Farm Labor
Pests and Pesticides
General Agriculture
Farm Labor
SB 115 (Florez-D) Employment service programs
States the intent of the Legislature to pass legislation that appropriates $2 million from the General Fund to be used exclusively for support of the Employment Development Department employment service programs and related administrative costs attributable to the freezing weather conditions that occurred in January 2007. Specifies that the appropriation applies only to expenses occurring during the period commencing with the effective date of this act and ending 6/30/08.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 585* (Lowenthal-D) Farmworker housing assistance tax credits
Revises an existing tax credit program to change the manner in which the state low-income housing tax credit may be allocated to partners in a limited liability company or a partnership, and thus, allows developers of low-income housing to sell state and federal low-income housing tax credits to separate investors. Double-jointed with SB 1247 (Lowenthal-D).
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 713 (Lowenthal-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
SB 1247 (Lowenthal-D) Farmworker housing assistance
Consolidates the farmworker housing tax credit program into the state low-income housing tax credit program as a farmworker set aside. Double-jointed with SB 585 (Lowenthal-D).
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2008
AB 287* (Nava-D) Farm worker wages: disaster relief
Provides certain agricultural employers affected by the January 2007 freeze with a tax credit equal to 40% of wages paid to employees through 1/1/09. Provides that the credit is available to qualified agricultural employers with operations in a county included in the state of emergency declared by the Governor as a result of the extreme low temperatures and freezing conditions that began on 1/12/07. Provides that the credit is equal to 40% of wages paid to qualified employees, not to exceed $2,400 per employee per year. Provides that the credit replaces deductions otherwise available for the affected wage payments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 363* (Berg-D) Agricultural migratory workers
Reappropriates to the Department of Health Care Services the sum of $645,000 from specified moneys appropriated to the department pursuant to the Budget Act of 2007, for the grants-in-aid program, to be encumbered solely during the 2007-08 fiscal year, for the Rural Health Services Development program and the Seasonal Agricultural Migratory Workers program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 762 (Nava-D) Farm labor housing
Makes changes to the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program to ensure that funds for the housing of California's agricultural workers and their families are used efficiently and made accessible to sponsors that are truly dedicated to service the farmworker population.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 770 (Hernandez-D) Agricultural employees: health care
Enacts the Agricultural Employer and Employees Health Care Coverage Act requiring the California Research Bureau to conduct a comprehensive study of the availability of health care coverage to agricultural employees. Requires the Bureau to convene a working group of affected California stakeholders, in collaboration with the Senate Office of Research, and to report to the Legislature by 1/1/09 with recommendations to ensure that agricultural employees in California are provided health care coverage and that agricultural employers who provide health care coverage to their employees are allowed to lower their health care costs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1107* (Arambula-D) Seasonal workers: unemployment compensation benefits
Provides increased unemployment benefits for workers who have lost their jobs as a result of drought conditions in the state.
Vetoed
AB 2386 (Nunez-D) Collective bargaining: agricultural labor
Requires the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to include information about the status of the Agricultural Employee Relief Fund in its annual report to the Legislature and the Governor. Also provides for a new and detailed process for representational elections for agricultural workers, including a ballot booth election and mediated election, as defined.
Vetoed
AB 2554 (Mullin-D) Farm labor: Employee Housing Act enforcement
Provides that the Department of Housing and Community Development shall reassume responsibility for enforcing the Employee Housing Act, the Mobilehome Parks Act, and the Special Occupancy Parks Act within 90 days of receiving notice that a city or county is canceling its local enforcement, and clarifies which already-collected fees a local government must remit to the Department of Housing and Community Development.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2008
ACR 89 (Arambula-D) Cesar Chavez Day
Recognizes March 31, 2008, as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2008
AJR 47 (Fuentes-D) Cesar E. Chavez
Urges the United States Congress and the President to establish an official federal holiday to commemorate Cesar E. Chavez on his birthday, March 31, and all Californians to celebrate Cesar E. Chavez by engaging in service, events, and actions representative of his legacy on his birthday and throughout the year.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)
Pests and Pesticides
SB 311 (Cogdill-R) Noxious weed management
Appropriates $1 million annually from the General Fund to the Noxious Weed Management Account.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 486 (Maldonado-R) Avocados
Establishes the California Avocado Pest and Disease Prevention Act of 2007, and creates a committee of four producers, four handlers, and one representative form the University of California, appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture from nominations received from the California Avocado Commission. Requires the committee to recommend to the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, the adoption of regulations establishing terms and conditions for handling avocados in California to prevent the introduction and spread of pests and diseases.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1206 (Calderon-D) Pest control
Authorizes a pest control company registered in Branch 2 or Branch 3 to advertise fumigation or any and all encompassing treatment, as specified.
Chapter 46, Statutes of 2008
SB 1326 (Ducheny-D) Vector control
Requires a mosquito abatement and vector control district board of trustees to adopt a formal written response to an irregularity or accounting issue identified in a regular audit. Requires the board to provide its response to each trustee's appointing authority, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1723 (Maldonado-R) Agriculture: pesticide recycling program and certification
Requires every person who is the first to sell any agricultural- or structural-use pesticide product for use in this state that is packaged in rigid, non-refillable, high-density polyethylene containers of 55 gallons or less to establish a recycling program, or demonstrate participation in a recycling program to ensure high-density polyethylene containers are recycled, as specified.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2008
SCR 87 (Migden-D) Light brown apple moth
Requests the Department of Food and Agriculture to impose a moratorium on any aerial spraying that may be a part of the department's eradication campaign of the light brown apple moth until the department can demonstrate that the pheromone compound it intends to use is both safe to humans and effective at eradicating the light brown apple moth.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 977* (Ma-D) Pest control: pesticides: local regulation
Deletes existing law which prohibits any ordinance or regulation by local government from regulating in any matter relating to the registration, sale, transportation, or use of pesticides, pursuant to Section 11501 of the Food and Agriculture Code.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1021 (Berryhill-R) Apple pest: pest and disease prevention
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to appoint an 11-member committee of the California Apple Commission, and a scientific advisory panel, for the general purpose of preventing the further introduction of identified pests and diseases. Provides that no person shall ship apples into the state unless that shipment is accompanied by a certificate attesting to the shipment's compliance with department regulations. Provides that it is a crime to handle apples from designated areas the committee finds to be infested with apple destroying pests and diseases.
Vetoed
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Pesticides: volatile Organic Compounds
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, authorizes the Department of Pesticide Regulations, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend revenue collected from the sale of pesticides to administer the implementation of Volatile Organic Compound regulations.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1530 (Lieber-D) Pesticide poisoning
Requires a laboratory that performs cholinesterase testing on human blood, as specified, to electronically report specified information on every person tested to the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). Requires DPR to share the information in an electronic format with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and the Department of Public Health on an ongoing basis for the purpose of complying with other related reporting requirements, as specified. Requires DPR and the local county agricultural commission to investigate the incidences of cholinesterase inhibitor-related illness. Requires DPR and OEHHA to report on the effectiveness of the medical supervision program and the utility of laboratory-based reporting of cholinesterase testing for illness surveillance.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2223 (Horton-R) Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program
Includes San Diego County in the existing Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program for several counties and extends the sunset date on that program to 1/1/11.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2008
AB 2763 (Laird-D) Invasive pests: advance planning: detection and eradication
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to develop and maintain a list of invasive animals, plants, and insects likely to enter California, and plan for appropriate responses to these possible pests.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2008
AB 2764 (Hancock-D) Pests: eradication: use of pesticide: declaration
Prohibits the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture from undertaking a pest eradication project, or providing for the application of a pesticide in an urban area to effectuate an eradication project, unless the Governor proclaims a state of emergency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2765 (Huffman-D) Pest eradication: aerial use of pesticide: public hearing
Provides that the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture or county agricultural commissioner, when the Secretary proclaims an eradication project in an urban area that includes potential aerial application, before the aerial application of a pesticide, to conduct at least one public hearing to consider all alternatives to aerial application. Requires the Secretary to seek an evaluation of human health risk and environmental risk jointly prepared by the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment including findings and recommendations relating to the proposed use of a pesticide by serial application. Expands information contained in the public notice to include specified information of each active ingredient and inert material in the pesticide formulation.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2008
AB 2892 (Swanson-D) Pests: eradication: aerial spraying of pesticide
Requires two-thirds voter approval in an affected urban area prior to aerial application of pesticides, and requires local elected officials to conduct that election.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
ACR 110 (Maze-R) Mosquito control
Declares April 21 to April 25, 2008, inclusive, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 20, Statutes of 2008
ACR 117 (Laird-D) Light brown apple moth
Memorializes the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Department of Pesticide Regulation, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and any other applicable state departments and agencies involved in the light brown apple moth eradication effort of the need to address the unresolved health, scientific, and efficacy issues concerning the 2007 light brown apple moth eradication effort. Requests those departments and agencies to respond to existing concerns by providing the public with independent analysis of specified impacts on public health and the environment, to provide information on how they intend to respond to the citizen health complaints arising from their 2007 light brown apple moth eradication activities, and to provide the public with independent analysis to ensure that the elements of the Department of Food and Agriculture's 2008-2009 Light Brown Apple Moth Action Plan to eradicate the light brown apple moth are not harmful to human health and the environment and with the properties of the new pheromone-based pesticide to be aerially sprayed. Requests the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and any other applicable state departments and agencies involved in the light brown apple moth eradication effort to publish a formalized plan on health effect monitoring and tracking. Requests the Department of Food and Agriculture to explain whether it intends to adopt certain recommendations relating to air testing for health effects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
General Agriculture
SB 200 (Florez-D) Food safety
Prohibits the serving of meat from downed cattle, as defined, to pupils as part of a school meal or otherwise. Requires establishments subject to required inspection under existing law to install video surveillance in the areas of the establishments where livestock and poultry are present, makes it unlawful to tamper with video surveillance or the resulting recordings, and requires that state officials have access to the live feed from the video surveillance, as specified. Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to make the appropriate notifications within 24 hours. Makes it a crime to treat livestock inhumanely by taking any of specified actions.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 201* (Florez-D) Dairy farms: raw milk: testing: standards
Establishes the Fresh Raw Milk Act of 2008 to require raw milk dairy farms that choose to comply with the requirements of this bill to develop and maintain an individualized Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan, as specified.
