on overpasses, on-ramps and off-ramps.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 497 (Simitian-D) Vessels: releases
Requires the California State Lands Commission to adopt regulations on performance standards for ballast water on or before January 1, 2008.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2006

SB 623 (Aanestad-R) Water quality: civil penalties
Modifies the repeated violation provision of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act to apply to a period of six calendar months, modifies the effluent limitation provision to include only violations of an effluent limitation for the same pollutant parameter, and requires mandatory minimum penalties to be assessed within one year of the date of the violation, among other things.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 785 (McClintock-R) CEQA: procedure
Requires within 15 days of the filing of an action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul any acts or decisions of a public agency on the grounds of noncompliance with the act, in which an entity that is not a natural person is the petitioner that the petitioner file a Certification of Interested Persons that lists all persons, associations of persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, including the parent and subsidiary corporations, and any other entity other than the petitioner that are known by the petitioner to have either a financial interest in the subject matter of the controversy or in the petitioner, or any other kind of interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the action or proceeding.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 849 (Escutia-D) Environmental health data tracking
Requires the Department of Health Services and the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish the Interagency Office of Environmental Health Tracking.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 927 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement
Imposes a fee on containers that are discharged at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in order to fund rail system improvements, pollution mitigation measures, and port security enhancements.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 942 (Chesbro-D) Cigarettes: pollution: litter
Imposes a fee of no more than five mills per cigarette on cigarette manufacturers for various programs and activities related to cigarette pollution and litter prevention and cleanup.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 948 (Murray-D) CEQA: environmental impact reports: short form
Requires a lead agency to prepare a short form environmental impact report for a project subject to CEQA if the lead agency has determined that the project meets specified criteria, including that the project consists of a residential development combined with one or more qualified urban uses is located within the boundaries of an incorporated city or within an unincorporated area designated in an approved local general plan for residential development, and is consistent with specified land use requirements. Requires that a short form environmental impact report include specified information, and comply with specified procedural requirements of CEQA for an environmental impact report.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 974 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) CEQA: rural infrastructure economic development project
Repeals an obsolete CEQA exemption for project funding by the Rural Economic Development Infrastructure Panel.
Chapter 370, Statutes of 2006

SB 1191 (Hollingsworth-R) California Environmental Quality Act
Revises the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by establishing a short form environmental impact report that a lead agency is required to prepare if a project satisfies specified criteria related to housing, specifies the types of standards and methodologies a lead agency is required, or authorized, to apply in determining whether a project may have a significant effect on the environment, specifies certain situations that do not constitute a significant effect on the environment or do not require certain analysis, provides that CEQA does not apply to specified approvals of the California Building Standards Commission, and makes other related revisions.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1345 (Chesbro-D) Environmental quality: public contracts: recycled products
Requires the Department of Transportation to increase its use of compost beginning in 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1360 (Kehoe-D) County records: conservation easement registry
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency to establish a public registry of conservation easements.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2006

SB 1395 (Ducheny-D) Environmental quality: Native American sites
Requires a lead agency that determines a project is subject to specified exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act to notify Native American tribes that have an interest in the project area.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 1798 (Perata-D) California Environmental Quality Act: infill development
Revises the definition of "infill site" by allowing a site to be created within the infill site as a result of the merger of previously existing parcels to implement a redevelopment agency plan.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1814 (Torlakson-D) CEQA: schools
Authorizes, under the California Environmental Quality Act, a master environmental impact report to be prepared for a plan for school projects undertaken by a school district that complies with certain school facilities requirements.
Chapter 882, Statutes of 2006

AB 189 (Shirley Horton-R) Highway capacity enhancement demonstration projects
Requires, by July 1, 2008, Caltrans to identify and the California Transportation Commission to select, three State Transportation Improvement Program projects that increase highway capacity and that demonstrate the effectiveness of a coordinated environmental review and permit process created by the bill.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 375 (Cogdill-R) CEQA: telecommunications lines: exemption
Exempts from CEQA: (1) actions undertaken by a public agency relating to the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of an existing public or private structure, facility, mechanical equipment, or topographical feature, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination and consisting of an existing facility of both investor and publicly owned utilities used to provide telecommunications public utility services, as specified, (2) replacement or reconstruction of an existing telecommunication utility system or facility involving negligible or no expansion of capacity, (3) conversion of a telecommunication utility overhead distribution system facility to underground, as prescribed, (4) the construction and location of a telecommunications utility extension, as prescribed, and (5) construction and location of a telecommunications utility facility.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 966 (Saldana-D) Water quality: California-Baja California border region
Authorizes various state and local water agencies to collaborate on the design, construction and permitting of international wastewater treatment facilities near the California-Baja California border.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1039 (Frommer-D) Government: environment: bonds: transportation
Provides streamlining of environmental laws including transportation project and levee repair project exemptions from the California Environmental Quality Act, as well as allowing a master environmental impact report to be prepared for Highway 99 projects, and authorizing the Department of Transportation to participate in a self-certification process transportation projects.
Chapter 31, Statutes of 2006

AB 1387 (Jones-D) CEQA: residential infill projects
Authorizes, under the California Environmental Quality Act, a lead agency to approve a residential project on an urban infill site without having to mitigate or make a finding of overriding consideration for significant impacts on traffic in an environmental impact report if specified criteria are met.
Chapter 715, Statutes of 2006

AB 1464 (McCarthy-R) CEQA: environmental impact reports: review
Clarifies that the period of review by state agencies and the public review period may, but are not required to, begin and end at the same time.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1546 (Hancock-D) Department of Environmental Management
Creates the Department of Environmental Management within the California Environmental Protection Agency and consolidates the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the environmental cleanup section of the Radiological Health Branch of the Department of Health Services, and various programs, as specified, administered by the regional water quality control boards, into the department, upon the adoption of an organization and business plan by the department.
(Died in Assembly Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1752* (Levine-D) Environmental quality
Extends the operative date for a determination of whether a small community is eligible for an exception to the mandatory minimum penalties from January 1, 2007 to July 1, 2007, relative to publicly owned treatment plants.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2006

AB 1899 (Wolk-D) Land use: flood protection
Require cities and counties to obtain verification from the Reclamation Board that land proposed for residential development meets specified standards for flood protection.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2252 (Strickland-R) Environmental impact report
Exempt a development project from preparing and completing a second or an additional environmental impact report if the project complies with applicable zoning and land use requirements, including the most recently adopted general plan of a city or county.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2496 (Laird-D) Water conservation: low-flush water closets
Phases in requirements that water closets and urinals have lower flush volumes, generally reducing toilets from 1.6 gallons per flush to 1.3, and urinals from 1.0 gallons per flush to 0.5 gallons per flush.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2518 (Houston-R) California Environmental Quality Act
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act an action taken by a city or county housing and community development agency or a city or county housing finance agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2582 (Mullin-D) CALGOLD program
Requires the California Government Online to Desktops (CALGOLD) program be updated periodically to include emerging industries that would benefit from information on permitting and regulatory compliance.
Chapter 283, Statutes of 2006

AB 2878 (Ruskin-D) Environment: state buildings: green building standards
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to adopt regulations establishing green building standards for the construction and renovation of state buildings.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2924 (Arambula-D) Environmental protection: financial alternatives
Modifies reporting requirements to the California Climate Action Registry and imposes an annual reporting requirement on the registry.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2928 (Laird-D) Green building construction: voluntary guidelines
Requires that the California Building Standards Commission, by January 1, 2009, adopt voluntary green guidelines for residential construction.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

