Agriculture and Water Resources
Farm Labor
Pests and Pesticides
General Agriculture
Water Resources
Farm Labor
SB 477 (Florez-D) Housing: farm labor strategy
Requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop a strategy for the development of farm labor housing and to establish a task force to assist in the development of the strategy. Requires HCD to report to the Legislature by July 1, 2004, on its strategy.
(Died in Senate Housing and Community Development Committee)
SB 800 (Florez-D) Farm labor contractors: toll-free number: directory
Among other things, directs the State Department of Industrial Relations to establish a toll-free number so that alleged illegal actions by the farm labor contractors can be anonymously reported.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 1102* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Migrant services programs
Used as a omnibus general government budget trailer bill covering a variety of state government issues as it relates to farm labor, including allowing the State Department of Housing and Community Development to expend $1.4 million from the funds provided from the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2002 (Proposition 46) for the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Fund. This funding will support the repair, rehabilitation and replacement of equipment at the various state-owned migrant centers. Restricts state-owned farmworker housing rental rates so that they cannot exceed 30 percent of the average farmworker household income without specific legislative authorization.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004
SB 1901 (Alarcon-D) Safety in employment: grape tasting
Prohibits agricultural employers from requiring non-supervisory farm workers to taste-test table grapes in the field or prior to processing. Supervisors will be permitted to taste-test under specified circumstances.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1X* (Poochigian-R) State economy: suspension of statutes
Provides that various statutes enacted in the 2001-02 Regular Session of the Legislature, relating to workers' compensation, labor standards, and agricultural labor relations, shall not become operative until the date the Governor issues a proclamation declaring that the California economy has fully recovered from the recession that began in 2000.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 32 (Salinas-D) Housing: farmworker housing
Authorizes local public agencies or nonprofit organizations that construct farmworker housing using public funds to lease that housing to agricultural employers who agree to rent the housing units to their employees on the same terms as would the local entity. Extends the authority of the State Department of Housing and Community Development to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a nonprofit corporation to administer the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Family Wellness Program through January 1, 2008.
Chapter 866, Statutes of 2004
AB 339* (Aghazarian-R) Farmworker housing tax credits
Revises and recasts the existing tax credit for farmworker housing under the provisions providing for the credit for low-income housing, thereby allowing a credit for the entire amount of eligible costs for constructing or rehabilitating farmworker housing.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 363* (Garcia-R) Income and corporation tax credits: health care
Among other things, authorizes a tax credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2004, for qualified taxpayers who provide health care coverage for their agricultural employees and their dependents.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 868 (Parra-D) Migrant farm labor centers
Requires that existing notices to migrant farmworkers regarding the extended operation of a migrant housing center include the beginning date of the extended occupancy period and that occupants and operators of migrant housing shall be eligible for specific energy rate or grant programs.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2004
AB 1462 (Salinas-D) Farmworker housing
Allows the State Department of Housing and Community Development to waive part of the matching fund requirement for grants or loans of not more than $500,000 under the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, under specified conditions.
Chapter 672, Statutes of 2004
AB 1722 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) State Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Requires the Governor to appoint to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) two legal advisors for each board member upon recommendation of that board member, to serve at the pleasure of the recommending board member and to receive a salary to be fixed by the ALRB with the approval of the State Department of Personnel Administration.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
ACR 213 (Wiggins-D) Filipino farmworkers
Recognizes the contributions made by Filipino labor leaders and farmworkers to the farmworker movement over the past 80 years in California and the United States.
Resolution Chapter 159, Statutes of 2004
Pests and Pesticides
SB 391 (Florez-D) Pesticide drift exposure
Makes any person found to have violated specified provisions of the Food and Agriculture Code related to pesticides liable for uncompensated medical costs related to an illness or injury caused in a non-occupational setting.
Chapter 913, Statutes of 2004
SB 925 (McPherson-R) Invasive species
Extends the submission deadline for the Interagency Aquatic Invasive Species Council to submit its plan on invasive species to the Legislature from January 1, 2004 to March 1, 2004.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1107* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State Department of Pesticide Regulation: local subventions
Used as a budget trailer bill covering environmental issues and environmental protection departments in state government. Provisions relating to this subject consolidate the State Department of Pesticides Regulation's local assistance funding for restricted materials use permits with the department's other local assistance pesticide enforcement grants and subventions. This action does not impact on the activities supported by these funds.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2004 - Item Veto
SB 1166 (Chesbro-D) Pest control: Pierce's disease
Eliminates the obsolete competitive grant program for Pierce's disease (PD) research, and extends the sunset for the PD advisory task force from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2010.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1545 (Karnette-D) Mosquito abatement
Appropriates $750,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Fish and Game to carry out the provisions of AB 1982 (Wolk-D), which requires that habitat management work plans for State Wildlife Areas include an element that incorporates Best Management Practices to minimize mosquito production while maintaining targeted wetland values and functions. Provides that this bill will only go into effect if AB 1982 (Wolk-D) is chaptered and goes into effect in 2004.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2004
SB 1604* (Ashburn-R) Pest control: Pierce's disease
Renames the Table Grape Pest and Disease Control District Law, broadens the scope of the district's focus to include pests and diseases other than the glassy-winged sharpshooter and Pierce's disease, changes the requirements for the formation and assessment powers of a Table Grape Pest and Disease District, recasts provisions allowing an owner to be exempted from a district, and makes other technical and conforming changes.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2004
Similar legislation was SB 1650* (Chesbro-D), Chapter 485, Statutes of 2004.
SB 1650* (Chesbro-D) Pest control: Pierce's disease
Extends the sunset date to March 1, 2011, for the Pierce's Disease Control Program (PDCP), the Pierce's Disease Management Account, and the Pierce's Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board, adds a referendum process to allow producers and processors to vote on future PDCP activities and assessments, requires the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to administer the referendum as specified, and makes technical changes.
Chapter 485, Statutes of 2004
Similar legislation was SB 1604* (Ashburn-R), Chapter 400, Statutes of 2004.
SB 1888 (Florez-D) Pesticide poisoning: EMS training
Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to consult with the Emergency Medical Services Authority regarding the adequacy of emergency services personnel training concerning pesticide poisoning.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SCR 73 (Battin-R) Mosquito & Vector Control & West Nile Virus Awareness Week
Declares May 3 through May 9, 2004, as Mosquito and Vector Control and West Nile Virus Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2004
AB 1006 (Chu-D) The Healthy Schools Act of 2003
Prohibits all public schools from using the most highly toxic pesticides, as listed, on school property. Provides that its provisions do not apply to antimicrobial pesticide, products deployed in self-contained bait or trap or as a crack and crevice treatment, or activities undertaken by participants in agricultural vocational education, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 1076 (Maldonado-R) Regulations: low volume pesticide applications
Requires the Director of the State Department of Pesticide Regulation to adopt regulations regarding low volume pesticide applications, as defined, pursuant to federal laws, regulations, and opinions on the subject.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1406 (Wolk-D) Mosquito abatement: West Nile Virus
Creates, until January 1, 2007, the West Nile Virus Disease Control and Demonstration Program administered by the State Department of Fish and Game to reduce mosquito production from early and late flooding of privately-owned wetlands in the Central Valley.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1725 (Matthews-D) Structural pest control: violations
Provides for administrative fines of up to $5,000 for any violation of the laws governing structural pest control licensees, creates new deadlines for parties to appeal suspensions or fines, and clarifies that structural pest control operators may perform repairs allowed within the scope of their license.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2004
AB 1926 (Bermudez-D) Trapping licenses: exemptions
Exempts licensed structural pest control operators or licensed or certified agricultural pest control advisers, who are operating under the scope of their license or certification, from the trapping license requirement in the Fish and Game Code.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1982 (Wolk-D) Wildlife management areas: mosquito abatement
Requires the State Department of Fish and Game to coordinate with local mosquito abatement districts to reduce mosquito populations and maintain wildlife habitat values in specified wildlife areas in the northern portion of the Central Valley, and sunsets in five years.