Vetoed
SB 202 (Florez-D) Agriculture: leafy green vegetable crop traceback
Establishes requirements for growers, handlers, shippers, and processors of leafy green vegetables for growing practices, handling, processing, and testing.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 311 (Cogdill-R) Noxious weed management
Appropriates $1 million annually from the General Fund to the Noxious Weed Management Account.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 358 (Maldonado-R) Field crops: leafy greens: foodborne illness
Makes findings and declarations regarding the importance of the leafy greens industry and the need for developing effective measures to combat foodborne pathogens in leafy greens. Appropriates $2 million to the University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, to fund cooperative extension food safety advisors and specialists.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 452 (Cogdill-R) Family-owned farms: employment: workers' compensation
Excludes from the definition of "employee" any person who provides services on a family-owned farm, as defined, and is employed without financial compensation by his/her parent, spouse, child, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or first or second cousin. Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to prescribe a form to be filed by a family-owned farm for purposes of claiming an exemption from the provisions of the workers' compensation system.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 486 (Maldonado-R) Avocados
Establishes the California Avocado Pest and Disease Prevention Act of 2007, and creates a committee of four producers, four handlers, and one representative from the University of California, appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture from nominations received from the California Avocado Commission. Requires the committee to recommend to the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, the adoption of regulations establishing terms and conditions for handling avocados in California to prevent the introduction and spread of pests and diseases.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 495* (Denham-R) California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program
Authorizes the counties identified in the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program and the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program to participate in the California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program. Provides that funds appropriated to counties that were authorized to participate in the former Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program shall be equal to those provided under that program and shall be distributed according to a specified schedule. Provides that funding for participation of the counties that were authorized to participate in the former Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program shall include, but is not limited to, appropriations from local government and private contributions and shall be equal to that provided to each of the counties under that program, and that funding for participation in the California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program for the Counties of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Napa, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, Sonoma, Ventura, and Yolo shall be provided as it becomes available.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 517 (Maldonado-R) Agriculture
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish and oversee a program to provide additional funding to applicants to the federal Environmental Quality Incentives Program. The program is intended to provide incentives for conservation efforts that promote agricultural production and environmental quality.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 634 (Wiggins-D) Food labeling: olive oil
Clarifies the definition of olive oil, repeals current licensure provisions, conforms olive oil definitions, grades and labeling requirements to international standards, authorizes the addition of vitamin E to specified olive oil, permits a consumer to re-use a clean olive oil container, can, or drum, and makes legislative findings and declarations.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2008
SB 1060 (Ridley-Thomas-D) 6th Agricultural District Assoc.: California Science Center
Creates the Exposition Park Authority, with a board consisting of 11 members designated or appointed, and specifies the duties and responsibilities of the board, and, among other things, gives the board (1) the jurisdiction and control over, and responsibility for, the management and operation of any and all real and personal properties located in Exposition Park that are owned by the state, (2) the authority to employ a park manager, and (3) the authority to exercise any and all powers formerly held by the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission. Requires the board to sell the parcel of property that the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena occupies and to establish an advisory board, as specified, that shall meet regularly with the park manager to improve communication and coordination among facilities and to consult with and advise the park manager on issues relating to the operations of Exposition Park. Provides that the California Science Center (CSC) shall be governed by a nine-member board of directors who shall be appointed by the Governor. Specifies that the CSC, through its board and executive officers, shall have jurisdiction only over those matters directly pertaining to the management and operation of the CSC. Requires the CSC, through its board and executive officers, to coordinate museum events and activities with the park manager. Terminates the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, as specified. Provides that the Exposition Park Authority Board, among other things, shall assume all rights, obligations, and duties of the commission. States that these provisions are severable.
(Failed passage in Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee)
SB 1121 (Migden-D) Food labeling: cloned animals
Requires food manufacturers and producers to label and identify any food containing products from a cloned animal.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1228 (Maldonado-R) Agricultural products: transport vehicles
Extends, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/10, the sunset date on an exemption from vehicle length limits for trailer combinations used for transporting agricultural products.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2008
SB 1280 (Maldonado-R) Agriculture: seed: advisory board: registration
Changes the makeup of the 11-member California Seed Advisory Board from nine labelers and two public members to seven labelers, two individuals receiving or possessing seed for sale in California, and two public members. Clarifies that all agriculture or vegetable seed labelers must annually register with the Department of Food and Agriculture to sell seed in California.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2008
SB 1404 (Lowenthal-D) Plant labeling: water use
Requires, beginning 1/1/10, any wholesale establishment or distributor that sells plants in containers of five gallons or less to provide a label indicating the approximate water use of each plant for the, six climate zones, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 1436 (Ducheny-D) Protected species: accidental take: agricultural activities
Extends by two years to 1/1/11, the sunset on provisions that exempt from the California Endangered Species Act, prohibitions against the killing of candidate, threatened or endangered species, the accidental killing of these species that occurs on a farm or ranch in the course of routine and ongoing agricultural activities.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2008
SB 1466 (Corbett-D) Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish, by 1/1/10, the Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1512 (Wiggins-D) Private energy producers: agricultural customer-generators
Permits agricultural customers who use solar or a wind turbine to offset the customer's own electrical needs to aggregate the electricity usage of properties adjacent or contiguous to the generator that are under the same ownership.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
SB 1562* (Hollingsworth-R) Property tax: exemption: fruit-bearing/nut-bearing trees
Expands the exemption from property tax for trees or any grapevine damaged by the extremely strong and damaging winds that started on 10/20/07, and by the wildfires that started on 10/21/07, which were subject of the Governor's proclamation of a state of emergency.
Chapter 356, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 148 (Hollingsworth-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
SB 1623 (Yee-D) Rice industry
Defines the terms handle and process for purposes of rice production and distribution, and changes the definition of the term "handler" to persons selling or offering rice for sale. Deletes fidelity bond requirements for agents designated by the California Rice Commission (CRC) to handle assessments and instead requires these funds to be accounted for in a manner prescribed by the CRC. Repeals and recasts the CRC and Department of Food and Agriculture duties related to investigations and violations. Allows the department and the CRC to collect reimbursements for enforcement costs associated with these provisions.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2008
SCR 6 (Florez-D) Frost damage
Requests the Public Utilities Commission to cooperate with the state's public utilities in immediately approving advice letter filings to establish appropriate payment deferral programs for agricultural growers whose crops were destroyed as a result of the cold storms and consequent frost damage that occurred as a result of the winter freeze in January 2007. Requests the Public Utilities Commission to authorize recovery for the actual administrative costs, with the exception of interest foregone on deferred amounts, and recovery of uncollected deferred amounts incurred by the state's public utilities as a result of this program.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SCR 75 (Maldonado-R) California Agriculture Day
Proclaims the week of 3/16/08 to 3/22/08 inclusive, as National Agriculture Week; Tuesday, 3/25/08 as California Agriculture Day; and Thursday, 3/20/08, as National Agriculture Day.
Resolution Chapter 12, Statutes of 2008
A similar resolution was SCR 27 (Maldonado-R) which died in Assembly Rules Committee.
AB 454* (Berryhill-R) Conservation easements: taxation
Provides conformity to federal law, including an increase in the specified percentage limitations (50% and 100% in the case of farmers) and extending the allowance carryover period to the 15 succeeding taxable years until used, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 541 (Huffman-D) Genetically engineered plants: liability
Establishes sampling and analysis protocols when determining if there is a breach of contract or seed patent infringement of genetically engineered plants and specifies that farmers are not liable for unintended or de minimis breaches of contract or seed patent infringements.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2008
AB 576 (Carter-D) Animal feeding: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park
Prohibits an animal feeding operation or concentrated animal feeding operation within 2.5 miles of Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park in Tulare County.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 653 (Maze-R) Agricultural land use
Allows Tulare County, and any city within the county, to establish a local agricultural and open space conservation plan.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 664 (Parra-D) Dairy products: Prison Industry Authority
Provides that dairy products produced under the Prison Industry Authority may only be purchased by food service operations in state-owned facilities and sold for onsite consumption.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 680* (Wolk-D) Rice straw: tax credit
Extends the rice straw tax credit for five years and increases the limit on credits from $400,000 to $1 million.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 698 (Strickland-R) Perishable agricultural product defamation
Creates a new ground for lawsuits regarding agricultural products.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 856 (Galgiani-D) Agriculture
Eliminates the minimum $100 seed identification and quality subvention allocated to each county and gives the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture the discretion of whether or not to provide the minimum $100 subvention to a county that has no registered seed labelers.
