Environment

Air Pollution
Coastal Resources/Tidelands
Environmental Quality
Forestry
Solid Waste
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
Water Resources (includes Delta legislation)
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Air Pollution

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SB 234 (Hancock-D) Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program

Requires the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to disperse eligible funds from the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 for projects that provide shorepower for vessels to applicants on a quarterly basis, and also authorizes ARB to withhold 10% of reimbursable costs until the project demonstrates its ability to power a vessel at berth.
Vetoed

SB 237 (Wolk-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: agriculture

Creates the California Agriculture Climate Benefits Advisory Committee, with specified membership. Authorizes the use of revenues generated through the regulation of greenhouse gasses for grants relating to agriculture.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 246 (De León-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets

Requires the Air Resources Board to follow specified criteria if the Board allows greenhouse gas compliance offsets to be used in a cap-and-trade program under AB 32 (Nunez-D), Chapter 448, Statutes of 2006.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 357 (Dutton-R) Air Resources Board: regulations: obsolete equipment

Amends the Health and Safety Code to expand the criteria by which the Air Resources Board must analyze and report as part of their economic assessments of adopting, amending, or repealing of any regulations, to require estimates of lost revenue or savings to the state as a result of accelerated depreciation due to the regulation rendering equipment "obsolete" before the equipment had been fully depreciated.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 358* (Cannella-R) Air quality: income tax: gross income: exclusion

Excludes from gross income any amount provided to a person by the Air Resources Board, an air pollution control district, or an air quality management district for the purpose of air pollution reduction. The basis of property for determining gain or loss on the sale or disposition, as well as for determining depreciation, will be reduced to the extent the property was acquired with any amount excluded from gross income.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 519 (La Malfa-R) Smog check: visual inspection

Prohibits a smog check technician from conducting an under-the-hood visual inspection as part of a smog inspection.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 535 (De León-D) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities for investment opportunities, as specified. Requires the Department of Finance (DOF), when developing a specified three-year investment plan, to allocate 25% of the available monies in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities, as specified, and to allocate a minimum of 10% of the available monies in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to projects located within disadvantaged communities, as specified. Requires the DOF, when developing funding guidelines, to include guidelines for how administering agencies should maximize benefits for disadvantaged communities. Requires administering agencies to report to the DOF, and the DOF to include in a specified report to the Legislature, a description of how administering agencies have fulfilled specified requirements relating to projects providing benefits to, or located in, disadvantaged communities.
Chapter 830, Statutes of 2012

SB 669 (Rubio-D) Greenhouse gas reduction: carbon sequestration

Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to coordinate the development of performance standards and other operational measures for carbon capture and storage sites that are consistent with the goals of protecting groundwater and preventing the emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Requires the Air Resources Board to establish an accounting protocol for sequestered carbon dioxide.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee)

SB 800 (Hancock-D) Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund

Creates the Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund, and provides that funds received by the state on a voluntary basis from the federal government, individuals, businesses, organizations, industry, or other sources for the mitigation of climate change impacts related to greenhouse gas emissions be deposited in this Fund.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1018 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Air pollution: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Energy, Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture 2012-13 Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, establishes new legislative oversight and controls over the Air Resources Board including the creation of a separate expenditure fund for proceeds from the auction or sale of allowances pursuant to the market-based compliance mechanism (cap-and-trade program); the establishment of a separate Cost of Implementation Fee account for oversight and tracking of funds; oversight of actions taken on behalf of the State of California related to market-based compliance and auctions, specific to the Western Climate Initiative and Western Climate Initiative, Incorporated; and provides for return of certain funds to ratepayers of Investor Owned Utilities from funds related to the auction or sale of allowances.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1076 (Emmerson-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: tires

Establishes standards for tire pressure gauges and conditions when tires do not warrant checking.
Chapter 329, Statutes of 2012

SB 1116 (Leno-D) California Pollution Control Financing Authority: loans

Decreases, until 4/1/17, the minimum contribution required of borrowers who participate in the Capital Access Loan Program (CalCAP) from 2% to 1% of the principal amount of the loan, and increases the length of time that a financial institution has in which to apply to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to enroll a qualified loan in CalCAP.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2012

SB 1127 (Vargas-D) Volatile organic compounds: consumer products

Requires the South Coast Air Quality Management District to amend a specified regulation relating to consumer products and gives clarification of authority.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1139 (Rubio-D) Air Pollution: greenhouse gases

Requires the Air Resources Board, by 1/1/16, working in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission to adopt a quantification methodology for carbon capture and storage projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1224 (La Malfa-R) Air pollution: smog check

Increases the number of vehicles exempted from the smog check program by excluding vehicles with model years between 1976 and 1980.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1455 (Kehoe-D) Alternative and vehicle technologies: funding programs

Extends until 12/1/23, various fees and surcharges related to the clean air, fuel, tire recycling, and vehicle programs of the Air Resources Board (ARB), the California Energy Commission (CEC), the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the State Bureau of Automotive Repair. Prohibits ARB from moving forward with implementation of the Clean Fuels Outlet regulation, and instead directs funds from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund for the construction and operation of a hydrogen fueling network in California. Requires CEC and ARB to report on the status of the state's alternative transportation fuel use in the Integrated Energy Policy Report.
(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1507* (Fuller-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: tractors

Requires any rule or regulation that applies to owners and drivers of heavy-duty tractors that pull 53-foot or longer box-type trailers or semitrailers and owners or drivers of 53-foot or longer box-type semitrailers that are pulled by heavy-duty tractors adopted by the state board pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 to include an exemption for local-haul tractors, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1535* (Padilla-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: water

Prohibits any authority being conferred on the Air Resources Board to impose any regulatory obligations on publicly-owned water utilities for purposes of greenhouse gas emissions related to electricity imported for the publicly-owned water utility's own use for the sole purpose of obtaining, transporting, and distributing water to its service area from an out-of-state water source unless the state board allocates to publicly-owned water utilities allowances, credits, or other forms of price mitigation received by publicly-owned electric utilities.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1572 (Pavley-D) Air pollution: greenhouse gases

Specifies expenditures of funds derived from the auction of greenhouse gas allowances pursuant to the cap-and-trade program adopted by the Air Resources Board pursuant to AB 32 (Núñez and Pavley), Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006.
(Died on Assembly Second Reading File)

SCR 76 (Emmerson-R) Vehicular air pollution: school buses

Urges the California Air Resources Board to exempt school buses from diesel particulate emissions regulations until state funds are available to fully fund the program.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 128 (Logue-R) Air Resources Board: assessing penalties

Authorizes the Air Resources Board, in lieu of assessing penalties for a violation of an air pollution control law administered by the Board, to require a person who has violated that law to spend an amount equivalent to the amount that would have been assessed for the violation toward actions to comply with the air pollution control law that was violated or toward a supplemental environmental project, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 146 (Dickinson-D) Air Resources Board: membership

Increases the size of the Air Resource Board from 11 to 12 members. Requires that one member be from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, the Placer County Air Pollution Control District, the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District, the Feather River Air Quality Management District, or the El Dorado County Air Pollution Control District.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2012

AB 333* (Grove-R) CA Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: cap-and-trade

Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to report to the Legislature, by 7/31/11, on the readiness of its proposed cap-and-trade program to begin 1/1/12, and authorizes the ARB to delay cap-and-trade implementation up to one year. Requires the ARB to report annually on the status of the cap-and-trade program until 2016.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 344* (Mendoza-D) Vehicular air pollution: exemption: low-use vehicles

Requires the Air Resources Board, for purposes of specified provisions relating to mobile source emissions reductions, as applied to the reduction of emissions of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria pollutants from certain in-use, diesel-fueled vehicles, to define "low-use vehicle" for purposes of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations as a vehicle that will be operated fewer than 5,000 miles in the state in any compliance year, as specified.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 347 (Galgiani-D) CA Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: early actions

Amends the California Global Warming Solutions Act to specifically require the Air Resources Board to ensure that the cement manufacturing, glass manufacturing, soda ash manufacturing, and steel production sectors receive appropriate credit for taking early action through energy efficiency or energy reduction improvements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 382 (Nestande-R) Air inspectors: administrative and civil penalties

Requires air districts to provide a specified written explanation prior to imposing an administrative or civil penalty for a violation of air pollution law and make these explanations available to the public, and establishes a "code of conduct" for inspectors acting on behalf of the Air Resources Board or any air district.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 474 (Jones-R) Smog-check: vehicles: transfer of ownership

Extends from 90 to 180 days the duration that a certificate of compliance or certificate of noncompliance, related to motor vehicle emission inspections, is valid.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 485 (Ma-D) Greenhouse gases

Requires that the commissions and revenues, as specified, received by an electrical corporation as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances will also be credited to public transportation agency customers, and defines "public transportation agency" for that purpose.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 523 (Valadao-R) Ethanol: Alternative and Renewable Fuel

Prohibits the California Energy Commission, beginning on 7/1/13, from funding corn ethanol production projects under its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Technology Program.
Chapter 183, Statutes of 2012

AB 693 (Huffman-D) Regional Climate Protection Authority: local government

Extends authorization for the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority to 1/1/20.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2012

AB 937 (Mendoza-D) Emission reduction control: vessels

Requires the Air Resources Board to amend regulations regarding the reduction of onboard power generation for shipping vessels to ensure that a person choosing the equivalent emission reduction compliance option is not subject to more stringent requirements than a person choosing the reduced onboard power generation option.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1064 (Furutani-D) Air quality: ports

Makes a prohibition regarding funding for usable projects inapplicable for a shore side electrical power infrastructure project that is administered by a California port, and requires that the individual segments of these projects be a part of an adopted terminal plan submitted to the Air Resources Board, and authorizes the Board for a specified purpose to allow a recipient agency for shore side electrical power infrastructure to average vessel calls made across multiple berths within a terminal.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1099 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Emissions standards: commercial motor vehicles

Prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from registering commercial vehicles of a 1996 or older model year with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 26,000 pounds. Provides an exception for commercial vehicles registered prior to 1/1/12, as long as those vehicles are continuously registered or certified nonoperational after that date, and for construction trucks that have been granted an extension for compliance with specified regulations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1176 (Williams-D) Toxic air contaminant: pesticides

Requires the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation to complete at least one report per year on the health impacts of a pesticide which may be determined to be a Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC), and requires at least two pesticides per year go through the TAC determination process.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1180 (Bradford-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: compliance

Requires any offset protocol adopted as part of a cap-and-trade program for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to target high warming potential gases, be approved by a third-party registry, be monitored for GHG reductions in real-time, and be capable of providing at least one million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent GHG reductions each year.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1229 (Feuer-D) Air quality funds

Authorizes the issuance of Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle bonds to accelerate projects programmed by a regional transportation planning agency using its share of federal regional surface transportation program or congestion mitigation and air quality funds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1256 (Bill Berryhill-R) Air Resources Board: transported air pollutants

Requires the Air Resources Board to identify each air basin, or subregion of an air basin, in which transported air pollutants from upwind areas outside the air basin, or subregion of an air basin, cause or contribute to a violation of a state or federal ambient air quality standard in a downwind district, and to identify the district of origin of the transported air pollutants.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1285 (Fuentes-D) Regional greenhouse gas emission reduction program

Requires the Air Resources Board to establish a program to maximize regional greenhouse gas emission reduction and sequestration projects, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1332 (Donnelly-R) Air Resources Board: abolishment

Abolishes the Air Resources Board.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1459 (Huber-D) The Atmospheric Acidity Protection Act of 1988

Deletes the Scientific Advisory Committee on Acid Deposition from statute.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2012

AB 1532 (John A. Pérez-D) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

Enacts the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Investment Plan and Community Revitalization Act which requires the Department of Finance, on behalf of the Governor and in consultation with the Air Resources Board or any other relevant state agency, to submit to the Legislature at the time of the Department's adjustments to the proposed 2013-14 fiscal year budget, a three-year investment plan, as specified.
Chapter 807, Statutes of 2012

AB 1608 (Wieckowski-D) Clean Vehicle Rebate and Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher

Incentivizes the purchase of zero emission vehicles manufactured in California by increasing buyer rebates by 20% over rebates for similar vehicles manufactured outside of California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1613 (Donnelly-R) Motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program

Deletes the requirement for a certificate of compliance or a certificate of noncompliance with respect to smog certification upon any transfer of ownership of a motor vehicle prior to the issuance of a vehicle registration by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1721 (Donnelly-R) Air pollution: violations

Requires the Air Resources Board and the air districts to issue a warning for the first violation of any toxic air contaminant law, except for violations that cause actual injury.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1906 (Nestande-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: utilities

Requires any investor-owned utility and any publicly-owned utility that is subject to the act to use any proceeds it obtains from the monetization of any greenhouse gas emission allowances for the benefit of ratepayers to reduce rates that are above the cost of service.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1910 (Ma-D) Pollution: portable internal combustion engines

Changed the definition of "fixed location" for the purposes of the Portable Equipment Registration Program from "any single site" at a facility to "any single point" within a facility. Preempts air districts from requiring permits regardless of whether the portable equipment replaces or supplements an ongoing primary activity at a facility.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1922 (Lara-D) Smoke emissions: heavy-duty vehicles

Requires heavy-duty diesel truck fleets, as defined, to comply with Air Resources Board regulations and standards on or before December 31 for each calendar year.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2012

AB 1959 (Williams-D) Toxic air contaminants: building standards

Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Building Standards Commission to consider adopting standards for indoor air pollutants in residential buildings and in nonresidential buildings, respectively, as part of the next triennial edition of the California Green Buildings Standards Code.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2347 (Achadjian-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions

Defines leakage with reference to greenhouse gas emission to mean among other things, a shift in jobs from within the state to locations outside of the state.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2404 (Fuentes-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: emissions

