Environment

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Water Resources
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Air Pollution

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SB 143(Rubio-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB), on or before 7/1/12, to adopt methodologies for determining the quantity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduced through specified GHG emission reduction programs. Requires the ARB to adopt regulations governing the creation of GHG emission reduction offsets based on investments in those programs for purposes of banking, trading, and using the offsets to comply with the market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the ARB. Requires the state board to credit persons who invest in those programs with GHG emission offsets, based on a cost-effectiveness calculation determined by the state board, with specified exceptions.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

SB 170(Pavley-D) Air districts: air pollution: intellectual property

Authorizes the local and regional air pollution control and air quality management districts to sponsor, coordinate, and promote projects that will lead to the prevention, mitigation, or cure of the adverse effects of air pollution, including the adverse health effects of air pollution. Until 1/1/17, authorizes a district to negotiate what share, if any, of the intellectual property, or benefits resulting from intellectual property, developed from the use of district funds, including funds discharged as grants, will accrue to that district. Requires revenues generated from revenue sharing agreements to be deposited into a special account and used for specified purposes. Under certain circumstances, prohibits a district from receiving a benefit pursuant to these provisions in excess of the amount of the district's investment. If the state or a subdivision of the state purchases or licenses a process, machine, or article of manufacture for which a district accrues a benefit resulting from the intellectual property interest, requires the district, upon the request of the Department of General Services, to provide reimbursement to the General Fund for the amount of the benefit accrued. Requires a district that attempts to negotiate for benefits pursuant to these provisions to report annually to the Legislature, as provided.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2011

SB 211(Emmerson-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: tires

Until 1/1/17, requires the tire pressure gauges used to meet the Under Inflated Vehicle Tires regulation be accurate within a range plus or minus two pound per square inch, and provides that automotive service providers are not required to inflate a tire that it determines is an "unsafe tire." Establishes a definition of "unsafe tire" that differs from the Under Inflated Vehicle Tire regulation in that it does not include consideration of age.
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.
(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.
(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.
(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, would be reduced to the extent the property was acquired with any amount excluded from gross income under this bill.
(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.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 533(Wright-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to make available to the public, at the time that ARB adopts a regulation pursuant to Administrative Procedure Act (APA), any implementation schedule that is required to comply with that regulation. If a regulation adopted by ARB specifically requires a reporting form, or a "compliance tool," as defined, the ARB is required to make this information available to the public on the ARB's Internet Web site at least 60 days prior to the date the information is required for compliance with the regulation. Requires training specifically required by a regulation to be made available at least 60 days prior to the compliance date for which the training is required. Authorizes the ARB to revise a required implementation schedule, reporting form, or compliance tool, or training after adoption of a regulation, if the ARB makes a specified modification.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 535(De León-D) California Communities Healthy Air Revitalization Trust

Sets aside a portion of the monies collected by the Air Resources Board pursuant to the Board's greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, to be used for related benefits in communities the bill describes as most subject to air pollution and most suffering from socioeconomic vulnerability.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 570(Rubio-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

Repeals the requirement that the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District's administer a high polluter vehicle replacement program and instead requires the District to administer a voluntary program to replace or retrofit high-emitting school buses within their jurisdiction.
Chapter 494, Statutes of 2011

SB 582(Yee-D) Air quality: commute benefit policies

Authorizes, until 1/1/17, a metropolitan planning organization and an air district to adopt jointly an ordinance that requires certain employers located within their common area of jurisdiction to offer their employees specified commute benefits with the goal of reducing single-occupant vehicle trips.
Vetoed

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.
(Held in Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee)

SB 724(Dutton-R) Air Resources Board: mobile source certification

Requires the Air Resources Board, within 30 working days after receipt of an application for certification of a new, a carryover, or a partial carryover on-road or off-road vehicle, engine, or equipment family, as defined, to inform the applicant, in writing, either that the application is complete and accepted for filing, or that the application is deficient, identifying the specific information required to make the application complete.
Vetoed

SB 739(Lowenthal-D) Air pollution mitigation: ports: congestion relief

Requires the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland, by 7/1/12, to assess their infrastructure and air quality improvement needs, including assessing the total cost for these projects and identifying potential sources of funding for them.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 901(Steinberg-D) Air pollution: vehicle retirement program

Makes the program for the voluntary retirement of motor vehicles that are high polluting vehicles available only to the highest polluting vehicles, with priority given to those highest polluting vehicles registered in air basins that are out of attainment with federal air quality standards. Makes other technical changes.
(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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 135(Hagman-R) Air Resources Board: membership: small businesses

Requires that at least one of the 11 members of the Air Resources Board be an owner, within five years, of a small business. Defines "small business" by reference as an independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation, the principal office of which is located in California, the officers of which are domiciled in California, and which, together with affiliates, has 100 or fewer employees, and average annual gross receipts of $10 million or less over the previous three years, or is a manufacturer with 100 or fewer employees. Sunsets on 1/1/17.
Vetoed

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

Provides that one of the 11 Air Resource Board members must alternate between a member from a district within the Sacramento federal nonattainment area for ozone in either 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.
(On Senate Inactive File)

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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

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."
(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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 462(Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbuses

Authorizes an air pollution control district or a regional air quality management district, until 1/1/15, to use motor vehicle registration fee revenues to replace natural gas fuel tanks or fueling infrastructure.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2011

AB 470(Halderman-R) Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits

Authorizes an air pollution control district or a regional air quality management district, until 1/1/15, to use motor vehicle registration fee revenues (the last $2 increase of the $6 dollar surcharge, as specified) for retrofit of emissions control equipment for existing school buses.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

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

Makes ethanol derived from corn ineligible for funding from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and repeals related requirements.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee; reconsideration granted)

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.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 981(Hueso-D) California Pollution Control Financing Authority: loans

Provides additional incentives within the California Capital Access Program to encourage lenders to lend to small businesses.
Chapter 484, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1095(Bill Berryhill-R) Air pollution: hearing board: Air Resources Board

Requires a hearing board within the Air Resources Board for resolution of disputes regarding the California Global Warming Solutions Act [AB 32 (Núñez), Chapter, 488, Statutes of 2006] based on existing statutory requirements for air district hearing boards, to the extent those provisions can be made applicable.
(In Senate Environmental Quality 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.
(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.
(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.
(In Senate Rules 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.
(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.
(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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1314(Wieckowski-D) Air resources: Alternative and Renewable Fuel

Makes changes to the process whereby the California Energy Commission updates its investment plan for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and facilitates the making of awards under that program.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2011

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

Abolishes the Air Resources Board.
(In Assembly Natural resources Committee)

AB 2X1(Logue-R) Air Resources Board: alternative actions to assessing

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 at Assembly Desk)

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

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SB 468(Kehoe-D) Coastal zone: Caltrans

Sets forth comprehensive requirements and accompanying authority for development of the North Coast Corridor Project in and near the Interstate 5 corridor in San Diego County.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2011

SB 482(Kehoe-D) Public beach contamination: standards: testing: closing

Transfers primary jurisdiction for the beach water quality monitoring program from the Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 551(DeSaulnier-D) Tidelands transfer: City of Pittsburg

Repeals the 2006 public trust grant made to the City of Pittsburg and makes a new grant that includes the lands from the 2006 grant as well as lands annexed to the City in 2009.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 595(Wolk-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: removal of vessels

Revises provisions regarding the authorization of the State Lands Commission to remove unattended vessels that obstruct traffic or create a hazard to other vessels or property by allowing the Commission to take immediate action, without notice, to remove vessels and expand the circumstances in which that authority may be exercised.
Chapter 595, Statutes of 2011

SB 607(Walters-R) State Ocean Plan: water quality

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, on or before 1/1/13, to either amend the California Ocean Plan, or adopt separate standards, to address water quality objectives and effluent limitations that are specifically appropriate for brackish groundwater treatment system facilities that produce municipal water supplies for local use.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2011

SB 860(Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Tidelands and submerged lands: public trust lands

Makes clean-up amendments regarding the state's mineral interest, redevelopment agencies' successors, and hazardous materials remediation to statutes authorizing public trust land exchanges and grants for redevelopment projects at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and Candlestick Point, Treasure Island, and the Naval Air Station Alameda.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

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

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

AB 337(Monning-D) Ocean resources: Ocean Protection Council

Provides that the voluntary sustainable seafood program, each component of the program, and actions taken by the Ocean Protection Council to implement the program are not regulations for the purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act, and requires that any substantive amendments or revisions to the protocol be developed in a transparent process and adopted by the Council in a public meeting.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2011

AB 418(Ammiano-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: San Francisco

Authorizes two exchanges of public trust lands in San Francisco and places a variety of conditions on the exchanges and the uses of the current public trust lands.
Chapter 477, Statutes of 2011

AB 565(Monning-D) State Coastal Conservancy

Authorizes the State Coastal Conservancy to make a grant to a for-profit company in order to facilitate the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1005(Dickinson-D) Coastal Commission: forest practices