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2004
AB 2072 (Wyland-R) Vessels: prohibited activities: Caulerpa Taxifolia
Requires the Director of the State Department of Fish and Game, or his or her designee, to inform the State Department of Boating and Waterways regarding the date on which Caulerpa Taxifolia has been eradicated from Agua Hedionda Lagoon, and makes other related changes.
Chapter 501, Statutes of 2004
Similar legislation was AB 2073 (Wyland-R), which died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.
AB 3028 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Pesticide mill assessment
Requires the State Department of Pesticide Regulation to investigate and determine how well sellers and distributors of pesticides are complying with reporting and payment requirements related to the pesticide mill assessment, and to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2006.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
General Agriculture
SB 486 (Machado-D) Agriculture: State Department of Food and Agriculture Fund
Authorizes the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA) to hold up to $200,000 of a specified $1 million annual appropriation until the fourth quarter of the fiscal year for small emergency projects and authorizes DFA to submit a deficiency request for major emergency projects, even if DFA still has the $200,000 reserve.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 506 (Sher-D) Pharmaceuticals for food producing animals
Requires the State Board of Pharmacy to collect certain information from wholesalers and manufacturers of specified drugs and devices used for food producing animals beginning on January 1, 2006, and to notify the public that such information is available. Requires the State Department of Food and Agriculture to collect certain information from wholesalers and manufacturers of specified drugs and devices used for food producing animals beginning on January 1, 2006, and to notify the public that such information is available.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 603 (Speier-D) Dairy products
Establishes a Consumer Dairy Price Program within the State Department of Food and Agriculture for reporting the retail price of milk, butter, and solid cheese.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 622 (Morrow-R) Agriculture disasters: deductions for net operating losses
Requires the standardized emergency management system to include in its framework for responding to and managing emergencies the guidance document developed as part of the state emergency plan that specifies the response of the state and its political subdivisions to agriculture related disasters. Allows deduction for up to 15 years for 100 percent of any net operating loss that is incurred in San Diego County by an agriculture related trade or business, attributable to the Mexican fruit fly quarantine and those not covered by insurance.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 643 (Aanestad-R) Agricultural Land Protection Act
Enacts the Agricultural Land Protection Act which requires any land designated for habitat and conservation purposes to be maintained in a manner that prevents impacts to adjacent agricultural land, and makes the public liable for "damage attributed to wildlife that becomes an economic problem."
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)
SB 658 (Florez-D) Producer's liens
Removes the restriction requiring the farm product or processed form to be in the possession of the processor in order for a lien to be attached.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 702 (Florez-D) Medium weight farm equipment
Exempts from the cost-effectiveness criteria under the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program for the provision of grants to offset incremental costs of projects that reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen from covered sources any project involving medium-weight farm equipment, as determined by the State Air Resources Control Board.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 934 (Machado-D) Farmers' markets: nonprofit agricultural cooperatives
Authorizes farmers who are producer members of nonprofit agricultural cooperatives to transport California-grown fresh fruits and vegetables to a retail outlet operated by the nonprofit agricultural cooperative, as specified. Extends the authority given to the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to regulate retail outlets operated by nonprofit agricultural cooperatives, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1026 (Machado-D) Milk
Creates the Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch within the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), and provides that the division within DFA formerly known as the Milk and Dairy Foods Control Branch shall be renamed the Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 1036 (Machado-D) Milk: forward price contract
Requires the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to establish, by April 1, 2004, a pilot program authorizing milk producers and cooperative associations to voluntarily enter into forward price contracts with milk handlers, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1107* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State Budget Act of 1004: resources
Used as a budget trailer bill relating to various natural resources and environmental protection departments and programs in order to implement the Budget Act of 2004. Specifically, it establishes a new dairy water quality program at the State Water Resources Control Board to provide grants to dairy operations to assist dairy farms in making improvements to reduce water pollution from dairy operations.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2004 - Item Veto
SB 1134 (Chesbro-D) Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants
Extends, until 2008, the provisions of existing law which authorizes the Labor Commissioner to permit agricultural packing plants in Lake County to employ minors up to 60 hours per week.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2004
SB 1261 (Vasconcellos-D) International relations
Among other provisions, provides that the State Department of Food and Agriculture is the primary state agency for the promotion of California agricultural, fish, and forest exports, and for the administration of federal-state export programs for these products.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1518 (Poochigian-R) Agricultural policy
Adds principles relating to food safety, economic and infrastructure development, and the protection of the state from pests and diseases to the state's agricultural policy.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 1732 (Hollingsworth-R) Dairy: environmental quality
Creates, within the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), a California Dairy Farmer Environmental Enhancement Program for the purpose of adding to the protection of this state's resources, including, but not limited to, surface and groundwater, air and air quality, and animal and fish habitat, by providing on-farm dairy environmental enhancement. Creates the California Dairy Farmer Environmental Enhancement Program Fund Account within the DFA Fund to be expended pursuant to the program.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1820 (Machado-D) Land conservation contracts
Creates a procedure for formally reviewing the county assessor's determination of the current unrestricted fair market value and thereby affecting the calculation of the amount of the cancellation fee, of land subject to a Williamson Act contract that is proposed for cancellation.
Chapter 794, Statutes of 2004
SB 1826 (Poochigian-R) Dead animals
Clarifies existing law to ensure that commercial dead animal haulers are property disposing of dead animals.
Chapter 187, Statutes of 2004
SB 1840* (Denham-R) Diseased animals: bovine tuberculosis
Makes changes to state law applicable to the control of bovine tuberculosis to conform to changes recently made to federal regulations and standards governing the disease. In particular, this bill transfers several bovine tuberculosis related powers from the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to the State Veterinarian.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2004
SB 1910 (Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee) Agriculture: fruit, nut, and vegetable standards
Extends the sunset, from January 1, 2005, to January 1, 2010, on the industry funded standardization program for fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2004
SB 1911 (Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee) Milk: handlers: surety bonds
Clarifies that manufacturing milk handlers, as well as handlers that operate only one plant within the state, shall obtain a surety bond based upon the amount of milk purchased during a calendar year during which the handler was licensed.
Chapter 70, Statutes of 2004
AB 105* (Wiggins-D) Agriculture and Water Omnibus Act of 2003
Repeals the California Environmental Quality Improvement Revolving Loan Program, repeals the Coastal Farmland Preservation Program, and declares the Legislature's intent to appropriate a total of $48 million of Proposition 40 bond funds to both the State Department of Conservation for grants under the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act and the Wildlife Conservation Board for the purposes of protecting grazing lands and grasslands. Also provides, among other things, certain specified local agencies with safe drinking water grants funded through the California Safe Drinking Water Fund.