States the intent of the Legislature that the Air Resources Board establish a special definition of "low-use vehicle" pertaining to tax-exempt churches and religious organizations. Defines "affected vehicle" to include diesel-fueled school buses, among other vehicles, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2412 (Swanson-D) Air Quality Improvement Program

Requires the Air Resources Board to submit to the appropriate committees of the Legislature an annual report to evaluate the implementation of the Air Quality Improvement Program.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2450 (Hall-D) Clean Vehicle Rebate Project program: electric program

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to allocate at least $15 million annually from the Electric Program Investment Charge to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Air Resources Board's Clean Vehicle Rebate Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2529 (Wieckowski-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: electrical

Requires the Public Utilities Commission to require all revenue received by electric utilities resulting from freely allocated allowances to be returned to all retail customers in proportion to the increase in electricity costs those customers incur as a result of a market-based compliance mechanism adopted pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2563* (Smyth-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets

Requires the Air Resources Board, on or before 1/1/13, to adopt a process for the review and consideration of new offset protocols for compliance with the state greenhouse gas emissions reduction law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2583 (Blumenfield-D) Alternatively fueled vehicles: state fleet: public parking

Requires the Department of General Services (DGS) and the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to develop and implement advanced technology vehicle parking incentive programs in specified DGS and Caltrans-operated parking facilities to incentivize the purchase and use of alternative fuel vehicles in the state.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2012

AB 2605 (Cedillo-D) Air pollution control: penalties

Requires any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000 or as specified, that recovers civil penalties from violations of efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards, be paid to the treasurer of the city, county, or city and county in addition to the district on whose behalf judgment was entered.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

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SB 501 (Harman-R) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Newport Beach

Revises a grant to the City of Newport Beach to authorize the city to lease lots for specified purposes for terms not to exceed 50 years, or until 1/1/60, whichever comes later.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 588 (Evans-D) California Coastal Act of 1976: enforcement

Provides that a person who violates the California Coastal Act may be subject to an administrative civil penalty that may be imposed by the California Coastal Commission at a public hearing. The penalties will be no less than $5,000 and no more than $50,000 per violation.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 876 (Harman-R) Tidelands and submerged lands: shore protection: leases

Specifies the terms for a lease of structures for shore protection for private property adjacent to tidelands or submerged lands by allowing the State Lands Commission to only lease these structures to a littoral owner for a term of 99 years, with the consideration for the lease adjusting no more than once for an unspecified number of years, based on any change in the California Consumer Price Index.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1066 (Lieu-D) Coastal resources: climate change

Authorizes the California Coastal Conservancy to address the impacts and potential impacts of climate change on coastal resources and to award grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for this purpose.
Chapter 611, Statutes of 2012

SB 1251 (Evans-D) Ocean Protection Council: aquatic invasive species

Requires the Ocean Protection Council and the Wildlife Conservation Board to jointly establish the Aquatic Invasive Species Working Group, which will be responsible for developing a well-funded, comprehensive, statewide approach to the management and control of aquatic invasive species by 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1283 (Alquist-D) San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act

Establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act, which authorizes a regional sea level rise management group, as defined, or local government agency to prepare and adopt an integrated sea level rise management plan for the San Francisco Bay area, in accordance with specified requirements, and requires a state agency that elects to develop an integrated sea level management plan to include specified criteria in that plan, and to prioritize funding for the plan, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1577 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Resources: public trust lands: City of Newport Beach

Grants and conveys in trust to the City of Newport Beach in the County of Orange all the right, title, and interest of the State of California, subject to the city's statutory trust, acquired and held by the state pursuant to a specified agreement approved by the State Lands Commission, as described.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2012

SCR 84 (Kehoe-D) California Coastal Protection Week

Designates the week of 9/8/12 through 9/15/12, and the second week of September every year thereafter, as California Coastal Protection Week and urges all Californians to observe that week as California Coastal Protection Week.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2012

SJR 17 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: San Francisco Bay

Declares the Legislature's endorsement of S. 97 (Feinstein) and House Resolution 3034 (Speier), and urges the United States Congress to enact the San Francisco Restoration Act at the earliest possible time.
Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012

AB 206 (Harkey-R) Coastal zone: fireworks displays

Exempts a municipal fireworks display from the California Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 752 (Brownley-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: sea level action plan

Requires a local trustee of granted public trust lands to prepare a sea level action plan, by 7/1/13, if the local trustee receives more than $250,000 in gross revenues from the granted trust lands.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1847 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) City of Long Beach: grant of public trust lands

Finalizes a land exchange agreement between the State Lands Commission and the City of Long Beach, and grants three Public Trust Parcels to the City, thus bringing these lands into the same management as the rest of the City's granted public trust lands.
Chapter 118, Statutes of 2012

AB 2178 (Jones-R) Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976

Specifies that, for purposes of the act, "structure" does not include the construction or erection of a flagpole on land or water in the coastal zone, and prohibits the construction or erection of a flagpole on land or water in the coastal zone from being determined to adversely impact the scenic or visual qualities of coastal areas.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2211 (Jones-R) Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976

Requires that when there is a conflict between the California Coastal Act's coastal resources planning and management policies, those conflicts be resolved in a manner that balances the protection of significant coastal resources with the economic and social benefits provided by a proposed coastal development project to the community at large.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2620 (Achadjian-R) Tidelands and submerged lands: granted public trust lands

Adds reporting requirements for local trustees of granted public trust lands, requires the State Lands Commission to increase its oversight of public trust lands, and requires the Commission to evaluate its current staffing needs through a workload analysis.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2012

Environmental Quality

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SB 52 (Steinberg-D) Environmental quality: jobs and economic improvement

Modifies the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011 (AB 900 (Buchanan-D), Chapter, 354, Statutes of 2011) which creates an expedited judicial review procedure under the California Environmental Quality Act for various types of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certified infill site projects, clean renewable energy projects, and clean energy manufacturing projects.
(Died in Assembly Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy Committee)

SB 195 (Cannella-R) Environmental quality: CEQA

Provides that impacts, potential impacts, or cumulative impacts on the environment of a project that is subject to an environmental regulation are deemed to be insignificant for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act unless a preponderance of evidence demonstrates that the specific impact, potential impact, or cumulative impact is significant after giving full effect to the environmental regulation. Requires the lead agency, as defined, to prepare a negative declaration or a mitigated negative declaration if there is a preponderance of the evidence in the record that a project or a revised project would not have a significant environmental impact. Requires the preparation of an environmental impact report if the lead agency finds, in light of the whole record, that a project, based on a preponderance of the evidence, will have a significant environmental impact that could not be avoided through a revision of the project.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 241 (Cannella-R) Environmental quality

Enacts the California Environmental Quality Act Litigation Protection Pilot Program of 2011 that prohibits court review of a lead agency's certification of an environmental impact report or adoption of a mitigated negative declaration, as well as a lead or responsible agency's project approval, for 125 projects that are selected by the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency over a five-year period. For a project to qualify for the exemption, the lead agency must certify to the Agency that there is an expectation that an environmental impact report will be certified for the project within 12 months. The Agency's selection of projects is also exempt from judicial review.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 620 (Correa-D) Environmental quality: retail facilities

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act requirements a project that consists of the alteration of a vacant retail structure that existed prior to 1/1/09, is not more than 120,000 square feet in area, and meets specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 639 (Cannella-R) Environmental Protection Agency: regulations

Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency, the entities that comprise that Agency, and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, when proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal an administrative regulation, to complete an economic impact analysis of that action prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal. Requires the economic impact analysis to contain the projected cost of the action to the General Fund, the projected total economic impact of the action, including the cost to private sector employers and the estimated number of jobs to be lost, a description of all feasible regulatory alternatives and a cost-benefit analysis of each alternative, and a summary of written comments, as specified. Requires the Agency to subject the report to a review by an independent entity, as defined, and to make the economic impact report available on the Agency's Internet Web site.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 735 (Price-D) Environmental quality

Shortens the timeframe for the judicial review of noncompliance allegations relating to the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 763 (Steinberg-D) Environmental protection

Authorizes the Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency to create a program to recognize businesses that have demonstrated a commitment to enhanced environmental performance. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria to judge environmental performance. Allows businesses to voluntarily apply to the Secretary to participate in the program. Requires the Secretary to review applications to determine whether a business qualifies and what level of recognition is appropriate.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 972 (Simitian-D) Environmental quality: scoping meeting/notice of completion

Revises the scoping meeting notice requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and enhances notice requirements of completion of environmental impact reports, as specified. Enables legislators to be aware of proposed projects in their districts early in the CEQA process, when there is a notice of preparation for an environmental impact report, rather than later when the notice of completion is filed.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2012

SB 973 (Vargas-D) Environmental quality: fireworks displays

Allows a lead agency to grant an annual firework display an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act subject to limitations.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 984 (Simitian-D) Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings

Provides procedures for a lead agency to prepare and certify the record of proceedings concurrently with the administrative process for environmental documents, and to promptly post all documents on the Internet. The procedures apply upon the request of the project applicant and consent of the lead agency, provided the project applicant agrees to pay the lead agency's costs of preparation. Specifies that disclosure is not required for any trade secret, location of archeological sites or sacred lands, or any other information subject to the disclosure restrictions in the California Public Records Act. Makes enactment of this bill contingent upon AB 1570 (Perea) which died in Senate Rules Committee. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1192 (Evans-D) Oil spill prevention and administrative fee

Provides additional funding mechanisms through the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund to secure funding for the Oiled Wildlife Care Network which, among other related things, rescues animals affected by oil spills.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1214 (Cannella-R) Environmental quality: judicial review

Requires a judicial proceeding challenging a project, except for a high-speed rail project, located in a distressed county, as defined, to be filed with the Court of Appeal with geographic jurisdiction over the project. Defines "distressed county" to be a county meeting two of the following criteria: (1) an unemployment rate higher than statewide average for three consecutive months during the pendency of the administrative proceeding, (2) a poverty level higher than the statewide average during the pendency of the administrative proceeding, and (3) a foreclosure rate higher than the statewide average during the pendency of the administrative proceeding.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1348 (Gaines-R) Environmental quality: public projects judicial review

Establishes specified judicial review procedures for the judicial review of the environmental impact report for a project that will result in a minimum investment of $10 million subject to the requirements of California Environmental Quality Act. Establishes an alternative procedure for creating the administrative record for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the local agency's decision to certify the environmental report or to grant project approvals.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1360 (Simitian-D) Environmental quality: vessels

Deletes the sunset date of 1/1/14, on provisions of law relating to the release of sewage from a large passenger vessels or oceangoing ship. Expands the prohibition on the release of sewage into a marine sanctuary. Requires the owner or operator of large passenger vessel to notify the California Emergency Management Agency, upon the discovery of a release of graywater into a marine sanctuary. Prohibits the owner or operator of a large passenger vessel or an oceangoing ship with sufficient holding tank capacity from releasing, or permitting anyone to release, from the vessel, graywater into a marine sanctuary. Replaces the reference to a "vessel" with reference to a "large passenger vessel or oceangoing ship." Defines the term "marine waters of the state" to mean waters within the area bounded by the mean high tide line to the three-mile state waters limit, from the Oregon border to the Mexican border, for purposes of provisions relating to the operation of a large passenger vessel or an oceangoing ship with sufficient holding tank capacity.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2012

SB 1380 (Rubio-D) Environmental quality: bicycle transportation plan

Establishes an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for bicycle plans prepared for an urbanized area for plans that contain only the following types of projects: the restriping of streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, and related signage for bicycles, pedestrians, and vehicles, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
A similar bill is AB 2245 (Smyth-R), Chapter 680, Statutes of 2012.

AB 49* (Gatto-D) Environmental quality: permits: projects

Reestablishes the Office of Permit Assistance, under the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, to help facilitate state and local review of commercial and industrial development projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 83 (Jeffries-R) Environmental quality: exemption

Establishes an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act for installation of new recycled water pipelines less than eight miles in length.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 343 (Atkins-D) Environmental goals: redevelopment plans

Requires each redevelopment plan to be consistent with the regional sustainable communities strategy or alternative planning strategy adopted by a metropolitan planning organization or council of government.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

AB 598 (Grove-R) Environmental quality

Limits the standing to file and maintain an action or proceeding alleging that an environmental impact report, a negative declaration, or a mitigated negative declaration was not prepared and certified in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act to the Attorney General.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 603 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Environmental impact reports: energy

Until 1/1/14, does not require an environmental impact review to analyze, or mitigate where feasible, the environmental effect for an eligible renewable energy resource, including greenhouse gas emissions, not found to be significant under the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 605 (Dickinson-D) Environmental quality: transportation impacts

Requires the Office of Planning and Research (OPR), in consultation with specified entities, to prepare and adopt guidelines that, among other things, establishes the percentage reduction in the projected trip generation and vehicle miles traveled for a project as compared to the average for trip generation and vehicle miles traveled for that project type that would assist a region in meeting the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets established by the Air Resources Board for the automobile and light truck sector for that region. Requires OPR to develop a list of mitigation measures that a project may incorporate to reduce the project's projected trip generation and vehicle miles traveled. Provides that a project meeting or exceeding the percentage reduction in trip generation and vehicle miles traveled or a project that incorporates the listed mitigation measures sufficient to allow the project to meet the percentage reduction does not need to consider the transportation-related impact of the project in environmental documents prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 890 (Olsen-R) Environment Quality Act: roadway improvement

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act repair, maintenance, and minor alterations of existing roadways, provided the project is carried out by a city or county to improve public safety, does not cross a waterway, and involves negligible or no expansion of an existing use. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
Chapter 528, Statutes of 2012