Requires the Department of Fish and Game, the appropriate regional water quality control board, the California Geological Survey, and, where applicable, the California Coastal Commission to conduct a review of a timber harvesting plan to determine environmental issues and mitigation measures. If that review raises environmental issues and mitigation measures suggested by the reviewing entities are not deemed necessary by the Director, requires the Secretary for Natural Resources to review the plan for final determination.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

Environmental Quality

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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 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.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SB 225*(Simitian-D) Pollution control

Allows the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to establish loss reserve accounts for the purposes of terminal rental adjustment clause leasing, if funds are available for contribution into the loss reserve account from any source other than the Authority.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2011

SB 226(Simitian-D) Environmental quality: scoping procedure

Revises the scoping procedures in the California Environmental Quality Act by authorizing referral of a proposed action to adopt or substantially amend a general plan to a city or county to be conducted concurrently with the scoping meeting, and authorizes the city or county to submit its comments at the scoping meeting.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 2011

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.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 292(Padilla-D) Environmental quality: Los Angeles stadium

Establishes expedited judicial review procedures and requires implementation of specified traffic and air quality mitigation measures under the California Environmental Quality Act for the proposed downtown Los Angeles football stadium and convention center project.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2011

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.
(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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 683(Correa-D) Environmental quality: noncompliance allegations

Clarifies provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act that prescribes when and how a person may bring action on a proceeding against a project before a public entity.
(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.
(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. Businesses could voluntarily apply to the Secretary to participate in the program and the Secretary would review applications to determine whether a business qualifies and what level of recognition is appropriate.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

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.
(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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 120(Assembly Budget Committee) Public resources: Budget Trailer Bill

Among other provisions, extends the moratorium on issuance of suction dredge permits for an additional five years, or until such time as new regulations that fully mitigate all identified significant environmental impacts, and a proposed fee structure that will fully cover all program costs, are in place.
Chapter 133, Statutes of 2011

AB 209(Ammiano-D) Environmental quality

Requires a lead agency preparing an environmental impact report or negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act to include a description of how the draft report or draft negative declaration can be provided in an electronic format.
Chapter 171, Statutes of 2011

AB 320(Hill-D) Environmental quality disputes

Clarifies the persons who must be named as a real party in interest in complaints for specified violations of the California Environmental Quality Act by removing reference to "any recipient of approval," and, instead, requires a petitioner or plaintiff to name, as a real party in interest, any person or persons identified by the public agency in its notice of determination, or notice of exemption, that is filed with the Office of Planning and Research. Requires those notices to list the person(s) whose activity fell under the definition of "project." If no notice is filed, the petitioner or plaintiff shall name the same persons that are reflected in the agency's record of proceedings for the project, as specified.
Chapter 570, Statutes of 2011

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

Requires each redevelopment plan be consistent with the regional sustainable communities strategy or alternative planning strategy adopted by a metropolitan planning organization or council of government.
(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.
(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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

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

Requires the Office of Planning and Research, 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, and 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 would not need to consider the transportation-related impact of the project in environmental documents prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 880(V. Manuel Pérez-D) Environmental quality: expedited environmental review

Amends the California Environmental Quality Act to expand the authorized use of a "focused" environmental impact report for installation of required pollution control equipment to include projects that consist of installation of a direct emission reduction required by a rule or regulation adopted by the Air Resources Board pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 890(Olsen-R) Environment quality: roadway improvement

Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act a project or activity undertaken by a city or county within an existing road right-of-way for the purposes of roadway improvement.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 892(Carter-D) Environmental review process

Extends the sunset date from 1/1/12 to 1/1/17 to waive the state's 11th amendment right to sovereign immunity from lawsuits filed against the Department of Transportation under the National Environmental Policy Act in order to allow the Department to continue its assumption of the Act's responsibilities.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2011

AB 900(Buchanan-D) Environmental quality: jobs and economic development

Enacts the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011, and establishes specified judicial review procedures for the judicial review of the environmental impact report and approvals granted for a leadership project related to the development of a residential, retail, commercial, sports, cultural, entertainment, or recreational use project, or clean renewable energy or clean energy manufacturing project. Allows the Governor to certify a leadership project for streamlining pursuant to the Act if certain conditions are met. Sunsets on 1/1/15. Becomes operative only if SB 292 (Padilla-D) is enacted.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2011

AB 931(Dickinson-D) Environmental quality: housing projects

Revises the residential infill exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act by increasing the amount of allowable neighborhood-serving goods, services, or retail uses from 15% to 25% of the building square footage. Allows a "transit proximity project," as defined, to be subject to certain environmental review procedures contained in SB 375 (Steinberg-D), 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. Allows an "employment priority project" to also be subject to those environmental review procedures until adoption of a sustainable communities strategy.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 995(Cedillo-D) Environmental quality: forest 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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1112(Huffman-D) Oil spill prevention

Requires the Office of Spill Prevention and Response to increase its monitoring and inspections of operations involving the transfer of oil between vessels (i.e., bunkering and lightering). Temporarily increases the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund fee to support the state's oil spill prevention programs for the next three years. Requires the State Lands Commission, in consultation with the Department of Conservation, to provide statutory recommendations to the Legislature to ensure maximum safety and prevention of harm during offshore oil drilling.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2011

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 the above action or proceeding 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.
(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.
(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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 13X1(V. Manuel Pérez-D) Environmental impact reports

Expands existing permitting requirements for renewable energy projects to additional types of renewable energy projects. Requires the California Energy Commission to provide grants to local governments for renewable energy planning efforts.
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2011, First Extraordinary Session

A similar bill was AB 603 (V. Manuel Pérez-D) which died in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

Forestry

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SB 455(Pavley-D) Forestry: watersheds: timber harvesting plans

Authorizes a person to file a watershed timber harvest plan (WTHP), as defined, for the purpose of conducting timber operations, and requires the WTHP to be prepared by a registered professional forester and filed with the Department Of Forestry and Fire Protection in writing and requires the forester to certify and provide a report describing the inspection of the WTHP area.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 7X1(Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State responsibility areas: fire protection fees

Revises and recasts state responsibility area fee provisions to require the Board of Forestry to adopt emergency regulations to establish and administer fire protection fees in specified amounts, but not in an amount that would exceed the reasonable cost of providing fire protection services.
(Died in Assembly Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

SB 17X1(Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees

Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2010, and states that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on 12/6/10, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(Died in Assembly Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

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.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 384(Chesbro-D) State forest land: Jackson Demonstration State Forest

Authorizes the City of Fort Bragg and the County of Mendocino to acquire up to 17 acres of the Jackson Demonstration State Forest to develop a solid waste transfer station, as part of a three-way property transfer set at fair market value.
Chapter 173, Statutes of 2011

AB 495(Logue-R) Harts Mill Forest Fire Station: state property: transfer

Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Services to transfer to Butte County a 2.29-acre state property previously declared surplus to the state's needs and authorized for sale or transfer pursuant to current law.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 992(Nielsen-R) Wildfires

Provides that damage caused by an escaping fire, other than an arson fire, shall not be deemed a trespass for purposes of damages for wrongful injuries to timber, trees, or underwood upon the land of another person.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

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

Requires the Department of Fish and Game, the appropriate regional water quality control board, the California Geological Survey, and, where applicable, the California Coastal Commission to conduct a review of a timber harvesting plan to determine environmental issues and mitigation measures. If that review raises environmental issues and mitigation measures suggested by the reviewing entities are not deemed necessary by the Director, requires the Secretary for Natural Resources to review the plan for final determination.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1414(Assembly Natural Resources Committee) Forestry: timber harvesting

Amends the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 to make technical changes and to repeal outdated provisions that have no significance on current forest resource management.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2011

AB 24X1(Blumenfield-D) State responsibility areas: fire protection fees

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Resources and State Fire Protection in order to enact the 2011 Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)

AB 29X1(Blumenfield-D) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Resources and State Fire Protection in order to enact the 2011 Budget Act.
Chapter 8, Statutes of 2011)

AB 42X1(Jeffries-R) Fire suppression: state prison inmate fire crews

Requires that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), upon appropriation by the Legislature, annually allocate funds available to the CDCR to reimburse the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (DFFP) for its costs associated with the administration of the state prison inmate fire crew program, and requires that the Department of Finance work with both the CDCR and the DFFP to resolve any disputed reimbursement amounts.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 45X1(Jeffries-R) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees

Repeals specified provisions relating to fire prevention fees.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

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 Web sites.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

A similar bill is AB 1189 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

SB 518(Simitian-D) Beverage containers: recycling

Deletes provisions in the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act that require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to establish reporting periods for redemption rates and requires the Department to determine redemption rates for specified types of beverage containers.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)

SB 567(DeSaulnier-D) Plastic products: recycling

Repeals current law concerning the sale of plastic bags which have to meet various standards and instead, as of 1/1/13, prohibits the sale of a plastic product, as defined, labeled as "compostable," "home compostable," or "marine degradable" unless it meets those American Society for Testing and Materials standard specifications, the OK Compost HOME certification, as specified, or a standard adopted by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or unless the plastic product is labeled with a qualified claim for which the Department has adopted an existing standard, and the plastic product meets that standard. Prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is labeled as "biodegradable," "degradable," "decomposable," or as otherwise specified. Provides for the continuation of the labeling requirements imposed upon a manufacturer of a compostable plastic bag. Provides for the imposition of a civil penalty for a violation of those prohibitions.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2011