Chapter 425, Statutes of 2008
AB 967 (Nava-D) Farm Fresh Schools Program
Establishes the Farm Fresh Schools program, administered jointly by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the Department of Public Health, in consultation with the Department of Education, for the purposes of reducing obesity, improving nutrition, and strengthening the regional agricultural economy by promoting the consumption of locally grown fruits and vegetables in public schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1050* (La Malfa-R) Fiber animals: sales tax exemption
Exempts from sales and use taxes the sale of all animals, unless specifically excluded, whose products constitute fiber.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1094 (Arambula-D) Farms: diesel fuel tax: refunds and credits
Allows certain fuel suppliers to claim an additional 2.5 cents per gallon reimbursement from the state for diesel fuel they have sold to farmers, free of the state excise tax. The reimbursement is intended to cover administrative costs incurred by suppliers filing a refund claim for the 18 cents per gallon that they had paid for diesel fuel.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1132* (Berryhill-R) Irrigation system: graywater
Authorizes, from 1/1/08 to 1/1/18, a tax credit for the costs paid or incurred for the installation of a graywater irrigation system.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1180 (Blakeslee-R) Agricultural resources
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation to issue grants for specified agricultural conservation easements, and prohibits the use of funds from the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund for the new easements authorized by these provisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1223 (Arambula-D) Agriculture: public utilities: net energy metering
Permits an agricultural customer who uses solar or wind generation to offset the customer's own electrical needs to aggregate the electricity use of properties adjacent or contiguous to the generator, that are under the same ownership, to its full electricity usage over a 12-month cycle at the retail rate.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 1352 (Berryhill-R) Animals: rendering
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, provided funds are available, to conduct a study of the current status of animal mortality disposal and recycling alternatives.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1389* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: Williamson Act
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, reduces the annual open-space (Williamson Act and Farmland Security Zones) subventions to counties and cities by 10%.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008
AB 1428 (Galgiani-D) Energy: agricultural byproducts customer-generator program
Replaces the existing pilot program for eligible biogas digester customer-generators with a net energy metering program for eligible customer-generators to generate electricity.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1497 (Niello-R) Williamson Act: local government: housing elements
Exempts from the inventory of land suitable for residential development, land that is currently under a Williamson Act contract, if it meets specified criteria, and land that is owned by the state or the federal government, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1604* (Caballero-D) Market milk: raw milk: standards
Deletes the required standard of 10 coliform bacteria or less per milliliter for raw milk that is sold to the public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1667 (La Malfa-R) County fairs: carnivals
Defines "carnival workers" as employees of a carnival, and defines a "carnival" as a company of transportable amusement rides, food and beverage units, and games that may have one or more owners and travels from place to place, in a group or separately, providing entertainment and recreation to the public.
Chapter 36, Statutes of 2008
AB 1764 (Blakeslee-R) Agricultural use: land use
Clarifies that agricultural commodities" produced in this state for biofuels are allowable under the Williamson Act, and expands the Williams Act's definition of "open space" to include an area enrolled in the United State Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program or Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2008
AB 1810 (Galgiani-D) Horses: shows, competitions, and sales
Requires the Equine Medication Monitoring Program Advisory Committee to meet only once a year, and authorizes the chairperson to call for additional meetings as determined necessary. Tightens the definition for the "event manager" and closes loopholes regarding who is responsible for submitting the fees for their horse shows.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2008
AB 1913 (Fuller-R) Cotton
Makes changes to the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board membership and authority.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2008
AB 2168 (Jones-D) Farm stands: direct marketing: retail food
Makes various changes regarding the sale of food at farm stands and farmers markets. Double-jointed with SB 1359 (Runner-R).
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2008
AB 2253 (Torrico-D) Food labels: free range
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, before 1/1/10, to develop criteria for the use of the claim "California Certified Free Range" for poultry products, as specified. Authorizes poultry and poultry products that comply with those criteria to bear the words, or be held out as, "California Certified Free Range" before being offered for sale.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2284* (Galgiani-D) Market milk standards: Milk Producers Security Trust Fund
Makes technical and clarifying changes concerning the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund and provides clean-up language for AB 1735 (Assembly Agriculture Committee), Chapter 339, Statutes of 2007, relating to bulk tank cooling requirements for milk.
Chapter 236, Statutes of 2008
AB 2349 (Fuller-R) Diseased animals and poultry: violations and penalties
Allows the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), in addition to the Attorney General, to enforce animal quarantine laws. Makes a violation of animal quarantine laws subject to an administrative penalty between $100 to $1,000 per violation, credited to the Food and Agriculture Fund. Requires the DFA to notify the violator and requires the violator be given an opportunity to be heard in an administrative adjudication hearing provided by DFA.
Chapter 147, Statutes of 2008
AB 2782 (Berryhill-R) Milk: manufacturing standards: USDA raw milk standards
Deletes the state requirement that manufacturing milk comply with the rules, regulations, and standards of the United States Department of Agriculture which govern quality standards of raw milk.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2849 (Evans-D) Apiary Protection Act
Provides for the damages that are recoverable by a plaintiff in a civil action for the wrongful taking, possessing, harboring, or transporting of a beehive, for the wrongful removal of bees from their beehive, or for the wrongful killing or destroying of bees.
Vetoed
AB 2850 (Villines-R) Market milk: stabilization and marketing plans
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to use only relevant evidence and data submitted during a public hearing when making a decision concerning amendments to the milk stabilization or marketing plan, or concerning amendments to a milk pooling plan.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2860 (Mendoza-D) Agricultural lands: cancellation of Williamson Act contracts
Establishes a rebuttable presumption that where a Native American tribe or tribal group has petitioned for a contract cancellation that tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing are alterative uses that are public concerns that substantially outweigh the objectives of the act and that for tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing, land contiguous to existing tribal land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of proximate non-contracted land.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2881 (Wolk-D) Agricultural activity: nuisance: defendant's costs recovery
Requires disclosure, upon certain property transfers, of nearby agricultural activity.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2008
AB 2921 (Laird-D) Agricultural land: local government
Expands and clarifies statutory procedures for the Department of Conservation to identify and respond to material breaches of Williamson Act contracts, and makes adjustments to provisions of the Williamson Act dealing with contract rescissions and open space and agricultural easements.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2008
AB 2999 (Huffman-D) Animal carcasses: removal from highways
Establishes procedures for the removal and disposal of animal carcasses on state highways by the Department of Transportation and by state or local agencies having appropriate jurisdiction.
Chapter 257, Statutes of 2008
ACR 12 (Parra-D) Agriculture: frost damage
Requests the Public Utilities Commission to cooperate with the state's public utilities in immediately approving advice filings to establish appropriate payment deferral programs for citrus and other affected growers whose crops were destroyed as a result of the cold storms and consequent frost damage that occurred in January 2007. Requests the Public Utilities Commission to authorize recovery for the actual administrative costs, with the exception of interest foregone on deferred amounts, and recovery of uncollected deferred amounts incurred by the state's public utilities as a result of this program.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
Water Resources
SB 6 (Oropeza-D) Flood control: local use
Requires that the land use element, the conservation element, the safety element, and the open space element of city and county general plans identify areas which are subject to flooding based on existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels. Requires cities and counties to deny subdivisions in risky areas. Requires state or local public entities that map and identify flood risk to consider existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 27 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Emergency Preparedness Act
Require the Office of Emergency Services to establish an interagency Multi-Hazard Coordination Task Force to develop an emergency response strategy for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2008
SB 55 (Florez-D) Water quality: sewage sludge
Requires a publicly owned treatment works to submit a certification to the regional board that any sewage sludge transferred from the facility for disposal or further processing meets the requirements and standards for any pollutants listed in the waste discharge requirements for the publicly owned treatment works issued by the regional board.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 59 (Cogdill-R) Reliable Water Supply Bond Act of 2008
Authorizes $3.95 billion in general obligation bonds for water storage projects, delta sustainability, water use efficiency, and resource stewardship and environmental restoration programs.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 61 (Runner-R) Castaic Lake Water Agency
Changes, in the Castaic Lake Water Agency Law, the initial term of office for the director elected as a successor to the director who was appointed by a private water purveyor, which has now been acquired by the agency, from two years to four years, and removes obsolete provisions of law.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2008
SB 187 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Fund: restoration project
Provides that any bond funds made available by the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) and deposited in the Salton Sea Restoration Fund, shall be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, for a restoration project that is consistent with legislative intent regarding a preferred alternative, as specified in existing law, and that expenditures shall be limited to activities identified as "Period 1" activities in the Resources Agency's report on a preferred alternative for the Salton Sea.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2008
SB 258 (Ducheny-D) Water use fees
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, as part of the preparation of the Governor's Budget submitted in January 2008, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature with regard to the alternatives for financing the Division of Water Rights, and makes related legislative findings and declarations.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 324 (Migden-D) Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation
Authorizes a private energy producer to generate electricity not generated from conventional sources for a community choice aggregator. Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to elect to designate specific solar electricity generation facilities pursuant to the above-described authorization and provides that the authorization does not limit the right of Hetch Hetchy Water and Power to sell electricity from a solar generation facility owned by the City and County of San Francisco when otherwise authorized by law.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
SB 348 (Simitian-D) Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management
Extends, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/13, the authority of the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County to assess an up-to $4 annual fee on vehicles registered within San Mateo County for programs to manage traffic congestion and storm water pollution.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2008
SB 378 (Steinberg-D) Flood Prevention
Provides statutory direction and places additional requirements on the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board with regard to the implementation and awarding of specified grants made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Fund Act of 2006 (Proposition 1E).