HR 13 (Ruskin-D) World Environment Day 2005
Declares June 5, 2005 as World Environment Day 2005, and recognizes the importance of the environment and encourages residents to include activities in their daily lives that promote the goals of World Environment Day 2005.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

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Forestry

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SB 841 (Hollingsworth-R) Fire protection: firebreaks
Authorizes a state or local fire official to approve a defensible space of up to 300 feet to protect specified critical facilities from fire.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2006

SB 1154 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget deficiencies: forestry
Provides for funding the retirement buy-out of Department of Forestry and Fire Protection employees.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006

SB 1310 (Kuehl-D) Forest resources: sustained yield plans
Requires a timberland owner of 50,000 acres or more to develop and adhere to a sustained yield plan. In all but one region of the state, allows the definition of non-industrial timberland owner to expand from 2,500 acres to 10,000 acres and establish specific conditions for a non-industrial timberland management plan.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 1799 (Perata-D) Forest resources: heritage trees
Defines a "heritage tree" as an "old growth tree on forestland." Lists minimum stump diameters of an "old growth tree," by species. Specifies that a tree with a stem in existence in 1850 is an "old growth tree."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1837 (Alarcon-D) Fire protection and prevention: firebreaks
Requires the person to maintain a firebreak, as specified, of 200 feet, or to the property line, whichever is nearer, or at a greater distance if required by state law, or local ordinance, rule, or regulation.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 715 (Levine-D) Forestry: federal roadless area conservation rule
Prohibits a state department or agency from expending any funds to assist any federal agency in the planning, adoption or implementation of any action that is inconsistent with the protections that were provided under the former 2001 federal roadless rule.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 887 (Villines-R) Timber harvesting plan
Extends the life of a Timber Harvesting Plan from three years to ten years.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1156 (La Suer-R) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to enter into a cooperative agreement with a federally recognized Indian tribe for the purpose of providing emergency services on the tribe's land.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1252 (Pavley-D) Forest resources: urban forestry
Revises provisions designed to assist cities regarding urban forestry to include innovative solutions to greenhouse gas emission, public health impacts of poor air and water quality, summer urban heat island effect, stormwater management, and lack of green space. Expands on the use of demonstration projects to maximize the benefits of urban forests.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1423 (Bogh-R) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Specifies that the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, on and after January 1, 2007, may be referred to as CAL-FIRE.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2006

AB 1705 (Keene-R) Forestry: timber harvesting plans
Exempts, from the requirement to prepare a timber harvesting plan, parcels of land that are used to grow a crop of Christmas trees, less than one acre, or less than three acres and that were created under the lead agency of a city or county under the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1812* (Assembly Budget Committee) Forestry: budget trailer bill
Makes necessary technical changes to the Budget Act of 2006 which were inadvertently omitted in the Budget, which among other provisions, adding language to forgive the $5 million in the General Fund loans to the Forestry Resources Improvement Fund.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2006

AB 2314 (Leno-D) California Forest Legacy Program Act of 2000
Makes the California Forest Legacy Program Act of 2000 inoperative on June 30, 2007, and repeals it as of January 1, 2008.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AJR 56 (Levine-D) Forestry: Federal Roadless Area Conservation Rule
Urges the United States Secretary of Agriculture and the Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee to immediately accept the petition submitted by the Governor of the State of California and expeditiously initiate rulemaking to protect all 4.4 million acres of the Inventoried Roadless Area within the national forests of California, in order to ensure the protection of those forest lands.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

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Solid Waste Management

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SB 318 (Romero-D) Waste management
Creates the Office of the Solid Waste Public Advisor within the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 369 (Simitian-D) Solid waste: tire recycling: rubberized asphalt concrete
Extends the sunset date and makes program enhancements to the rubberized asphalt concrete grant program at the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
Chapter 300, Statutes of 2006

SB 411 (Alarcon-D) Solid waste: nonbiodegradable materials: landfills
Amends existing law to specify that alternative daily cover is not considered diversion and must be included in determining the amount of solid waste that is subject to disposal. Revises regulations establishing conditions for use of alternative daily cover. Requires the Integrated Waste Management Board to adopt a schedule for excluding woody and green material alternative daily cover from being considered as meeting the 50 percent diversion requirement of the Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 420 (Simitian-D) Waste management: diversion
Applies existing recycled-content requirements for road paving projects undertaken by the Department of Transportation for all paving construction and repair projects and makes technical and clarifying changes to existing law relating to recycled content product purchases.
Chapter 392, Statutes of 2006

SB 926 (Florez-D) Solid waste facility: local initiative
Requires, before a local initiative that proposes to amend a city or county's general plan or zoning ordinance to allow the siting of a solid waste facility may be placed on the ballot, an environmental impact report on the project to be prepared and certified pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 928 (Perata-D) Public resources: solid waste
Makes non-controversial cleanup changes to the Public Resources Code.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1305 (Figueroa-D) The Medical Waste Management Act
Prohibits a person from knowingly placing home-generated sharps waste in the commercial and residential solid waste collection containers after September 1, 2008.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2006

SB 1344 (Chesbro-D) Recycling: plastic packaging containers
Provides manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging containers (RPPC) with additional options to comply with the state's RPPC recycling requirements.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2006

SB 1345 (Chesbro-D) Environmental quality: public contracts: recycled products
Requires the Department of Transportation to increase its use of compost, beginning in 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1515 (Kehoe-D) Solid waste: facilities: operating hours
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to study the impact of increasing operating hours at solid waste facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1573 (Alarcon-D) Solid waste: packaging
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to update a how-to guide for business and develop an education program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1778 (Alarcon-D) Solid waste: alternative daily cover: compost
Limits the kind of material that may be used as cover at landfills and be counted as "diversion" for purposes of meeting waste-diversion goals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1835* (Florez-D) Solid waste facilities permit: local initiative
Prohibits a city or county from approving and the California Integrated Waste Management Board from concurring in a solid waste facilities permit approved through an initiative unless the facility is consistent with existing state, local, and federal laws.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 17 (Koretz-D) Universal waste
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board, in coordination with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to develop an action plan to assist state and local governments in handling universal waste.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 177 (Bogh-R) Solid waste: biomass conversion: transformation
Revises the definition of biomass conversion to mean the controlled combustion, thermal conversion, chemical conversion, or biological conversion, other than composting, of biomass waste used for producing electricity, heat, or a reconstituted product that meets the quality standards for use in the marketplace, and defines the term "biomass waste" as meaning organic material that is source separated from the municipal solid waste stream or that is separated at a centralized facility, among other things.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 727 (Bermudez-D) Solid waste: integrated waste management
Places conversion technology into the hierarchy of use for solid waste in California.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1017 (Cogdill-R) Illegal disposal of methamphetamine
Provides that any person who causes the disposal of methamphetamine, methamphetamine byproduct, or any related hazardous chemical into or upon any agricultural land is subject to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 12 months, two years, or three years, and by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $10,000.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1049 (Koretz-D) Recycling: food and beverage packages: labeling
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to develop a product packaging label that indicates the packaging can be set out by the consumer for curbside recycling.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1090 (Matthews-D) Solid waste: diversion: conversion
Defines conversion technologies and requires new regulations for siting and regulating conversion technologies in California.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1193 (Hancock-D) Recycling: compact discs and digital versatile discs
Prohibits the distribution of compact discs (CDs) and digital versatile discs (DVDs), including disposable CDs and DVDs, from being mass mailed to households unless they are accompanied by a postage paid return mailing envelope or other cost-free mechanism for the recipient to return the CD or DVD.
(Died in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee)