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.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

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

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

SB 833(Vargas-D) Solid waste landfill: San Diego County

Prohibits the operation of a solid waste landfill in San Diego County that is located within 1,000 feet of the San Luis Rey River and within 1,000 feet of a Native American sacred site. Prevents the proposed development of the Gregory Canyon landfill located within an approximately 1,770-acre parcel located in northern San Diego County north and south of State Route 76, approximately three miles east of Interstate 15 and two miles southwest of the community of Pala.
Vetoed

SB 841(Wolk-D) Solid waste: enterprises: contracts

Restricts the enforceability of any indemnity obligation, as specified, in a contract or request for proposal between a solid waste enterprise and a local agency, related to liability for failure to obtain voter approval of fees or charges in violation of constitutional requirements enacted by Propositions 218 and 26.
Chapter 713, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 34(Williams-D) Solid waste compost facilities

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt regulations with which enforcement agencies would be required to comply 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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 298(Brownley-D) Recycling: reusable bags

Defines "reusable bag" and prohibits the sale of a reusable bag unless it contains guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 341(Chesbro-D) Solid waste: diversion

Establishes a state policy goal that 75% of solid waste generated be diverted from landfill disposal by 2020; requires a commercial waste generator to arrange for recycling services; and requires local governments to implement commercial solid waste recycling programs designed to divert solid waste from businesses.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2011

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

Clarifies that a captive insurer meeting the statutory criteria of the Public Resources Code as a post-closure financial assurance mechanism is recognized as valid insurance under California's Insurance Code.

(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 525(Gordon-D) Solid waste: tires and paint

Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) 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. Makes the public works waste tire grant program inoperative on 6/30/15, and repeals the provision authorizing this program on 1/1/16. Makes conforming changes with regard to the CalRecycle's five-year plan, goals and priorities for waste tire programs. Establishes two accounts for the Architectural Paint Recovery Program which was created by AB 1343 (Huffman-R), Chapter 420, Statutes of 2010.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2011

A similar bill is AB 789 (Chesbro-D) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.

AB 549(Carter-D) Electronic waste: recycling

Codifies electronic waste regulations and practices issued and employed by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). Allows CalRecycle to pay a covered electronic waste recovery or recycling payment only if the covered electronic devices was used in the state. Allows CalRecycle to review required documentation submitted by a covered electronic waste collector or recycler before making payment and to refuse to pay a covered electronic waste collector or recycler if the documentation is incomplete or otherwise not in compliance with the Electronic Waste Act.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 583(Knight-R) 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.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 712(Williams-D) Recycling: beverage containers

Prohibits, on and after 7/1/12, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery from providing the Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act funds to a city, county, or city and county that prevents the siting or operation of a certified recycling center at a supermarket site.
Chapter 576, Statutes of 2011

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.
(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.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 818(Blumenfield-D) Solid waste: renters recycling program

Enacts the Renters' Right to Recycle Act which requires an owner of a multifamily dwelling with five or more living units to arrange for recycling services that are appropriate and available for the multifamily dwelling, as specified.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2011

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

Prohibits a manufacturer or supplier from selling a plastic food container that is advertised with a specific recycled content amount unless the manufacturer or supplier is able to provide certification of that claim in a format that is easy to understand and scientifically accurate.
(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, 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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 960(Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Electronic waste: recycling

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1019*(John A. Pérez-D) Solid waste: carpet stewardship

Reenacts the state law that enacted the carpet stewardship program and provides that the law continues to be operative on and after 11/3/11.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor; reconsideration granted)

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.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1149(Gordon-D) Recycling: beverage containers

Extends, for five years, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery plastic market development program, which provides Bottle Bill funds to support recyclers and manufacturers using empty plastic beverage containers. Specifies that on and after 1/1/12, in addition to the $10,000,000 already authorized, the Department may expend up to 50% of processing payment savings (created by high scrap prices for specific types of plastic) for market development payments for empty plastic beverage containers.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2011

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

Prohibits an ordinance enacted by a city or county, including an ordinance enacted by 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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

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. A producer or battery stewardship organization would be required to submit a report to the Department regarding the final results of the project by 5/1/13.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

A similar bill is SB 515 (Corbett-D) which is in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 1359(Skinner-D) Solid waste: landfills

Specifies that the evidence of financial ability to provide for the cost of the closure and postclosure maintenance of a landfill shall be in an amount that is equal to the estimated cost of closure and not less than 15 years of postclosure maintenance.
(In Assembly Natural Resources 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.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 456(Huff-R) Household hazardous waste: transportation

Allows household hazardous waste (HHW) gathered by a door-to-door HHW collection program to be transported using a consolidated manifest and to be taken to a HHW collection facility or a hazardous waste facility. Sunsets on 1/1/20.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

SB 623(Kehoe-D) Marine antifouling paint

Restricts the use of copper antifouling paint on recreational vehicles.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 646(Pavley-D) Toxics: enforcement: lead jewelry

Deletes the exemption from enforcement provisions of the Metal-Containing Jewelry Law for the signatories to the amended consent judgment, People v. Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, et al. Makes other technical changes to statute.
Chapter 473, Statutes of 2011

SB 909(La Malfa-R) Disposal of treated wood waste

Specifies that the Web site and phone number be posted on warning signs at treated wood retailers and wholesalers and extends the sunset on the law concerning disposal of treated wood waste to 2018.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2011

SJR 3(Pavley-D) Toxic substances: federal law

Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact federal legislation to modernize the federal Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 by strengthening chemical management through specified policy reforms.
Resolution Chapter 62, Statutes of 2011

AB 255(Wieckowski-D) Hazardous waste: latex paint

Allows a household hazardous waste collection facility authorized to receive hazardous waste from a conditionally exempt small quantity generator to accept recyclable latex from any source and in any amount, if certain conditions exist.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2011

AB 291(Wieckowski-D) Underground storage tanks

Extends, for two years, a temporary fee paid per gallon on motor vehicle fuel (petroleum storage fee) that the owner of an underground storage tank must pay from 1.4 mils to 2 mils per gallon through 1/1/14, and removes the 1/1/16 sunset on the existing underground petroleum storage tank fee and funding program. Becomes operative only if AB 358 (Smyth-R), Chapter 571, Statutes of 2011, is enacted and becomes effective on or before 1/1/12.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2011

AB 358*(Smyth-R) Hazardous waste: underground storage tanks

Requires the owner or operator of an underground storage tank (UST) to send specified information to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) regarding an unauthorized release of hazardous substances in USTs to local agencies on a written or electronic form developed by SWRCB. Requires each regional board and local agency to submit a report to SWRCB for all unauthorized releases using the board's Internet-accessible database. Allows SWRCB to adopt regulations to specify reporting requirements to implement the provisions of the bill, including electronic submission requirements for these reports and requires the regulations to be adopted as emergency regulations and exempts the adoption of these regulations from certain requirements regarding review by the Office of Administrative Law. Allows a person required to perform corrective action under certain federal laws to apply to SWRCB for payment of a claim. Becomes operative only if AB 291 (Wieckowski-D), Chapter 569, Statutes of 2011, is chaptered.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2011

AB 408*(Wieckowski-D) Hazardous waste

Makes changes to hazardous material reporting, emergency response, and hazardous waste manifest requirements and to the requirements for the management of used paint.
Chapter 603, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 666*(Jeffries-R) Toxics: acid pit containment: Riverside County

Authorizes the State Public Works Board to acquire 30 acres of land in Riverside County from the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District, and requires the Board to transfer this property to the Department of Toxic Substances Control in conjunction with the Department's management of the Stringfellow Acid Pits Containment Site.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 681(Wieckowski-D) Aboveground storage tanks

Extends the Environmental Protection Trust Fund expenditures until 1/1/13, and provides that unexpended funds be deposited in the Unified Program Account for further support for Certified Unified Program Agencies aboveground storage tank activities.
Chapter 574, Statutes of 2011

AB 762(Smyth-R) Medical waste

Allows the reuse of a common container for specified wastes and requires the consolidated waste to be treated by either incineration at a permitted medical waste treatment facility or with an alternative technology, as specified. In relation to the label requirement, authorizes the use of the word "INCINERATION" in addition to the words "HIGH HEAT ONLY" or other label approved by the Department of Public Health.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2011

AB 868(Davis-D) Hazardous waste: transporting

Revises the condition for exempting manifest and transporter requirements of hazardous waste to a maximum weight of 10,000 pounds of hazardous waste (an increase from the currently allowable 2,500 pounds or 275 gallons). Increases the 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception from manifesting for utility generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 913(Feuer-D) Hazardous waste: source reduction

Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as part of implementing the hazardous waste source reduction program, to develop a California Green Business Program that provides support and assistance to local government programs that provide for the voluntary certification of small businesses that adopt environmentally preferable business practices, including, but not limited to, increased energy efficiency, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, promotion of water conservation, and reduced waste generation.
Chapter 578, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Appropriations 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.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1235*(Roger Hernández-D) Hazardous substance removal: redevelopment agencies

Provides that if a Redevelopment Agency (RDA) has been dissolved by an act of the Legislature and its successor agency, as defined, maintains all the authority, rights, powers, duties, and obligations that were vested in the redevelopment agency prior to its dissolution, all rights, powers, duties, obligations, and protections that previously applied to the RDA shall apply to the successor agency, pursuant to the Polanco Act, for the removal of hazardous substance releases, as specified, from property that was within a redevelopment project of the RDA prior to its dissolution.
(On Senate Inactive File)

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.
(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

Water Resources

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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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 52(Steinberg-D) Water quality: Sacramento Regional County

Appropriates $50,000,000 to the Department of Water Resources from specified bond acts, to provide financial assistance to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District to offset rate increases associated with the costs of capital improvements to the district's regional sewage treatment plant as a result of the issuance of a specified National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit and waste discharge requirements.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 133(Wolk-D) Cache Creek Resource Management Plan

Extends the sunset provision for the Cache Creek Resource Management Plan until December 2017, and deletes the provision requiring the approval of the local ordinance by the State Mining and Geology Board.
Chapter 145, Statutes of 2011

SB 200(Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Bay Delta Conservation Plan

Requires any state agency that is responsible for authorizing or implementing any action in implementation of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to ensure that the action is consistent with specified requirements prescribed by the bill. Makes related legislative findings and declarations.
(In Senate Natural Resources Committee)

SB 215(Huff-R) Invasive aquatic species: mussels

Extends the sunset of existing provisions that prohibit the possession or importation to the state of dreissenid mussels and gives the Department of Fish and Game authority to enforce the prohibition. Extends the sunset from1/1/12 to 1/1/17.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2011

SB 224(Pavley-D) Department of Water Resources: public contracts:

Exempts specified Department of Water Resources contracts from competitive bidding requirements and Department of General Services approval.
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2011

SB 225*(Simitian-D) California Pollution Control Financing Authority

Allows the California Pollution Control Financing Authority to establish loss reserve accounts for the purposes of terminal rental adjustment clause leasing, if funds are available for contribution into the loss reserve account from any source other than the Authority.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2011

SB 235(Negrete McLeod-D) Water conservation districts

Allows water conservation districts with seven-member boards of directors to decrease the number of directors to five members. Does not apply to districts within Ventura County.
Chapter 122, Statutes of 2011

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

Clarifies that the Office of Planning and Research's review of each request to add or delete a class of exempt projects under the California Environmental Quality Act be in accordance with Public Resources Code Section 21083 and 21084 and changes the reference from the Resources Agency to the Natural Resources Agency.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 263(Pavley-D) Wells: reports: public availability

Requires the Department of Water Resources to make the reports that well drillers must submit when a well is constructed, deepened, reperforated, or destroyed available, with certain restrictions, to governmental agencies for studies, college-level or higher academics for research, geologists, geophysicists, hydrologists, civil engineers, licensed well contractors or any person who obtains written authorization from the well owner. Makes any person who knowingly violates the restrictions on the use or sharing of a well completion report guilty of a misdemeanor violation punishable by up to $25,000 per day, a year in county jail, or both.
Vetoed

SB 267*(Rubio-D) Water supply planning: renewable energy plants

Revises the definition of "project" to exclude a proposed photovoltaic or wind energy generation facility approved on or after the effective date of this bill that demands no more than 75-acre feet of water annually.
Chapter 588, Statutes of 2011

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. Makes conforming changes.
(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.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 482(Kehoe-D) Public beach contamination: standards: testing: closing

Transfers primary jurisdiction for the beach water quality monitoring program from the Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2011

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

Establishes the California Water Commission (CWC) as an independent agency, deletes provisions providing that the Director of the Department of Water Resources has the authority to overrule the CWC, authorizes the CWC to hire staff, authorizes the CWC to sue and be sued, and authorizes the CWC to administer the development and implementation of the California Water Investment Plan established in a new division of the Water Code.
(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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 607(Walters-R) State Water Resources Control Board: water quality

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, on or before 1/1/13, to either amend the California Ocean Plan, or adopt separate standards, to address water quality objectives and effluent limitations that are specifically appropriate for brackish groundwater treatment system facilities that produce municipal water supplies for local use.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2011

SB 623(Kehoe-D) Marine antifouling paint

Restricts the use of copper antifouling paint on recreational vessels.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 659(Hernandez-D) San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority: board members

Allows an appointing authority of the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, by a majority vote, to remove their member or alternate member of the Authority without cause and at any time prior to the expiration of the member's or alternate member's term of office, and appoint or elect another person as a member or alternate. A person appointed or elected in accordance to this provision, is to meet the qualifications applicable to the office, and shall serve the remaining term of the office.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

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.
(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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources 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.
(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.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 744(Wyland-R) Water submeters: testing

Exempts water submeters from testing and approval by the county sealer prior to installation if tested, as specified.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 834(Wolk-D) Integrated regional water management plans: contents

Requires that an Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (IRWMP) that is voluntarily drafted so as to meet certain minimum requirements in order to be eligible for state funding must, for a region that depends on water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, also include an identification of the way the IRWMP will further the statewide policy of reducing reliance on the Delta through investments in regional self-reliance.
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.
(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.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 900(Steinberg-D) California regional water quality control boards: members

Provides that a person would not be disqualified from being a member of a regional water quality control board because that person receives, or has received during the previous two years, a significant portion of his/her income directly or indirectly from a person subject to waste discharge requirements, or an applicant for waste discharge requirements, that govern discharges not within the jurisdiction of that regional board. Provides that this revised eligibility provision relating to members of a regional board shall be implemented only if certain requirements are met.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 918(Anderson-R) Mutual water companies: boards of directors

Establishes under California's General Corporations Law that mutual water companies can elect directors to staggered four-year terms if authorized.
Chapter 89, Statutes of 2011

SB 935*(Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Ballast water

Makes technical changes to the Marine Invasive Species Act for more thorough implementation by the State Lands Commission.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

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

Mandates that water purveyors adopt policies requiring that multiunit residential structures or mixed use residential and commercial structures that apply for water connections after 1/1/14, have, as a condition of new water service, submeters that measure the water supplied to each individual dwelling unit.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 54(Solorio-D) Drinking water

Establishes new requirements for organizing and operating corporations for the domestic sale, distribution, supply and delivery of water (mutual water companies), as specified.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2011

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

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

AB 95(Assembly Budget Committee) Resources: 2011-2012 Budget Trailer Bill

Makes various changes necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2011 which included, among other provisions, the following: (1) authorizing the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional water quality control boards to include the regulatory and programmatic costs for the development of water quality control plans ("basin plans") as recoverable costs, and (2) requiring the Governor to submit a zero-based fiscal year budget and programmatic review for 2012-13 for all state agency programs that implement water and ecosystem restoration activities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including those related to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2011

AB 120(Assembly Budget Committee) Public Resources: 2011 Budget Act

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Resources in order to enact the 2011 Budget Act.
Chapter 133, Statutes of 2011

AB 134(Dickinson-D) Sacramento County Regional Sanitation District

Allows the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District to apply for a permit from the State Water Resources Control Board to appropriate an amount of water up to the amount of discharged wastewater.
Chapter 212, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 246(Wieckowski-D) Water quality: enforcement

Authorizes district attorneys to bring civil actions for specified violations of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act.
(On Senate Inactive File)

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.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 275(Solorio-D) Rainwater Capture Act of 2011

Authorizes licensed landscape contractors to construct a rainwater capture system, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 337(Monning-D) Ocean resources: Ocean Protection Council

Provides that the voluntary sustainable seafood program, each component of the program, and actions taken by the Ocean Protection Council to implement the program are not regulations for the purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act, and requires that any substantive amendments or revisions to the protocol be developed in a transparent process and adopted by the Council in a public meeting.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2011

AB 359(Huffman-D) Groundwater management plans

Places additional requirements on local water agencies that opt to develop groundwater management plans, and requires the Department of Water Resources to make related information available on the Internet.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 403(Campos-D) Public drinking water standards: hexavalent chromium

Specifies that the primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium (chromium 6) is included in the expedited Department of Finance regulatory review process. Requires the Department of Public Health to post a report on its progress on developing a drinking water standard for chromium 6 on its Internet Web site.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 467(Eng-D) Water quality

Modifies the provisions of Proposition 84 to allow an entity that receives Proposition 84 bond funds from the Department of Public Health for groundwater cleanup capital costs and that later recovers costs for groundwater cleanup from a responsible party, to keep that money to fund additional groundwater cleanup. This changes current law, which requires such a grantee to use monies obtained from a responsible party to repay any Proposition 84 awards.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 494*(Logue-R) Sacramento River: alcoholic beverages