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 395 (Cox-R) Water supply: groundwater aquifers
Establishes the North American Basin Groundwater Storage Act of 2007, defines several terms for purposes of the act, authorizes local public agencies located in the North American subbasin of the Sacramento Valley Groundwater Basin to implement projects that use an aquifer storage and recovery well to inject drinking water into a groundwater aquifer, store that drinking water in that aquifer, and later pump that drinking water for the local public agency's use. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Board, in considering any aquifer storage and recovery project under Porter-Cologne, to determine the drinking water to be injected and stored by that project to be protective of public health, and the storage of that water a beneficial use of groundwater, if the project proponent demonstrates that the project meets specified criteria.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 567 (Aanestad-R) Counties: consolidation of offices: watermaster districts
Clarifies who may serve on the Scott Valley and Shasta Valley Watermaster District and the Shasta-Tehama Watermaster District boards, and consolidates the office of Auditor Controller and Treasurer-Tax Collector into one in Trinity County.
Chapter 703, Statutes of 2008
SB 616 (Margett-R) Waste discharge requirements: horse racing facilities
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to prescribe general waste discharge requirements for horse racing facilities. These requirements apply to the discharge of waste at horse racing facilities that are subject to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program. Requires the SWRCB to prescribe requirements that include specified components, to the extent permitted by federal law.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 631 (Ashburn-R) State Water Resources Control Board
Changes the current prohibition for persons seeking membership to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or regional water quality control board to, instead, prohibit any person from being on the SWRCB or regional board if he/she receives, or has received during the previous two years, 25% or more of his or her income directly or indirectly from any person subject to specified waste discharge requirements or applicants for specified waste discharge requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 651* (Calderon-D) Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content
Revises provisions of existing law, which take effect in 2010, prohibiting the use of any pipes or plumbing that contain lead which convey or dispense water for human consumption. Requires that plumbing materials be certified for compliance with these provisions by the American National Standards Institute. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt emergency regulations, as may be necessary and proper, to carry out the provisions, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 821 (Kuehl-D) Water supplies: land use
Requires the California Research Bureau to study water use by new residential development and large-scale development projects under current law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 887 (Calderon-D) Local public water agencies
Requires each local public water agency to establish a low-income ratepayer assistance program.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 899 (Simitian-D) Fishing gear
Requires the establishment of a program to reduce and recover derelict fishing gear.
Vetoed
SB 917 (Migden-D) Watershed conservation
Enacts the Watershed Conservation Protection Program, within the California Watershed Protection and Restoration Act, to fund regional cooperative conservation partnership accounts, natural resource protection and restoration programs, regional watershed protection and recovery programs, and watershed improvement programs in counties or water basins that are the sources of water that is bottled or vended in the state.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 965 (Lowenthal-D) Oil spills
Establishes the California Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System information network, which links existing and proposed information systems in order to improve the efficiency and access to critical environmental information affecting safe navigation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1052* (Perata-D) Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008
Enacts the Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing a specified water supply reliability and environmental restoration program, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5,400,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1056 (Migden-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Requires the Office of Emergency Services to notify San Francisco Bay Area counties in the event of an oil spill in the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and requires the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response to promulgate a regulation establishing a minimum two hour oil spill response time in San Francisco Bay.
Vetoed
SB 1102 (Machado-D) California Bay-Delta Authority Act
Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority Act and transfers the rights and duties of the California Bay-Delta Authority to the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
Vetoed
SB 1108 (Machado-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program
Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program, administered by the State Coastal Conservancy, to restore, enhance and protect agricultural, economic, natural, cultural, historical, recreational, public access and urban waterfront resources and opportunities of the Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1117 (Cox-R) Hot Spring Valley Water District
Transforms the Hot Spring Valley Irrigation District in Modoc County into the Hot Spring Valley Water District under the California Water District law, thereby implementing a stipulated judgment that settled two lawsuits filed by a landowner against the existing district.
Chapter 615, Statutes of 2008
SB 1159* (Cox-R) Alcoholic beverages: possession: Truckee River
Prohibits the possession of alcoholic beverages, whether open or closed, on vessels along the Truckee River (from the Highway 89 Bridge in Tahoe City to the Alpine Meadows Bridge) during summer holiday periods.
Chapter 44, Statutes of 2008
SB 1176 (Perata-D) Water quality
Revises regional water quality control boards membership requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1256 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Council
Creates the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a separate agency within the Resources Agency and charges the council with the responsibility to implement the preferred restoration plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1258 (Lowenthal-D) Building standards: graywater
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, at the next triennial building standards rulemaking cycle that commences on or after 1/1/09, to adopt and submit to the California Building Standards Commission, for approval, building standards for the construction, installation, and alteration of graywater systems for indoor and outdoor use.
Chapter 172, Statutes of 2008
SB 1276 (Ashburn-R) Vandalia Water District
Transforms the Vandalia Irrigation District into the Vandalia Valley Water District under the California Water District Law.
Chapter 619, Statutes of 2008
SB 1295 (Ducheny-D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development permit
Prohibits appeals by two commissioners of the California Coastal Commission unless the commission or its staff had provided written comments on a proposed project to the local (or port) governing body when that project was being considered by that body.
(Failed passage in the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1334 (Calderon-D) Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content
Requires all plumbing products, as defined, to be certified by an independent American National Standards Institute accredited third-party for compliance with existing lead standards.
Chapter 580, Statutes of 2008
SB 1360 (Machado-D) Flood protection
Makes various corrections and addresses certain issues arising out of the comprehensive flood legislation package.
Vetoed
SB 1391 (Padilla-D) Recycled water
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a recycled water policy and recommend statutory changes, under specified conditions, by 1/31/09.
Vetoed
SB 1428 (Kehoe-D) San Diego River Conservancy
Extends the sunset date on the San Diego River Conservancy until 1/1/20, and authorizes the Mayor of San Diego to appoint a designee to sit in his/her absence.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2008
SB 1439 (Ashburn-R) Tulare Lake Basin: pilot program
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, to contract with Tulare County to develop and implement an integrated water quality and wastewater treatment pilot program in the Tulare Lake Basin.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1462 (Maldonado-R) Navigable waters: seaplanes
Mandates the Department of Transportation to establish requirements for the landing, docking, and takeoff of a seaplane on navigable waters.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1520 (Kehoe-D) Water quality: regional boards
Requires regional water quality control boards to submit annual budgets to the legislative budget committees, and requires the State Water Resources Control Board, if the board finds the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board (San Diego Board) has failed to take certain actions regarding sediment contamination along the eastern shore of San Diego Bay by 1/30/10, to assume jurisdiction and control over the San Diego Board staff and other resources necessary to carry out these actions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1558 (Ashburn-R) Regional water quality control boards: membership
Prohibits a person from being a member of a regional quality control board if he/she receives, or has received during the previous two years, 25% or more of his/her income directly or indirectly from any person subject to specified waste discharge requirements, or applicants for waste water discharge requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1582 (Simitian-D) Ocean resources: ocean rangers
Establishes an "ocean ranger" program, as defined, until 1/1/15, pursuant to which the owner or operator of a large passenger vessel permits specified law enforcement officers, hired or contracted for by the Attorney General, to travel on cruise ships.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1739 (Simitian-D) Oil spill contingency plan
Clarifies the marine facility oil spill contingency plan training, drills, and testing requirements, and revises oil spill response organization drill requirements.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2008
SB 1761* (Perata-D) California Water Plan
Requires the Department of Water Resources to update, every five years, the California Water Plan.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 1781* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Marine Invasive Species Act
Replaces a general reference for ballast water requirements in a State Lands Commission report with a specific implementation schedule; extends the implementation date for ballast water requirements for new vessels with ballast water capacity less than 5000 metric tons from 1/1/09 to 1/1/10; and changes the date for the Commission to submit a review of the ballast water report to the Legislature from/before 1/1/09, to/before 1/1/10.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2008
SB 1XX (Perata-D) Water quality, flood control, and water storage
Makes changes to the integrated regional water management program statute and appropriates $820,973,000, in funding, from currently authorized general obligation bonds for various water-related purposes.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2008, Second Extraordinary Session
SB 2XX* (Perata-D) Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008
Authorizes a $6.835 billion general obligation bond to be placed on the 2/5/08 ballot. The bond provides funds for water supply reliability, delta sustainability, conservation and pollution cleanup, protection against invasive species, groundwater protection and water quality, and water recycling.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 3XX (Cogdill-R) Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008
Authorizes a $9.085 billion general obligation bond to be placed on the 11/4/08 ballot, to provide funds for Delta sustainability, water supply reliability, water storage projects, resource stewardship, and environmental restoration, and protect against invasive species.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 4XX (Cogdill-R) Water resources: bond funds
Appropriates a total of $552.64 million from Propositions 50, 1E, and 84, for a variety of purposes relating to water management.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 19 (DeVore-R) Water quality: Santa Ana region
Establishes the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Project and the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board, comprised of specified members, for the purposes of carrying out the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Authorizes a city or county to allow a discharger within its jurisdiction, upon the request of the discharger, to become subject to regulation by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board in lieu of the regional board for purposes of the Act.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 26 (Nakanishi-R) Flood control
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to enter into a planning agreement with the Reclamation Board to prepare a natural community conservation plan (NCCP) encompassing the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District for comprehensive management and conservation of multiple wildlife species, and requires the department and the Reclamation Board, when developing the NCCP, to prepare a long-term streambed alteration agreement applicable to all flood control facilities and levees covered in the NCCP.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 41 (La Malfa-R) Temperance Flat Surface Water Storage Project
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act the construction of the Temperance Flat Surface Water Storage Project and the Sites Reservoir.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 169 (Levine-D) Public resources: ballast water management
Requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel carrying or capable of carrying ballast water to carry specified records on board the vessel.