Chapter 497, Statutes of 2004
AB 288* (Aghazarian-R) Taxation: agriculture: irrigation
Provides for an election to expense as a deduction any costs paid or incurred for the construction or purchase of water filter systems and equipment used to prevent contaminated agricultural water from entering public waterways or underground aquifers.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 329 (Parra-D) Animal nutrition
Establishes a licensure program for ruminant nutritionists, authorizes the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to adopt regulations to implement the program by 2005, and provides that a portion of tonnage tax is to be used for research and education regarding commercial feed.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 347* (Kehoe-D) District agricultural associations
Authorizes the Board of Directors of the 22nd District Agricultural Association (Del Mar Fair) to approve a recruitment and retention differential for exempt and excluded employees up to 35 percent.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 387 (Aghazarian-R) Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories
Exempts farmers with small amounts of certain hazardous materials on the farm from provisions that require businesses handling hazardous materials to implement an emergency plan to respond to a release or threatened release of any of those materials.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 732 (Hancock-D) Crimes
Creates a crime for confining a pregnant pig or a calf in an enclosure or tethering them on a farm in a specified manner, or feeding a calf a type of diet causing anemia or impairing the development of their rumen.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 869 (Parra-D) Food and agriculture violations
Allows the State Department of Food and Agriculture or individual county agricultural commissioners to levy, in lieu of civil prosecution, a civil penalty against persons who violate provisions related to fruit, nut or vegetable standards.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 989* (La Malfa-R) Tax credit: rice straw
Eliminates the existing limit ($400,000) on the cumulative amount of this tax credit.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1071 (Matthews-D) Commercial feed: inspection tonnage tax
Expands the use of commercial feed inspection funds to include research and education until 2010; extends the sunsets to 2011 for the licensing of renderers and collection centers and the registration of transporters of inedible kitchen grease and collection centers; permits the use of rendered products in accordance with the United States Food and Drug Administration rules and regulations; and, requires a registrant to notify a county health officer when a contract is terminated or expires.
Chapter 929, Statutes of 2004
AB 1672 (Cogdill-R) Emission reduction credits
Authorizes emission reduction credits for the diversion, to an alternative end use, of certain agricultural material from the annual inventory of burn acreage of an air pollution control district or an air quality management district.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1726 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agriculture: certified farmers' markets
Imposes a late charge for failure to pay required fees and extends the sunset for both the fee and civil penalty authorities until January 1, 2007, pertaining to Certified Farmers Markets.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2004
AB 1809 (La Malfa-R) Commercial motor vehicle: weight fee exclusion
Reduces annual vehicle weight fees imposed by the State Department of Motor Vehicles on flatbed trucks used for agricultural operations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1896* (Jerome Horton-D) Agricultural inspectors
Prohibits the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA) from entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class unless the agricultural inspector aides are afforded permanent status in the following manner based upon those employed during 2003-04: for 2004-05 at least 33 percent; for 2005-06 and 2006-07 at least 66 percent. Appropriates $380,000 from the state General Fund to DFA directing those funds to Los Angeles County cooperative agreement for pest detection and inspection.
Chapter 631, Statutes of 2004
AB 2054 (Wolk-D) Biologically integrated farming systems: pilot projects
Extends, from December 31, 2005 to December 31, 2010, the time period during which the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program is authorized to provide grant funds for new pilot on-farm demonstration projects of integrated biological and cultural pest control techniques.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2004
AB 2055 (Wolk-D) General plan elements
Renames the open space element of a general plan as the agricultural and open space element, and amends the Planning and Zoning Law provisions for the conservation and agricultural and open space elements of the general plan in order to encourage the preservation of agricultural land and production and the protection and sustainable use of open space resources.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2063* (Negrete McLeod-D) Resource conservation: Chino Agricultural Preserve
Authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with Proposition 70 bond funds, provided the County meets the conditions required under that act for the sale and meets specified conditions.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2004
AB 2074 (Runner-R) Fairs: report
Changes the date required for all fairs, to be considered for state assistance, to file their statement of operations to the State Department of Food and Agriculture from January 20 to within 90 days of their fiscal year-end, and deletes a redundant code section.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2004
AB 2257 (Salinas-D) The California Pepper Commission
Provides that for the California Pepper Commission (Commission) a marketing year begins in March and ends in February of the following year. Authorizes the Commission to re-establish district boundaries by a two-thirds vote in order to ensure proper representation, eliminates provisions relative to the three-year term of office for each member, permits the tonnage threshold for a producer and handler to be increased by a two-thirds vote of the Commission, and conversely decreased if approved by referendum, adds two at-large members who have a financial stake in the pepper industry to be appointed at the discretion of the Commission, and permits the Commission to re-define categories of pepper handling.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2004
AB 2478 (Cogdill-R) Milk
Provides that milk products plants that have been approved to use Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) procedures under the auspices of the National Conference of Interstate Milk Shippers, or a state or federal regulatory agency, may adhere to the inspection protocol of the HACCP regulatory enforcement procedures.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 2655 (Bates-R) Agreements: accuracy standards
Authorizes the State Department of Food and Agriculture to enter into agreements with specified organizations to provide accuracy standards related to water submeters.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2745 (Strickland-R) Animal diseases: quarantines: Contagious Equine Metritis
Allows the State Department of Food Agriculture (DFA), upon adopting regulations, to grant, deny, and rescind licenses for private facilities to provide precautionary quarantines intended to prevent the spread of Contagious Equine Metritis and other diseases of imported animals. Requires DFA to impose fees that cover, but do not exceed, the complete costs of regulating, overseeing, and administering this provision.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2808 (Canciamilla-D) State comprehensive plan
Requires that the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report include a statewide strategy for protecting large tracts of contiguous agricultural land to preserve its economic and environmental value.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2916 (Negrete McLeod-D) Milk products: licensing fees
Requires timely renewal of licenses for butter handlers, milk samplers and milk weighers, clarifies the authority of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to continue to collect license fees from milk product processing facilities, and increases license fees for specified categories of licensees engaged in the milk and milk product industry.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2004
AB 2920 (Laird-D) Nursery stock
Deletes the sunset on license and acreage fees for selling nursery products, as specified, in this state and repeals provisions that returned the license fee to a minimum of $100.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2004
AB 2999 (Lieber-D) Retail and wholesale food: beef labeling and information
Requires certain entities that sell or advertise imported beef for sale to provide notice that the imported beef is a product of a foreign country and to identify the foreign country.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 3024 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Seed law
Provides the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA) the discretion to determine what enforcement activities are to be conducted by county agricultural commissioners and DFA, regarding the enforcement of the California Seed Law.
Chapter 459, Statutes of 2004
AB 3025 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agriculture
Makes technical and substantive changes to conform to federal law and to create consistency in state law. These changes will affect the activities of the State Department of Food and Agriculture when dealing with county agricultural commissioners and sealers, equine medication monitoring, dairy animals and public hearing requirements on native desert plants.