Prohibits possession of alcoholic beverages, whether open or closed, on non-motorized vessels along a portion of the Sacramento River (from the Highway 32 Bridge to the mouth of Big Chico Creek) during "summer holiday periods."
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 561(Gorell-R) Ventura County Watershed Protection District: indebtedness

Authorizes the Ventura County Watershed Protection District to participate in state or federal revolving loan programs for district purposes and to issue securitized limited obligation notes.
Chapter 175, Statutes of 2011

AB 565(Monning-D) State Coastal Conservancy: San Clemente Dam

Authorizes the State Coastal Conservancy to make a grant to a for-profit company in order to facilitate the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2011

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.
(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.
(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."
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

Expands that definition to include a publicly-owned treatment works (POTW) serving a community of 20,000 persons or fewer. Authorizes the state board or a regional board to waive specified nonpayment penalties for a POTW that is subject to the compliance project provisions.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials 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. Directs relevant state agencies to implement the policy.
(In Senate Appropriations committee)

AB 741(Huffman-D) Onsite wastewater disposal

Allows local sewer service providers, at a property owner's request, to construct sewer improvements on private property and charge the property owner for the costs.
Chapter 106, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 779(Fletcher-R) 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.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 849(Gatto-D) Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards

Repeals the authority of a city, county, or other local agency to adopt building standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater and instead authorize the adoption, under specified requirements, of standards that are more restrictive than the standards adopted pursuant to state requirements.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2011

AB 903(Bill Berryhill-R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: dredging

Makes legislative findings relative to the importance of dredging in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and requires the State Water Resources Control Board to provide priority review for dredging permits in the Delta.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 907(Ma-D) Harbors and ports: Bays of Monterey and San Francisco

Makes changes to various provisions of the Harbors and Navigation Code relating to bar pilotage rates for Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun.
(In Senate Governmental Organization 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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 938(V. Manuel Pérez-D) Public water systems

Requires the written public notice of noncompliance with drinking water standards given by a public water system to include information in English, Spanish and other languages spoken by the impacted community, as specified. Makes technical changes to the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund affordability assessment requirements.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 2011

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

Makes technical corrections to the existing New River Improvement Project.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 954(Charles Calderon-D) Water replenishment districts

Requires information in specified engineering survey and reports, 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.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 955(Huber-D) Water quality: onsite sewage treatment systems

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board regulations for onsite water treatment systems to establish standards based on the risk posed by the onsite water treatment systems and meet the requirements of state law.
(In Senate Environmental Quality 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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 964(Huffman-D) Water rights: appropriation

Provides a streamlined mechanism for small irrigation uses, as defined, to obtain a water right from the State Water Resources Control Board by expanding the existing water right registration process to include those uses.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2011

AB 983(Perea-D) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

Makes several changes to the laws governing the state's program for providing grants and loans for safe drinking water projects, including allowing certain disadvantaged communities to be eligible for grants up to 100% of project costs.
Chapter 515, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1025(Skinner-D) Harbors and ports: inland pilots

Makes the following substantive changes to existing provisions of the Harbors and Navigation Code relating to bar pilotage in Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun: (1) modifies the definition of "inland pilot" to mean a person holding an inland pilot license prior to 1/1/11 and deletes all references to inland pilots, (2) requires that the Board of Pilot Commissioner's assistant director be appointed by the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, instead of the Governor, and the assistant director to serve in a career executive assignment at the pleasure of the Secretary, (3) recasts certain provisions relating to violations of safety standards to require the executive director instead of an assigned commission investigator to perform investigations, make findings and recommendations and report to the Board, and (4) authorizes the Board to charge an examination fee, in an amount established by the Board and not to exceed the Board's costs to administer the exam, to each applicant to the pilot trainee training program who participates in any written or simulation examination for the purposes of determining admission to the program.
Chapter 324, Statutes of 2011

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

Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), on or before 7/1/12, to adopt a statewide policy establishing standards for levels of fluoride in recycled water and wastewater, as specified. Requires the SWRCB to provide direction to the regional boards to revise their respective regional water quality control plans to ensure consistency with that statewide policy.
(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.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

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

Limits regulations regarding the operation of public water systems to public water systems with less than 2,500 service connections and would permit the emergency regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of 1/1/16, or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1125(Achadjian-R) Groundwater pollution: San Luis Obispo County

Authorizes San Luis Obispo County and the Los Osos Community Services District to develop discounted rate programs for low-income households.
Chapter 177, Statutes of 2011

AB 1152(Chesbro-D) Groundwater

Allows a groundwater monitoring entity, if given approval by the Department of Water Resources, to use alternative monitoring techniques, such as aerial photographs and remote sensing data, if certain conditions exist that make use of monitoring wells irrelevant or impracticable.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1194(Block-D) Drinking water

Makes a number of changes to the Calderon-Sher Safe Drinking Water Act to conform it to federal law.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2011

AB 1200(Ma-D) Water quality: discharges: sewer systems

Requires a local public agency operating a combined sewer and stormwater system to implement a notification plan to inform the public of a discharge from the system that occurs near a recreational beach, which includes notification at the recreational beach.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 1210*(Garrick-R) Water quality: stormwater discharge: civil engineering

Provides that a licensed civil engineer shall not be required to meet any additional experience, training, or certification requirements in order to perform activities in the preparation of a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan.
Vetoed

AB 1221(Alejo-D) State Water Quality Control Fund: state water pollution

Expands eligibility for funding from the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account (CAA). Allows a not-for-profit organization serving a disadvantaged community to receive funding from the CAA for waste clean-up. The not-for-profit organization will be required to be either controlled by a local public agency or, in the case of a private corporation, have a broadly-based ownership or membership of the people of the local community. Allows California listed tribes to receive funding from the CAA for waste clean-up.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2011

AB 1292(Roger Hernández-D) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: revenue bonds

Authorizes the Department of Public Health to sell revenue bonds to assist drinking water systems in meeting their federal Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund matching fund requirements.
Chapter 518, Statutes of 2011

ACR 20(Huffman-D) Water Awareness Month

Designates May 2011 as Water Awareness Month, and urges Californians to learn effective ways to conserve water.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

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SB 16*(Rubio-D) Department of Fish and Game: renewable energy

Requires the Department of Fish and Game to take steps to expedite the processing of renewable energy permits.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2011

SB 108(Rubio-D) Surface mining: idle mines

Amends the definition of an idle mine by taking a snapshot of a five-year period, rather than the life of the mine, to determine if production has been curtailed to the point where the interim management plan (IMP) requirements should apply. Allows a mining operation that became idle and that failed to get an approved IMP and was thus considered abandoned prior to 1/1/13 to be returned to idle status if an IMP is approved by 7/1/13 and various requirements, as specified, are met.
Chapter 491, Statutes of 2011

SB 152(Pavley-D) Public lands: general leasing law: littoral landowners

Repeals a law that prohibits the State Lands Commission from charging rent for specified private recreational piers constructed for the use of an owner of land adjacent to the shoreline of a lake, river or stream. Requires the State Lands Commission to charge rent for private recreational piers constructed on state lands, as specified. Defines a "recreational pier" to include a fixed facility for the docking or mooring of boats.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2011

SB 164(Simitian-D) Rare and endangered species: tax checkoff

Extends the repeal dates of the check-off on tax returns of the Rare and Endangered Species Preservation Program from 1/1/13 to 1/1/18.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2011

SB 215(Huff-R) Invasive aquatic species: mussels

Extends the sunset of existing provisions that prohibit the possession or importation to the state of dreissenid mussels and give the Department of Fish and Game authority to enforce the prohibition. Extends the sunset from 1/1/12 to 1/1/17.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2011

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.
(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.
Vetoed

SB 369(Evans-D) Dungeness crab

Establishes a Dungeness crab trap limit program, reestablishes the Dungeness crab taskforce, and makes other related changes.
Chapter 335, Statutes of 2011

SB 386*(Harman-R) State parks: proposed closures: public notice

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to post specified information on its Web site prior to closing a state park.
Vetoed

SB 436(Kehoe-D) Natural resources: land use

Authorizes a state or local agency to allow a qualified and approved nonprofit organization or special district to hold property and long-term stewardship funds (i.e., accompanying funds) to mitigate adverse impacts to natural resources caused by a permitted development project.
Chapter 590, Statutes of 2011

SB 470(Evans-D) Commercial fishing: salmon stamp

Extends, for two years, the existing requirement for all persons taking salmon for commercial purposes to purchase a commercial fishing salmon stamp.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2011

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.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

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

Prohibits land acquired for the state park system through public funds or gifts and bequests from being disposed of or used for other purposes incompatible with park purposes without the substitution of other land of equal value, as specified.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife 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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 593(Gaines-R) Tahoe Regional Planning Agency: political reform

Provides that a court shall not invalidate, and the Fair Political Practices Commission shall not seek to invalidate, an action of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) as a remedy for a violation of the requirements of this bill by a California member of the TRPA.
Chapter 152, Statutes of 2011