Vetoed
AB 224 (Wolk-D) Water supply planning
Requires the Department of Water Resources, as part of its statewide water resource management responsibilities, to include an analysis of the potential effects of climate change, as specified, in certain reports, and requires the department to identify specified information regarding climate change and water resources for the state and all 10 of the state's hydrologic regions for use by state and local agencies for specified purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 559 (Ruskin-D) Public water systems: investigation: drinking water
Asks the University of California to direct the University of California Center for Water Resources to study the potential adverse effects on human health of compounds used to disinfect drinking water and byproducts resulting from disinfection, with emphasis on chloramine use by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and to report the Center's findings to the Legislature by 7/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 564 (Brownley-D) Los Angeles County Flood Control District: fees and charges
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control District to impose a fee or charge in compliance with Proposition 218, to pay the costs and expenses incurred by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District while carrying out its duties.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 640 (De La Torre-D) Water replenishment districts
Requires the Department of Water Resources to conduct a study to determine the specific changes, including underflow, in the Central Coast Basin and West Coast Basin within the water replenishment district.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 704 (Eng-D) Metropolitan water districts: public contracts: design-build
Authorizes a metropolitan water district, upon approval of the board of directors, until 1/1/11, to use prescribed design-build procedures to design and build a solar energy system, including related ancillary improvements, in excess of $1,000,000.
(Failed passage in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 727 (Maze-R) Department of Water Resources
Removes the Department of Water Resources and the Wildlife Conservation Board's ability to acquire real property on their own without working through the State Public Works Board.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 817 (Maze-R) Mutual water companies
Requires each mutual water company to have a supervisory committee that will be responsible for reviewing policies and control procedures to safeguard against fraud and self-dealing.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 873 (Davis-D) Public utilities: procurement
Requires every water corporation with gross annual revenues exceeding $25 million to submit to the Public Utilities Commission annual plans for increasing procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
Chapter 316, Statutes of 2008
AB 877 (Parra-D) Water supplies: San Joaquin Valley
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study the economic impacts of water supply reductions in the San Joaquin Valley.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 885 (Charles Calderon-D) Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Authorizes a member public agency to appoint a proxy for its representative that is appointed or selected to serve on the Metropolitan Water District board of directors.
Vetoed
AB 909 (Wolk-D) Water: mercury monitoring and remediation
Establishes the Mercury Characterization and Control Program within the State Water Resources Control Board to provide grants and to fund development of a mercury control and remediation program for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 992 (Brownley-D) Stormwater containment
Provides direction for project selection for the expenditure of bond funds made available by the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1066 (Laird-D) California coast: sea level rise
Requires guidelines in general plans to include advice that cities and counties may use to address the effects of climate change and sea level rise on the California coast and bays. Authorizes the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to develop regional strategies for addressing and adapting to sea level rise. Requires the Ocean Protection Council to provide the best available scientific information on sea level rise impacts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1114 (Eng-D) San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
Creates the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund into which money, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California Environmental Protection Agency, is deposited for allocation to the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority to fund projects that address groundwater contamination in the basin.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1127 (Carter-D) Percholorate: drinking water standards: City of Rialto
Authorizes the Department of Public Health to contract with the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority to assess and treat drinking water for perchlorate contamination around the cities of Colton, Fontana, and Rialto.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1173 (Keene-R) Water charges: multiunit residential structures
Establishes a process by which apartment complex owners charge apartment renters for the water consumed in each apartment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1225 (DeSaulnier-D) Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund
Authorizes the Ocean Protection Council to provide funding for adaptive management, planning, coordination, monitoring, research, and other necessary activities to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change on California's ocean ecosystem.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2008
AB 1250 (Parra-D) Project solicitation and evaluation guidelines
Adds the word "regional" to provisions governing the allocation of a $500 million earmark of bond proceeds authorized by Proposition 50 (November 2002) to support the development and implementation of integrated regional water management plans in an effort to limit the scope of this funding to projects with regional impacts and exclude projects that address statewide priorities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1297 (Arambula-D) Water: regional water management plans
Establishes parameters by which the Department of Water Resources, in allocating the proceeds of bonds authorized by Proposition 84 earmarked for projects that implement integrated regional water management plans, carries out Proposition 84's mandate that no more than 5% of the earmarked funds be used to develop, update, or improve integrated regional water management plans.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Water resources: Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions: (1) Requires the Department of Water Resources to use eight specified limited-term positions exclusively for conducting studies on options for conservation and restoration of the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta, consistent with the recommendations of the Delta Blue Ribbon Task Force. These positions will be restricted to advance work on California Environmental Quality Act required studies and documentation for the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan. (2) Moves the CALFED Watershed Coordination Program from the Secretary of Resources office to the Department of Conservation. (3) Creates the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account for penalty revenues from failure to file timely waste discharge reports in order to better account for those revenues. (4) Allows the use of bond funds, instead of General Fund monies, for the completion of the All-American Canal lining. (5) Allows the Harbors and Watercraft Fund to be used for Quagga mussel eradication and containment programs.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1383 (Fuller-R) Energy and natural gas agreements: State Water Projects
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to enter into contracts and agreements for the purchase, sale, exchange, trading, financial hedging, commodities and energy brokerage services, information subscription, transmission, or interconnection of electric power or natural gas.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 1435 (Salas-D) Water charges: conservation rate structure
Requires each local water purveyor that supplies water to retail customers to institute a conservation rate structure based on the amount of water used for other than agricultural purposes for each customer with a water meter.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 1507 (Emmerson-R) Floodplain management: Alluvial Fan Task Force
Requires the Director of the Department of Water Resources to reestablish, until 1/1/09, the Alluvial Fan Task Force to develop a model ordinance on alluvial fan flooding and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature by 12/30/08.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1664 (Strickland-R) Public water systems or publicly owned treatment works
Gives a preference for allocation of state bond funds to applicants required to increase sewer or water rates more than 100%.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1806 (Wolk-D) Fishery resources: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to prepare and implement protocols for fish rescue and relocation plans and actions for Delta fishery resources.
Vetoed
AB 1856* (Jeffries-R) Elsinore Water District
Allows the Elsinore Water District's Board of Directors to conduct its meetings at the District office, or any publicly owned location that is within, or not more than one mile outside of, the District's boundaries.
Chapter 20, Statutes of 2008
AB 1898 (Evans-D) Flood control subvention funds: Napa River
Authorizes state funding of a federally authorized flood control project in the City of St. Helena.
Chapter 632, Statutes of 2008
AB 1903* (Hernandez-D) Flood control and water conservation facilities: liability
Reenacts and extends a sunset date for recently expired immunity provisions related to certain flood control and water conservation activities.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2008
AB 1946 (Nava-D) Water quality
Extends the statute of limitations from one-year to five-years for specified violations of hazardous material release response plans and allows district attorneys, upon request of the State Water Resources Control Board, or a regional water quality control board, to petition the superior court to recover civil penalties for violations of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Vetoed
AB 2013 (Krekorian-D) New construction: water-permeable pavement
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose building standards that authorize the use of water-permeable pavement for specified purposes during the next triennial adoption process of the California Building Code that begins on or after 1/1/09.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2031 (Hancock-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Makes various changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act regarding coordinating local resources, training of local emergency responders and volunteers, grants to local governments, and local government notification of oil spills.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2008
AB 2046 (Jones-D) Water supply assessments: groundwater
Requires that water supply verifications, urban water management plans, and water supply assessments include additional precise information about the status of efforts to treat contaminated groundwater that is included in these determinations.
Vetoed
AB 2065 (Hancock-D) Invasive aquatic species: dreissenid mussels
Requires any person, or federal, state or local agency, district or authority that owns or manages a reservoir where recreational, boating or fishing activities are permitted to assess the vulnerability of the reservoir to nonnative mussels and develop and implement a program designed to prevent the introduction of nonnative mussels.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2008
AB 2094 (DeSaulnier-D) San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Adds the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to the joint policy committee coordinating the development and drafting of major planning documents for the San Francisco Bay region.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2008
AB 2153 (Krekorian-D) Water conservation
Amends the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to require every new residential or commercial building subject to CEQA to implement all feasible and cost-effective water efficiency measures, and then mitigate its annual water consumption, as projected by its water supplier, with specified exceptions.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 2175 (Laird-D) Water conservation
Requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by 12/31/20 and also requires agricultural water suppliers to implement water use efficiency best management practices by 7/31/12.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2186 (Salas-D) Bottled drinking water
Requires water-vending machines, retail water facilities, and private water sources that sell water at retail to display the identity of the source from which the water was last obtained prior to being bottled.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2212 (Ruskin-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Makes various changes to the Santa Clara Valley Water District's enabling act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2219 (Parra-D) Water supply: subdivisions
Requires that certain mandated water supply assessments be based on the anticipated water demand for the project, given current statutory and regulatory requirements, reduced by the water savings attributable to proposed voluntary demand management measures.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2222 (Caballero-D) Groundwater quality: monitoring
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), on or before 6/1/09, to identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options to extend the comprehensive monitoring program until 1/1/24, and make recommendations to enhance public accessibility of information on groundwater conditions. Requires the Board, on or before 1/1/12, in consultation with specified agencies, to submit to the Legislature a report concerning communities that rely on contaminated groundwater sources, the contamination of that water, and the solutions to provide safe drinking water to these communities.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2008
AB 2270 (Laird-D) Recycled water: water quality
Requires additional reporting on recycled water use and allows local agencies discretion to control salinity inputs (including water softeners) if the appropriate regional water quality control board makes a finding that controlling salinity inputs will contribute to the achievement of a water quality objective.