AB 931 (Dickinson-D) Environmental Quality Act: housing projects

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act an infill housing project that may be used for neighborhood-serving goods, services, or retail uses to a level that does not exceed 25% of the total building square footage of the project. Allows a "transit proximity project," as defined, to be subject to certain SB 375 environmental review procedures (Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008) until adoption of a sustainable communities strategy. Allows an "employment priority project," as defined, to also be subject to those environmental review procedures, as specified.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 995 (Cedillo-D) Environmental quality: transit-oriented development

Requires the Office of Planning and Research, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report containing recommendations for expedited environmental review for transit-oriented development.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1183 (Bill Berryhill-R) Environmental impact reports: jobs and housing

Enacts the Jobs and Housing Act of 2011 and limits the standing to file and maintain certain actions or proceedings to the Attorney General alleging that an environmental impact report was not prepared and certified in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. Applies this limitation to those actions or proceedings that are pending as of 1/1/12, and for which a final nonappealable judgment has not been entered before that date.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1185 (Torres-D) Environmental quality: retail facilities

Establishes, until 1/1/15, an exemption for the California Environmental Quality Act for alterations of existing vacant retail structures not more than 60,000 square feet and meeting specified requirements.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1380 (Feuer-D) California Environmental Protection Agency

Requires that the California Environmental Protection Agency, establish through applicant fees, an environmental technologies certification.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1444 (Feuer-D) Environmental quality: record of proceedings

Requires the lead agency for review of a project pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act to, upon request of a project applicant, prepare the record of proceeding concurrently with the Act's administrative process. Conditions this requirement upon the applicant's agreement, prior to the lead agency's release of the draft environmental document, to bear the costs resulting from concurrent preparation of the record of proceeding and related requirements required by this bill. Sunsets the preceding requirements as of 1/1/16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1486* (Lara-D) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption

Exempts the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System project from California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2012

AB 1570 (Perea-D) Environmental Quality Act: record of proceedings

Applies the SB 984 (Simitian-D) of 2012, record of proceedings under California Environmental Quality Act for any project of statewide, regional or area-wide environmental significance (those projects where the draft environmental impact report, proposed negative declaration or proposed mitigated negative declaration must be submitted to appropriate state agencies for review and comment) and certain other infill development projects.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1601 (Huffman-D) Oil spill prevention: nontank vessel

Caps the biennial fee paid by nontank vessel owners at $3,500 with an annual adjustment allowed for inflation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1665 (Galgiani-D) Environmental Quality Act: railroad crossings

Specifies that the California Environmental Quality Act does not apply to the closure of a railroad grade crossing by order of the Public Utilities Commission when the Commission has found the crossing to present a threat to public safety. Explicitly excludes application to any crossing for high-speed rail. Requires any state or local agency claiming an exemption to file a notice with the Office of Planning and Research. Sunsets on 1/1/16.
Chapter 721, Statutes of 2012

AB 2005* (Garrick-R) Oil spills: nontank vessels

Requires, until 1/1/14, the owner or operator of a nontank vessel within a specific range of gross tonnage that is not used for commercial purposes to submit, as specified, evidence of financial responsibility, payment of the applicable fee, graywater information, sewage information, and vessel particulars at least 96 hours prior to the vessel's arrival in the marine waters of the state, and to submit other required documents within 14 days after the arrival of the vessel.
Chapter 543, Statutes of 2012

AB 2163 (Knight-R) Environmental quality: judicial review

Expands application of expedited judicial review of the California Environmental Quality Act decisions by the Court of Appeal enacted by the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act from specified large-scale "environmental leadership" projects to include a significantly broader range of commercial, residential and recreational projects.
(Failed passage in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2245 (Smyth-R) Environmental quality: bikeways

Provides a California Environmental Quality Act exemption for a bikeway plan for an urbanized area consisting of restriping existing streets and highways, bicycle parking and storage, signal timing to improve street and highway intersection operations, bicycle parking and storage, and related storage if certain requirements are met. Sunsets 1/1/18, so that the exemption can be evaluated and any unanticipated consequences considered; and requires a notice of exemption for a plan to be filed with the Office of Planning and Research to assist in this evaluation.
Chapter 680, Statutes of 2012
A similar bill was SB 1380 (Rubio-D) which died on the Assembly Inactive File.

AB 2446 (Perea-D) Environmental quality: notices

Requires the lead agency to provide a notice of completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) to every person who has filed a written request for notices. Requires the State Clearinghouse to provide, upon request, to a legislator whose district the project has an EIR, a notice determining the necessity for an EIR.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2564* (Ma-D) Environmental quality: pipelines

Expands the application of an existing California Environmental Quality Act exemption for pipeline projects less than one mile in length. Sunsets on 1/1/18.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2012

AB 2577 (Galgiani-D) Environmental quality: public comments

Provides, for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act, that the lead agency does not have a duty to consider, evaluate, or respond to comments received after the close of the required public comment period for a draft environmental impact report or negative declaration. Prohibits late-filed comments from being part of the administrative record prepared for purposes of judicial review.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2669 (Assembly Natural Resources Committee) Environmental quality

Authorizes the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to update the protocol for reviewing prospective application of certified regulatory programs to evaluate the consistency of specified regulatory programs and repeals obsolete and duplicative provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2012

Forestry

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SB 455 (Pavley-D) Forestry: timberlands: conversion mitigation

Requires timberland conversion projects to mitigate environmental and greenhouse gas impacts through reforestation and other specified forest related activities.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1040* (Evans-D) Fire prevention: fees

Repeals the fire prevention fee on structures located in state responsibility areas contingent on the enactment of AB 1500 (John A. Pérez-D) which died on the Senate Third Reading File.
(Died in Assembly Budget Committee)

SB 1541 (La Malfa-R) Timber harvesting plans

Eliminates the 1/1/13 sunset date of the Forest Fire Protection Exemption (FFPE), intended to lower the cost of fuel treatment (the removal of brush, dead trees and other debris that could fuel a fire's spread) on private land. The FFPE allows the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt small property owners from Timber Harvest Plan requirements under limited circumstances: any trees harvested must be under 18 inches in diameter, the professional forester submitting the plan must consider habitat preservation, and the average size of tree on the property must increase under any work. The FFPE does not apply to the Lake Tahoe Basin and contains specific prohibitions on the cutting of older trees.
Chapter 312, Statutes of 2012

AB 163 (Jeffries-R) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: employment

Subjects an applicant for employment with Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or the Board of Forestry to criminal background checks, including convictions and arrests, to determine whether the applicant is eligible for employment.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 380 (Chesbro-D) Forestry operations: watersheds

Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to meet specified criteria when implementing pilot projects to protect riparian zones during timber harvests, and requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide comments on the pilot project.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 495 (Logue-R) Harts Mill Forest Fire Station

Authorizes the Director of General Services to transfer state property, known as the Harts Mill Forest Fire Station, to the County of Butte, as prescribed, and requires the County of Butte, if the property is transferred, to maintain the property in perpetuity for parks and open-space purposes.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 992 (Nielsen-R) Wildfires

Re-writes California statutes regarding liability and damages with respect to injuries caused by wildfires. Among other provisions, declares that damage caused by an escaping fire shall no longer constitute a trespass for purposes of injuries to timber, trees, or underwood upon the land of another person. Also reduces the measure of money damages, provide new defenses, and shorten the time period for bringing suit.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1005 (Dickinson-D) Forest practices: timber harvesting plan

Requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to convene a stakeholder group-comprised of representatives of public agencies, private industry and policy advocates, and supported by the Legislative Analyst's Office-to develop and produce a report to the Legislature on recommended changes to the state's timber harvest plan regulatory program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1492* (Assembly Budget Committee) Forest resource management

Makes various changes related to Timber Harvest Plans and revenues to implement the budget actions as part of the 2012-13 budget package. Imposes an assessment on lumber products and engineered wood products at a rate of 1% of gross receipts from the sale of those products.
Chapter 289, Statutes of 2012

AB 1506 (Jeffries-R) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees

Repeals, as of 1/1/13, the fire prevention fee on structures located in State Responsibility Areas, which is to be collected starting in the summer of 2012.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1562 (Jeffries-R) Fire prevention and suppression: county inmate fire crews

Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFIRE) to enter into contracts with counties where CalFIRE already operates fire camps to establish county inmate fire crews for fire prevention and suppression.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1635 (Logue-R) Forest resources: timber harvesting plans

Extends the exemption that authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from all or some of the requirements of the act a person engaged in certain limited forest management activities, including the harvesting of trees that eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns, for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, until 1/1/14.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2168* (Chesbro-D) Forestry: timber harvesting plans

Requires the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to coordinate with a Timber Harvest Plan's interdisciplinary review team to ensure that all necessary members of the team are present at the preharvest inspection, if such an inspection is needed.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2169 (Chesbro-D) California Forest Legacy Program

Exempts the acquisition of conservation easements made pursuant to the California Forest Legacy Program (FLP) Act from current law requiring that all real property be acquired for state agencies by the State Public Works Board, and clarifies that the Wildlife Conservation Board may acquire conservation easements on behalf of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection pursuant to the FLP.
Chapter 252, Statutes of 2012

AB 2170 (Chesbro-D) Forestry: working forest management plan

Creates a new permit for landowners who own 15,000 or fewer acres. It does not amend the existing Nonindustrial Timber Management Plan statute, but will be a separate statute. The permit will be called a "working forest management plan."
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2284 (Chesbro-D) Forestry land: irrigation: controlled substance

Allows a peace officer to stop a person with irrigation supplies on a rock or unpaved road on specified public or forestry land, and creates civil penalties for cultivating a controlled substance on public lands.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2012

AB 2424 (Portantino-D) Forest resources: timberlands

Declares that it is the policy of the state to encourage prudent and responsible forest resource management calculated to serve the public's need for timber and other forest products, while giving equal consideration to the public's need for watershed protection, fisheries and wildlife, sequestration of carbon dioxide, and recreational opportunities alike in this and future generations.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2474* (Chesbro-D) Fire prevention fee: state responsibility areas

Recasts provisions for setting the fire prevention fee on structures located in State Responsibility Areas, which is to be collected starting in the summer of 2012.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2544 (Gordon-D) Forestry and fire protection: land purchases: property use

Clarifies and expands the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's authority regarding land transactions for the purpose of qualifying for the Department of General Services review exemption.
Chapter 306, Statutes of 2012

Solid Waste

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SB 419 (Simitian-D) Solid waste: home-generated sharps

Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide their annual reports on disposal of sharps waste to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery electronically and make them readily available on the manufacturers Internet Web site.
Vetoed

SB 515 (Corbett-D) Recycling: household batteries

Requires producers of household batteries to institute programs to manage used household batteries. Requires battery producers to set up and finance programs to recover used batteries and recycle or properly dispose of them. Requires household battery producers to increase the recovery rate by 5% per year, until a recovery rate of 70% has been reached. Requires producers to develop stewardship plans and annual reports, to be reviewed by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1189 (Miller-R) which died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

SB 568 (Lowenthal-D) Recycling: polystyrene food containers

Prohibits a food vendor from dispensing prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container after 1/1/16, (7/1/17, for school districts) unless the local government or school district adopts a recycling program that can recycle at least 60% of its polystyrene foam food containers.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

SB 758 (Fuller-R) Recycling: tires: fee

Decreases the amount of the California tire fee that is imposed from $1.75 to $1.15.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 915 (Calderon-D) Recycling of plastic bags

Requires plastic bags to contain a mandatory level of recycled content to a specified schedule. Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to establish a working group of stakeholders to develop strategies for increasing the recycling of plastic bags and to develop suggestions for potential funding for increased consumer awareness.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1018 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Solid waste: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Energy, Resources Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, requires payments to the Beverage Container Recycling Fund, as of 7/1/12, to be made no later than the last day of the month following the sale of a qualifying beverage. Provides necessary amendments to require a business that generates four cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste per week to arrange for required recycling services. Shifts enforcement of electronic waste primarily to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery from the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1106 (Strickland-R) Recycling: reusable bags

Requires a person that manufactures a reusable bag to print or attach a warning label on the reusable bag containing specified information. Requires a person who sells or distributes a reusable bag to conspicuously display that warning near the display where reusable bags are sold or distributed or provide that warning in another written form. Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), by 10/1/13, to conduct a study, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, to evaluate the health risks of using reusable bags, to monitor the health effects in communities that principally use reusable bags, and to determine the validity of specified findings of previously published studies. Requires CalRecycle, upon completing the study, to conduct a one-year statewide education and awareness campaign.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1118 (Hancock-D) Mattress recycling

Establishes the Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act, which requires manufacturers of mattresses sold in California to submit a mattress recovery and recycling plan (plan) to the Department of Resources Recovery and Recycling by 4/1/14, implement the provisions of the plan, and achieve specified recycling goals.
(Failed passage on Senate Unfinished Business File)

SB 1159* (Calderon-D) Recycling of plastic bag

Enacts the Plastic Bag Reduction and Recycling Act of 2012 and prohibits the operator of a supermarket, as defined, on and after 7/1/13, from distributing a plastic carryout bag to a customer unless the plastic carryout bag displays the phrase "Please Recycle This Bag," in accordance with specified requirements. Provides that a violation of this requirement by the operator of a supermarket is an infraction. Authorizes the city attorney or district attorney to bring an action against the operator of the supermarket convicted of violating this requirement for the recovery of the costs of the enforcement action.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 1219 (Wolk-D) Recycling: plastic bags

Extends the "At-Store Recycling Program" for plastic bags to 1/1/20, and repeals a preemption prohibiting local government from implementing separate plastic bag recycling programs, additional auditing or reporting requirements, or from imposing a fee on plastic bags.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2012