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, exempts suction dredge mining from the California Environmental Quality Act until 1/1/14. Requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to refund pro-rated fees to 2009 permit holders, and requires DFG to prepare a report containing an economic analysis of the prohibition on suction dredge mining by 1/1/14.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water 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.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

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

Extends the time for bonds to be issued on behalf of the California Insurance Guarantee Association to pay claims of insolvent workers compensation insurers from 1/1/13, to 1/1/23, codifies the uncodified "prospective-only application" provision of last session's SB 1408 (Senate Banking, Finance, and Insurance Committee), Chapter 334, Statutes of 2010, and deletes an erroneous cross-reference.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 752(Berryhill-R) Fish and Game: entitlements: voluntary donations

Requires the Department of Fish and Game to give every person who is issued a hunting or fishing license, or other entitlement, through the Department's Automated License Data System, the opportunity to authorize release of their personal contact information to third party nonprofit conservation organizations.
Vetoed

SB 769*(Fuller-R) Mountain lions: display, exhibition, or storage

Establishes an exemption for the possession of a mountain lion carcass or any part or product of a mountain lion carcass, if the carcass or carcass part or product is prepared or being prepared for display or exhibition, for a bona fide scientific or education purpose, at a nonprofit or government-owned museum generally open to the public or at an educational institution.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2011

SB 792(Steinberg-D) Surface mining: mineral resource management policies

Amends the required contents of mineral management policies that are adopted as part of local general plans, so these plans consider ways to provide access to mineral resources for infrastructure projects.
Chapter 345, Statutes of 2011

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

Declares March 2011 as "Parks Make Life Better!" Month.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 46(Wolk-D) "Parks Make Life Better!" Month

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. Declares July 2011 as "Parks Make Life Better!" Month in California.
Resolution Chapter 44, Statutes of 2011

AB 42(Huffman-D) State parks

Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into operating agreements with qualified nonprofit organizations to operate a state park unit.
Chapter 450, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 95(Assembly Budget Committee) State Parks Reduction Criteria

Enacts the Resources state budget trailer bill of 2011-12 which, among over provisions, provides criteria for determining which units of the State Park System will be closed in order to implement the approved State Parks reductions. Provides liability assurances for parks that are closed, partially closed and those with service reductions.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2011

AB 107(Assembly Budget Committee) Public resources

Contains necessary statutory changes in the area of Natural Resources in order to enact the 2011 Budget Act.
Chapter 134, Statutes of 2011

AB 120(Assembly Budget Committee) Public Resources: Budget Trailer Bill

Provides the necessary statutory changes in the area of Resources in order to enact the 2011 Budget Act.
Chapter 133, Statutes of 2011

AB 376(Fong-D) Shark fins

Makes it unlawful for any person to possess, sell or trade a shark fin.
Chapter 524, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 484(Alejo-D) Natural resources: land use: transfer of management

Clarifies that funds set aside for the long-term management of mitigation lands conveyed to a nonprofit organization may also be conveyed to the nonprofit, and authorizes the nonprofit to hold, manage, invest, and disburse the funds for management and stewardship of the land or easement for which the funds were set aside.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 528(Chesbro-D) Fish and game: steelhead trout

Extends the sunset date and operation of the Steelhead Trout Fishing Report-Restoration Card (Steelhead Card) until 7/1/17.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2011

AB 566(Galgiani-D) Resources: surface mining

Requires the State Mining and Geology Board to provide information on local mineral deposits to local governments and metropolitan planning organizations within 30 days of a request for the information.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2011

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.
(Held at Assembly Desk)

AB 612(Gordon-D) Parks and recreation: districts: repayment of indebtedness

Extends the period of time for the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District's promissory borrowing without voter approval from 20 years to 30 years.
Chapter 104, Statutes of 2011

AB 628(Conway-R) Off-highway vehicle recreation: County of Inyo

Authorizes the County of Inyo to establish a pilot project that sunsets on 1/1/17, under which it may designate segments of its county roads that are greater than three miles in length for combined use by cars and off-highway vehicles.
Chapter 532, Statutes of 2011

AB 654(Hueso-D) Local government: historical property

Changes the requirements and enforcement of historical property preservation contracts.
Chapter 278, Statutes of 2011

AB 666*(Jeffries-R) Public lands: State Public Works Board

Authorizes the State Public Works Board (PWB) to acquire 30 acres of land in Riverside County from the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park District, and requires the PWB to transfer this property to the Department of Toxics Substances Control in conjunction with the Department's management of the Stringfellow Acid Pits Containment Site.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 703*(Gordon-D) Natural resources: property tax exemption

Extends the property tax exemption for specified land acquired by nonprofit organizations for natural resource preservation and open-space purposes until 2022.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2011

AB 742*(Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Surface mining: Indian reservations

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.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 787(Chesbro-D) Marine protected areas: California Native American tribes

Contains findings to the effect that tribal fishing, gathering, and other traditional uses of marine resources are an intrinsic part of the ecosystem and that there is no scientific evidence that these tribal activities have had an adverse effect on marine resources for the north coast area.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 853(Fong-D) Sharks

Requires the Ocean Protection Council to submit an annual report to the Legislature that lists any shark species that have been independently certified to meet internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood, as provided.
Chapter 525, Statutes of 2011

Becomes operative only if AB 376 (Fong-D) is enacted and takes effect on or before 1/1/12.

AB 971(Monning-D) California Sea Otter Fund

Reauthorizes the addition of the California Sea Otter Fund check-off to the personal income tax form beginning with the 2011 tax return.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1036(Allen-D) Parks: regional park, park and open-space

Makes changes to the role of a general manager of a regional park, park and open-space, or open-space district and specifies that the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act applies to all districts.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1077(Carter-D) State parks: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park

Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to notify the State Park and Recreation Commission of any proposed development that may substantially impact the historical, cultural, or recreational significance of the Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, and requires the Commission, upon receipt of that notification to hold a duly noticed public hearing to receive public input regarding the potential impacts of the proposed development on the park.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

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.
(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.
(In Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee)

ACR 10(Dickinson-D) California Arbor Week

Proclaims the week of March 7 to March 14, of each year, as California Arbor Week, and urges California residents to observe the week with appropriate tree planting activities and programs.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2011

ACR 28(Chesbro-D) Earth Hour

Endorses efforts to raise awareness of global climate change and energy efficiency; declares the hour of 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the last Saturday in March to be "Earth Hour" throughout the state; and encourages city, county, and state employees, and businesses to turn off nonessential lights in government buildings, public schools, public landmarks, and other buildings for that hour on 3/26/11.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2011

ACR 55(Skinner-D) Eastshore State Park: renaming

Requests that the Department of Parks and Recreation rename the Eastshore State Park as the McLaughlin Eastshore State Park, and determine the cost of appropriate signage showing this designation, consistent with specified requirements, and, upon the receipt of donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost of that signage, to erect those signs at the park.
Resolution Chapter 80, Statutes of 2011

AJR 16(Campos-D) McDonnell Hall: historic landmark

Memorializes the National Park Service to declare McDonnell Hall a national historic landmark and urges the City of San Jose to similarly designate McDonnell Hall as a historic landmark.
Resolution Chapter 123, Statutes of 2011

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.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

 

 

Index (in Bill Order)

Bill Links Author and Bill Title Reference
SB 16* Rubio-D
Department of Fish and Game: renewable energy

Miscellaneous

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

Water Resources

SB 52 Steinberg-D
Water quality: Sacramento Regional County

Water Resources

SB 108 Rubio-D
Surface mining: idle mines

Miscellaneous

SB 133 Wolk-D
Cache Creek Resource Management Plan

Water Resources

SB 143 Rubio-D
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Air Pollution

SB 152 Pavley-D
Public lands: general leasing law: littoral landowners

Miscellaneous

SB 164 Simitian-D
Rare and endangered species: tax checkoff

Miscellaneous

SB 170 Pavley-D
Air districts: air pollution: intellectual property

Air Pollution

SB 178 Simitian-D
Hazardous materials: green chemistry

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 195 Cannella-R
Environmental quality: CEQA

Environmental Quality

SB 200 Wolk-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Bay Delta Conservation Plan

Water Resources

SB 211 Emmerson-R
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: tires

Air Pollution

SB 215 Huff-R
Invasive aquatic species: mussels

Water Resources

Miscellaneous

SB 224 Pavley-D
Department of Water Resources: public contracts:

Water Resources

SB 225* Simitian-D
Pollution control

Environmental Quality

Water Resources

SB 226 Simitian-D
Environmental quality: scoping procedure

Environmental Quality

SB 235 Negrete McLeod-D
Water conservation districts

Water Resources

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

Air Pollution

SB 241 Cannella-R
Environmental quality

Environmental Quality

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

Air Pollution

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

Water Resources

SB 263 Pavley-D
Wells: reports: public availability

Water Resources

SB 267* Rubio-D
Water supply planning: renewable energy plants

Water Resources

SB 292 Padilla-D
Environmental quality: Los Angeles stadium

Environmental Quality

SB 297 Cannella-R
Hydroelectric generation: renewable energy resources

Water Resources

SB 317 Rubio-D
Kings River Fisheries Management Program

Water Resources

Miscellaneous

SB 356 Blakeslee-R
State parks: local operating agreements

Miscellaneous

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

Air Pollution

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

Air Pollution

SB 369 Evans-D
Dungeness crab

Miscellaneous

SB 386* Harman-R
State parks: proposed closures: public notice

Miscellaneous

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

Solid Waste

SB 436 Kehoe-D
Natural resources: land use

Miscellaneous

SB 455 Pavley-D
Forestry: watersheds: timber harvesting plans

Forestry

SB 456 Huff-R
Household hazardous waste: transportation

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 468 Kehoe-D
Coastal zone: Caltrans