Vetoed
AB 2275 (Fuentes-D) Vended water
Requires applicants for a license as a water-bottling plant or as a private water source to provide specified information to the Department of Public Health and requires the department to annually compile this information and make it available to the public.
Vetoed
AB 2348 (Maze-R) Department of Water Resources: property acquisition
Deletes the Department of Water Resources exemption from the Property Acquisition Law, and the ability to use the power of eminent domain.
(Failed passage in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 2356 (Arambula-D) Water quality
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take specified actions when allocating funds to small, disadvantaged communities for wastewater collection, treatment or disposal projects, including allocating 25% of the financial assistance amount to the recipient community in advance of the actual expenditure.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2008
AB 2404 (Salas-D) Water efficiency programs: energy efficiency
Requires the Public Utilities Commission, in a report to the Legislature due by 12/31/09, to recommend whether electric and gas utilities could achieve cost-effective energy efficiency improvements via water conservation projects, based on the outcome of pilot programs previously approved by the Commission.
Chapter 240, Statutes of 2008
AB 2425 (Coto-D) Water quality
Requires the Department of Public Health to convene a working group of interested parties, as described, to advance public knowledge about pharmaceuticals in public drinking water supplies, as specified. Requires the department to post on its Internet web site links to other web sites that have relevant educational information on the proper methods of handling and disposing of pharmaceuticals.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2434 (La Malfa-R) Water development projects: Ostrom Point Dam
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study the feasibility of building a dam on the Pit River at Ostrom Point in Big Valley (Modoc County).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2437 (Ruskin-D) Regional water systems
Extends state oversight over San Francisco's capital improvements of its Hetch Hetchy water system.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2008
AB 2479* (Hancock-D) Bottled water
Corrects a drafting error contained in SB 220 (Corbett), Chapter 575, Statutes of 2007, which will enable water bottlers to more accurately label bottles of drinking water so that consumers may access water quality information contained in the bottled water report.
Vetoed
AB 2501 (Wolk-D) Water resources
Enacts the Climate Change and Water Resource Protection Act of 2008 and makes appropriations of existing bond funding for high-priority water projects.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2502 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Establishes a process at the Department of Parks and Recreation to ecological restore and manage, and provide outdoor recreation on, certain properties in the northern region of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2503 (Wolk-D) Delta Protection Commission
Authorizes specified members of the Delta Protection Commission to select a designee and permits the Governor to appoint three alternates who will be authorized to serve in the absence of a member appointed by the Governor.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2008
AB 2504 (DeSaulnier-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: tourism and marketing plan
Requires the Delta Protection Commission to adopt a tourism and marketing plan for the Delta consistent with the Delta Protection Act and the policies of the Commission's Resource Management Plan.
Vetoed
AB 2547 (Leno-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Makes changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by revising definitions and amending provisions pertaining to an oil spill response organization (OSRO), including requiring the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Administrator to require an owner or operator of a vessel or marine facility or rated OSRO to submit price lists periodically for the utilization of response resources that the administrator may contract, director, or call to action in response to an oil spill. Establishes a new grant program for the development of improved processes and technologies for oil spill prevention, containment, and cleanup, as specified. Requires the Administrator to provide to the Legislature by 1/1/10, and every five years thereafter, an evaluation of emerging technologies, as specified. Requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations, as specified. Requires the administrator to use Oil Spill Response Trust Fund monies to cover the uncompensated response and cleanup costs resulting from providing resources through OSRO agreements, as specified, and to pay for technology grants. Double-jointed with SB 1056 (Migden), SB 1739 (Simitian), and AB 2911 (Wolk).
Vetoed
AB 2564 (Garcia-R) Irrigation districts
Prohibits certain irrigation districts from discriminating, as defined, against electrical ratepayers residing outside the district boundaries.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2583 (Coto-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Authorize the Santa Clara Valley Water District to implement the use of annual contracts for repetitive work at unit prices, in accordance with specified provisions of public contract law, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2674 (Emmerson-R) Joint powers agreements: investor-owned water utilities
Authorizes an investor-owned water utility to enter into a joint powers agreement with a public agency.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2680 (Adams-R) Counties: water bond loans
Authorizes the State Controller to discharge the Department of Water Resources from accountability for collection of the loan issued to the Arrowhead Manor Water Company in 1980, under the California Safe Drinking Water Bond Law of 1976, but only if San Bernardino County or its county service area acquires the water system financed by the loan issued to the Arrowhead Manor Water Company and pays the amount of $910,520 in complete satisfaction of that loan, on or before 1/30/09.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2008
AB 2686 (Nava-D) Santa Ynez Valley Water District
Creates the Santa Ynez Valley Water District.
Vetoed
AB 2691 (Eng-D) Groundwater
Requires the Department of Water Resources to quintennially conduct, starting by 1/1/10, an investigation of the state's groundwater basins, including an investigation of general patterns of groundwater pumping and groundwater recharge within those basins.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2704 (Leno-D) Tap water: pupil nutrition
Prohibits the governing board of a school district from entering or renewing a contract that restricts the availability of free tap water on the school campus; and, authorizes schools to provide free tap water in school food service areas.
Vetoed
AB 2723 (De La Torre-D) Water: dual piping
Allows the Department of Water Resources to spend a portion of the $90 million of Proposition 84 bond proceeds earmarked for the development of sustainable regional and local land use plans to provide grants to local agencies and special districts for the planning and development of dual water piping systems that allow delivery of recycled water for nonpotable uses at commercial, industrial and residential buildings built starting 1/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2769* (Levine-D) State Water Resources Control Board: membership
Expands the State Water Resources Control Board to seven members by requiring one additional member to be appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and one additional member to be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly. Increases the quorum to four members of the State Water Resources Control Board.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2823 (Eng-D) San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
Amends the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority Act by establishing the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund in the State Treasury for the purposes of addressing groundwater contamination by means of remediation that may include treatment, if other requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2873 (Solorio-D) Sheriffs' duties: coastlines, harbors, and inland waterways
Provides that the Orange County Board of Supervisors may grant authorization to another law enforcement agency within the county to contract security and safety services along the county's coastlines and inland waterways so long as the same minimum standards of training as those applying to peace officers under a specific provision of the Penal Code, employed by the previous law enforcement entity on 1/1/08, are maintained.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2882 (Wolk-D) Allocation-based conservation water pricing
Authorizes and establishes guidelines for urban water suppliers to charge allocation-based conservation water pricing, to comply with requirements of Proposition 218.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2008
AB 2900 (La Malfa-R) Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Sets a 12-month time limit for the imposition of the mandatory minimum penalty of $3,000 for specified violations of waste discharge requirements.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2911 (Wolk-D) Inland spills: wildlife contaminations
Expands the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by giving the Administrator of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response authority to serve as a State Incident Commander and direct the removal, abatement, response, containment, and cleanup efforts with regard to all aspects of any placement of petroleum or petroleum product in the waters of the state, including inland, and expands the Oiled Wildlife Care Network to improve search and rescue efforts.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2008
AB 2912 (Wolk-D) Oil spill prevention and response: nonmarine waters
Expands, to inland oil spills that may flow into inland waters or groundwater, the Office of Spill Prevention and Response Administrator's authority governing response to marine oil spills, and extends the penalties that may be imposed in connection with a marine oil spills to these inland spills.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2913 (Salas-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: strategic plan
Makes changes in the scope and focus of the Strategic Plan for a Sustainable an Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, and its related financing plan, to be developed by the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2915 (Nunez-D) Water
Creates a three-member governing council to coordinate state policies and funding priorities for the bond funds provided by Proposition 84 for urban greening projects and planning grants and incentives.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2935 (Huffman-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Strengthens oil spill contingency plans regarding protection for environmentally and ecologically sensitive areas and establishes procedures for fishery closures following an oil spill.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2008
AB 2938 (De Leon-D) Water diversions: fish monitoring
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to design and implement a fish entrainment monitoring program, conditioned on appropriation of funding, to evaluate potential effects of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water diversions on Delta fish, beginning a three-year implementation by 4/1/09.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2965 (Krekorian-D) Water toxicity assessment: school facilities
Requires a school district to conduct a one-time assessment of water toxicity levels in schools with plumbing that has not been updated since 1993, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2970 (Eng-D) State Water Project: delivery capability report
Requires the Department of Water Resources to produce a biennial report on the existing delivery capability and reliability of the State Water Project and the total amount of water allocate to each State Water Project contractor.
Vetoed
AB 2986 (Leno-D) Water quality
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to review, grade and monitor specified sewage collection systems and treatment plants; to make information regarding the systems and plants available to the public; and to impose fees upon owners and operators of systems and plants to finance the implementation of the bill's provisions.
Vetoed
AB 2993 (Plescia-R) Metropolitan water districts: design-build
Authorizes a metropolitan water district, with approval of its board of directors, to enter into design-build contracts, as defined, for the design, construction, fabrication, and installation of renewable energy projects, in accordance with specified provisions.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 3058* (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Department of Water Resources: electric power contracts
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to review any modification or renegotiation of a power purchase agreement entered into by the Department of Water Resources after 12/31/07, to determine whether the cost and administration of the proposed modification or renegotiation is just and reasonable.