AB 1866 (Karnette-D) Recycling: polystyrene: state facilities
Prohibits, starting January 1, 2008, a state facility from selling, possessing or distributing expanded polystyrene food containers, with specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1992 (Canciamilla-D) Solid waste: dumping
Strengthens the existing prohibitions against illegal dumping of solid waste on public and private property.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2006

AB 2118 (Matthews-D) Solid waste
Defines composting operation or composting facility and states that the intent of this bill is to define "conversion technology."
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2147 (Harman-R) Solid waste: plastic food and beverage containers
Prohibits the sale of a plastic food or beverage containers that is labeled as "biodegradable," "compostable," "degradable," or otherwise unless the container meets current American Society for Testing Materials standard specifications for the term used on the label.
Chapter 349, Statutes of 2006

AB 2206 (Montanez-D) Recycling: multifamily dwellings
Modifies current law to encourage improved solid-waste management at multifamily dwellings and events held at facilities owned by regional agencies (such as regional parks).
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2211 (Karnette-D) Solid waste disposal site cleanup
Clarifies and expands the Solid Waste Disposal and Codisposal Cleanup Program within the California Integrated Waste Management Board to provide more effective assistance to local governments and property owners for solid waste cleanup projects.
Chapter 762, Statutes of 2006

AB 2271 (Koretz-D) Household batteries: recycling
Imposes a fee on each non-rechargeable household battery (HB) distributed for sale in California and earmarks revenue generated by the fee to support development and operation of an HB recycling process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2296 (Montanez-D) Solid waste: landfill: standards: closure and postclosure
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to conduct a study and adopt regulations to define conditions and address financial assurance mechanisms that potentially affect the closure and postclosure maintenance periods of landfills.
Chapter 504, Statutes of 2006

AB 2449 (Levine-D) Recycling: plastic carryout bags
Requires, beginning July 1, 2008, supermarkets and stores with over 10,000 feet of retail space and a pharmacy to implement an on-site plastic bag take back and recycling program.
Chapter 845, Statutes of 2006

AB 2734 (Hancock-D) Solid waste: rigid plastic packaging containers
Updates the definition of a "source reduced" rigid plastic packaging container for purposes of the state's recycled-content requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2845 (Bogh-R) Beverage containers: recycling and litter cleanup grants
Increases the amount the Department of Conservation is authorized to expend annually from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund to $15,000,000, and increases the minimum payments to cities and counties to $10,000 and $15,000.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 3056* (Assembly Natural Resources Committee) Beverage containers: quality incentive payments
Allows the Department of Conservation to pay out refund values to consumers at a higher level for a six-month period under the Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (Bottle Bill Program).
Chapter 907, Statutes of 2006

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Toxics/Hazardous Waste

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SB 120 (Florez-D) Water quality: sewage sludge
Requires a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to submit a certification to a regional board that any sewage sludge transferred from a facility for disposal or further processing meets the requirements and standards for any pollutants listed in the waste discharge requirements for the POTW issued by the regional board, and requires the POTW to submit the certification to any person or facility that accepts sewage sludge from that POTW for disposal or processing, and authorizes a person or facility that accepts sewage sludge, and the county in which the sewage sludge is disposed or processed, to require the POTW to indemnify the receiving party for any liability for remediation costs associated with the disposal or processing of the sewage sludge.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 187 (Soto-D) Drinking water: contaminants
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to consider, to the extent information is available, in determining economic feasibility, the potential affects on human health that may result from the adoption of a primary drinking water standard that is less stringent than the public health goal. Requires the department's analysis of technological and economic feasibility to be made available to the public along with the draft regulation for review and comment, and requires the department and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to make available to the public any documentation used to adopt primary drinking water standards or public health goals.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 354 (Escutia-D) Hazardous materials release: remediation
Removes exclusions for certain types of sites from the definition of property under the California Land Environmental Restoration and Reuse Act.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2006

SB 403 (Machado-D) Chemical Tanker Task Force
Requires the administrator of Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response to convene a Chemical Tanker Task Force, on or before March 1, 2007, which is charged with gathering information and making recommendations relating to the safety of chemical tankers carrying hazardous chemicals in state waters.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 419 (Simitian-D) Hazardous materials: transportation: railroad tank cars
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to create and maintain a hazardous rail tank car (RTC) database, containing specified information, including a current certificate of compliance provided by the legal owner or lessee of the RTC stating that the RTC meets certain industry and federal standards.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 421 (Simitian-D) Hazardous substances: methamphetamine labs: funding
Establishes a procedure to determine the annual cost for taking removal and remedial actions to clean up drug lab waste, and requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish a fee upon the first sale in California by a manufacturer of pseudoephedrine in an amount sufficient to fund the annual work plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 655 (Ortiz-D) Asbestos
Establishes the Asbestos Hazards Mapping Act and requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to convene an asbestos mitigation task force.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 960 (Simitian-D) Hazardous waste: research database
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to post on its Internet web site links to information regarding substitutes to materials posing hazards to public health and the environment.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 977 (Ashburn-R) Hazardous substances: perchlorate
Excludes perchlorate located in unused military munitions from having to provide specified information to the California Environmental Protection Agency when this material is located within a five-mile radius of a drinking water well found to have been contaminated with perchlorate.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 982 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Hazardous substances and waste: underground storage
Requires the enforcement coordinator at the Department of Toxic Substances Control to perform certain duties.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 985 (Dunn-D) Adulterated candy: lead poisoning prevention
Requires the Department of Health Services to regulate lead in candy to ensure that the candy is not adulterated, and defines "adulterated candy" as a candy with lead levels that exceed the naturally occurring level as determined by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 989 (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Hazardous material: bona fide ground tenant
Creates a program akin to the program currently available to a bona fide purchaser under the California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act to be available to a bona fide ground tenant, as defined.
Chapter 510, Statutes of 2006

SB 1115* (Perata-D) Underground storage tanks: corrective action
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substance Control, to develop a public outreach program to inform owners of property that may be eligible for those funds, of the availability of the funds.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1294* (Ducheny-D) Geothermal wastes: exemption
Conditionally exempts, from hazardous waste management regulation by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, wastes generated from the exploration, development, or production of geothermal energy that are contained within equipment or surface impoundments associated with the geothermal plant.
Chapter 143, Statutes of 2006

SB 1305 (Figueroa-D) The Medical Waste Management Act
Prohibits a person from knowingly placing home-generated sharps waste in the commercial and residential solid waste collection containers after September 1, 2008.
Chapter 64, Statutes of 2006