SB 1547 (Simitian-D) Recycling: beverage containers: enforcement

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to exclude "other ineligible material" when conducting surveys to determine a commingled rate for beverage containers included in the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (Bottle Bill).
Vetoed

AB 34 (Williams-D) Solid waste compost facilities

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations with which enforcement agencies are required to comply with when adopting site-specific objective odor performance thresholds for compost facilities. Allows a compost facility operator to apply to an enforcement agency to adopt performance thresholds in accordance with a fee schedule adopted by the enforcement agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 298 (Brownley-D) Recycling: reusable bags

Prohibits retail stores from providing single-use plastic bags to customers. Requires retailers to make reusable grocery bags, as defined, available for purchase by customers. Creates standards for reusable grocery bags.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 480 (Solorio-D) Solid waste facilities: insurance

Requires the Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery to accept the use of a captive insurer for up to 50% of the financial assurance required of an operator of a solid waste landfill.
Chapter 713, Statutes of 2012

AB 508 (Swanson-D) Solid waste handling

Extends an existing bid preference for public transit contractors who agree to retain employees, as specified, to also include solid waste handling and recycling services contractors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 549 (Carter-D) Recycling: electronic waste

Modifies the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 and Recovery Act (E-Waste Act) fraud prevention and audit functions within the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). Clarifies that CalRecycle shall not pay an electronic waste recycling payment or recovery payment for covered electronic waste (CEW) generated outside of the state and subsequently brought into the state. Requires CalRecycle to establish documentation requirements for demonstrating that CEW was generated in California and eligible for payment. Requires CalRecycle to pay a CEW collector or recycler upon completion of its review of a payment claim for 90 days or less. CalRecycle may examine a payment claim to validate its completeness, accuracy, truthfulness, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Permits CalRecycle to conduct a selective audit of authorized collectors, covered CEW recyclers, or manufacturers to determine whether recovery or recycling payments are being paid by CalRecycle according to the requirements of the E-Waste Act.
Chapter 523, Statutes of 2012

AB 583 (Knight-R) Recycling: electronic waste

Transfers the responsibility of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act from the Department of Toxic Substances Control to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 789 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: tire recycling

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to provide outreach to local agencies regarding a program it may establish under existing law to award grants to cities, counties, and other local government agencies for the funding of public works projects that use waste tires in the projects.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 812 (Ma-D) Solid waste: recycled concrete and asphalt

Modifies the prohibition against selling recycled concrete to the Department of General Services and Caltrans by eliminating the requirement that the agencies must request its use. Requires Caltrans to increase the allowable amount of recycled asphalt pavement used in its projects to 50%, as specified, unless Caltrans determines that using the material is not practical, cost effective, or appropriate on a given application.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2012

AB 837 (Nestande-R) Solid waste: plastic food containers

Requires a manufacturer or supplier making an environmental marketing claim relating to the recycled content of a plastic food container product, as defined, to maintain certain information and documentation in support of that claim. Requires a manufacturer or supplier to furnish this information to any member of the public upon request or to provide the information and documentation by furnishing a link to a document on its Internet Web site. Sunsets 1/1/18.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2012

AB 845 (Ma-D) Solid waste: place of origin

Prohibits a local ordinance, whether approved by a city, county, or voters, from restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned facility based on the place of origin. Nullifies Measure E and the Solano County Superior Court ruling by prohibiting a local government from restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste based on the place of origin.
Chapter 526, Statutes of 2012
Similar legislation was AB 1178 (Ma-D) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

AB 921 (Allen-D) Solid waste: compost products

Enacts the Agriculture Water Efficiency with Compost Use and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2011, which requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, in conjunction with the Department of Water Resources to, through their existing programs, oversee a study or studies conducted by the University of California Extension Service, in partnership with local water districts, farmers, growers, and compost producers, and to measure increases in water use efficiency through the use of compost in agricultural settings, and other potential benefits from the use of compost, with regard to climate change.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 960 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Recycling: electronic waste

Requires exporters of electronic waste or covered electronic devices to demonstrate to the Department of Toxic Substances Control that the electronic waste will be handled in compliance with local laws where the waste is imported.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1094 (Swanson-D) Recycling and composting bins: school campuses

Allows a school district to provide recycling and composting bins on the campus of each elementary and secondary school.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1178 (Ma-D) Solid waste: place of origin

Prohibits an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by an initiative by the voters of a city or county, from otherwise restricting or limiting the importation of solid waste into a privately owned solid waste facility in that city or county based on place of origin. Provides that this prohibition does not require a privately owned or operated solid waste facility to accept certain waste, does not allow a privately owned solid waste facility to abrogate certain agreements, does not prohibit a city, county, or a regional agency from requiring a privately owned solid waste facility to guarantee permitted capacity to a host jurisdiction, and does not otherwise limit or affect the land use authority of a city or county.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill was AB 845 (Ma-D), Chapter 526, Statutes of 2012.

AB 1189 (Miller-R) Household batteries recycling program

Requires a producer of household batteries or consumer products incorporating a household battery, acting individually or through a household battery stewardship organization, to submit a plan to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery on 1/1/12, for a used household battery stewardship transition project, containing specified elements, and to implement the plan by 4/1/12, for an operation of not less than 12 months. Requires a producer or battery stewardship organization to submit a report to the Department regarding the final results of the project by 5/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
A similar bill was SB 515 (Corbett-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 1634 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: large-quantity commercial organics generators

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, on or before 1/1/18, to adopt specified regulations to require a large-quantity commercial organics generator to arrange for separate organics collection and recycling services that may include, but are not limited to, self-hauling, consistent with state or local laws or requirements, as specified.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1647 (Gordon-D) Solid waste: tires

Revises the hearing and enforcement process for a waste tire facility and waste tire hauling violations.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2012

AB 1834 (Brownley-D) Recycling: reusable bags

Updates the definition of "reusable bag" for purposes of the At-Store Recycling Program Law and specifies that on and after 7/1/12, the definition of what is a reusable bag under this bill will become operative.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1933* (Gordon-D) Recycling: beverage containers: handling fees

Strengthens tracking provisions for beverage containers transported into California. Temporarily increases handling fees paid to certified recycling centers until 3/1/13, and makes related changes to the method for calculating handling fees.
Chapter 540, Statutes of 2012

AB 2321 (Smyth-R) Plastic packaging containers: compostable

Defines the term "compostable rigid plastic packaging container" as a rigid plastic packaging container that is labeled with the term "compostable" and is in compliance with existing labeling requirements.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2336 (Mansoor-R) Plastic products: labeling

Revises the enforcement provisions for labeling of biodegradable plastic products. Limits enforcement actions for violations of the compostable and degradable plastic product labeling requirements to the Attorney General (AG) and specifies that any penalties collected may only be used by the AG. Limits enforcement to manufacturers of plastic products. Requires that prior to any "action to enforce" these requirements, the AG issue a written notice of violation by certified mail, with return receipt requested, and allow 30 days to remedy the violations.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2457 (Valadao-R) Solid waste: end-of-life vehicles and appliances

Requires the Department of Recycling and Resources Recovery to convene a working group of specified state agencies and stakeholders to determine whether the disposal of end-of-life vehicles and appliances is being managed legally.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2670 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste recycling

Updates definitions within the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container (RPPC) law. Defines "commercial solid waste" as all types of waste generated by a store, office, or other commercial or public entity source, including a business or a multifamily dwelling.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

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SB 178 (Simitian-D) Hazardous materials: green chemistry

Allows the Green Ribbon Science Panel to form subgroups to consider and report to the full panel and the Department of Toxic Substances Control on specific priority topics identified by the Department. Provides meetings conducted by all subgroups formed in aggregate, shall not exceed 10 meetings during a fiscal year, and a meeting conducted by a subgroup is to be held in a cost-effective manner to minimize the costs incurred by the meeting.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 589 (Lowenthal-D) Household mercury-containing lamps

Requires a manufacturer of household mercury-containing lamps, on or before 4/1/13, individually or through a stewardship organization, to prepare and submit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for approval, a household mercury-containing lamp stewardship plan to establish a recovery program for the management of end-of-life household mercury-containing lamps.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 1018 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Toxics/hazardous waste: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Energy, Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions: (1) provides necessary statutory changes to reduce un-utilized and under- utilized program activities funded by the Department of Toxic Substances Control; (2) provides necessary statutory changes from budget reductions and adjustments to the Toxic Substances Control Account; (3) eliminates statutory references to the now defunct Registered Environmental Assessor program; (4) provides necessary changes to adjust expenditure authority for the purpose of hazardous or idle-deserted wells in a given year; (5) extends the period of liquidation in the School District Act from the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund; and (6) requires local unexpended bond funds from the Lower-Emission School Bus Program to be reallocated locally rather than revert to the state program.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1335 (Pavley-D) Brownfield sites: redevelopment

Allows successor agencies to retain former redevelopment agency brownfield properties for the purpose of remediating or removing hazardous waste.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 553 (Monning-D) Hazardous materials: employment safety

Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board to adopt standards specifying permissible exposure limits for workplace hazardous substances, using existing quantitative risk assessments determined by state and federal agencies, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1176 (Williams-D) Toxic air contaminants: pesticides

Requires the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation, to complete at least one report per year on the health impacts of a pesticide which may be determined to be a Toxic Air Contaminant, requires at least two pesticides per year go through the Toxic Air Contaminant determination process, and makes technical and conforming changes. Includes pesticides identified by the Director as toxic air contaminants within the list of pesticides for which the Director is required to develop control measures, as specified above. Specifies that the Director shall develop the control measures for each pesticide listed as a toxic air contaminant.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1207 (Furutani-D) Hazardous waste/toxics: civil actions

Prohibits bringing a civil action for damages from any person who develops real property or performs or furnishes the design, specifications, surveying, planning, supervision, testing, or observation of construction or construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of the development or improvement, as specified. Provides that this limitation does not apply to an action in tort to recover damages for damage to real or personal property, or for personal injury or wrongful death from exposure to hazardous or toxic materials, pollution, hazardous waste, or associated environmental remediation activities.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1351 (Logue-R) Underground storage tanks

Requires, if the Board of Equalization finds that the person who owns an underground storage tank failed to make a report or return because he/she was a qualified absentee owner of an underground storage tank, the notice of determination to be mailed within three years after the date the amount was required to have been paid or the report was due.
(Failed passage in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1442 (Wieckowski-D) Pharmaceutical waste

Exempts a pharmaceutical waste generator or parent organization from medical waste hauling requirements if the generator or parent organization meets documentation and other requirements. Authorizes pharmaceutical waste to be transported by the generator or parent organization.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2012

AB 1566 (Wieckowski-D) Aboveground storage tanks: enforcement

Authorizes the Office of the State Fire Marshal to regulate the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act (APSA) and makes conforming changes to the APSA.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2012

AB 1620 (Wieckowski-D) Hazardous waste: contained gaseous material

Exempts hazardous waste activities from the Department of Toxic Substances Control treatment permits for exhaust gas, flue gas, or other vapor stream, regardless of the source.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 2012

AB 1701 (Wieckowski-D) Underground storage tanks

Provides for state certification of cities and counties to oversee the cleanup of underground storage tanks. Double-jointed with AB 1566 (Wieckowski).
Chapter 536, Statutes of 2012

AB 1704 (Huffman-D) Hazardous waste: coal tar

Prohibits, effective 1/1/13, the sale of coal tar pavement products and effective 7/1/13, the application of a coal tar pavement product on a driveway, parking area, airport runway or playground. Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to enforce the prohibition on sale and application of coal tar pavement products and cleanup of illegal applications.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1715 (Smyth-R) Underground storage tanks: tank case closure

Requires the manager, upon a determination that closure of the tank case is appropriate based upon that review, to provide a review summary report to the applicable regional board and local agency and provide opportunity for comment. Prohibits the regional board or local agency from issuing a corrective action directive or enforcing an existing corrective action directive for a tank case for which the manager has provided this review summary report, until the board issues a decision regarding the closure of the tank case, except as specified. Specifies that the $10,000 limit for corrective action costs after tank closure includes costs for groundwater monitoring. Makes a statement of legislative intent regarding the board's actions regarding these tank cases.
Chapter 237, Statutes 2012

AB 2144 (John A. Pérez-D) Hazardous cleanups

Allows an infrastructure and revitalization financing district to fund brownfield restorations and hazardous cleanup activities and allows a district to implement hazardous cleanup pursuant to the Polanco Redevelopment Act.
Vetoed

AB 2205 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Hazardous waste: ores and minerals

Clarifies that "wastes from the extraction, beneficiation, and processing of ores and minerals" includes spent brine solutions that are used to produce geothermal energy and that are transferred, via a closed piping system, to an adjacent facility for reclamation, beneficiation, or processing to recover minerals or other commercial substances, if the spent brine solutions, and any liquid residuals derived from the solutions are (1) managed in accordance with specified provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations, (2) returned after processing, via closed piping, and subsequently managed in accordance with the exemption under existing law, and (3) not solid or semisolid hazardous residuals.
Chapter 253, Statutes of 2012

Water Resources (includes Delta legislation)

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SB 34 (Simitian-D) California Water Resources Investment Act of 2011

Creates the California Water Resources Investment Act of 2011. The Act finds that it is necessary to establish a sustainable revenue source to fund the public benefits of water related projects and programs by imposing a charge on all retail water suppliers consistent with the following principles: (1) funding of public benefits should be guided by the beneficiaries pay and polluters pay principles; (2) decisions regarding funding of public benefits of water related projects and programs should be made by the public receiving those benefits; and (3) it is desirable for the revenue source to fund the public benefits of water related projects and programs to be equitable, comprehensive, unavoidable, affordable, understandable, easy to administer, and stable.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 71 (Leno-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Among other provisions, repeals an obsolete committee that was convened by the Secretary of Natural Resources to develop and submit a Strategic Vision for a Sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2012

SB 200 (Wolk-D) Delta levee maintenance

Extends, until 7/1/18, the authority of the Department of Water Resources to reimburse up to 75% of the costs in excess of $1,000 per mile that are incurred in any year for Delta levee maintenance, and requires that reimbursements be consistent with the long-term management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta adopted and implemented by the Delta Stewardship Council.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2012

SB 250 (Rubio-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta Plan

Requires, by 2/15/13, that environmental review and permitting be concluded for some as-yet-unspecified new export water conveyance through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta which must then be built by 12/31/25.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 297 (Cannella-R) Hydroelectric generation: renewable energy resources

Revises the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource to include a hydroelectric generation facility of any size, and removes other restrictions regarding which hydroelectric generation facilities meet the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 317 (Rubio-D) Kings River Fisheries Management Program

Allows continued Department of Fish and Game participation and cost-sharing in the Kings River Fisheries Management Program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 571 (Wolk-D) California Water Commission: California Water Plan

Provides for the organization of the California Water Commission as a separate agency in state government, instead of as an agency within the Department of Water Resources. Recasts and revises provisions relating to the Commission's selection of a chairperson and executive officer employment of staff, and delegation of its functions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 577 (Gaines-R) Bear Lake Reservoir: recreational use

Exempts recreational activity in which there is bodily contact with water by any participant in Bear Lake Reservoir from a specified prohibition. Establishes standards to be met, including water treatment, monitoring, and reporting requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1063 (Gaines-R) which was vetoed.