Chapter 460, Statutes of 2004
AB 3030 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) State Veterinarian employees: continuing education
Provides that full-time employees of the State of California, acting within the scope of their employment as veterinarians for the State Veterinarian, shall be exempt from the current provisions requiring specified continuing veterinary education in order to obtain renewal of their veterinary licenses. Provides that, for the purpose of veterinarian license renewal, the State Veterinarian may set the continuing education requirements for those veterinarians under his or her authority, and in setting those requirements, may designate continuing education providers, subjects, hours, and methods.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 3031 (Matthews-D) Milk
Makes a statutory finding and declaration that the Milk and Milk Products Act of 1947, the Dairy Produce Exchange Law, the Dairy Cattle Supply Lien Law, the California Marketing Act of 1937, the Dairy Council of California law, and the stabilization, marketing, equalization, and pooling laws within Chapter Two of the Food and Agricultural Code, together, comprise a statutory scheme affecting all aspects of milk production in California.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 3045 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Milk: inspection fees
Authorizes the Secretary of the State Department of Food and Agriculture to charge dairy farms a follow-up inspection fee, not to exceed three mills ($0.003), for facilities found to be out of compliance in the initial inspection.
Chapter 352, Statutes of 2004
AB 3046 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Milk inspection
Provides that a dairy producer that produces milk in violation of drug residue standards shall be liable to the State Department of Food and Agriculture for reasonable investigative and enforcement costs associated with the violation.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2004
ACR 20 (Aghazarian-R) California Agriculture Week
Recognizes the important role that agriculture plays in the daily lives of every Californian, and declares March 17 through 23, 2003 as California Agriculture Week, and recognizes March 20, 2003 as National Agriculture Day in acknowledgement of the future progress and prosperity of the state's economy and for the advancement of greater appreciation of farmers and ranchers across California.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
HR 44 (Matthews-D) National Agriculture Week
Honors the men and women of California agriculture for their dedication and productivity by observing the week of March 14 to March 20, 2004, as National Agriculture Week and Saturday, March 20, 2004, as National Agriculture Day.
Adopted by the Assembly
Water Resources
SB 21 (Machado-D) Water
Makes a number of legislative findings, declarations and definitions and clarifies the administration of various chapters of the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 (Proposition 50), including guidelines for administering grants and loans and keeping the Legislature informed about expenditures and guidelines.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 34 (Soto-D) Inland Empire Water Quality Authority
Enacts the Inland Empire Water Quality Authority Act which, among other things, states the intent of the Legislature to establish the Inland Empire Water Quality Authority.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 117 (Machado-D) Water
Restores some deleted requirements and strengthens provisions governing outreach to economically disadvantaged communities conducted by the State Water Resources Control Board and other state agencies that administer Proposition 50 grant programs.
Chapter 716, Statutes of 2004
Similar legislation was SB 518 (Escutia-D), which died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee; however, the provisions were placed into SB 117 and signed into law.
SB 149 (McPherson-R) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Makes structural and procedural changes at the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to make it easier to develop, finance, and construct district projects, including projects designed to increase the available water supply in the district to better enable new development within district boundaries.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 214 (Morrow-R) Waste discharge requirements
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional boards to prescribe and enforce waste discharge requirements for municipal separate storm sewer systems that conform to the "maximum extent practicable" standard set forth in the Clean Water Act.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 312 (Machado-D) Urban Landscape Water Conservation Act of 2003
Renames the "Water Conservation in Landscaping Act" to the "Urban Landscape Water Conservation Act of 2003" and (1) makes a number of legislative findings and declarations, (2) requires the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) to establish a new model water efficient landscape ordinance, (3) creates a funding priority for agencies that have adopted and enforced either the state or an equivalent local landscape ordinance, (4) requires dedicated water meters for landscapes for billing purposes, and (5) requires DWR to issue an unspecified amount in competitive grants for weather-sensitive irrigation controller pilot projects from unspecified funds.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 318 (Alpert-D) Urban water suppliers: desalinated water
Requires an urban water supplier to add to the list of required elements contained in their urban water management plan a description of the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including ocean, brackish, and groundwater, as a long term supply.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2004
SB 456 (Ortiz-D) Sacramento Suburban Water District: board: finances
Sets the compensation of a member of the board of directors of the Sacramento Suburban Water District (SSWD) at $1,000 per year, commencing January 1, 2004, and provides that, commencing on that date, each member of the board shall be provided with appropriate health benefits only for the duration of his/her service on the board of, or an employee of, the SSWD, or a previously existing water district that was subsumed into that district, has misused funds of any of those districts, that person shall be required to repay the district the full amount of funds found to have been misused, plus interest within 30 days of the finding. Authorizes the SSWD to establish a schedule of fees to be charged for any late repayments of those funds. States the intent of the Legislature that penalties be established, including the dismissal of any employee or board member, against whom an administrative or judicial finding is made.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 472 (Florez-D) Water: nitrogen contamination
Authorizes the University of California's Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program to submit recommendations that have been developed to date, and those that may be developed in the future, to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board for best management practices for the control of nitrogen contamination in surface and groundwaters.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 475 (Florez-D) Public freshwater bathing areas
Requires the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to develop minimum standards for sanitation of high-use or priority freshwater bathing areas, as defined. Imposes various duties on DHS and local health officers and environmental directors, as specified. Requires local agencies to notify the public by posting a notice at public beaches stating that beach inspections to ensure compliance with health and sanitation standards are not being conducted.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 479 (Machado-D) Water transfers
Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, in addition to any current requirements, to approve a petition for a long-term transfer of water only if it additionally determines that the proposed transfer will not cause substantial, negative, third party impacts.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 529 (Morrow-R) Irrigation districts: electric power facilities: sale
Requires a water district that owns, operates, and maintains facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electric power, to give the notice to the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission, at least 30 days prior to the proposed sale date, of the proposed sale of any evidence of indebtedness issued to providing financing of any works of the district.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 543 (Machado-D) Water rights: groundwater cleanup operations
Permits the water produced from a groundwater cleanup operation to be used, transferred, assigned, or conveyed for beneficial use by the operator of that operation only if a written agreement for the allocation of treated water has been entered into between the operator and every injured public water system that has given notice to the operator of its claim that it is an injured public water system, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 563 (Ackerman-R) Water Quality Information Clearinghouse
Appropriates $15,000,000 made available by Proposition 50 to the State Water Resources Control Board for allocation to the University of California (UC) to finance the establishment of a Water Quality Information Clearinghouse to facilitate the restoration and protection of the water quality and environment of coastal waters, estuaries, bays and near shore waters, and groundwater in accordance with a certain provision of that act. Becomes operative only if the Regents of the UC certify to the State Controller that the funds appropriated by the bill will be used to establish the clearinghouse.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 564 (Ackerman-R) Orange County: water-efficient landscape management
Appropriates $15 million from bond funds made available by Proposition 50 to Orange County to fund new water-efficient landscape management technologies.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 750* (Machado-D) Water
Enacts the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, Flood Protection, and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2004 which, if adopted, will authorize, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5 billion for purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality, flood protection, and water supply reliability program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 794 (Battin-R) Proposition 50: Saltceder eradication
Appropriates $1.5 million made available by Proposition 50 to the State Water Resources Control Board for allocation, upon a certain determination by the board, to eligible local public entities for the purposes of carrying out exotic Saltceder eradication programs in the counties of Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 840 (Chesbro-D) Flood control: Middle Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project
Adopts and authorizes the Middle Creek Ecosystem Flood Control and Habitat Restoration Project. Authorizes the State Department of Water Resources to pay 50 percent of the nonfederal capital costs of the habitat restoration, recreation, and fish and wildlife enhancement features. Requires the Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to give prescribed assurances to the Secretary of the Army, and requires the district to carry out the plans and project.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 904 (Chesbro-D) Wild and scenic rivers
Amends the California Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (commencing with Section 5093.50 of the Public Resources Code) to require state agencies to protect the rivers values that prompted protection under the Act and changes the definition of "special treatment areas" to include rivers designated as recreational rivers.