SB 1458 (Simitian-D) Hazardous substances: illegal drug labs: cleanup funding
Establishes a mitigation fee on the manufacture and importation of pseudoephedrine, effective September 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1478 (Speier-D) Toxic chemicals: release form
Creates a California Community Right to Know Act of 2006 based upon the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1797 (Perata-D) Hazardous waste: identification
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, when classifying waste as hazardous, to incorporate its decision into a regulation, if it determines that the classification of hazardous waste is likely to have a broad application beyond the producer who initiated the request, without reference to classifying the waste pursuant to specified criteria. Deletes specified requirements and references.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 289 (Chan-D) Chemicals: testing methods
Authorizes a state agency to request from manufacturers or importers of chemicals, information necessary for detecting the chemical's presence in the environment.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2006

AB 319 (Chan-D) Phthalates and bisphenol-A in children's products
Prohibits, starting January 1, 2007, the manufacture, sale, or distribution of products containing specified compounds and restricts manufacturers options when replacing those compounds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 340 (Parra-D) Drinking water: arsenic levels
Requires the Department of Health Services to study the economic impact on rural counties of meeting the new federal drinking water standards for arsenic contamination, and to report to the Legislature by December 31, 2005.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 492 (Baca-D) Petroleum: underground storage tanks: claims
Re-ranks priorities in the underground tank program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 567 (Aghazarian-R) Hazardous waste: alternative standards
Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to adopt regulations that establish hazardous waste management standards as an alternative to one or more of the standards specified in the hazardous waste control law, permits the regulations to exempt a hazardous waste management activity that only involves hazardous wastes meeting specified criteria, and requires DTSC, before adopting an alternative management regulation, to make findings, prepare an analysis to support those findings, make the analysis available to the public, and notify the public.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 597* (Montanez-D) Response actions: brownfield sites
Requires a regional board to provide notice of the major decisions and planned activities at the site of a response action, public access to the proposed site response plans and site assessment documents, 30 days to comment on proposed response plans, among other things.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 639 (Aghazarian-R) Hazardous waste control: generator identification numbers
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, by July 1, 2006, to revise the identification number certification system to provide a streamlined and expedited method of providing an identification number to a generator of hazardous waste.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 766 (Chavez-D) Hazardous materials: liability
Makes clarifying changes regarding terms used in the California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 956 (Coto-D) Hazardous materials: release site: public information
Establishes a process to gather and post information regarding brownfields sites on the California Environmental Protection Agency web site.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 966 (Saldana-D) Water quality: California-Baja California border region
Authorizes various state and local water agencies to collaborate on the design, construction and permitting of international wastewater treatment facilities near the California-Baja California border.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 990 (Lieber-D) California Safer Chemical Substitutes Act of 2005
Establishes a mechanism for conditionally prohibiting, beginning January 1, 2007, the use or sale of several chemicals in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1017 (Cogdill-R) Illegal disposal of methamphetamine
Provides that any person who causes the disposal of any methamphetamine, methamphetamine byproduct, or any related hazardous chemical into or upon any agricultural land is subject to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 12 months, two years, or three years, and by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $10,000, and establishes the Illegal Dumping Prevention Program within the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1240 (Levine-D) Mercury
Enacts the Mercury Switch Removal Act of 2005.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1279 (Ruskin-D) Hazardous substances: military base remediation: oversight
Deletes obsolete references in provisions that prohibit the Director of the Department of Finance from eliminating positions at the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board that are funded with federal funds or through an agreement with private entities, and that oversee hazardous substance cleanup activities at closed military bases.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1327 (Tran-R) Hazardous materials: accidental release prevention program
Corrects two minor technical problems in the hazardous materials business plan program and the accidental release plans program, under the jurisdiction of the Certified Unified Program agencies program.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1344* (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Hazardous substances: multiparcel remediation: pilot project
Enacts the California Subregional Coordination and Cleanup Act of 2005, that requires the site designation committee of the California Environmental Protection Agency, with the assistance of the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board, to establish a pilot program to provide grants for the aggregation of multiple real property parcels into multiparcel areas for site mitigation and planning purposes, and requires the committee to develop eligibility criteria for the selection of pilot project grant recipients.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1354 (Baca-D) Drinking water: perchlorate levels
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a maximum contaminant level for perchlorate of six parts per billion, to be phased-in over a period of two years, commencing January 1, 2006, and declares the intent of the Legislature to include provisions to require persons or entities found responsible for perchlorate contamination of drinking water to pay the costs of removing that contamination.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1360 (Hancock-D) Public health priority sites
Designates the Department of Toxic Substances Control as the lead agency for cleanup of contaminated sites where hazardous material will be left behind such that ongoing engineering or land use controls will be necessary after the cleanup is deemed complete in order to protect public health.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1681 (Pavley-D) Lead-containing jewelry
Prohibits the manufacture, shipping, sale, or offering for sale of jewelry, children's jewelry, or jewelry used in body piercing that is not made entirely from certain specified materials.
Chapter 415, Statutes of 2006

AB 1803* (Assembly Budget Committee) Hazardous waste: budget trailer bill
Implements the resources and environmental quality portion of the 2006 Budget, which among other provisions, maintaining earnest funding for waste tire recycling program by deleting the $.25 reduction of the tire fee scheduled for January 1, 2007, makes changes proposed by the Governor to conform state Hazard Waste Manifest law to federal law and makes changes proposed by the Governor to the Toxic Substances Control Account including expanding the environmental fee to all businesses with 50 or more employees.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006

AB 1811* (Laird-D) Tire waste: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 to make stat budget year adjustments to the Department of Toxic Substances Control to provide General Fund in lieu of fee increases as follows: $4 million for water waste discharge permits and $6 million for department fees.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006

AB 1813 (Assembly Budget Committee) Public resources: hazardous materials tax
Clarifies that the expansion of the fee-payer universe for the Environmental Fee, collected by the Department of Toxic Substances Control does not apply prior to the collection for the fee due by February 29, 2008.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2006

AB 1953 (Chan-D) Lead plumbing
Tightens standards that pipes and other plumbing parts must meet in order to be termed "lead free."
Chapter 853, Statutes of 2006

AB 2092 (Villines-R) Hazardous substance release: vapor intrusion
Requires applicable state agencies to take actions regarding the intrusion of hazardous vapors in urban infill areas.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2127 (Tran-R) Hazardous waste: alkaline batteries
Requires the Integrated Waste Management Board and the State Water Resources Control Board to report to the Legislature by July 1, 2007, on whether there are environmental impacts resulting from random disposal of alkaline batteries in solid waste landfills.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2144 (Montanez-D) Hazardous materials: land use
Revises the public participation procedures required in the response plan for different agencies with oversight of the cleanup of certain brownfield sites.
Chapter 562, Statutes of 2006

AB 2155 (Wolk-D) Hazardous waste: treatment: pharmaceutical activities
Provides an exemption for pharmaceutical neutralization activities from the requirement to obtain a hazardous waste facility permit.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2006

AB 2202 (Saldana-D) Hazardous waste: electronic devices
Directs the Department of Toxic Substances Control to revise the requirements for electronic devices sold in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2295 (Arambula-D) Transportation capital improvement projects
Authorizes the use of regional transportation improvement program funds for local rehabilitation projects.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2335 (Saldana-D) Medical waste
Makes various technical updates and clarifications to provisions regulating the management of medical waste.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2006

AB 2490 (Ruskin-D) California Toxic Release Inventory Program
Authorizes the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to adopt regulations to replicate the existing federal toxic release inventory program.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2516 (Tran-R) Toxic substances: PBDEs
Provides a temporary exemption to the ban on the processing of recycled materials containing PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers).
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 2861 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Lead abatement
Increases the penalties for a person who fails to abate a lead hazard after receiving an order from an enforcement agency.
Chapter 477, Statutes of 2006