SB 665 (La Malfa-R) Lake and streambed alteration agreements: endangered species

Modifies a prohibition to prohibit the installation of a new diversion or means of diversion, or the substantial alteration of an existing means of diversion, that will substantially affect a river, stream, or lake as described above, unless prescribed requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 701 (Calderon-D) Central Basin Municipal Water District: directors: report

Requires the Central Basin Municipal Water District, on or before 7/1/12, to submit a report to the Legislature on the status of the Central Groundwater Basin and seawater barrier operations, and prescribes the information to be included in the report. Requires the municipal water district to provide an annual update of that report, and requires the Department of Water Resources and the Water Replenishment District of Southern California to cooperate with the municipal water district in providing information necessary for the completion of the report. Repeals this reporting requirement on 7/1/16, in accordance with a specified provision of law.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 710 (La Malfa-R) State Water Project: county services

Authorizes a county, in accordance with prescribed procedures, to prepare and adopt a county services impact report containing, among other things, a description of the costs of county services, as defined, related to the operation of specified dams and reservoirs as State Water Project facilities within the county. Requires the Department of Water Resources to compensate the county for those costs by compensating the county directly, by providing the county with specified services and facilities, or by contracting with the county or a service provider to provide the services or facilities within the county.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 744 (Wyland-R) Water submeters: testing

Deems, until 1/1/16, any water submeter tested by equipment that is regularly calibrated by tests that are directly traceable to standards promulgated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to be tested, sealed, and approved for commercial use, if specified conditions are met.
Vetoed

SB 846 (Berryhill-R) The California Water Plan: water data

Requires the Department of Water Resources to include in the California Water Plan an assessment of the state's water data system, and prescribes requirements relating to the contents and conduct of the assessment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 877 (Anderson-R) Public water systems: point-of-use treatment

Limits specified regulations to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and permits the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of 1/1/16, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 935* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Marine Invasive Species Act: ballast water

Makes technical modifications to the Marine Invasive Species Act, including extending the date, from on or before 1/1/08, to on or before 1/1/16, by which the California State Lands Commission (SLC) must approve the application by an owner or operator of a vessel to install an experimental ballast water treatment system in order to require the SLC to deem that system to be in compliance with any future ballast water treatment standard adopted, as specified.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2012

SB 962 (Anderson-R) Public water systems: service connections

Increases, from 200 to 500, the limit on the number of service connections served by a small community water system that the Department of Public Health may permit to use point-of-use and point-of-entry water treatment in place of centralized water treatment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was SB 877 (Anderson-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

SB 964 (Wright-D) State Water Resources Control Board

Provides that the exemption for the adoption of regulations for the issuance, denial, or revocation of specified waste discharge requirements and permits shall not apply to any general permits or waivers issued under state law or the federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, as defined, thereby requiring the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards to comply with provisions that require the adoption of regulations under those circumstances.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 965 (Wright-D) Water quality boards

Establishes allowable ex parte communications with State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) members and increases the public access to the SWRCB and RWQCB public processes.
Chapter 551, Statutes of 2012

SB 1018 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Water resources: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Energy, Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture 2012-13 Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, (1) reduces the number of members on each regional water quality control board from nine to seven, eliminates categorical selection of individuals who may serve on a board, and revises conflict of interest rules for board members to more closely mirror the Political Reform Act of 1974. An amendment clarifies that for appointments from the nonpublic sector, the Governor shall consider including members from key economic sectors in a given region; (2) provides statutory changes to allow for an ongoing transfer of funds from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Loan Fund for reimbursement of costs of the State Water Resources Development system incurred for related recreation and fish and wildlife enhancements, including, in particular, for ongoing obligations for boating and fishing related activities at facilities within the system. Provides for a legislative hearing and notification for new long-term water contract terms and conditions prior to final approval by the parties; (3) within the Fish and Game Code, provides for the elimination of the Salton Sea Restoration Council on 1/1/13. Requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide certification of the full mitigation of identified significant environmental impacts and for a fee structure to fully cover all costs of the department prior to administering permits to operate vacuum or suction dredge equipment; and (4) provides necessary cleanup to provisions related to the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy relative to appointment of state personnel.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1063* (Gaines-R) Bear Lake Reservoir: recreational use

Exempts, until 1/1/16, from the law that prohibits recreational use in which there is bodily contact with water in a reservoir where water is stored for domestic use, any participant in the Bear Lake Reservoir and establishes standards in that regard, as specified.
Vetoed
A similar bill is SB 577 (Gaines-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

SB 1146 (Pavley-D) Wells: reports: public availability

Requires the Department of Water Resources to make well log reports for water wells available to the public.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 1188 (Senate Elections And Constitutional Amendments Committee) County waterworks districts: elections

Corrects two obsolete cross-references to the Elections Code contained in the Water Code related to all-mailed ballot elections.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2012

SB 1201 (De León-D) Los Angeles River

Requires the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD) to provide access to navigable waterways under LACFCD's control, including the Los Angeles River, where such access is suitable for education and recreational purposes and not inconsistent with flood control and water conservation uses.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2012

SB 1247* (Gaines-R) Watermaster service areas: cost of administration

Authorizes the state to pay for up to 50% of watermaster services with the remainder to be paid by water rights holders until 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1251 (Evans-D) Aquatic Invasive Species Working Group

Requires the Ocean Protection Council and the Wildlife Conservation Board to jointly establish the Aquatic Invasive Species Working Group, which will be responsible for developing a well-funded, comprehensive, statewide approach to the management and control of aquatic invasive species by 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1278 (Wolk-D) Flood protection: planning and zoning

Revises flood hazard planning and development requirements for those cities and counties located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2012

SB 1283 (Alquist-D) San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act

Establishes the San Francisco Bay Area Sea Level Rise Planning Act, which authorizes a regional sea level rise management group, as defined, or local government agency to prepare and adopt an integrated sea level rise management plan for the San Francisco Bay area, in accordance with specified requirements, and requires a state agency that elects to develop an integrated sea level management plan to include specified criteria in that plan, and to prioritize funding for the plan, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1306 (Blakeslee-R) State Water Resources Control Board

Expands the requirement for the State Water Resources Control Board to conduct an external scientific peer review to include general permit application requirements for stormwater discharges and a conditional waiver of waste discharge requirements from irrigated lands except under some conditions.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 1337 (DeSaulnier-D) Zone 7 Water Agency Act

Creates the Zone 7 Water Agency (Agency), as prescribed, with specified authorizations, powers, and duties; permits the Alameda County Local Agency Formation Commission to exclude some or all of the Agency's territory from the boundaries of the district, and eliminates from the district act provisions relating to the governance of a zone lying, in whole or in part, in Pleasanton or Murray Townships; authorizes the Agency to continue to impose any special taxes based upon assessed value or any other special taxes, assessments, or charges imposed by or on behalf of the former Zone 7; authorizes the Agency to impose new special taxes or levy assessments, as prescribed; requires any taxes or assessments to be levied and collected together with taxes for county purposes, as specified; and authorizes the Agency to designate the county treasury as its treasury, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1340 (La Malfa-R) Appropriation of water: Sewerage Commission Oroville

Authorizes the Sewerage Commission Oroville to apply for a permit from the State Water Resources Control Board to appropriate water in an amount equivalent to its wastewater discharge into the Feather River.
Vetoed

SB 1364 (Huff-R) Water corporations

Subjects water corporations with more than 2,000 service connections to the same audit powers of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as electrical, gas, and telephone corporations; requires water corporations with more than 2,000 service connections to include more specific information in its notices to ratepayers regarding potential rate increases; and allows the PUC to direct a water corporation with more than 2,000 service connections, or an electrical, gas or telephone corporation, to utilize the services of an independent auditor, who shall be selected and supervised by that water, electrical, gas, or telephone corporation.
Chapter 224, Statutes of 2012

SB 1383* (Hernandez-D) Water utility property: El Monte

Allows the City of El Monte to sell or transfer its public utility water system, without voter approval, subject to specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 1386 (Lowenthal-D) Municipal water districts: water storage: groundwater

Removes barriers to groundwater storage in the Central Basin, by clarifying existing law, concerning the management of groundwater.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2012

SB 1495 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009

Specifies that certain Port of Sacramento and the Port of Stockton harbor-related leases and routine dredging activities are not subject to Delta Stewardship Council review for consistency with the long-term management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 552, Statutes of 2012

SB 1535* (Padilla-D) Water utilities

Prohibits any authority being conferred on the state board to impose any regulatory obligations on publicly owned water utilities for purposes of greenhouse gas emissions related to electricity imported for the publicly owned water utility's own use for the sole purpose of obtaining, transporting, and distributing water to its service area from an out-of-state water source unless the state board allocates to publicly owned water utilities allowances, credits, or other forms of price mitigation received by publicly owned electric utilities.
(Died in Senate Environmental Equality Committee)

SCR 68 (Gaines-R) Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe. The joint committee is composed of three Members from each house of the Legislature, appointed as specified. The joint committee is authorized to act until 1/1/15, at which time its existence would be terminated.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 101 (Pavley-D) Los Angeles River revitalization

Declares that the Legislature honors and commends the commitment, energy, vision, and leadership demonstrated by local, regional, state, and federal government agencies, as well as nonprofit and civic groups, organizations, and associations, in the creation of parks and the restoration of natural habitats along the Los Angeles River and its San Fernando Valley tributaries.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2012

SJR 17 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: San Francisco Bay

Declares the Legislature's endorsement of S. 97 (Feinstein) and House Resolution 3034 (Speier), and urges the United States Congress to enact the San Francisco Restoration Act at the earliest possible time.
Resolution Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012

AB 17* (Davis-D) Municipal water districts

Specifies the dates on which municipal water district board members take office after elections.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 19 (Fong-D) Water meters: building standards: multiunit structures

Requires a water purveyor that provides water service, as defined, to a newly constructed multiunit residential structure or newly constructed mixed-use residential and commercial structure, including a structure that is part of a common interest development, that submits an application for a water connection after 1/1/14, to require the installation of a water meter to measure water supplied to each individual dwelling unit as a condition of new water service.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 83 (Jeffries-R) Recycled water pipeline: CEQA exemption

Establishes an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for installation of new recycled water pipelines less than eight miles in length.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 157 (Jeffries-R) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012

Reduces by 25% the total amount of bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, and makes conforming reductions to amounts specified to be allocated from these bond funds for certain purposes.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 262 (Harkey-R) California regional water quality control boards: boundaries

Revises the description of the boundaries of the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board and the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 380 (Chesbro-D) Watersheds: resources

Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to meet specified criteria when implementing pilot projects to protect riparian zones during timber harvests. Requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide comments on the pilot project.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 403* (Alejo-D) Public drinking water standards: Salinas Valley

Appropriates $2 million from the Waste Discharge Permit Fund to the Greater Monterey County Regional Water Management Group for assessment and feasibility studies needed to develop a plan addressing drinking water and wastewater issues in disadvantaged communities located in the Salinas Valley.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 467* (Eng-D) Water quality

Modifies the allocation of the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) funds collected from responsible parties for groundwater contamination cleanup.
Vetoed

AB 550 (Huber-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: peripheral canal

Prohibits the construction of a peripheral canal, as defined, that conveys water from a diversion point in the Sacramento River to a location south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, unless expressly authorized by the Legislature. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to complete an economic feasibility analysis prior to the enactment of a statute authorizing the construction of a peripheral canal. Prohibits the construction and operation of a peripheral canal from diminishing or negatively affecting the water supplies, water rights, or quality of water for water users within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, or imposing any new burdens on infrastructure within, or financial burdens on persons residing in, the Delta or the Delta watershed.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 576 (Dickinson-D) Delta Stewardship Council: financing

Requires the Delta Stewardship Council to develop a long-term finance plan to pay for the costs of implementing the Delta Plan by 1/1/13. Prohibits the Council from adopting new fees for these purposes unless authorized by statute. Authorizes the Council, before adopting and collecting long-term revenue sources, to seek to obtain early funding contributions from entities that may benefit from implementation of the Delta Plan and to track those contributions to provide credit against future funding requirements.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 591 (Wieckowski-D) Hydraulic fracturing: oil and gas production