Chapter 545, Statutes of 2004
SB 909 (Machado-D) Public water systems: mutual water companies: grant funds
Provides that a public water system regulated by the State Public Utilities Commission or a mutual water company is eligible for grant funding from the sale of any general obligation bond authorized by the voters, for the purposes stated in the authorizing bond act, unless not included or excluded by express provisions of the bond act, subject to certain conditions.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 922 (Soto-D) Perchlorate: information
Makes a technical correction to the definition of "perchlorate" as this term is used in provisions that require the owner or operator of a perchlorate storage facility to submit specified information to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Chapter 508, Statutes of 2004
SB 994 (Hollingsworth-R) San Diego County Water Authority: voting
Revises the current voting scheme of the San Diego County Water Authority for the purposes of voting on certain specified actions, including the election of officers, the approval of appointments of representatives to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Colorado River Board of California, the adoption of the Authority's biennial budget, and the approval of expenditures that exceed $1 million.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1000 (Aanestad-R) Beneficial use: extension of time
Declares that nonuse of water as a result of conservation efforts constitutes good cause to extend the period specified in a permit for application of appropriated water to beneficial use. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to extend the time for application of the water to beneficial use for a period of time sufficient to enable the permittee to perfect its appropriation if the petition to extend the time to apply water to beneficial use includes a description of future increased water requirements that are anticipated to be satisfied with water diverted under the permit, and other requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1089 (Johnson-R) State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, for the purposes of administering the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund, to give favorable consideration to certain types of eligible projects, including projects undertaken in response to an administrative enforcement order.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2004
SB 1107* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State Budget Act of 2004: resources
A budget trailer bill which makes changes to current law relating to natural resources and environmental protection necessary for the implementation of the 2004-05 Budget Act. Among the bill's provisions relating to this subject:
- Increases Watermaster Fees. Increases fees paid by water users so those fees cover the entire costs of the Watermaster program. This will result in $713,000 General Fund savings.
- Establishes a River Parkways Program. Provides legislative parameters and guidelines for river parkway grants and land acquisitions made by the Secretary of the State Resources Agency. This bill also appropriates $7.9 million Proposition 40 bond funds and $30.5 million Proposition 50 bond funds for this purpose.
- Limits Creation of New State Maintenance Areas. Gives the State Department of Water Resources discretion over whether to form a flood management maintenance area outside the Central Valley in the future and authorizes the department to recover all costs related to establishing a new maintenance area. This reduces the state's future liability related to maintenance of flood management projects.
- Consistency of CALFED Grant Programs. Clarifies existing law that requires water projects funded within the CALFED solution area to be consistent with the objectives of the CALFED program as specified in the CALFED Record of Decision. Requires the California Bay-Delta Authority to review grant criteria of programs and projects with the CALFED solution area. Ensures state funds expended within the CALFED solution are expended in a more cost-effective manner.
Chapter 230, Statutes of 2004
SB 1132* (Brulte-R) Proposition 50 of 2002: water management projects
Requires the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) to deem certain water management projects that are operational on or before November 5, 2002, to be part of an adopted regional water management plan. Requires DWR to give preference to projects designed to restore, repair, rehabilitate, or replace water management projects damaged or destroyed as a consequence of fires or other natural disasters.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1136 (Chesbro-D) Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
Changes the name of the Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District to the Lake County Watershed Protection District (LCWPD), and authorizes LCWPD to participate alone, or jointly with Lake County, or cities or districts within Lake County, in the federal National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit program in accordance with the Clean Water Act. Authorizes the LCWPD to impose and collect fees to carry out the purpose of the district.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2004
SB 1155 (Machado-D) Water quality standards: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Requires the State Department of Water Resources, in collaboration with the Secretary of the Interior, to prepare a plan to meet water quality standards and objectives for which the State Water Projects has some responsibility, by January 1, 2006.
Chapter 612, Statutes of 2004
SB 1197 (Denham-R) Proposition 50 of 2002: water storage facility
Appropriates $4,500,000 from bond funds made available by Proposition 50 of 2002 to the State Department of Water Resources to finance the planning of a water storage facility on the upper San Joaquin River.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1215 (Morrow-R) Department of Fish and Game: Public Resources Account
Requires that money earmarked for waterfowl purposes from the Public Resources Account of the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act (Proposition 99) be allocated to the State Department of Fish and Game.
Chapter 917, Statutes of 2004
SB 1302 (Alarcon-D) Water-vending machines and retail water facilities
Requires random annual inspections of a specified percentage of water-vending machines and retail water facilities, testing of that water for a particular bacteria and chemical, and requires the State Department of Health Services to levy a fee for inspections, testing and a consumer education campaign.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1310 (Johnson-R) Metropolitan Water District of Southern Calif.: complaints
Extends the sunset date on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California's required annual report on complaints from January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2010.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2004
SB 1318 (Burton-D) Proposition 50 of 2002
Submits a legislative measure to the voters to amend Proposition 50 to allow up to $30 million in bond proceeds previously allocated to the State Coastal Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Board to be reallocated for projects to protect coastal waters and ocean ecosystems.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1319 (Burton-D) Natural resources: ocean protection
Enacts the California Ocean Protection Act, creates the Ocean Protection Council (Council), and authorizes the Council to carry out various programs relating to the protection of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2004
SB 1374 (Machado-D) Water transfers: economic or environmental impacts
Prescribes how the State Water Resources Control Board is to analyze the third party impacts of long-term water transfers.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1447 (Kuehl-D) State regulated wetlands: regulations
Requires the State Fish and Game Commission, not later than June 30, 2005, to adopt regulations to protect state regulated wetlands in order to implement the state's policy that there be no net loss of state wetlands, and requires that those regulations be adopted in accordance with prescribed procedures. Prohibits an entity from substantially impairing or altering a state regulated wetland without first obtaining a wetland alteration permit, as provided. Requires the Director of the State Department of Fish and Game to establish a fee for the application and the issuance of wetland alteration permits.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1477 (Sher-D) Water quality
- Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the State Department of Fish and Game to enter into a memorandum of understanding that will facilitate consultation and coordinate permitting processes to the extent possible with regard to the issuance of waste discharge permits that may also require the issuance of an incidental take permit or the extension of a streambed alteration agreement.
- Requires SWRCB to develop a process to facilitate consultation among the state and regional boards and specified federal agencies for certain activities.
- Enacts the Water Quality Protection Act of 2005.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1479 (Sher-D) California regional water quality control boards: membership
Reduces the number on each regional water quality board from nine to seven members.