AB 2988 (Lieu-D) Dry cleaning operations
Conditionally exempts a drycleaner who treats the effluent generated by the hydrocarbon process, a more environmentally-friendly alternative to the use of perchloroethylene, from the requirement to obtain a hazardous waste facilities permit.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 3001 (Pavley-D) Electronic waste: personal computers
Expands the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling (e-waste) Program, administered primarily by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, to include the central processing units (CPUs) of personal computers, and imposes a $6 surcharge on the retail purchase of each CPU.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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Miscellaneous

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SB 153 (Chesbro-D) Parks and recreation
Earmarks the proceeds of bond funds authorized for park purposes through two state general obligation bond propositions, if approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006 statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 201 (Simitian-D) Marine finfish aquaculture: leases
Prohibits a person from engaging in marine finfish aquaculture without a lease from the Fish and Game Commission (FGC). Establishes criteria for leases approved and regulations adopted by FGC for marine finfish aquaculture, and establishes standards for a programmatic environmental impact report the Department of Fish and Game is required, under current law, to prepare for marine finfish aquaculture.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2006

SB 441* (Soto-D) Parks and recreation: Glen Helen Regional Park
Authorizes the County of San Bernardino to grant a fee interest in properties, or portion thereof, for which an easement has been granted for road purposes within the Glen Helen Regional Park.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 507 (Aanestad-R) Fishing: trawl nets
Repeals the prohibition on use of bottom trawl gear for halibut, shrimp and prawns in certain designated zones.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 606 (Kehoe-D) Parks and recreation: lifeguards
Authorizes the State Personnel Board to establish a new civil service classification for a permanent non-peace officer lifeguard position, and requires the Department of Parks and Recreation, whenever feasible, to fill positions in the lifeguard classification with a full-time employee when the position is not of a seasonal nature and can be performed on a year-round basis by a single individual.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 668 (Kuehl-D) Mining
Makes numerous clarifying and technical changes to statutes governing mining operations in the state, mine reclamation, and public agency contracting for mineral resources.
Chapter 869, Statutes of 2006

SB 757 (Kehoe-D) Oil Conservation, Efficiency, and Alternative Fuels Act
Enacts the Oil Conservation, Efficiency and Alternative Fuels Act. Requires state agencies to reduce the growth of petroleum demand, increase vehicle energy efficiency, and increase the use of alternative fuels.
Vetoed by the Governor

SB 783 (Murray-D) Murray Park Bond Act of 2006
Enacts the Murray Park Bond Act of 2006, which, if adopted, authorizes, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, and preservation of park, recreational, and historical resources, as specified, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in an unspecified amount.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1029 (Hollingsworth-R) Special interest license plates: sportspersons
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue sportspersons' special interest license plates, and prescribes the fees to be paid for the issuance, renewal, retention, transfer, and substitution of the license plates.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1032 (Hollingsworth-R) Antelope and elk hunting
Repeals the ban on nonresident purchase of license tags to hunt antelope and elk in California, but limits the number of tags issued annually to nonresidents to one antelope tag and one elk tag, and requires the Fish and Game Commission to set the license tag fee for nonresidents at not less than $350 for an antelope license tag, and $1,050 for an elk license tag.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2006

SB 1033 (Hollingsworth-R) Antelope and elk hunting
Modifies provisions relating to the taking of antelope and elk by deleting the requirement that only a resident of California possessing a valid hunting license may obtain a license tag for the taking of antelope or elk, and specifies that only a person possessing a valid hunting license may obtain a license tag for the taking of antelope or elk.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1057 (Perata-D) Natural community conservation plans: costs
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to be compensated for actual costs incurred in participating in the preparation and implementation of natural community conservation plans.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1079* (Campbell-R) Crystal Cove State Park: operating agreement
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an operating agreement with a qualified non-profit for the purpose of developing and administering the Crystal Cove Historic District at Crystal Cove State Park.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)

SB 1095 (Chesbro-D) California Conservation Corps: powers and duties
Increases the procurement and personnel flexibility for the Director of the California Conservation Corps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1103 (Dutton-R) State parks: cooperating associations
Amends existing law to further clarify the definition of cooperating associations, their purpose and authority.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

SB 1109 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Salton Sea: restoration study
Requires a specified restoration study to establish a range of alternatives for the restoration of the Salton Sea and the fish and wildlife dependent on the Salton Sea, including a most cost-effective technical alternative.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1125 (Chesbro-D) Natural resources: funding
Extends the current authority for portions of tideland oil revenues paid to the state to be transferred to the Resources Trust Fund, which authority would otherwise sunset on July 1, 2006, and reallocates those funds for various natural resource purposes. Creates the Coastal Wetlands Account in the Resources Trust Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1127* (Chesbro-D) Salmon fishing: economic aid
Adds Napa County to the list of general law counties in which the board of supervisors may appoint a registrar of voters to discharge all duties vested by law in the county clerk that pertain to the election process.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 1179 (Morrow-R) Recreational activities: skateboarding
Seeks to extend the sunset provision in current law that makes skateboarding a hazardous recreational activity, in certain circumstances, as well as to lower the age where qualified immunity from liability is present for injuries incurred at a public skate park from 14 to 12.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2006

SB 1200 (Hollingsworth-R) Hunting: commercial hunting club licenses
Makes changes as to who is required to obtain a commercial hunting club license. Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to permit specified hunting clubs to submit one application listing each of the properties for which they are seeking a license, and specifies that DFG may assess a separate license fee for each property to be licensed.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2006

SB 1342 (Chesbro-D) Natural resources
Redirects, for five years starting July 1, 2007, $55.3 million of tidelands oil revenue from the General Fund to various resources and housing-related funds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1378 (Cox-R) Harbors and navigation: dive flag
Prohibits the operation of vessels in excess of five miles per hour within 100 feet of a dive flag.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1434 (Kuehl-D) Natural resources: ocean protection: consultants
Authorizes the Ocean Protection Council to hire a science advisor and an executive policy officer.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1485 (Hollingsworth-R) Protected animals
Removes the current prohibition on importing alligators and crocodiles into California for commercial purposes, until January 1, 2010.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2006

SB 1535 (Kuehl-D) Fish and game
Authorizes the Fish and Game Commission (FGC) to hire staff, requires FGC to adopt a conflict of interest code, and makes changes to the numbers, times and locations of FGC meetings and hearings. Makes legislative findings regarding the inadequacy of past and current funding for the Department of Fish and Game, states the intent of the Legislature to secure adequate funding for fish and wildlife management and protection activities, and increases the environmental filing fees for the California Environmental Quality Act documentation reviews.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2006

SB 1556 (Torlakson-D) Parks: Great California Delta Trail System
Requires the Delta Protection Commission to establish a continuous trail around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 839, Statutes of 2006

SB 1574 (Kuehl-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Creates a cabinet-level committee chaired by the Secretary of the Resources Agency to develop a strategic vision for a sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2006

SB 1583 (Kuehl-D) Marvin Braude Bikeway
Designates, as the "Marvin Braude Bikeway," the 22-mile beach bicycle path in Los Angeles County.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2006