Requires operators of oil and natural gas wells to provide information on hydraulic fracturing to the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, for publication on the Division's Web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 627 (Bill Berryhill-R) State Water Resources Development System: Delta Corridors

Requires the Department of Water Resources to produce a study on the costs and benefits of the "Delta Corridors Plan."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 640 (Logue-R) Water discharges: mandatory minimum civil penalties

Increases the size of small community facilities that are allowed to use mandatory minimum civil penalties (MMPs) for remediation of water code violations, and expands the definition of small community publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) that are allowed to use MMPs for remediation of water code violations by increasing the allowable population serving the small community POTW from 10,000 to 20,000 persons.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 642 (Charles Calderon-D) Salton Sea

Permits the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to establish a program to provide financial support for the development of commercial algae production in the area around the Salton Sea.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 685 (Eng-D) State water policy: regional water management planning

Establishes in law a state policy that all residents of the state have a right to clean, affordable, and accessible water for human consumption, and directs relevant state agencies to implement the policy.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2012

AB 742* (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Reclamation plans: surface mining prohibition

Prohibits a lead agency with jurisdiction over a proposed aggregate mining operation from approving a reclamation plan of a mining operation that is proposed to be constructed within specified distances of a Native American sacred site or an aquifer that is hydrologically connected to the Santa Margarita River without the consent of the tribe whose reservation is nearest the proposed operation. Applies to surface mining operations in Riverside County.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 763 (Bill Berryhill-R) Water rights: administrative procedures

Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to employ administrative law judges meeting specified qualifications and to authorize an administrative law judge to conduct hearings and issue decisions and orders relating to the administration of water rights, as specified. Authorizes any hearing or investigation of the Board to be conducted by an administrative law judge, with a specified exception.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 779 (Fletcher-I) Municipal water districts: oversight

Authorizes a municipal water district to establish an independent oversight committee to assist in tracking and reviewing revenues of the district to advance capital improvements, operations and maintenance of district facilities, and allocation methodologies. Authorizes an independent oversight committee to perform specified functions for those purposes.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 921 (Allen-D) Agriculture water use efficiency: compost applications

Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, in conjunction with the Department of Water Resources, to oversee a study or studies conducted by the University of California Extension Service, in partnership with local water districts, agricultural interests and compost producers, to measure increases in water use efficiency through the use of compost in agricultural settings, and other potential benefits from the use of compost, with regard to climate change.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 939 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Salton Sea restoration

Transfers authority to lead the restoration of the Salton Sea from the state to the Salton Sea Authority, a local joint powers authority.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 954 (Charles Calderon-D) Water replenishment districts

Requires information in the specified engineering survey and report, and those related determinations, to pertain to the groundwater in each basin within the water replenishment district. The board of directors of a water replenishment district, upon determining to impose a water replenishment assessment on the production of groundwater from each groundwater basin, are required, except as otherwise provided, to impose the assessment in an amount that is calculated to pay for costs that include the actual cost of replenishing the groundwater basin, removing contaminants from the groundwater basin, and the administrative costs of the district.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 963 (Valadao-R) Safe drinking water: contaminated groundwater

Requires the Department of Public Health to establish guidelines for Proposition 84 grants for small community drinking water system infrastructure improvements.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1002 (Butler-D) California Water Plan: stormwater recovery

Requires the Department of Water Resources to include in the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources a discussion of strategies relating to stormwater recovery.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1019 (Buchanan-D) Delta Stewardship Council

Maintains the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent body if the Governor’s Reform Plan 2 is enacted (which it was).
Chapter 137, Statutes of 2012

AB 1048 (Harkey-R) Water quality: recycled water and wastewater: fluoride

Requires the California Regional Water Quality Board, San Diego Region, to address levels of fluoride in recycled water and wastewater as part of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's review of the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Diego Basin.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1058 (Smyth-R) Water quality: salinity: agricultural use

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, on or before 7/1/13, to adopt a statewide policy establishing a statewide water quality objective and plan of implementation for chloride and other measures of salinity that may affect the suitability of water used for agricultural purposes, in accordance with prescribed requirements.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1095 (Buchanan-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009

Excludes from the definition of "covered actions" the following: (1) any project, as defined by California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), that is both within an urban area or urbanizing area, as described in the Final Staff Draft Delta Plan, and in the secondary zone of the Delta, and is within the boundaries of the community's adopted sphere of influence or urban limit line and substantially conforms with an adopted general plan, as of 9/30/09; (2) any substantive expansion or amendment of the existing boundaries of an urban or urbanizing area's sphere of influence or general plan into the Delta would not be exempt from the definition of "covered action"; (3) any upgrade to an existing drinking water, stormwater, or wastewater treatment, storage, or conveyance facility, within the existing physical footprint of that facility, to meet a state/federal water quality compliance order consistent with state/federal standards and which complies with CEQA/NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act); and, (4) any flood control project in the secondary zone of the Delta that is consistent with the applicable provisions of the Central Valley Flood Protection plan that would provide protection to an urban or urbanizing area or existing public infrastructure, and which has complied with CEQA, NEPA or both.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1884 (Buchanan-D) which died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee.

AB 1109 (Chesbro-D) Drinking water: point-of-use devices

Limits regulation requirements governing the use of point-of-entry and point-of-use, to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and permits the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of 1/1/16, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1187 (Fong-D) California Water Plan: safe drinking water

Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to include the Safe Drinking Water Plan in updates of the California Water Plan, which is to include assumptions and estimates about current and projected unmet safe drinking water needs. Requires DWR to contract with the Department of Public Health to incorporate the Drinking Water Plan in updates of the Water Plan.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1410* (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Salton Sea restoration

Requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency in consultation and coordination with the Salton Sea Authority, as defined, to lead Salton Sea Restoration efforts.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1422* (Perea-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012

Amends the chaptered versions of SB 2X7 (Cogdill), Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009, Seventh Extraordinary Session, AB 153 (Hernandez), Chapter 226, Statutes of 2010, and AB 1265 (Caballero), Chapter 126, Statutes of 2010, to delay the water bond to the 11/4/14 ballot; deletes the provisions specifying the label, title, and summary to be included in the ballot pamphlet; and states that an election is called within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect.
Chapter 74, Statutes of 2012

AB 1540 (Buchanan-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: South American spongeplant

Designates the Department of Boating and Waterways as the lead agency in treating and controlling South American spongeplant (Limnobium laevigatum).
Chapter 188, Statutes of 2012

AB 1558 (Eng-D) Flood control and water conservation facilities: liability

Removes the sunset date of 1/1/13, from existing law, which provides a conditional immunity from liability for a public agency, and its employees, operating flood control and water conservation facilities for injuries caused by the condition or use of unlined flood control channels or adjacent groundwater recharge spreading grounds.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2012

AB 1578 (Logue-R) Indian Valley Watermaster District

Creates the Indian Valley Watermaster District (District) with boundaries covering 53 specified tracts within Plumas County. Gives the District the power to act as watermaster over decreed water rights for which the superior court has appointed the District as watermaster. The District has the same powers and duties as the Department of Water Resources watermaster service area. However, the superior court can modify the District's powers.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2012

AB 1607 (Galgiani-D) Local water supply projects: inventory

Requires the Department of Water Resources to inventory local water supply projects by 7/1/13, and post information to the Internet regarding their expected date of completion, cost, and potential annual water supply benefits.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1656 (Fong-D) San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority

Makes minor changes to the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority (SFBRA), to better accomplish its charge to restore, enhance, and protect the wetlands and wildlife habitat in the San Francisco Bay and along its shoreline. Extends the eastern boundary of the SFBRA to include all of Bay-related shoreline of Solano and Contra Costa counties, excluding the Delta primary zone, and reverses the inadvertent exclusion of the northeastern Contra Costa County shoreline from representation on the governing board.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2012

AB 1669 (Perea-D) Groundwater: Nitrate at Risk Area Fund

Creates the Nitrate at Risk Area Fund, administered by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), funds within which, upon appropriation, shall be used to pay for solutions for disadvantaged communities suffering from nitrate-contaminated groundwater. Requires the Department of Public Health, working with the SWRCB, to designate such areas by using existing data on public water systems.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1686 (Jeffries-R) Waterways: Lake Mathews

Requires the Department of Boating and Waterways to allow public access, as prescribed, to Lake Mathews, a reservoir in Riverside County, for the purposes of boating, fishing, and hiking, including access by nonmotorized bicycles; prohibits body contact with the lake and limits the type of boats and fuel permitted on the lake; allows the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to develop, fund, and operate any necessary infrastructure; limits the number of boats on the water and persons accessing the recreational area of the lake; establishes a fee for access to recreational, boating, and parking areas of the lake; and establishes a speed limit for all boats on the water.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1750 (Solorio-D) Rainwater Capture Act of 2012

Establishes the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which authorizes residential, commercial, and governmental landowners to install, maintain, and operate rain barrel systems, as defined, and rainwater capture systems, as defined.
Chapter 537, Statutes of 2012

AB 1771 (Valadao-R) Hydroelectric generation: renewable energy resources

Eliminates existing limitations applicable to hydroelectric facilities for purposes of eligibility for the Renewables Portfolio Standard, making any hydroelectric facility in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (Western U.S., British Colombia, Alberta and Baja California) eligible without regard to size.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1798 (Perea-D) Agricultural water management plans

Requires the Department of Water Resources to post its report, regarding the status of the adopted agricultural water management plans, on its Internet Web site.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1813 (Buchanan-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009

Requires the system, established by State Water Resources Control Board, for certain diversions, in lieu of requiring reporting, to use data from the consumptive use index modeling used by the Department of Water Resources to determine the Net Delta Outflow Index; authorizes the system to enhance or replace the consumptive use index modeling with satellite imagery; and requires that the system, to the maximum extent practicable, use consumptive use data from consumptive use modeling or satellite imagery in lieu of public reporting.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1830 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) Water service: mobilehome parks

Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission, if it finds that a mobilehome park has charged an unjust or unreasonable rate for tenant water services, to order the mobilehome park to reimburse the complainant.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2012

AB 1871 (Logue-R) Delta Stewardship Council: Delta plan

Prohibits the Delta Stewardship Council from adopting a final version of the comprehensive management plan for the Delta until the completion of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1884 (Buchanan-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009

Excludes from the definition of "covered action" the following: (1) any anticipated upgrades to existing drinking water, stormwater, or wastewater treatment facilities to meet state water quality requirements; (2) any levee improvements and other flood control projects in the secondary zone, as specified, and would exclude from the definition the implementation of existing, fully permitted, habitat conservation and agricultural mitigation plans and programs within the primary and secondary zones of the Delta; (3) specified plans, programs, projects, or activities within the secondary zone that have received environmental certification under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) or otherwise have vested rights as of the effective date of the Delta Plan, or both, and would exclude all of the categorical CEQA exemptions; and (4) agricultural employee housing, low-income housing, infill residential projects, and other infill development projects, as described.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1095 (Buchanan-D) which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.

AB 1965 (Pan-D) Department of Water Resources: floodplain maps

Provides that the Department of Water Resources' issuance of floodplain maps are not subject to the review and approval of the Office of Administrative Law, as specified, and provides that the state or any state agency is not liable for any claim based upon the reasonable exercise or performance of a discretionary or ministerial function or duty.
Chapter 554, Statutes of 2012

AB 2000 (Huber-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Adds requirements to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan process, changes Delta Stewardship Council membership, and specifies remaining bond money for flood control projects shall only be used by the Department of Water Resources for levee improvements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2011 (Gatto-D) CalConserve Water Conservation Retrofit Program

Allocates $50 million from the prospective Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012 to establish CalConserve, a program by which the Department of Water Resources provides grants to local agencies for the implementation of local and regional water conservation revolving loan programs that help customers carry out water use efficiency retrofit projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2056 (Chesbro-D) Drinking water: point-of-use treatments

Expands the authorization to use point-of-use (POU) treatment as a permanent solution for public water systems with up to 20 service connections by requiring Department of Public Health (DPH) to allow continued use of POU treatment beyond the three-year maximum. If DPH requires a demonstration of economic feasibility for public water systems serving 20 or less residential connections, the applicant may use "available census tract data to demonstrate median household income."
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2063 (Alejo-D) Water quality: ex parte communications

Defines "ex parte communication" as an oral or written communication between a board member and an interested person about a matter within the board's jurisdiction, and the communication does not occur in a public hearing, workshop, or other official proceeding, or on the official record of the proceeding on the matter. Excludes communication between a State Water Resources Control Board or California regional water quality control board’s staff and either a board member or any interested person from the requirements and prohibitions in the California Administrative Procedure Act pertaining to ex parte communications.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 2117 (Gorell-R) Stormwater: waste discharge requirements

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with affected stakeholders, to prepare a comprehensive statewide stormwater plan and submit it to the Legislature by 1/1/15.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2167 (Hill-D) Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency

Allows the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency to issue bonds to repay the costs of capital facilities.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2012

AB 2208* (Perea-D) Water quality

Extends the sunset date, from 2014 to 2019, of the State Water Resources Control Board's authorization to collect a charge on specified loans that provides revenue to the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2230 (Gatto-D) Recycled water: car washes

Requires new car washes to reuse at least 60% of the on-site wash and rinse water unless recycled water is utilized for washing and rinsing.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2012

AB 2238* (Perea-D) Public water systems: drinking water

Expands actions available for emergency funding from the Emergency Water Grant Fund (ECWGF). Defines, for purposes of ECWGF, "public health emergency" to include: (1) a public water system that serves a severely disadvantaged community that lacks the technical or financial capacity to deliver potable water or has applied for specified funding; (2) the disruption or contamination of drinking water due to natural disasters; and (3) caps funding for emergency actions for an alternative water supply at $50,000 per public water system per public health emergency, and requires Department of Public Health to post on its Web site Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund funding information regarding small community water systems serving disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged communities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2284 (Chesbro-D) Irrigation: controlled substance