Chapter 693, Statutes of 2008
AB 4XX (Villines-R) Water resources: bond funds
Appropriates $555,640,000 from previously approved water and flood control bonds to fund, among other things, stormwater flood management projects, grants and loans for small community drinking water system infrastructure improvements, acquisition, preservation, protection, and restoration of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands, and planning and feasibility studies associated with surface storage of water under the California Bay-Delta Program.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 5XX (DeVore-R) Water: electricity for desalination: nuclear energy
Authorizes the California Energy Commission to certify one new nuclear fission thermal reactor located at the site of an existing operating nuclear fission thermal powerplant, if not less than 20% of the electricity generated by the reactor is dedicated to powering desalinization facilities to produce additional fresh water from salt water and the generating capacity of the reactor does not exceed 2,000 megawatts.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 7XX (Wolk-D) Water supply planning
Enacts the Climate Change and Water Resources Protection Act.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 8XX* (Huffman-D) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008 which, if approved by the voters, would authorize, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9,805,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 9XX* (Plescia-R) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9,980,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AJR 51 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium
Requests that the Congress of the United States continue the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for the 2009 fiscal year and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy policies and legislation.
Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2008
AJR 70 (Brownley-D) Los Angeles River
Memorializes the Congress and the President of the United States to support a special case review by the federal Environmental Protection Agency of the determination of the United States Army Corps of Engineers issued on 6/4/08, finding sections of the Los Angeles River are traditional navigable waters, and supports any efforts of Congress to seek a review of this determination.
Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2008
HR 33 (Ruskin-D) Drinking water treated with chloramines
Requests the Department of Public Health to review public health concerns relating to the use of chloramine as a drinking water disinfectant and to conduct studies, particularly human health studies, as appropriate, to provide necessary public health information to further clarify the human health effects of chloramines.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 6 | Oropeza-D Flood control: local use | Water Resources |
| SB 27 | Simitian-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Emergency Preparedness Act | Water Resources |
| SB 55 | Florez-D Water quality: sewage sludge | Water Resources |
| SB 59 | Cogdill-R Reliable Water Supply Bond Act of 2008 | Water Resources |
| SB 61 | Runner-R Castaic Lake Water Agency | Water Resources |
| SB 115 | Florez-D Employment service programs | Farm Labor |
| SB 187 | Ducheny-D Salton Sea Restoration Fund: restoration project | Water Resources |
| SB 200 | Florez-D Food safety | General Agriculture |
| SB 201* | Florez-D Dairy farms: raw milk: testing: standards | General Agriculture |
| SB 202 | Florez-D Agriculture: leafy green vegetable crop traceback | General Agriculture |
| SB 258 | Ducheny-D Water use fees | Water Resources |
| SB 311 | Cogdill-R Noxious weed management | Pests and Pesticides General Agriculture |
| SB 324 | Migden-D Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation | Water Resources |
| SB 348 | Simitian-D Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management | Water Resources |
| SB 358 | Maldonado-R Field crops: leafy greens: foodborne illness | General Agriculture |
| SB 378 | Steinberg-D Flood Prevention | Water Resources |
| SB 395 | Cox-R Water supply: groundwater aquifers | Water Resources |
| SB 452 | Cogdill-R Family-owned farms: employment: workers' compensation | General Agriculture |
| SB 486 | Maldonado-R Avocados | Pests and Pesticides General Agriculture |
| SB 495* | Denham-R California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program | General Agriculture |
| SB 517 | Maldonado-R Agriculture | General Agriculture |
| SB 567 | Aanestad-R Counties: consolidation of offices: watermaster districts | Water Resources |
| SB 585* | Lowenthal-D Farmworker housing assistance tax credits | Farm Labor |
| SB 616 | Margett-R Waste discharge requirements: horse racing facilities | Water Resources |
| SB 631 | Ashburn-R State Water Resources Control Board | Water Resources |
| SB 634 | Wiggins-D Food labeling: olive oil | General Agriculture |
| SB 651* | Calderon-D Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content | Water Resources |
| SB 821 | Kuehl-D Water supplies: land use | Water Resources |
| SB 887 | Calderon-D Local public water agencies | Water Resources |
| SB 899 | Simitian-D Fishing gear | Water Resources |
| SB 917 | Migden-D Watershed conservation | Water Resources |
| SB 965 | Lowenthal-D Oil spills | Water Resources |
| SB 1052* | Perata-D Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008 | Water Resources |
| SB 1056 | Migden-D Oil spill prevention and response | Water Resources |
| SB 1060 | Ridley-Thomas-D 6th Agricultural District Assoc.: California Science Center | General Agriculture |
| SB 1102 | Machado-D California Bay-Delta Authority Act | Water Resources |
| SB 1108 | Machado-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program | Water Resources |
| SB 1117 | Cox-R Hot Spring Valley Water District | Water Resources |
| SB 1121 | Migden-D Food labeling: cloned animals | General Agriculture |
| SB 1159* | Cox-R Alcoholic beverages: possession: Truckee River | Water Resources |
| SB 1176 | Perata-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| SB 1206 | Calderon-D Pest control | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 1228 | Maldonado-R Agricultural products: transport vehicles | General Agriculture |
| SB 1247 | Lowenthal-D Farmworker housing assistance | Farm Labor |
| SB 1256 | Ducheny-D Salton Sea Restoration Council | Water Resources |
| SB 1258 | Lowenthal-D Building standards: graywater | Water Resources |
| SB 1276 | Ashburn-R Vandalia Water District | Water Resources |
| SB 1280 | Maldonado-R Agriculture: seed: advisory board: registration | General Agriculture |
| SB 1295 | Ducheny-D California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development permit | Water Resources |
| SB 1326 | Ducheny-D Vector control | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 1334 | Calderon-D Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content | Water Resources |
| SB 1360 | Machado-D Flood protection | Water Resources |
| SB 1391 | Padilla-D Recycled water | Water Resources |
| SB 1404 | Lowenthal-D Plant labeling: water use | General Agriculture |
| SB 1428 | Kehoe-D San Diego River Conservancy | Water Resources |
| SB 1436 | Ducheny-D Protected species: accidental take: agricultural activities | General Agriculture |
| SB 1439 | Ashburn-R Tulare Lake Basin: pilot program | Water Resources |
| SB 1462 | Maldonado-R Navigable waters: seaplanes | Water Resources |
| SB 1466 | Corbett-D Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program | General Agriculture |
| SB 1512 | Wiggins-D Private energy producers: agricultural customer-generators | General Agriculture |
| SB 1520 | Kehoe-D Water quality: regional boards | Water Resources |
| SB 1558 | Ashburn-R Regional water quality control boards: membership | Water Resources |
| SB 1562* | Hollingsworth-R Property tax: exemption: fruit-bearing/nut-bearing trees | General Agriculture |
| SB 1582 | Simitian-D Ocean resources: ocean rangers | Water Resources |
| SB 1623 | Yee-D Rice industry | General Agriculture |
| SB 1723 | Maldonado-R Agriculture: pesticide recycling program and certification | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 1739 | Simitian-D Oil spill contingency plan | Water Resources |
| SB 1761* | Perata-D California Water Plan | Water Resources |
| SB 1781* | Senate Environmental Quality Committee Marine Invasive Species Act | Water Resources |
| SCR 6 | Florez-D Frost damage | General Agriculture |
| SCR 75 | Maldonado-R California Agriculture Day | General Agriculture |
| SCR 87 | Migden-D Light brown apple moth | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 1XX | Perata-D Water quality, flood control, and water storage | Water Resources |
| SB 2XX* | Perata-D Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008 | Water Resources |
| SB 3XX | Cogdill-R Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008 | Water Resources |
| SB 4XX | Cogdill-R Water resources: bond funds | Water Resources |
| AB 19 | DeVore-R Water quality: Santa Ana region | Water Resources |
| AB 26 | Nakanishi-R Flood control | Water Resources |
| AB 41 | La Malfa-R Temperance Flat Surface Water Storage Project | Water Resources |
| AB 169 | Levine-D Public resources: ballast water management | Water Resources |
| AB 224 | Wolk-D Water supply planning | Water Resources |
| AB 287* | Nava-D Farm worker wages: disaster relief | Farm Labor |
| AB 363* | Berg-D Agricultural migratory workers | Farm Labor |
| AB 454* | Berryhill-R Conservation easements: taxation | General Agriculture |
| AB 541 | Huffman-D Genetically engineered plants: liability | General Agriculture |
| AB 559 | Ruskin-D Public water systems: investigation: drinking water | Water Resources |
| AB 564 | Brownley-D Los Angeles County Flood Control District: fees and charges | Water Resources |
| AB 576 | Carter-D Animal feeding: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park | General Agriculture |
| AB 640 | De La Torre-D Water replenishment districts | Water Resources |
| AB 653 | Maze-R Agricultural land use | General Agriculture |
| AB 664 | Parra-D Dairy products: Prison Industry Authority | General Agriculture |
| AB 680* | Wolk-D Rice straw: tax credit | General Agriculture |
| AB 698 | Strickland-R Perishable agricultural product defamation | General Agriculture |