(Died at Senate Desk)
SB 1482 (Sher-D) Wild and scenic rivers: special treatment areas
Standardizes penalties imposed for violations of timber harvest rules so that penalties for violations in "special treatment areas" adjacent to wild and scenic rivers are comparable to penalties imposed in all other areas of timber harvest rules violations.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 2004
SB 1514 (Poochigian-R) Water districts: enforcement of delinquent assessments
Provides that, before any water district takes action that will terminate another party's interest in real property as the means of enforcing delinquent assessments, fees, charges, or other levies, the district must make a reasonable effort to ascertain the names and addresses of each holder of an interest in the delinquent property to be terminated by virtue of the action by the district, and must notify each interest holder of the intent to take action that terminates the party's interest in the delinquent property.
Chapter 97, Statutes of 2004
SB 1529 (McPherson-R) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: dissolution
Deletes the provisions of law that established the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)
SB 1552 (Machado-D) Water quality: total maximum daily loads
Authorizes regional water quality control boards to recommend, and the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt, minimum stream flow requirements in connection with establishing total maximum daily loads pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1620 (Aanestad-R) Yuba Area Flood Control Agency
Establishes the Yuba Area Flood Control Agency authorized to identify, evaluate, fund, and implement flood prevention and control strategies in the Yuba Area, on an intergovernmental, cooperative basis.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1636 (Battin-R) Oil refineries: exemptions
Exempts a project to upgrade the physical characteristics of an oil refinery to increase its refining capacity that has previously been approved to operate from any license, permit, or certification requirement under the federal Clean Air Act and the California Environmental Quality Act, or any statutory or regulatory provision governing air or water quality, if the increase in the refining capacity will result in the same or fewer air or water pollutants compared to the maximum permitted amount of air or water pollutants prior to the upgrade.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1677 (Knight-R) Los Angeles County Flood Control District: storm drains
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control District to accept transfers of storm drain improvements from cities.
Chapter 244, Statutes of 2004
SB 1720 (Alarcon-D) Metropolitan water districts: civil service
Requires the board of a metropolitan water district to prescribe a system of civil service that, with certain exceptions, includes every officer and employee of the district. Requires the district to establish a civil service commission consisting of five members appointed by the board for five-year terms. Requires the board to enforce the civil service rules and, by majority vote, to prescribe probationary periods and classifications. Prescribes other related matters.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
Similar legislation was AB 1695 (Ridley-Thomas-D), which died in Assembly Local Government Committee.
SB 1728 (Aanestad-R) Private property: state agency access
Prohibits the State Department of Fish and Game and the State Department of Water Resources from entering upon private property except with the consent of the property owner and pursuant to specified requirements. Specifies that the departments may be liable for damages pursuant to the bill's provisions for any habitat and wildlife conservation related activity that occurs on private property.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1844 (Aanestad-R) Irrigation districts: ditches and laterals
Allows an irrigation district to also construct ditches and laterals that it currently is authorized to operate, maintain, and improve that are owned by the district, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
SB 1899* (Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee) Water Omnibus Act of 2004
Authorizes the State Department of Water Resources to make grants from the California Safe Drinking Water Fund for the purpose of financing domestic water system improvement projects to meet state and federal drinking water standards.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 58 (Bates-R) State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account
Continuously appropriates 75 percent of funds from the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account collected by a regional water quality control board to that regional board to carry out the act and 25 percent of those funds to the State Water Resources Control Board to carry out the act.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 63* (Cogdill-R) Taxation: irrigation system improvements
Authorizes a nonrefundable 25 percent tax credit for the cost paid or incurred to purchase and install a qualified irrigation system improvement.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 83 (Corbett-D) Bottled water
Creates a new program requiring bottled water and water vending machines to meet new licensure requirements similar to those imposed on public water systems regarding emergency notification plans, consumer confidence reports, specified labeling requirements and annual inspections. Transfers existing provisions relating to the licensure and regulation of bottled water from the Sherman, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law to the Safe Drinking Water Act, and authorizes the State Department of Health Services to revise the annual license fee schedule for persons engaged in activities relating to bottled water and water vending machines to cover the costs of this legislation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 107 (Steinberg-D) Flood control standards
Authorizes the governing body of a flood control agency to adopt standards for the operation and maintenance of its flood control works that are more protective of public safety than the standards adopted by the State Reclamation Board, subject to approval by the Board.
Chapter 498, Statutes of 2004
AB 120 (Wyland-R) Proposition 50: Caulerpa taxifolia eradication
Appropriates $1,100,000 from bond funds made available by Proposition 50 of 2002 to the State Water Resources Control Board for the purposes of making a grant, subject to a certain determination by the state board, to the Southern California Caulerpa Action Team to eradicate Caulerpa taxifolia, or its clones or derivatives, in the Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 148 (Dymally-D) Municipal water districts
Prohibits the Central Basin Municipal Water District and the West Basin Municipal Water District from issuing bonds, certificates of participation, financing leases, installment sales or purchase agreements, or other evidence of indebtedness, without the approval of a majority of the voters participating in a district wide election.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 157 (Salinas-D) Pajaro River Watershed Flood Prevention Authority
Authorizes the Pajaro River Watershed Flood Prevention Authority to appoint one alternate for the board member representing that appointing authority to act in the place, and perform all the duties, of that board member if the board member is absent, unable to act, or has vacated his or her office, until the vacancy is filled.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 306 (Kehoe-D) Water meters
Requires urban water purveyors (suppliers) meeting the definition of "urban water supplier" under existing law to install service meters by January 1, 2008 on all residential and nonagricultural water service connections constructed prior to January 1, 1992.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 386 (Aghazarian-R) Drinking water: local primacy agencies
Requires the State Department of Health Services to meet and confer with representatives of the California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health or the local primacy agencies, or both, for purposes of identifying and providing adequate funding to local primacy agencies, prior to passing on any new mandates or expanding any existing mandate.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 404 (Garcia-R) Imperial County Air Pollution Control District
Authorizes the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District to require a transferee of water to undertake reasonable measures, including studies, to mitigate the air quality impacts associated with the water transfer, and to require the transferee to pay an annual fee based on an estimate of the actual costs incurred by the district in connection with the development of the mitigation measures and related air quality analysis with regard to the transfer, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 430* (Dutra-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District: underground tanks
Extends the authority of the Santa Clara Valley Water District to act as the lead agency for the oversight of the abatement of contamination of underground storage tanks in the County from June 30, 2004 to June 30, 2005.