Allows a peace officer to stop a person with irrigation supplies on a rock or unpaved road on specified public or forestry land, and creates civil penalties for cultivating a controlled substance on public lands.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2012

AB 2334 (Fong-D) California Water Plan: drinking water and wastewater

Requires the Department of Water Resources, as part of updating the California Water Plan, to: (1) identify water systems struggling or failing to meet federal affordability benchmarks; (2) determine factors contributing to the high cost of these systems; (3) assess existing low-income water affordability programs; and (4) propose subsidy programs to make water affordable for communities facing especially high costs for water rates, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2398 (Hueso-D) Water recycling

Makes major changes to the state's regulation of the use of recycled water; deletes much of the existing statutory and regulatory language governing recycled water, and the Water Recycling Act of 2012 (WRA) consolidates similar, and in some cases identical, provisions into the WRA which is a new division of the Water Code; defines highly treated recycled water as Advanced Treated Purified Water and subjects its use to regulation by the Department of Public Health (DPH); defines less-treated, but still relatively clean recycled water, known as disinfected tertiary recycled water, as not waste water and subjects its use to regulation by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB); and provides monitoring and enforcement authority to DPH and SWRCB as well as fee authority to cover their permitting costs and other related responsibilities.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2421 (Bill Berryhill-R) Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Delta Plan project

Requires an independent third party to complete, by 6/30/13, a cost and benefit analysis of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), to be submitted to the Legislature before BDCP's inclusion in the Delta Plan, requires the third party analyst to be chosen by a representative from the Legislative Analyst's Office, the Delta Protection Commission and the State Water Contractors, and limits the funding for completion of the analysis to $1 million.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2422 (Bill Berryhill-R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Western Delta Intakes Concept

Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to complete an expedited evaluation and feasibility study of the Western Delta Intakes Concept; a large scalable intake facility on the publicly owned land of Sherman Island in the Western Delta to allow in-Delta water storage. Appropriates $750,000 in Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) bond funding for DWR to undertake the study.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2539 (Nielsen-R) Water treatment devices: drinking water

Requires, instead of allows, the Department of Public Health to adopt by reference, the testing procedures and standards of one or more independent testing organizations for purposes of certifying water treatment devices.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)

AB 2595 (Hall-D) Water: desalination

Requires the Ocean Protection Council to report to the Legislature on opportunities for improving permitting processes for seawater desalination facilities, and convenes the Seawater Desalination Permit Improvement Task Force.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

ACR 20 (Huffman-D) Water Awareness Month

Designates May 2012 as Water Awareness Month, and urges the citizens of California, homeowners, businesses, farms, ranches, and governmental and nongovernmental entities to learn effective ways to conserve and reuse water.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

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SB 143 (Rubio-D) Surface mining: idle mines

Limits the renewal of an idle surface mining operation's Interim Management Plan to one additional five-year renewal period at the expiration of the first five-year renewal period.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2012

SB 317 (Rubio-D) Kings River Fisheries Management Program

Allows continued Department of Fish and Game participation and cost-sharing in the Kings River Fisheries Management Program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 356 (Blakeslee-R) State parks: local operating agreements

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), if it proposes to fully close a state park unit with no planned public access, to notify the county or city in which the unit is located and give the county or city an opportunity to take over operation of the park, and authorizes DPR to expend funds remaining from a previous appropriation of bond funds to DPR for a grant to the California State Railroad Museum Foundation.
Override of Governor's 2011 veto of the bill failed on 3/1/12 in the Senate.

SB 505 (La Malfa-R) Fish: licenses: trout hatcheries

Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game, if they are not able to meet statutory goals for production of hatchery fish through fish produced at state hatcheries, to contract with privately owned hatcheries to procure up to 20% of the pounds of fish needed to meet the goals.
Vetoed

SB 580 (Wolk-D) State parks: acquired land: limits on disposition or use

Restricts the ability of the state to allow state park lands to be used for purposes not compatible with state park purposes, applicable only to uses of state park land authorized on or after 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 584 (Evans-D) Oil spill prevention and administrative fee

Authorizes the use of funds in the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund to be used to support all the activities of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 657* (Gaines-R) Vacuum or suction dredge equipment

Deletes the legislative prohibition and all restrictions on suction dredge mining imposed by SB 670 (Wiggins-D), Chapter 62, Statutes of 2009, and exempts suction dredge mining from the California Environmental Quality Act until 1/1/14. Requires the Department of Fish and Game to refund pro-rated fees to 2009 permit holders, and requires the Department to prepare a report containing an economic analysis of the prohibition on suction dredge mining by 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 682 (Rubio-D) Public resources: oil and gas: underground injection of gas

Provides for the permitting of underground injection wells by the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 685 (Evans-D) Marine protected areas: Native American tribes

Authorizes Native American tribes to submit proposals for co-management of marine species within marine protected areas that are designated or proposed to be designated under the Marine Life Protection Act. Requires co-management proposals to include prescribed information, and requires submission of the proposals to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. Authorizes the Secretary to request additional information before determining that a proposal is complete, and upon receipt of a proposal from the Secretary, requires the Director of the Department of Fish and Game to consult with the tribe to develop memoranda of understanding or other agreements to, among other things, provide access to the tribe for traditional hunting and gathering and cultural activities. If multiple tribal governments or groups submit proposals to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to prioritize the proposals for negotiation, as provided.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 711 (Rubio-D) Public resources: oil and gas: underground injection of gas

Affirms the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources' authority to approve Class II injection wells for the disposal of waste fluids, such as waste gas from an oil and gas field.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 748 (Gaines-R) State parks: Kings Beach State Recreation Area

Authorizes the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to grant to the North Tahoe Public Utility District, subject to specified conditions, all of the rights, title, and interest of the State of California in Kings Beach State Recreation Area, in the County of Placer. Requires that the real property conveyed be operated, maintained, and improved by the North Tahoe Public Utility District for public recreation purposes, and requires Attorney General review and approval of the deposit of the net proceeds from the transfer.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 974 (Evans-D) State parks: proposed closures

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to review, using a specified methodology, state park units proposed, or to be proposed, for closure and requires the Department to plan for the reopening of state park units that have been closed.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1018 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State parks: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the Energy, Resources, Environmental Protection, and Agriculture Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, provides funding flexibility for state parks by creating a two-year continuous appropriation from the State Parks and Recreation Fund for revenue generating activities, creates an Enterprise Fund for entrepreneurial capital projects, increases flexibility of existing funding sources for all state parks, and includes language to allow state parks to access funding from the Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund for needed water and wastewater projects.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1054 (Pavley-D) Oil and gas: well operation: notice

Requires a well owner or operator to notify surface property owners of commencement of drilling operations and hydraulic fracturing operations that are about to occur near or below their property, and requires notification to be given to the supervisor of the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, the appropriate regional water quality control board, and municipal government.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 1078 (Evans-D) State parks: revenue generation and insurance risk pool

Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), until 1/1/20, to assist a park district or unit of the state park system in establishing specified numbers of innovation working groups for the purpose of developing innovative revenue proposals for the district or the park unit, as prescribed; requires DPR, in addition to evaluating revenue-generating ideas submitted by innovation working groups, to consider specified factors relating to ways to generate revenues for state parks; and requires each innovation team working group to perform specific duties and to make recommendations to DPR on innovative revenue proposals, or ideas about how to make those districts or units more self-sufficient, increase visitation, and generate new revenues.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 1094* (Kehoe-D) Land use: mitigation lands: endowment

Allows certain community foundations and congressionally chartered foundations to hold endowment accounts for mitigation lands, and expands and modifies conditions which all endowment holders must abide.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2012

SB 1107 (Berryhill-R) Fish and Game: Automated License Data System

Allows members of the public to voluntarily release their contact information to qualified nonprofit conservation organizations when they purchase hunting or fishing licenses, tags, stamps or other validations through the Department of Fish and Game's Automated License Data System.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2012

SB 1126 (Walters-R) Wildlife Center

Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), upon inspection and approval of the facility, to grant the Wildlife Center in San Diego a five-year permit to operate; authorizes CDFA to charge the Wildlife Center a fee for the permit to cover costs; and requires the Department of Fish and Game to release the remains of Cotie, a dog-coyote hybrid, to the Wildlife Center upon request.
(Died in Senate Agriculture Committee)
A similar bill was SB 856 (Walters-R) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

SB 1148 (Pavley-D) Fish and Game Commission: Department of Fish and Game

Makes numerous changes to implement policy recommendations arising out of a Strategic Vision process for the Department of Fish and Game and the Fish and Game Commission in order to improve the effectiveness of these entities in protecting and managing state fish and wildlife resources.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

SB 1166 (Berryhill-R) Department of Fish and Game: Big Game Management Account

Requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to authorize a nonprofit organization designated by DFG and associated with the sale of deer, elk, antelope or bighorn sheep tags that are sold on behalf of DFG for the purpose of raising funds for specified programs and projects, to retain the lesser of that organization's administrative costs of selling the tag or 2% of the amount for which the tag is sold.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1169 (Kehoe-D) Open-space lands: City of San Diego

Converts up to 10,000 acres of remaining "designated" open-space lands identified in the document "Declaration of the Dedication of Land" to "dedicated" open-space lands in the City of San Diego.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2012

SB 1221 (Lieu-D) Mammals: use of dogs to pursue bears and bobcats

Prohibits the use of dogs to pursue bears and bobcats except as permitted by a depredation permit or scientific research permit issued by the Department of Fish and Game or where the pursuit occurs by a dog that is guarding crops or livestock. Allows, for remaining hounding activities, the Fish and Game Commission to establish a hound tag program.
Chapter 595, Statutes of 2012

SB 1249 (Wolk-D) Department of Fish and Game: lands: expenditures

Allows the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to enter into contracts with nonprofit conservation groups for the management and operation of DFG-managed lands starting 1/1/15, requires that a fee be collected for the use of DFG-managed lands, and requires that the county's expenditures of DFG penalty revenues be expended for fish and wildlife purposes.
Chapter 597, Statutes of 2012

SB 1266 (Corbett-D) Resource conservation lands: appraisal process

Expands the scope of proposed state resource land acquisitions for which an independent appraisal and review is required, and specifies requirements for what must be included in an appraisal report.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2012

SB 1287 (Harman-R) Sport fishing licenses

Adds to the list of persons eligible to receive a reduced-fee annual fishing license, a recovering service member who provides to the Department of Fish and Game a letter from his/her commanding officer or a military medical doctor stating the person's status as a recovering service member.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2012

SB 1288 (Harman-R) Hunting licenses

Requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a reduced fee hunting license to military personnel who are recovering service members, as defined, and who provide documentation of eligibility, as prescribed.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2012

SB 1305 (Blakeslee-R) Regional open-space district: County of San Luis Obispo

Permits the formation of a regional open-space district in the County of San Luis Obispo to be initiated by resolution of the county board of supervisors after a noticed hearing, if the boundaries of a proposed district are coterminous with the exterior boundaries of the County of San Luis Obispo, and specifies the contents of the resolution, including a requirement to call an election, as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)

SB 1367 (Fuller-R) Deer: archery season: concealed firearms

Revises archery provisions to authorize a peace officer, whether active or honorably retired, to carry a firearm capable of being concealed on his/her person while engaged in the taking of deer with bow and arrow, but prohibits taking or attempting to take deer with that firearm.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2012

SB 1447 (Walters-R) Artificial reefs

Redefines "artificial reef" to mean a structure that is constructed or placed in certain waters for the purposes of enhancing fishery resources and commercial and recreational fishing opportunities and to provide recreational SCUBA diving opportunities; requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to designate a California State Artificial Reef Coordinator with specified responsibilities; and authorizes the DFG to impose a fee on any person or entity seeking to place or convert any object or structure as an artificial reef, not to exceed the actual costs to the DFG of evaluating the proposed project.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1457* (Anderson-R) Fish and game: wild pig depredation

Authorizes a person to take a wild pig in San Diego County at any time without procuring either a hunting license and a wild pig tag or a depredation permit during the period from 7/1/12, until 6/30/16, inclusive.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1459 (De León-D) Regional and local park districts: cities and counties

Revises the current authorization, which allows three or more cities, together with any parcel or parcels of city or county territory, whether in the same or different counties, to organize and incorporate, but requires that all the territory in the proposed district be contiguous, to instead only allow district formation for four or more cities.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1480 (Corbett-D) Trapping

Makes it unlawful to trap bats and will restrict the netting and exclusion of bats, and creates a special trapping license for persons offering trapping services to the public and establish conditions for use of that license.
Vetoed

SB 1511 (Evans-D) State parks: general plan: submission to the Legislature

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to furnish a copy of the general plan for any unit of the state park system for which a plan has been prepared to the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and to the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SCR 14 (Steinberg-D) "Parks Make Life Better!" Month

Declares March 2011 as "Parks Make Life Better!" Month.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
A similar resolution was ACR 106 (Smyth-R), Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2012.