| AB 704 | Eng-D Metropolitan water districts: public contracts: design-build | Water Resources |
| AB 727 | Maze-R Department of Water Resources | Water Resources |
| AB 762 | Nava-D Farm labor housing | Farm Labor |
| AB 770 | Hernandez-D Agricultural employees: health care | Farm Labor |
| AB 817 | Maze-R Mutual water companies | Water Resources |
| AB 856 | Galgiani-D Agriculture | General Agriculture |
| AB 873 | Davis-D Public utilities: procurement | Water Resources |
| AB 877 | Parra-D Water supplies: San Joaquin Valley | Water Resources |
| AB 885 | Charles Calderon-D Metropolitan Water District of Southern California | Water Resources |
| AB 909 | Wolk-D Water: mercury monitoring and remediation | Water Resources |
| AB 967 | Nava-D Farm Fresh Schools Program | General Agriculture |
| AB 977* | Ma-D Pest control: pesticides: local regulation | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 992 | Brownley-D Stormwater containment | Water Resources |
| AB 1021 | Berryhill-R Apple pest: pest and disease prevention | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 1050* | La Malfa-R Fiber animals: sales tax exemption | General Agriculture |
| AB 1066 | Laird-D California coast: sea level rise | Water Resources |
| AB 1094 | Arambula-D Farms: diesel fuel tax: refunds and credits | General Agriculture |
| AB 1107* | Arambula-D Seasonal workers: unemployment compensation benefits | Farm Labor |
| AB 1114 | Eng-D San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority | Water Resources |
| AB 1127 | Carter-D Percholorate: drinking water standards: City of Rialto | Water Resources |
| AB 1132* | Berryhill-R Irrigation system: graywater | General Agriculture |
| AB 1173 | Keene-R Water charges: multiunit residential structures | Water Resources |
| AB 1180 | Blakeslee-R Agricultural resources | General Agriculture |
| AB 1223 | Arambula-D Agriculture: public utilities: net energy metering | General Agriculture |
| AB 1225 | DeSaulnier-D Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund | Water Resources |
| AB 1250 | Parra-D Project solicitation and evaluation guidelines | Water Resources |
| AB 1297 | Arambula-D Water: regional water management plans | Water Resources |
| AB 1338* | Assembly Budget Committee Pesticides: volatile Organic Compounds | Pests and Pesticides Water Resources |
| AB 1352 | Berryhill-R Animals: rendering | General Agriculture |
| AB 1383 | Fuller-R Energy and natural gas agreements: State Water Projects | Water Resources |
| AB 1389* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: Williamson Act | General Agriculture |
| AB 1428 | Galgiani-D Energy: agricultural byproducts customer-generator program | General Agriculture |
| AB 1435 | Salas-D Water charges: conservation rate structure | Water Resources |
| AB 1497 | Niello-R Williamson Act: local government: housing elements | General Agriculture |
| AB 1507 | Emmerson-R Floodplain management: Alluvial Fan Task Force | Water Resources |
| AB 1530 | Lieber-D Pesticide poisoning | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 1604* | Caballero-D Market milk: raw milk: standards | General Agriculture |
| AB 1664 | Strickland-R Public water systems or publicly owned treatment works | Water Resources |
| AB 1667 | La Malfa-R County fairs: carnivals | General Agriculture |
| AB 1764 | Blakeslee-R Agricultural use: land use | General Agriculture |
| AB 1806 | Wolk-D Fishery resources: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Water Resources |
| AB 1810 | Galgiani-D Horses: shows, competitions, and sales | General Agriculture |
| AB 1856* | Jeffries-R Elsinore Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 1898 | Evans-D Flood control subvention funds: Napa River | Water Resources |
| AB 1903* | Hernandez-D Flood control and water conservation facilities: liability | Water Resources |
| AB 1913 | Fuller-R Cotton | General Agriculture |
| AB 1946 | Nava-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2013 | Krekorian-D New construction: water-permeable pavement | Water Resources |
| AB 2031 | Hancock-D Oil spill prevention and response | Water Resources |
| AB 2046 | Jones-D Water supply assessments: groundwater | Water Resources |
| AB 2065 | Hancock-D Invasive aquatic species: dreissenid mussels | Water Resources |
| AB 2094 | DeSaulnier-D San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Water Resources |
| AB 2153 | Krekorian-D Water conservation | Water Resources |
| AB 2168 | Jones-D Farm stands: direct marketing: retail food | General Agriculture |
| AB 2175 | Laird-D Water conservation | Water Resources |
| AB 2186 | Salas-D Bottled drinking water | Water Resources |
| AB 2212 | Ruskin-D Santa Clara Valley Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2219 | Parra-D Water supply: subdivisions | Water Resources |
| AB 2222 | Caballero-D Groundwater quality: monitoring | Water Resources |
| AB 2223 | Horton-R Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2253 | Torrico-D Food labels: free range | General Agriculture |
| AB 2270 | Laird-D Recycled water: water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2275 | Fuentes-D Vended water | Water Resources |
| AB 2284* | Galgiani-D Market milk standards: Milk Producers Security Trust Fund | General Agriculture |
| AB 2348 | Maze-R Department of Water Resources: property acquisition | Water Resources |
| AB 2349 | Fuller-R Diseased animals and poultry: violations and penalties | General Agriculture |
| AB 2356 | Arambula-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2386 | Nunez-D Collective bargaining: agricultural labor | Farm Labor |
| AB 2404 | Salas-D Water efficiency programs: energy efficiency | Water Resources |
| AB 2425 | Coto-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2434 | La Malfa-R Water development projects: Ostrom Point Dam | Water Resources |
| AB 2437 | Ruskin-D Regional water systems | Water Resources |
| AB 2479* | Hancock-D Bottled water | Water Resources |
| AB 2501 | Wolk-D Water resources | Water Resources |
| AB 2502 | Wolk-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Water Resources |
| AB 2503 | Wolk-D Delta Protection Commission | Water Resources |
| AB 2504 | DeSaulnier-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: tourism and marketing plan | Water Resources |
| AB 2547 | Leno-D Oil spill prevention and response | Water Resources |
| AB 2554 | Mullin-D Farm labor: Employee Housing Act enforcement | Farm Labor |
| AB 2564 | Garcia-R Irrigation districts | Water Resources |
| AB 2583 | Coto-D Santa Clara Valley Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2674 | Emmerson-R Joint powers agreements: investor-owned water utilities | Water Resources |
| AB 2680 | Adams-R Counties: water bond loans | Water Resources |
| AB 2686 | Nava-D Santa Ynez Valley Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2691 | Eng-D Groundwater | Water Resources |
| AB 2704 | Leno-D Tap water: pupil nutrition | Water Resources |
| AB 2723 | De La Torre-D Water: dual piping | Water Resources |
| AB 2763 | Laird-D Invasive pests: advance planning: detection and eradication | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2764 | Hancock-D Pests: eradication: use of pesticide: declaration | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2765 | Huffman-D Pest eradication: aerial use of pesticide: public hearing | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2769* | Levine-D State Water Resources Control Board: membership | Water Resources |
| AB 2782 | Berryhill-R Milk: manufacturing standards: USDA raw milk standards | General Agriculture |
| AB 2823 | Eng-D San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority | Water Resources |
| AB 2849 | Evans-D Apiary Protection Act | General Agriculture |
| AB 2850 | Villines-R Market milk: stabilization and marketing plans | General Agriculture |
| AB 2860 | Mendoza-D Agricultural lands: cancellation of Williamson Act contracts | General Agriculture |
| AB 2873 | Solorio-D Sheriffs' duties: coastlines, harbors, and inland waterways | Water Resources |
| AB 2881 | Wolk-D Agricultural activity: nuisance: defendant's costs recovery | General Agriculture |
| AB 2882 | Wolk-D Allocation-based conservation water pricing | Water Resources |
| AB 2892 | Swanson-D Pests: eradication: aerial spraying of pesticide | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2900 | La Malfa-R Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties | Water Resources |
| AB 2911 | Wolk-D Inland spills: wildlife contaminations | Water Resources |
| AB 2912 | Wolk-D Oil spill prevention and response: nonmarine waters | Water Resources |
| AB 2913 | Salas-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: strategic plan | Water Resources |
| AB 2915 | Nunez-D Water | Water Resources |
| AB 2921 | Laird-D Agricultural land: local government | General Agriculture |
| AB 2935 | Huffman-D Oil spill prevention and response | Water Resources |
| AB 2938 | De Leon-D Water diversions: fish monitoring | Water Resources |
| AB 2965 | Krekorian-D Water toxicity assessment: school facilities | Water Resources |
| AB 2970 | Eng-D State Water Project: delivery capability report | Water Resources |
| AB 2986 | Leno-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2993 | Plescia-R Metropolitan water districts: design-build | Water Resources |
| AB 2999 | Huffman-D Animal carcasses: removal from highways | General Agriculture |
| AB 3058* | Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee Department of Water Resources: electric power contracts | Water Resources |
| ACR 12 | Parra-D Agriculture: frost damage | General Agriculture |
| ACR 89 | Arambula-D Cesar Chavez Day | Farm Labor |
| ACR 110 | Maze-R Mosquito control | Pests and Pesticides |
| ACR 117 | Laird-D Light brown apple moth | Pests and Pesticides |
| AJR 47 | Fuentes-D Cesar E. Chavez | Farm Labor |
| AJR 51 | Nava-D Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium | Water Resources |
| AJR 70 | Brownley-D Los Angeles River | Water Resources |
| HR 33 | Ruskin-D Drinking water treated with chloramines | Water Resources |
| AB 4XX | Villines-R Water resources: bond funds | Water Resources |
| AB 5XX | DeVore-R Water: electricity for desalination: nuclear energy | Water Resources |
| AB 7XX | Wolk-D Water supply planning | Water Resources |
| AB 8XX* | Huffman-D Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008 | Water Resources |
| AB 9XX* | Plescia-R Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2008 | Water Resources |