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

SB 470 Evans-D
Commercial fishing: salmon stamp

Miscellaneous

SB 482 Kehoe-D
Public beach contamination: standards: testing: closing

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

Water Resources

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

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

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

Miscellaneous

SB 515 Corbett-D
Recycling: household batteries

Solid Waste

SB 518 Simitian-D
Beverage containers: recycling

Solid Waste

SB 519 La Malfa-R
Smog check: visual inspection

Air Pollution

SB 533 Wright-D
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006

Air Pollution

SB 535 De León-D
California Communities Healthy Air Revitalization Trust

Air Pollution

SB 551 DeSaulnier-D
Tidelands transfer: City of Pittsburg

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

SB 567 DeSaulnier-D
Plastic products: recycling

Solid Waste

SB 568 Lowenthal-D
Recycling: polystyrene food containers

Solid Waste

SB 570 Rubio-D
San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District

Air Pollution

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

Water Resources

SB 577 Gaines-R
Bear Lake Reservoir: recreational use

Water Resources

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

Miscellaneous

SB 582 Yee-D
Air quality: commute benefit policies

Air Pollution

SB 584 Evans-D
Oil spill prevention and administrative fee

Miscellaneous

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

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

SB 589 Lowenthal-D
Household mercury-containing lamps

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 593 Gaines-R
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency: political reform

Miscellaneous

SB 595 Wolk-D
Tidelands and submerged lands: removal of vessels

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

SB 607 Walters-R
State Ocean Plan: water quality

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

Water Resources

SB 620 Correa-D
Environmental quality: retail facilities

Environmental Quality

SB 623 Kehoe-D
Marine antifouling paint

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

Water Resources

SB 639 Cannella-R
Environmental Protection Agency: regulations

Environmental Quality

SB 646 Pavley-D
Toxics: enforcement: lead jewelry

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 657* Gaines-R
Vacuum or suction dredge equipment

Miscellaneous

SB 659 Hernandez-D
San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority: board members

Water Resources

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

Water Resources

SB 669 Rubio-D
Greenhouse gas reduction: carbon sequestration

Air Pollution

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

Water Resources

SB 683 Correa-D
Environmental quality: noncompliance allegations

Environmental Quality

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

Miscellaneous

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

Water Resources

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

Water Resources

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

Miscellaneous

SB 724 Dutton-R
Air Resources Board: mobile source certification

Air Pollution

SB 735 Price-D
Environmental quality

Environmental Quality

SB 739 Lowenthal-D
Air pollution mitigation: ports: congestion relief

Air Pollution

SB 744 Wyland-R
Water submeters: testing

Water Resources

SB 752 Berryhill-R
Fish and Game: entitlements: voluntary donations

Miscellaneous

SB 758 Fuller-R
Recycling: tires: fee

Solid Waste

SB 763 Steinberg-D
Environmental protection

Environmental Quality

SB 769* Fuller-R
Mountain lions: display, exhibition, or storage

Miscellaneous

SB 792 Steinberg-D
Surface mining: mineral resource management policies

Miscellaneous

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

Air Pollution

SB 833 Vargas-D
Solid waste landfill: San Diego County

Solid Waste

SB 834 Wolk-D
Integrated regional water management plans: contents

Water Resources

SB 841 Wolk-D
Solid waste: enterprises: contracts

Solid Waste

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

Water Resources

SB 860 Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee
Tidelands and submerged lands: public trust lands

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

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

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

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

Water Resources

SB 900 Steinberg-D
California regional water quality control boards: members

Water Resources

SB 901 Steinberg-D
Air pollution: vehicle retirement program

Air Pollution

SB 909 La Malfa-R
Disposal of treated wood waste

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 915 Calderon-D
Recycling of plastic bags

Solid Waste

SB 918 Anderson-R
Mutual water companies: boards of directors

Water Resources

SB 935* Senate Environmental Quality Committee
Ballast water

Water Resources

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

Miscellaneous

SCR 46 Wolk-D
"Parks Make Life Better!" Month

Miscellaneous

SJR 3 Pavley-D
Toxic substances: federal law

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

SB 7X1 Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee
State responsibility areas: fire protection fees

Forestry

SB 17X1 Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee
State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees

Forestry

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

Water Resources

AB 34 Williams-D
Solid waste compost facilities

Solid Waste

AB 42 Huffman-D
State parks

Miscellaneous

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

Environmental Quality

AB 54 Solorio-D
Drinking water

Water Resources

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

Miscellaneous

AB 83 Jeffries-R
Environmental quality: exemption

Environmental Quality

Water Resources

AB 95 Assembly Budget Committee
Resources: 2011-2012 Budget Trailer Bill

Water Resources

Miscellaneous

AB 107 Assembly Budget Committee
Public resources

Miscellaneous

AB 120 Assembly Budget Committee
Public resources: Budget Trailer Bill

Environmental Quality

Water Resources Miscellaneous

AB 128 Logue-R
Air Resources Board: assessing penalties
Air Pollution
AB 134 Dickinson-D
Sacramento County Regional Sanitation District

Water Resources

AB 135 Hagman-R
Air Resources Board: membership: small businesses

Air Pollution

AB 146 Dickinson-D
Air Resources Board: membership
Air Pollution
AB 157 Jeffries-R
Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Water Resources
AB 163 Jeffries-R
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: employment
Forestry
AB 206 Harkey-R
Coastal zone: fireworks displays
Coastal Resources/Tidelands
AB 209 Ammiano-D
Environmental quality
Environmental Quality
AB 246 Wieckowski-D
Water quality: enforcement
Water Resources
AB 255 Wieckowski-D
Hazardous waste: latex paint
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 262 Harkey-R
California regional water quality control boards: boundaries
Water Resources
AB 275 Solorio-D
Rainwater Capture Act of 2011
Water Resources
AB 291 Wieckowski-D
Underground storage tanks
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 298 Brownley-D
Recycling: reusable bags
Solid Waste
AB 320 Hill-D
Environmental quality disputes
Environmental Quality
AB 333* Grove-R
CA Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: cap and trade
Air Pollution
AB 337 Monning-D
Ocean resources: Ocean Protection Council
Coastal Resources/Tidelands Water Resources
AB 341 Chesbro-D
Solid waste: diversion
Solid Waste
AB 343 Atkins-D
Environmental goals: redevelopment plans
Environmental Quality
AB 347 Galgiani-D
CA Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: early actions
Air Pollution
AB 358* Smyth-R
Hazardous waste: underground storage tanks
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 359 Huffman-D
Groundwater management plans
Water Resources
AB 376 Fong-D
Shark fins
Miscellaneous
AB 380 Chesbro-D
Forestry operations: watersheds

Forestry

Water Resources

AB 382 Nestande-R
Air inspectors: administrative and civil penalties
Air Pollution
AB 384 Chesbro-D
State forest land: Jackson Demonstration State Forest
Forestry
AB 403 Campos-D
Public drinking water standards: hexavalent chromium
Water Resources
AB 408* Wieckowski-D
Hazardous waste
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 418 Ammiano-D
Tidelands and submerged lands: San Francisco
Coastal Resources/Tidelands
AB 442 Silva-R
Public lands: lease
Miscellaneous
AB 462 Bonnie Lowenthal-D
Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbuses
Air Pollution
AB 467 Eng-D
Water quality
Water Resources
AB 470 Halderman-R
Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits
Air Pollution
AB 474 Jones-R
Smog-check: vehicles: transfer of ownership
Air Pollution
AB 480 Solorio-D
Solid waste facilities: insurance
Solid Waste
AB 484 Alejo-D
Natural resources: land use: transfer of management
Miscellaneous
AB 494* Logue-R
Sacramento River: alcoholic beverages
Water Resources
AB 495 Logue-R
Harts Mill Forest Fire Station: state property: transfer
Forestry
AB 508 Swanson-D
Solid waste handling
Solid Waste
AB 523 Valadao-R
Ethanol: Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Technology
Air Pollution
AB 525 Gordon-D
Solid waste: tires and paint
Solid Waste
AB 528 Chesbro-D
Fish and game: steelhead trout
Miscellaneous
AB 549 Carter-D
Electronic waste: recycling
Solid Waste
AB 550 Huber-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: peripheral canal
Water Resources
AB 553 Monning-D
Hazardous materials: employment safety
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 561 Gorell-R
Ventura County Watershed Protection District: indebtedness
Water Resources
AB 565 Monning-D
State Coastal Conservancy