SB 1617 (McClintock-R) Streambed alteration agreements: emergency work
Adds another emergency exemption to the streambed alteration agreement statute for emergencies declared by local government agencies.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1649 (Alarcon-D) Outdoor Environmental Education Program
Establishes the Outdoor Environmental Education Program (OEEP), to be administered by the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation. The purpose of the OEEP is to increase the ability of underserved and at-risk populations to participate in outdoor activities and educational experiences by awarding grants to school programs and informal public education programs.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1673 (Kuehl-D) State parks: funding
Allows the Department of Parks and Recreation to fund ongoing maintenance and operation of the state park system with public funds, philanthropic support, and private-public partnerships, under specified conditions.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 1681 (Cox-R) Off-highway motor vehicle
Makes several change to the Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Program including transferring the authority to approve grants made from the OHV Trust Fund from the OHV Commission to the OHV Division at the Department of Parks and Recreation, removing and extending several sunset dates, and requiring the appropriate county sheriff to be the coordinating law enforcement agency for OHV activities.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1686 (Kuehl-D) Wildlife conservation: project impact on greenhouse gases
Authorizes the Wildlife Conservation Board when it prioritizes funds available for proposed acquisitions to take into account the potential of forestlands to beneficially reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions, and specifies that the board may use policies, protocols and other relevant information developed by the California Climate Action Registry in determining a project's potential to reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 2006

SB 1776 (Cox-R) American River Parkway Plan
Adds the City of Rancho Cordova's management plan to those of the City and County of Sacramento that are recognized under the Urban American River Parkway Preservation Act.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1844 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Public resources
Omnibus committee bill that makes technical and clarifying changes to the Public Resources Code.
Chapter 68, Statutes of 2006

SB 1846 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Public resources: underwater salvage operation
Restructures the State Lands Commission's regulatory authority over underwater salvage operations on the state's tide and submerged lands.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2006

SCA 31 (Simitian-D) Water Bond Act of 2006
Establishes requirements for the amendment or repeal of a bond measure designated as the "Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Bond Act of 2006" to be submitted to the voters at the November 7, 2006 statewide general election.
(Died in Senate being unassigned to a committee)

SCA 32 (Maldonado-R) California missions: preservation
Exempts from the state constitutional prohibition of support of religion, church or any religion-controlled institution or activity (the no aid to religion clause), any appropriation, payment, or grant by the state from a public fund or a donation of personal or real property to a nonprofit organization for the preservation of the 21 historic California missions, provided the donation, grant, or payment is made for the benefit of the public and not primarily for sectarian purposes of the religious creed, church, sectarian denomination, or nonprofit organization organized in the state for religious purposes.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCR 62 (Torlakson-D) California Delta Trail
Expresses the Legislature's support for the creation of a California Delta Trail which will link the San Francisco Bay Trail system to present and future trailways in the Counties of Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Solano, Sacramento, and Yolo.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources Committee)

SR 26 (Perata-D) National Biological Foundry
Extends its appreciation and commendations to the national laboratory partnership of Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for their outstanding and exemplary plan for bringing the National Biological Foundry to California, and for their diligent and devoted service to, and continued concern for, the people of the State of California and the nation.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 24 (Maze-R) Mountain lions
Establishes a mechanism for reporting and better understanding the causes of mountain lion attacks on humans, pets, and livestock.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 87 (Bermudez-D) Trapping licenses: exemptions
Exempts structural pest control operators licensed by the Structural Pest Control Board and persons licensed or certified by the Department of Pesticide Regulation from the requirement to obtain a trapping license from the Department of Fish and Game when trapping rats, mice, voles, moles or gophers.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2006

AB 140* (Nunez-D) Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006
Enacts the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 which authorizes, subject to voter approval at the November 7, 2006 election, $4.090 billion worth of general obligation bonds, from which sale proceeds would be allocated to infrastructure projects for flood protection and levee repair and improvement.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2006

AB 328* (DeVore-R) Crystal Cove State Park: El Morro Village Mobilehome Park
Prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from converting the El Morro Mobilehome Park at Crystal Cove State Park into a publicly accessible campground and public day use state park.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 329* (DeVore-R) Crystal Cove State Park: El Morro Village Mobilehome Park
Prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation from converting the El Morro Mobilehome Park at Crystal Cove State Park into a public campground and public day use park.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 486 (Leslie-R) Urban open space and recreation
Revises the eligibility criteria for competitive grant awards under the Roberti-Z'Berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 555 (La Malfa-R) Vehicles: off-highway vehicles
Extends, by five years to January 1, 2012, the January 1, 2007, sunset on the state's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle (OHV) Program administered by the OHV Division at the Department of Parks and Recreation and the sunset on a related special fee, the revenue from which partially supports the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 601* (Berg-D) Fisheries: salmon and Dungeness crab
Extends operation of the Commercial Salmon Trollers Enhancement and Restoration Program for five years until January 1, 2012. Extends operation of existing laws regulating the Dungeness crab fishery until April 1, 2010, and repeals those laws as of January 1, 2011.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2006

AB 604* (Walters-R) State property
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to enter into an operating agreement with a qualified non-profit for the purpose of developing and administering the Crystal Cove Historic District at Crystal Cove State Park. Repeals existing law requiring the Department of Transportation to transfer a specified parcel of land in the City of Newport Beach to the DPR, for use as a park upon payment of specified consideration by the city, subject to specified conditions. Authorizes the Director of the Department of Transportation to sell, exchange, or lease a specified parcel of unimproved property located in Newport Beach, subject to specified conditions.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1079 (Campbell-R) which died at the Assembly Desk.

AB 647 (Koretz-D) Wild animals: domestic ferrets
Allows domestic ferrets to be imported, transported, possessed, or released alive into this state, and requires the Resources Agency to arrange for the completion of an initial study to determine whether a negative declaration, a mitigated negative declaration, or an environmental impact report is necessary to determine the effects of legalizing ferrets in the state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 668 (La Suer-R) Fish and game: hunter safety education
Requires that a specified course of instruction on hunter safety, principles of conservation, and sportsmanship offered by the Department of Fish and Game be more than eight hours.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 676 (Berg-D) Resources: loan repayment
Authorizes the Secretary of the Resources Agency to accept real property located in Sonoma County as repayment of a debt owed to the state of California by the county for construction of Spud Point Marina.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 677 (Parra-D) Property tax: McFarland Recreation and Park District
Reduces the amount of the McFarland Recreation and Park District's total 1989-90 revenues from $820,720 to $512,926 for the purpose of calculating one portion of the District's Education Revenue Augmentation Fund property tax shift. This change applies in 2006-07 and all succeeding years.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 734 (Dymally-D) Endangered species: crimes
Allows the importation into California of products made from certain species of kangaroo.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 792 (Ruskin-D) Regional park, park and open-space, and open-space districts
Provides that the police shall have specified powers in or about property owned, operated, or managed by specified districts.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 797 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Authorizes an agricultural land conservation easement within the primary or secondary zone in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta be related to contract rescissions in any other portion of the secondary zone without respect to county boundary limitations and expands the Delta Protection Commission's membership from 19 to 23 members.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2006

AB 798* (Wolk-D) Delta Levee maintenance
Extends sunset on the Delta Flood Protection Fund and the 75-25 state cost-sharing formula for levee maintenance or improvement projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to 2010, subject to certain conditions.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2006