Chapter 89, Statutes of 2004
AB 450 (Maze-R) Friant Water Users Authority
Requires the Friant Water Users Authority to undertake a study regarding the feasibility, costs, benefits, and environmental impacts of creating additional water storage on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley between the City of Chowchilla and the City of Arvin. Appropriates $175,000 from the General Fund to the authority for the purposes of undertaking the study. Requires the authority to submit a report to the Legislature with regard to the study.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 496 (Correa-D) Santa Ana River Conservancy
Establishes the Santa Ana River Conservancy, until January 1, 2012, to acquire specified lands within one-half mile on either side of the thread of the Santa Ana River and prescribes the management, powers, and duties of the conservancy. Creates the Santa Ana River Conservancy Fund, but prohibits the conservancy from implementing the funding authorization until the Legislature appropriates the necessary funds. Requires the conservancy, by January 1, 2006, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature on progress made to further the purposes of the conservancy. Requires the conservancy, on December 31, 2011, to transfer all land acquired in accordance with the provisions of the bill to the State Resources Agency, unless the repeal of those provisions on January 1, 2012, is otherwise deleted or extended.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee)
AB 536 (Calderon-D) Water replenishment districts
Requires a water replenishment district, before building, leasing, purchasing, or contracting for a capital improvement project, to determine the feasibility of such a project by ordering or preparing and reviewing a written cost-benefit analysis based upon reasonable assumptions.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 594 (Leno-D) Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation
Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco to elect to designate specific photovoltaic generation facilities meeting specified conditions at Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation facilities, and upon election and the filing and acceptance of an advice letter with the Public Utilities Commission establishing rates, Pacific Gas and Electric Company will be required on a monthly basis, to credit the City and County of San Francisco for certain electricity generated and delivered to the electric grid in accordance with specified rate criteria. Provides for the termination of this arrangement upon notice from the city and county or upon the city and county engaging in retail sales to customers within the service territory of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, as a result of becoming a community choice aggregator, as a result of municipalization, or otherwise.
Chapter 790, Statutes of 2004
AB 607 (Plescia-R) Landscape water conservation
Enacts the Landscape Water Conservation Rate Structure Act, and permits a city or county located wholly within the boundaries of one or more water districts that have adopted a landscape water conservation rate structure consistent with this Act to exempt itself from the Water Conservation in Landscape Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 611 (Negrete McLeod-D) Waste discharges: dental amalgam
Establishes a process to encourage and require effective diversion of dental amalgam waste containing mercury generated by dentist offices from the public sewer system, publicly-owned treatment works, and the state's surface waters.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 740* (Pavley-D) Clean Air, Clean Water, and Coastal Protection Act of 2004
Enacts the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Coastal Protection Act of 2004 which, if adopted, will authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2.9 billion for purposes of financing an air and water quality and coastal protection program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 742 (Canciamilla-D) Streambed alteration
Adds the routine maintenance and operation of hydroelectric facilities to the list of activities that do not require the notice and agreement as described in current law.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 760 (Maldonado-R) Water quality: civil liability
Authorizes, beginning January 1, 2003, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a regional water board to require a publicly-owned treatment works that serves a relatively small population to apply the amount it is assessed for a violation of state water quality laws or federal Clean Water Act provisions, toward funding a project to correct the violation instead of as a mandatory penalty payment to the SWRCB or regional board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 817 (Pacheco-R) Proposition 50: water pollution and conservation
Appropriates $15 million from bond funds made available by Proposition 50 of 2002 to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to finance the creation, coordination, and implementation of a statewide education and outreach program related to water quality and conservation. Prescribes the use of those funds, including the development of educational materials and a public awareness program about water conservation and the reduction of water pollution. Authorizes the SWRCB to develop regulations to implement these provisions and requires the SWRCB to provide quarterly reports to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the appropriate policy and fiscal committee of the Legislature, and the Governor on the use of the funds until January 1, 2004.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 860 (Bates-R) Electrical corporations: desalination plants
Excludes from the definition of "electrical corporation", until December 31, 2009, a corporation or person owning an undivided interest in an electrical generating facility selling electricity to one other corporation or person located on the real property on which the electricity is generated for the purpose of operating a seawater desalination plant producing water for sale to a wholesale water corporation, water supplier, or local public agency.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 877 (Maddox-R) Urban runoff
Declares that urban runoff that has been discharged from a municipal storm sewer system into a natural coastal creek, if not otherwise diverted for beneficial use in accordance with law, is unappropriated water that is subject to appropriation.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 888 (McCarthy-R) Water shortage emergencies
Requires a public water supplier to adopt restrictions for the greatest public benefit with particular regard to agriculture, in addition to other described water uses in current law.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1015 (Laird-D) Land use: water supply
Requires the land use element of a city or county's general plan to include, by July 1, 2006, a statement of sources of water supply and potential sources, as specified. Deletes obsolete provisions. Authorizes the use of designated fees to cover the costs of the water supply component of the land use element of the general plan.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1020 (Steinberg-D) Flood control: local cooperation
Authorizes the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, at the discretion of the State Reclamation Board, to provide assurances to local cooperation for the south Sacramento County streams project, in lieu of those same assurances from the Board.
Chapter 749, Statutes of 2004
AB 1054 (Spitzer-R) Water quality: bond appropriation
Appropriates $20 million from Proposition 50 funds to Orange County for clean beaches, watershed protection, and water quality projects to protect beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, and streams from contaminants, pollution, and other environmental threats, including, but not limited to, storm drain-to-sewer diversions, storm drain filters or screens, and regional education programs.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1107 (Liu-D) Groundwater: uniform data standards
Requires an interagency task force, already created by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and currently required to identify actions needed to establish a groundwater monitoring program, to develop uniform groundwater data standards. Requires the SWRCB, the State Department of Water Resources, the State Department of Health Services, the State Department of Pesticide Regulation, the State Department of Toxic Substances Control, and the State Department of Food and Agriculture to adopt these uniform groundwater standards as part of their data collection, data management, and data transfer activities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1119* (Nation-D) Municipal water districts
Authorizes a municipal water district to employ park rangers who will be peace officers, as specified. Requires a municipal water district to adhere to certain standards for recruitment and training of peace officers for the purposes of exercising that authority.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2004
AB 1157 (Canciamilla-D) Public utilities: water and gas rates
Authorizes water corporations to increase interim rates at the rate of inflation on all pending general rate case applications.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 1159 (Liu-D) Groundwater data
Enacts the Groundwater Data Standards Act of 2003 which, among other things, requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), in consultation with a technical work group to be convened by the state board and other responsible agencies, to determine what constitutes core groundwater data, define structures and standards for core groundwater data, identify groundwater data collection standards, evaluate existing structures and standards for groundwater data, and user and custodian requirements, and propose standards for the storage and transfer of core groundwater data for comment by the public and the scientific community. Requires the SWRCB, in consultation with the technical work group, to prepare and submit to the Governor and the Legislature a report that includes recommendations for groundwater database standards and for the collection and transfer of groundwater data.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1300 (Laird-D) Water supply projects: Monterey Peninsula
Prohibits a state agency with regulatory or grant authority from approving, or otherwise providing state grant funds for, a project that provides water within the boundaries of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District unless certain circumstances are met. Prohibits that district from exercising certain authority relating to water supply development, water storage, and water management if a water project to serve the Monterey Peninsula that meets prescribed requirements is not authorized on or before January 1, 2010.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 1375 (Daucher-R) Municipal separate storm sewer systems
Require the State Water Resources Control Board and the regional boards to prescribe and enforce waste discharge requirements for municipal separate storm sewer systems in conformance with the maximum extent practicable standard set forth in the Clean Water Act. Defines the term "maximum extent practicable" standard for purposes of those provisions. Requires that permits for discharges from a municipal separate storm sewer system conform to the maximum extent practicable standard.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1385 (Haynes-R) County water authorities
Requires that, in order for the San Diego County Water Authority's board of directors to act on any item other than consent items, a single vote must be taken that satisfies both the weighted vote requirement in current law and a majority vote requirement. Specifies that a majority vote is obtained on the basis of one vote per member agency present at the board meeting. Requires agencies with more than one representative on the board to determine by ordinance how to allocate its single vote, and to deliver a copy of the ordinance to the secretary of the board.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1427 (Maddox-R) Biosolids: study
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) in consultation with the State Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA) and the State Department of Health Services (DHS) the regulated industry, local jurisdictions, representatives of public water systems, and other stakeholders, to conduct a study, utilizing existing scientific data, existing research, and specified documents to determine the feasibility of establishing a statewide policy on biosolids treatment, disposal, and recycling. Requires the agency on or before December 31, 2005, to submit that study to the Legislature. Requires the Orange County Sanitation District to pay the CalEPA, including the boards, offices, and departments within the agency, DFA and DHS, for the costs of conducting the study required by this bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1522 (Parra-D) Water rights: permits
Expands the authority of the regional water quality control board's executive officers to include the ability to issue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits without regional board actions, and makes technical corrections to and deletes obsolete provisions of the Water Code.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 1546 (Simitian-D) Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management
Allows a fee of $4 to be added to the annual vehicle registration charge in San Mateo County if the fee is approved by the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo. Specifies that fee revenues will be used for management of traffic congestion and stormwater pollution.