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

Water Resources

AB 566 Galgiani-D
Resources: surface mining
Miscellaneous
AB 576 Dickinson-D
Delta Stewardship Council: financing
Water Resources
AB 583 Knight-R
Electronic waste
Solid Waste
AB 591 Wieckowski-D
Hydraulic fracturing: oil and gas production
Water Resources
AB 598 Grove-R
Environmental quality
Environmental Quality
AB 603 V. Manuel Pérez-D
Environmental impact reports: energy
Environmental Quality
AB 605 Dickinson-D
Environmental quality: transportation impacts
Environmental Quality
AB 606 Gatto-D
Hunting and fishing
Miscellaneous
AB 612 Gordon-D
Parks and recreation: districts: repayment of indebtedness
Miscellaneous
AB 627 Bill Berryhill-R
State Water Resources Development System: Delta Corridors
Water Resources
AB 628 Conway-R
Off-highway vehicle recreation: County of Inyo
Miscellaneous
AB 640 Logue-R
Water discharges: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Water Resources
AB 654 Hueso-D
Local government: historical property
Miscellaneous
AB 666* Jeffries-R
Toxics: acid pit containment: Riverside County

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

Miscellaneous

AB 681 Wieckowski-D
Aboveground storage tanks
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 685 Eng-D
State water policy: regional water management planning
Water Resources
AB 703* Gordon-D
Natural resources: property tax exemption
Miscellaneous
AB 712 Williams-D
Recycling: beverage containers
Solid Waste
AB 741 Huffman-D
Onsite wastewater disposal
Water Resources
AB 742* Bonnie Lowenthal-D
Surface mining: Indian reservations
Miscellaneous
AB 752 Brownley-D
Tidelands and submerged lands: sea level action plan
Coastal Resources/Tidelands
AB 762 Smyth-R
Medical waste
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 763 Bill Berryhill-R
Water rights: administrative procedures
Water Resources
AB 779 Fletcher-R
Municipal water districts: oversight
Water Resources
AB 787 Chesbro-D
Marine protected areas: California Native American tribes
Miscellaneous
AB 789 Chesbro-D
Solid waste: tire recycling
Solid Waste
AB 812 Ma-D
Solid waste: recycled concrete and asphalt
Solid Waste
AB 818 Blumenfield-D
Solid waste: renters recycling program
Solid Waste
AB 837 Nestande-R
Solid waste: plastic food containers
Solid Waste
AB 849 Gatto-D
Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards
Water Resources
AB 853 Fong-D
Sharks
Miscellaneous
AB 868 Davis-D
Hazardous waste: transporting
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 880 V. Manuel Pérez-D
Environmental quality: expedited environmental review
Environmental Quality
AB 890 Olsen-R
Environment quality: roadway improvement
Environmental Quality
AB 892 Carter-D
Environmental review process
Environmental Quality
AB 900 Buchanan-D
Environmental quality: jobs and economic development
Environmental Quality
AB 903 Bill Berryhill-R
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: dredging
Water Resources
AB 907 Ma-D
Harbors and ports: Bays of Monterey and San Francisco
Water Resources
AB 913 Feuer-D
Hazardous waste: source reduction
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 921 Allen-D
Solid waste: compost products

Solid Waste

Water Resources

AB 931 Dickinson-D
Environmental quality: housing projects
Environmental Quality
AB 937 Mendoza-D
Emission reduction control: vessels
Air Pollution
AB 938 V. Manuel Pérez-D
Public water systems
Water Resources
AB 939 V. Manuel Pérez-D
Salton Sea restoration
Water Resources
AB 954 Charles Calderon-D
Water replenishment districts
Water Resources
AB 955 Huber-D
Water quality: onsite sewage treatment systems
Water Resources
AB 960 Bonnie Lowenthal-D
Electronic waste: recycling
Solid Waste
AB 963 Valadao-R
Safe drinking water: contaminated groundwater
Water Resources
AB 964 Huffman-D
Water rights: appropriation
Water Resources
AB 971 Monning-D
California Sea Otter Fund
Miscellaneous
AB 977 Harkey-R
Harbors and ports: loans: OC Dana Point Harbor
Miscellaneous
AB 981 Hueso-D
California Pollution Control Financing Authority: loans
Air Pollution
AB 983 Perea-D
Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Water Resources
AB 992 Nielsen-R
Wildfires
Forestry
AB 995 Cedillo-D
Environmental quality: forest development
Environmental Quality
AB 1002 Butler-D
California Water Plan: stormwater recovery
Water Resources
AB 1005 Dickinson-D
Coastal Commission: forest practices

Coastal Resources/Tidelands

Forestry

AB 1019* John A. Pérez-D
Solid waste: carpet stewardship
Solid Waste
AB 1025 Skinner-D
Harbors and ports: inland pilots
Water Resources
AB 1036 Allen-D
Parks: regional park, park and open-space
Miscellaneous
AB 1046 Bill Berryhill-R
Hunting or taking game
Miscellaneous
AB 1048 Harkey-R
Water quality: recycled water and wastewater: fluoride
Water Resources
AB 1058 Smyth-R
Water quality: salinity: agricultural use
Water Resources
AB 1064 Furutani-D
Air quality: ports
Air Pollution
AB 1077 Carter-D
State parks: Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park
Miscellaneous
AB 1094 Swanson-D
Recycling and composting bins: school campuses
Solid Waste
AB 1095 Bill Berryhill-R
Air pollution: hearing board: Air Resources Board
Air Pollution
AB 1099 Bonnie Lowenthal-D
Emissions standards: commercial motor vehicles
Air Pollution
AB 1109 Chesbro-D
Drinking water: point-of-use devices
Water Resources
AB 1112 Huffman-D
Oil spill prevention
Environmental Quality
AB 1125 Achadjian-R
Groundwater pollution: San Luis Obispo County
Water Resources
AB 1149 Gordon-D
Recycling: beverage containers
Solid Waste
AB 1152 Chesbro-D
Groundwater
Water Resources
AB 1162 Chesbro-D
Wildlife: poaching
Miscellaneous
AB 1176 Williams-D
Toxic air contaminant: pesticides

Air Pollution

Toxics/Hazardous Waste

AB 1178 Ma-D
Solid waste: place of origin
Solid Waste
AB 1180 Bradford-D
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: compliance
Air Pollution
AB 1183 Bill Berryhill-R
Environmental impact reports: jobs and housing
Environmental Quality
AB 1185 Torres-D
Environmental quality: retail facilities
Environmental Quality
AB 1187 Fong-D
California Water Plan: safe drinking water
Water Resources
AB 1189 Miller-R
Household batteries recycling program
Solid Waste
AB 1194 Block-D
Drinking water
Water Resources
AB 1200 Ma-D
Water quality: discharges: sewer systems
Water Resources
AB 1207 Furutani-D
Hazardous waste/toxics: civil actions
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 1210* Garrick-R
Water quality: stormwater discharge: civil engineering
Water Resources
AB 1221 Alejo-D
State Water Quality Control Fund: state water pollution
Water Resources
AB 1229 Feuer-D
Air quality funds
Air Pollution
AB 1235* Roger Hernández-D
Hazardous substance removal: redevelopment agencies
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 1256 Bill Berryhill-R
Air Resources Board: transported air pollutants
Air Pollution
AB 1285 Fuentes-D
Regional greenhouse gas emission reduction program
Air Pollution
AB 1292 Roger Hernández-D
Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: revenue bonds
Water Resources
AB 1299 Huffman-D
Marine fisheries: forage species
Miscellaneous
AB 1314 Wieckowski-D
Air resources: Alternative and Renewable Fuel
Air Pollution
AB 1332 Donnelly-R
Air Resources Board: abolishment
Air Pollution
AB 1333 Achadjian-R
State parks
Miscellaneous
AB 1351 Logue-R
Underground storage tanks
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
AB 1359 Skinner-D
Solid waste: landfills
Solid Waste
AB 1380 Feuer-D
California Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Quality
AB 1414 Assembly Natural Resources Committee
Forestry: timber harvesting
Forestry
ACR 10 Dickinson-D
California Arbor Week
Miscellaneous
ACR 20 Huffman-D
Water Awareness Month
Water Resources
ACR 28 Chesbro-D
Earth Hour
Miscellaneous
ACR 55 Skinner-D
Eastshore State Park: renaming
Miscellaneous
AJR 16 Campos-D
McDonnell Hall: historic landmark
Miscellaneous
AJR 20 Huffman-D
Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary
Miscellaneous
AB 2X1 Logue-R
Air Resources Board: alternative actions to assessing
Air Pollution
AB 13X1 V. Manuel Pérez-D
Environmental impact reports
Environmental Quality
AB 24X1 Blumenfield-D
State responsibility areas: fire protection fees
Forestry
AB 29X1 Blumenfield-D
State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees
Forestry
AB 42X1 Jeffries-R
Fire suppression: state prison inmate fire crews
Forestry
AB 45X1 Jeffries-R
State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees
Forestry