SCR 68 (Gaines-R) Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe

Establishes the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe. The Joint Committee is composed of three Members from each house of the Legislature, appointed as specified. The Joint Committee is authorized to act until 1/1/15, at which time its existence would be terminated.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 103 (Berryhill-R) Wildlife resources: federal wildlife and sport fish program

Acknowledges the 75th anniversary of the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program and recognizes the many hunters, anglers, boaters, recreational shooters, as well as, state fish and wildlife agencies, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for their leading role in restoring healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and other natural resources, both game and nongame, to the abundance we see today.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2012

AB 64 (Jeffries-R) State parks: closure: operating agreements

States legislative intent that the Department of Parks and Recreation seek to negotiate operating agreements with local governments as a means of minimizing the number of state parks that may otherwise be subject to closure as a result of state budget reductions.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 284 (Nestande-R) Ecological reserves: Mirage Trail

Mandates the Department of Fish and Game open the Mirage Trail within the Magnesia Spring Ecological Reserve to hiking and biking recreational activities.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 440 (Brownley-D) Environmental education: curriculum

Requires Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to make the curriculum available electronically and deletes the requirement with regard to the assumption of those costs; requires CalRecycle to coordinate with specified state agencies to facilitate use of the model environmental curriculum and authorizes CalRecycle and those state agencies to collaborate with other specified entities to implement the program; and authorizes CalRecycle to expend the funds in the account and repeals the authorization for the agreement with an external fiscal agent.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 442 (Silva-R) Public lands: lease

Prohibits the State Lands Commission from charging rent for a cantilevered deck extending over state waterways for the use of a littoral landowner.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 606 (Gatto-D) Hunting and fishing

Directs the Department of Fish and Game to allow compatible hunting, fishing, and other recreational activities on lands prospectively subject to either a wildlife easement or a contract for fish and wildlife habitat preservation, restoration and enhancement; makes an exception for lands for which the easement, contact or memorandum of understanding specifically prohibits certain wildlife-dependent activities; and states that a landowner's lawful authority to restrict public access will not be affected.
(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 737 (Buchanan-D) Boating and Waterways: Harbors and Watercraft Commission

Proposes legislative changes to the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 2, which will become effective by operation of law on 7/1/13, unless either house of the Legislature adopts a resolution disfavoring it before that date, and is relative to the California Boating and Waterways Commission.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2012

AB 880 (Nestande-R) Ecological reserves: Mirage Trail

Requires, until 1/1/18, the Mirage Trail within the Magnesia Spring Ecological Reserve to be open nine months of the year to recreational hiking, if the Fish and Game Commission determines that certain conditions relating to Peninsular bighorn sheep are met, and requires the Commission to determine seasonal openings and closures of the trail that will not conflict with the use of the area by Peninsular bighorn sheep.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2012

AB 955 (Huber-D) Recreational trails: CA Recreational Trails Committee

Extends the sunset of the California Recreational Trails Committee to 1/1/28, and updates their responsibilities.
Vetoed

AB 972 (Butler-D) Oil and gas: hydraulic fracturing: moratorium

Prohibits the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources from approving a notice to commence drilling of an oil or natural gas well for which hydraulic fracturing will be used, until the Division has adopted regulations governing hydraulic fracturing.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 977 (Harkey-R) Harbors and ports: loans: OC Dana Point Harbor

Requires the Department of Boating and Waterways to extend until 6/30/16, all phases of certain loan contracts between the Department and the County of Orange, OC Dana Point Harbor.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1046 (Bill Berryhill-R) Hunting or taking game

Prohibits the Fish and Game Commission from imposing a statewide and permanent prohibition on hunting or taking game.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1054 (Skinner-D) Public lands: oil and gas leases

Prevents a lessee on State Lands Commission land from relinquishing his/her duty to pay rent and hold insurance until the lease premises have been reclaimed or restored.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 1162 (Chesbro-D) Wildlife: poaching

Provides that the illegal take of trophy deer, elk, antelope, or bighorn sheep shall be subject to a fine from $5,000 to $40,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year. Provides that the illegal take of trophy wild turkey shall be subject to a fine from $2,000 to $5,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year. Provides that any person who uses a signaling device to take a bear with the intent to sell bear parts is subject to a fine of $10,000 per bear part in possession.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2012

AB 1266* (Nielsen-R) Recreational off-highway vehicles

Delays the implementation, from 1/1/13 until 7/1/13, of the provision of AB 1595 (Cook-R), Chapter 165, Statutes of 2012, which defined recreational off-highway vehicles and prescribed safety regulations for their use in California.
Chapter 529, Statutes of 2012

AB 1299 (Huffman-D) Marine fisheries: forage species

Amends the Marine Life Management Act, to require the Department of Fish and Game to use ecosystem-based management principles when adopting or amending fishery management plans for specified forage species.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1333 (Achadjian-R) State parks

Revises the Department of Parks and Recreation's responsibilities regarding the preparation and revision of a general plan.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1477 (Assembly Budget Committee) State parks: Budget Trailer Bill

Amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, adopted on 6/15/12 in AB 1464 (Blumenfield-D), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012, which among other provisions, extends the encumbrance period by two years to allow the Department of Parks and Recreation to expend $6 million for water, wastewater, and sewer system capital outlay projects in state parks; and authorizes up to $2 million from the State Parks and Recreation Fund for park operations at Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Parks, Samuel P. Taylor State Park, and Tomales Bay State Park. Fees for these parks are collected by the National Parks Services per federal agreements and deposited in the Fund.
Chapter 630, Statutes of 2012 -- Item Veto

AB 1478 (Blumenfield-D) State parks: Budget Trailer Bill

Enacts the State Parks 2012 Budget Trailer Bill. Specifically, (1) prohibits the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) from closing or proposing the closure of a state park in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years; (2) provides a one-time appropriation of $10 million from revenues generated by the DPR to be allocated to match contributions from donors and local partner agreements for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 fiscal years; (3) provides a one-time appropriation of $10 million to parks that remain at-risk of closure in order to maintain a two-year moratorium on park closures; (4) provides a one-time appropriation of $500,000 to ensure that all ongoing internal and external investigations into the DPR are fully funded; (5) provides a $10 million one-time appropriation of bond funds for capital improvements projects to prevent full or partial park closures; (6) establishes criteria for membership positions on the State Park and Recreation Commission including requirements for cultural and park management experience. Requires the appointment of two ex officio legislative members by the Speaker of the Assembly and Senate Rules Committee, respectively. Allows the Commission a more direct oversight role of the DPR, particularly over DPR's deferred maintenance backlog; (7) appropriates $240,000 from existing funds to allow the Commission to evaluate DPR's deferred maintenance obligations, hold public hearings on the subject, provide advice to DPR on budgetary matters, and to conduct workshops; and (8) clarifies funds appropriated to the California State Park Enterprise Fund, established to enable the DPR to set revenue targets and goals, are transferred appropriately from the State Parks and Recreation Fund. Provides for annual accounting and reporting.
Chapter 530, Statutes of 2012

AB 1589 (Huffman-D) State parks: revenues and collections: fees

Enacts the California State Park Stewardship Act of 2012 which, among other things, requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a prioritized action plan to increase revenues and collection of existing fees at state parks and allows an individual to apply all or a portion of their state income tax refund to purchase a state park access pass.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2012

AB 1601 (Huffman-D) Oil spill prevention: nontank vessel

Caps the biennial fee paid by nontank vessel owners at $3,500 with an annual adjustment allowed for inflation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1609 (Lara-D) Surface mining: determinations: appeals

Requires the "AB 3098 List" to include surface mining operations that are in compliance with an order addressing noncompliance with the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act and expands and alters the appeal process for surface mining operations removed or excluded from the list.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1672 (Torres-D) Housing-Related Parks Program

Makes a number of changes to the Housing-Related Parks Program.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2012

AB 1773 (Yamada-D) Migratory birds: Pacific Flyway: report

Requires the Department of Fish and Game, in coordination with others, as specified, to develop a report, as prescribed, to inform and coordinate management decisions within the department regarding the Pacific Flyway and requires the report to be submitted to the Legislature by an unspecified date.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1776 (Fong-D) Pacific leatherback sea turtle

Designates the Pacific leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) as the official state marine reptile and establishes October 15 as Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2012

AB 1784* (Monning-D) Mountain lions

Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to authorize scientific research projects involving mountain lions.
Chapter 115, Statutes of 2012

AB 1825 (Garrick-R) State parks: "Save the Ocean" mosaic: Encinitas

Authorizes the City of Encinitas to authorize the placement of a "Save the Ocean" mosaic artwork in a state park located in Encinitas.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1886 (Chesbro-D) Aquaculture

Increases the regulatory fees for aquaculture facilities and expands the duties of the aquaculture program coordinator position within the Department of Fish and Game.
Chapter 301, Statutes of 2012

AB 1916* (Buchanan-D) State parks: operating agreements: Mount Diablo State Park

Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an agreement with the private nonprofit, Save Mount Diablo, for restoration of the Mount Diablo Beacon; specifies that Save Mount Diablo's work shall meet historic preservation standards and shall be audited by a conservator company; and specifies that all restoration costs are to be covered by Save Mount Diablo.
Chapter 141, Statutes of 2012

AB 1961 (Huffman-D) Coho salmon: habitat

Establishes the Coho Salmon Habitat Leading to Preservation Act (Coho HELP Act) which, in order to prevent the extinction of coho salmon, provides the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) an expedited mechanism to approve specific types of voluntary on-the-ground habitat restoration projects that benefit coho salmon. Appropriates $37,500 from the Hatchery and Inland Fisheries Fund to DFG, for the remainder of the fiscal year, in order to fund an engineer position employed on a half-time basis, to aid in urgent review of coho projects. Repeals the Coho HELP Act on 1/1/18.
Chapter 541, Statutes of 2012

AB 1966 (Ma-D) Natural resources: oil and gas: drilling

Requires a mineral rights owner to provide specified notices to the owner of real property if the mineral rights owner intends to enter the real property to undertake surface-disrupting or non-surface-disrupting activities.
Chapter 542, Statutes of 2012

AB 1973 (Olsen-R) Ferguson Slide Permanent Restoration Project

Allows the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to authorize the incidental take of the endangered limestone salamander harmed as a result of the Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) implementation of the Ferguson Slide Permanent Restoration Project, if DFG determines Caltrans will adopt appropriate avoidance and mitigation measures.
Chapter 121, Statutes of 2012

AB 1989 (Carter-D) State parks: bicycle facilities

Imposes a $2 surcharge on the sale of every new bicycle in California for the purpose of bicycle trail and path maintenance.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2082 (Atkins-D) Public lands: State Lands Commission: violations

Authorizes the State Lands Commission to impose civil penalties on a person who places an unauthorized structure on state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the Commission.
Chapter 247, Statutes of 2012

AB 2179 (Allen-D) Fish and game: enforcement and penalties

Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to impose administrative civil penalties for a violation of the Fish and Game Code or implementing regulations, subject to specified conditions.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2207* (Gordon-D) Natural resources: property taxation: welfare exemption

Prohibits county assessors from considering specified revenues and uses of property for purposes of determining whether a property dedicated to open-space and natural resource preservation qualifies for the welfare property tax exemption.
Chapter 863, Statutes of 2012

AB 2267 (Hall-D) Marine resources and preservation

Revises an existing state program, under which owners of offshore oil platforms who elect to partially remove their platforms must share a portion of the avoided costs of full removal with the state. Allows, until 2017, oil platform owners to count costs associated with participating in the program against the funds that they would pay to the state, reducing state revenues.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2283 (Portantino-D) Fish and game

Renames the Department of Fish and Game the Department of Fish and Wildlife and provide the department may be referred to as CAL WILD.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2351 (Gordon-D) Williamson Act: cancellation: fees

Requires a landowner seeking to cancel a Williamson Act contract to pay a refundable 5% cancellation fee.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2363* (Chesbro-D) Commercial fishing: Dungeness crab

Modifies the Fish and Game Commission's authority to approve bottom trawling in state waters, and makes changes to the vessel permits provisions of law.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2012

AB 2402 (Huffman-D) Department of Fish and Game: Fish and Game Commission

Makes a number of changes to the operations of the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) and the Fish and Game Commission (FGC). Renames DFG as the Department of Fish and Wildlife; articulates state policies regarding the DFG's and the FGC's use of ecosystem-based management, credible science, and partnerships; requires establishment of a science institute program to assist DFG and the FGC in obtaining independent scientific review; authorizes DFG and the FGC to adjust certain fees to provide for recovery of administrative costs; and, makes other changes to the Fish and Game Code.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2012

AB 2443 (Williams-D) Zebra Mussel Infestation Prevention Program

Imposes a vessel registration fee, as set forth in statute and determined by the Department of Boating and Waterways, and requires funds from the fee to be used to administer quagga and zebra mussel monitoring, inspection, and infestation prevention programs.
Chapter 485, Statutes of 2012

AB 2504 (Beth Gaines-R) Commercial fishing: crayfish

Repeals the prohibition on commercial take of crayfish in Lake Tahoe or the Lake Tahoe Basin, and states the intent that any allowance for commercial take of crayfish is for the primary purpose of population control and reduction of signal crayfish, and invasive species, and that Fish and Game Commission regulations are consistent with the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Species Management Act.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2509 (Nielsen-R) Surface mining and reclamation plans: exempted activities

Exempts activities related to the immediate restoration of lands affected by a natural disaster or flood from the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act without being subject to existing regulatory restrictions on the amount of mineral materials that can be exported for commercial purposes.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2012

AB 2609 (Hueso-D) Fish and Game Commission

Modifies requirements for election of officers of the California Fish and Game Commission, and states legislative intent that certain qualifications be considered in making appointments to the Commission.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2012

AB 2624 (Smyth-R) Sustainable communities

Makes local agency formation commissions eligible for financial assistance from Proposition 84 for the development or implementation of a regional plan that supports "sustainable communities and land use."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

ACR 106 (Smyth-R) Parks Make Life Better! Month(R)

Declares the Legislature's recognition of the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health and development of all Californians, and declares July 2012 as "Parks Make Life Better!®" Month.
Resolution Chapter 33, Statutes of 2012
A similar resolution was SCR 14 (Steinberg-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.

AJR 20 (Huffman-D) Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary

Calls upon the Congress of the United States to quickly pass the federal Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act and the President of the United States to expeditiously sign it into law.
Resolution Chapter 85, Statutes of 2012

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