AB 848 (Berg-D) Ocean ecosystem conservation and management
Establishes, by January 1, 2008, at either the Department of Fish and Game or the California Coastal Conservancy, the Ocean Ecosystem Resource Information System to serve as a coordinating repository of data related to ecosystem conservation and the management of offshore waters and marine resources.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 874* (Wolk-D) Avian influenza wildlife surveillance
Enacts the Avian Influenza Wildlife Surveillance Act to require the State Resources Agency, in consultation with the Department of Fish and Game and other specified state and federal agencies, to develop and implement a plan for the surveillance, monitoring, sampling, diagnostic testing and reporting of avian influenza in wild birds in the state. Requires the establishment of a working group to assist in development of the plan.
Chapter 708, Statutes of 2006

AB 1002 (Nava-D) Wildlife conservation: nonlead ammunition
Prohibits the possession of lead ammunition when hunting within the range of the California condor, and phases out the use of lead ammunition statewide.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1083 (Strickland-R) Natural hazards web portal
Authorizes the State Geologist to establish an e-government pilot program to determine if a state operated natural hazards portal can effectively integrate and provide access to parcel data and natural hazard zone data needed for disclosure of natural hazards upon the transfer of residential property.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1111 (Frommer-D) Urban Park Act of 2001
Revises the definition of "facilities" contained in the Urban Park Act of 2001 to include community gardens. Adds a new criterion, as specified, that the Department of Parks and Recreation would be required to consider in assigning a higher priority to a grant application.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1204 (Laird-D) Parks: Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to convey approximately 130 acres of land to the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District for public park uses, subject to an agreement between DPR and the district.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1247 (Wolk-D) Parks and recreation: nonprofit organizations
Expands the Department of Parks and Recreation's authority to use nonprofit organizations to operate state park units.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1337 (Ruskin-D) Environment: state buildings: green building standards
Enacts the Green Building Act of 2006 to establish green building standards for the construction and renovation of state buildings.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1341* (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Financing authorities: grants and loans
Extends the sunset for the California Pollution Control Financing Authority's Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program from 2007 to 2012, and increases the total amount available for grants and loans to cities and counties from $5 million to $7.5 million.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2006

AB 1389 (Oropeza-D) Littering: cigarette butts
Increases the fines relating to littering cigarette butts to not less than $750 nor more than $1,500, for a first offense, not less than $1000 nor more than $2,000, for a second offense, and not less than $2,000 nor more than $3,000 upon a third or subsequent conviction.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1487 (Wyland-R) Off-highway motor vehicles: study
Requires the Division of Off Highway Motor Vehicles to complete a study of the costs and benefits of off-highway motor vehicle recreation activities on the state's economy, in consultation with stakeholders.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1559 (Gordon-D) Urban Park Act of 2006
Revises the term facilities, as used in the Urban Park Act of 2001, to include community gardens, and includes creating parks where none now exist within the criteria for assigning higher priority to grant applications.
Chapter 498, Statutes of 2006

AB 1616 (Niello-R) Off-highway motor vehicle recreation
Requires the State Auditor to report to the Legislature on factors that have contributed to the change in the amount of overhead costs charged to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle program for fiscal years 2001-02, 2002-03, and 2003-04.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1722 (Nunez-D) California Tahoe Conservancy: acquisition of real property
Provides that an acquisition of real property or an interest in real property by the California Tahoe Conservancy is subject to the Property Acquisition Law when the value of the property is in excess of $500,000 per lot or parcel.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1803* (Assembly Budget Committee) Resources: budget trailer bill
Implements the resources and environmental protection portions of the 2006 Budget Act, which among other provisions, (1) allowing the Secretary of the Resources Agency to carry out duties previously administered by the staff of the California Bay-Delta Authority, (2) requiring the Secretary for Resources in collaboration with the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to develop a strategic plan to achieve a sustainably managed Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, (3) allowing the Department of Finance to provide for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency with annual baseline adjustments, (4) allowing Williamson Act penalty revenues to be deposited in the Soil Conservation Fund to support enforcement of the Williamson Act., (5) allowing the State Lands Commission to expend monies from the School Land Bank Fund on remediation of mine features and other safety hazards located on state school lands, (6) allowing federal funds to be used to meet funding obligations for fish hatcheries required by AB 7 (Cogdill), Chapter 689, Statutes of 2005, (7) requiring that projects funded by the Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Program be consistent with the CALFED Record of Decision, (8) requiring the Department of Fish and Game to provide an annual fund condition statement with the budget for each account and sub-account within the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, (9) Extends the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission and program within the Department of Parks and Recreation by one year, (10) requiring the Department of Water Resources to conduct additional environmental reviews related to the operational phase of the South Delta Improvement Program, and (11) providing technical changes necessary to transfer the Malibu Bluffs Community Park property owned by the Department of Parks and Recreation to the City of Malibu.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2006

AB 1864 (Matthews-D) Park lands: Fahrens Creek Park
Authorizes the City of Merced to transfer up to three acres of land in Fahrens Creek Park to the Merced City School District to construct a new school, subject to the provisions of the Public Park Preservation Act of 1971.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2006

AB 1877 (Nakanishi-R) Flood control: natural community conservation plan
Establishes a process by which maintenance projects on levees and other flood control facilities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta would be exempt from the requirement to obtain a streambed alteration permit from the Department of Fish and Game.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1924 (Koretz-D) Bird nests and eggs: penalties
Makes it unlawful to take, possess or destroy the nest or eggs of any protected bird.
(Died in Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1991 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: environmental license plates: disabled persons
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a disabled person license plate as a personalized environmental license plate.
Vetoed by the Governor

AB 2026 (Aghazarian-R) Flood control
Establishes protection of public health and safety as the highest consideration in the Reclamation Board setting standards for maintenance and operation of flood protection facilities.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2081 (Vargas-D) Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a report on the costs and benefits of expanding the territory of Old Town San Diego State Park to include surplus state land, which is owned by the Department of Transportation, in the City of San Diego.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2123 (Nava-D) Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act
Enacts the Ridley-Tree Condor Preservation Act requiring the use of nonlead centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition when taking big game or coyotes within Fish and Game Deer Hunting Zones 11 and 13, and certain forest service lands in Santa Barbara County.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2134* (Harman-R) Natural resources: funding: coastal wetlands maintenance
Repeals the sunset date of July 1, 2006, allowing the State Controller to annually transfer specified amounts from the State Lands Commission fund to the Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Account, the Marine Life and Marine Reserve Management Account, the State Parks System Deferred Maintenance Account, and the Natural Resources Infrastructure Fund.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2146 (Canciamilla-D) Hunting or fishing local regulations
Prohibits a city or county from adopting an ordinance or regulation dealing with fish and game matters except under specific conditions, and prevents a local ordinance from extending to certain areas.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2160 (Lieu-D) State buildings: green building
Requires the state to identify and develop appropriate financing and project delivery mechanisms to facilitate state and private sector commercial building projects that are energy and resource efficient.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2006

AB 2166 (La Suer-R) Mentored hunting program
Requires, on or before July 1, 2008, the Fish and Game Commission to formulate and adopt regulations to create and implement a voluntary mentored hunting program. Requires the commission to assess a reasonable fee to all apprentices who participate to recover the actual costs incurred in the establishment and operation of the program.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2268 (Saldana-D) Sport fishing: licenses: fees: exceptions
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to issue a sport fishing license free of charge to an eligible nonprofit organization for day-fishing trips that provide recreational rehabilitation therapy for active duty members of the United States military who are currently receiving inpatient care in a military or Veterans Administration hospital, and veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Chapter 769, Statutes of 2006

AB 2273 (Maze-R) Mountain lions: compensation for injury
Requires the state to pay the medical, physical, and psychological costs that are incurred by a person as a result of an attack by a mountain lion.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 2298 (Niello-R) Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund: grants
Authorizes the use of grants from the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund for park units that are not classified as State Vehicular Recreation Areas, but only where off-highway recreational vehicle use is permitted, and only through grants which are approved for certain activities associated with the use of off-highway motor vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2337 (Garcia-R) Off-highway motor vehicles
Extends by one year, to January 1, 2008, the sunset on the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Division and the OHV Commission in the Department of Parks and Recreation, and increases, from seven to nine, the membership of the OHV Commission by adding the Director of the Department of Finance and the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2365 (Jones-D) State parks: Old Sacramento State Historic Park
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an operating agreement with a nonprofit for the development and operation of a children's museum in Old Sacramento State Historic Park, and authorizes the department to exchange specified properties in Old Sacramento State Historic Park for city-owned park properties elsewhere.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill is AB 2782 (Jones-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 2376 (Leslie-R) Tahoe Regional Planning Agency: Lake Tahoe improvements
Establishes a process for funding infrastructure improvements in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2467 (Maze-R) Mountain lions: memorandum of understanding
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to set forth the protocol for responding to mountain lion attacks and to grant the USFWS the authority to issue depredation permits to take mountain lions in the state.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2479 (Cogdill-R) Noxious and invasive weeds
Increases the maximum allowable administrative funds for the Noxious Weed Management Account within the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund from five percent to 10 percent, and makes legislative findings and declarations relative to the detrimental impact of noxious and invasive weeds.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2006

AB 2485 (Jones-D) Fish and game: sea otters
Establishes the California Sea Otter Fund, to be funded through a voluntary tax check-off and other sources, to provide funds for increased enforcement and research to protect sea otters. Increases the penalties for illegal taking of sea otters, and requires disclosures on cat litter sold in California.
Chapter 296, Statutes of 2006

AB 2497 (Laird-D) Public resources: Resources Agency
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency and the Department of Finance to jointly convene a workgroup consisting of representatives from specified state agencies and natural resource organizations to develop options for improving the efficiency of state resource land acquisition transactions for those departments and conservancies subject to the jurisdiction of the State Public Works Board.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2006

AB 2641 (Coto-D) Native American human remains and multiple human remains
Requires the identified descendents of Native American human remains to make recommendations or preferences for treatment of those remains within 48 hours of being granted access to a Native American burial site instead of within 24 hours of the notification by the Native American Heritage Commission.
Chapter 863, Statutes of 2006

AB 2685 (Cogdill-R) Sport fishing: license revenues: reports
Changes the reporting interval from biennially to annually for reports from the Department of Fish and Game to the fiscal and policy legislative committees, regarding implementation of AB 7 (Cogdill), Chapter 689, Statutes of 2005.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2006

AB 2699 (Emmerson-R) Natural resources: mitigation
States legislative intent to enact legislation to ensure proper management of lands acquired by state agencies or other entities from property owners to mitigate any adverse impact resulting from development, and proper management of endowment fund moneys for financing the maintenance of those lands.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2746 (Blakeslee-R) Natural resources: mitigation for adverse impacts
Allows a public agency to authorize a nonprofit organization to hold title to, monitor, and manage an interest in real property that the agency requires a property owner to transfer to the agency to mitigate any adverse impact upon natural resources caused by permitting the development of a project or facility.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2006

AB 2773 (Berg-D) Fish and game: steelhead trout: Dungeness crab
Extends the steelhead trout report-restoration card program to 2013, makes changes to the requirements for recording information on the cards, appropriates funds from steelhead trout fishing report-restoration card revenues, and makes other changes relating to the steelhead trout report-restoration card program. Clarifies the areas where Dungeness crab vessel permits are valid.
Chapter 297, Statutes of 2006

AB 2782 (Jones-D) State parks: Old Sacramento State Historic Park
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to sell or exchange state parcels to facilitate expansion of the department's Sacramento Delta excursion train. Also authorizes the department to negotiate terms for constructing and operating a children's museum in the Old Sacramento Historic District.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2784 (Parra-D) Parks: off-highway motor vehicle recreation
Extends, by one year to January 1, 2008, the sunset on the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Division and the OHV Commission in the Department of Parks and Recreation, and allows areas of a state vehicular recreation area, closed and restored by the OHV Division due to soil conservation and wildlife protection concerns, to be reopened if it is determined the area can be managed in a manner meeting environmental standards.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2790 (Strickland-R) Castaic Lake State Recreation Area
Changes the name of the Castaic Lake State Recreation Area to the Warren Dorn Castaic Lake State Recreation Area.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2900 (Plescia-R) California Natural Landmarks Program
Establishes a voluntary California Natural Landmarks program, patterned after the National Natural Landmarks program administered by the National Park Service.
Chapter 827, Statutes of 2006

AB 2916* (Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee) Department of Fish and Game: endowment funds
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to enter into agreements with qualified nonprofits and public entities to hold and manage environmental mitigation endowment accounts and requires the department to adopt standards and guidelines regarding such agreements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2972 (Nava-D) Oil and gas leases: state waters
Imposes a one-year limit on the time that applicants for new and expanded oil leases have to provide complete information to the State Lands Commission.
Chapter 298, Statutes of 2006

AB 2995 (Nunez-D) California Tahoe Conservancy: acquisition of real property
Increases the minimum value of property, which is acquired by the California Tahoe Conservancy, that is to be subject to the Property Acquisition Law from $250,000 per lot or parcel to $550,000 and allows the Conservancy to take those actions necessary to manage its lands and facilities, subject to regulation.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2006

AB 3038 (Ruskin-D) Public resources: community conservation corps
Revises the qualifications that California Conservation Corps must meet prior to receiving state funds for litter and recycling programs.
Chapter 904, Statutes of 2006

ACR 77 (Chan-D) Local recreation and park agencies
Recognizes the importance of local recreation and park agencies in the effort to reverse the negative trends in inactivity, obesity, diabetes, and other health problems among Californians and encourages the state to utilize and partner with local recreation and park providers to create a healthier state.
Resolution Chapter 101, Statutes of 2006

ACR 128 (Matthews-D) Wildlife conservation programs: Duck Stamp Program Month
Designates the month of March 2006 as California Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program Month to expose young students to the benefits of the wild life conservation.
Resolution Chapter 23, Statutes of 2006

ACR 163 (Parra-D) Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area
Commemorates the 100th anniversary of recreational motor vehicle use at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, congratulates the Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation, for its management of the area, and declares October 20-22, 2006, as Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area Days.
Resolution Chapter 147, Statutes of 2006

AJR 53 (Berg-D) Klamath River salmon: Congressional relief
Expresses the Legislature's support for efforts in the United States Congress to provide assistance to fishing communities, businesses and individuals to mitigate the economic losses caused by declining Klamath River fall Chinook salmon as well as to provide financial assistance and direction for the recovery and restoration of the salmon populations of the Klamath basin.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

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