Chapter 931, Statutes of 2004
AB 1647 (Jerome Horton-D) Public water systems: mutual water companies: grant funds
Authorizes an investor-owned water utility and mutual water companies to be eligible for grant funding from the sale of any general obligation bond unless they are not included or excluded by the express provisions of the bond authorization act, as specified.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 1659 (Shirley Horton-R) Gray water recycling irrigation systems
Requires the State Department of Water Resources to prepare a proposal for a reduced fee schedule for application to persons or entities that apply to a water district for a residential water service connection on or after an unspecified date, if the applicant agrees to install land use a gray water recycling irrigation system.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1703 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Water trades
Requires the State Department of Water Resources (DWR), no later than January 1, 2006, to require any entity that trades water to report their water trading activities to DWR. Requires DWR to provide an online format for collecting certain information for each trading transaction.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1908 (Canciamilla-D) Water corporations
Requires all regulatory functions that are performed by the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with respect to water corporations to be transferred to the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) on or before January 1, 2006, and requires the PUC and DWR to work collaboratively to carry out the transfer.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 1934 (Leslie-R) Bear Lake Reservoir: recreational use
Exempts Bear Lake Reservoir in Alpine County, until July 1, 2007, from the bodily contact prohibition and specifically allows bodily contact with the water by any participant if specific standards are met.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2004
AB 1961 (Harman-R) Ocean surf area lifesaving standards
Requires a state or local governmental agency that is a provider of lifeguard or marine safety protection intended to prevent the drowning or injury at an ocean surf area to meet the standards recommended by the United States Lifesaving Association and requires the State Department of Parks and Recreation to maintain a reference copy.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1983 (Wolk-D) State Reclamation Board
Amends the authority and powers of the State Reclamation Board to include environmental protection and restoration activities associated with flood control projects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2121 (Assembly Budget Committee) Water resources
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt, as state policy, guidelines regarding the amount of water needed in certain North Coast rivers for certain fish species.
Chapter 943, Statutes of 2004
AB 2141 (Longville-D) Floodplain management: Alluvial Fan Task Force
Requires the State Department of Water Resources to establish an Alluvial Fan Task Force by June 30, 2005, to develop a model ordinance and make recommendations related to alluvial fan floodplain management issues by June 30, 2006. Contingent upon funding from the federal government for private sources and expressly prohibits the use of state funds.
Chapter 878, Statutes of 2004
AB 2165* (Houston-R) Disaster relief
Adds the Middle River levee break that occurred in June 2004 to the list of disasters eligible for full state reimbursement of local agency costs under the Disaster Assistance Act.
Chapter 778, Statutes of 2004
Similar legislation was SB 1147 (Hollingsworth-R), Chapter 792, Statutes of 2004 and AB 1510* (Kehoe-D), Chapter 772, Statutes of 2004.
AB 2197 (Aghazarian-R) Dam and reservoir regulation
States the intent of the Legislature that the Secretary of the State Resources Agency, on or before February 1, 2005, consult with interested parties comprised of specified representatives, to assist the Secretary in the evaluation of whether the State Department of Water Resources should continue to undertake periodic safety inspections with regard to a dam that is licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and subject to annual inspection by that commission.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2243 (Vargas-D) County water authorities: board of directors
Authorizes any member of the governing body of a member agency of a county water authority that is a water district to appoint a member of its governing board to represent that agency on the San Diego County Water Authority's board of directors.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 2004
AB 2260 (Nakanishi-R) Streambed alteration agreements
Exempts activities involving routine maintenance of a levee or flood control system from the requirement to obtain a streambed alteration permit from the State Department of Fish and Game before making alterations to any stream, river or lake.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2279 (Dymally-D) Irrigation districts
Deletes the landowner qualification for board members of most irrigation districts, requiring the board members to be registered voters.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2298 (Plescia-R) Public water systems: water meters
Commencing January 1, 2006, requires that an urban water supplier install, or require the installation of, separate water meters or submeters used exclusively to measure or calculate the volume of water delivered to any new construction with irrigated landscaped areas of 10,000 square feet or more that are not located within a parcel occupied by a single-family residential dwelling, and also requires, not later than January 1, 2012, that these suppliers (a) install, or require the installation of, separate water meters or submeters for irrigated landscaped area of one acre or more not located within a parcel occupied by a single-family residential dwelling or (b) establish or require a weather-based controller or comparable irrigation management system that targets a water budget for the irrigated landscape, as specified.
(Died in Senate Agriculture and Water Resources Committee)
AB 2342 (Jackson-D) Drinking water: public health goals
Authorizes the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, when periodically reviewing the public health goals for drinking water contaminants, to give special consideration to contaminants that may cause adverse health risks in members of subgroups that constitute a meaningful portion of the population.
Chapter 678, Statutes of 2004
AB 2422 (La Malfa-R) Water use fees
Effective January 1, 2005, suspends various water rights fees imposed by the State Water Resources Control Board until the board implements a revised fee structure that reflects the findings and recommendations of an advisory group that this bill requires the board to convene.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2439 (Haynes-R) Canyon Lake Reservoir: recreational use
Exempts the Canyon Lake Reservoir within the Elsinor Valley Municipal Water District (Riverside County), until January 1, 2008, from the bodily contact prohibition in current law and specifically allows bodily contact with the water by any participant under certain conditions.
Chapter 519, Statutes of 2004
AB 2470 (Kehoe-D) Water conservation programs
Authorizes a public entity to undertake water conservation and public education programs using an informational booklet or materials for use in connection with the use or transfer of real estate containing up to four residential units, as specified.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2004
AB 2528 (Lowenthal-D) Public water systems
Requires the operator of wholesale or retail public water systems to provide notice relating to contamination of any drinking water that exceeds the maximum containment level, a response level, or a notification level, including, but not limited to, notification to the State Public Utilities Commission if the public water system is a regulated public utility.
Chapter 679, Statutes of 2004
AB 2529 (Kehoe-D) Water quality: marine managed areas
Establishes a Marine Managed Areas Program to grant monetary awards for capital projects that restore and protect the water quality and environment of protected marine areas.
Chapter 714, Statutes of 2004
AB 2566 (Nakano-D) Boating: noise levels
Clarifies the legal responsibility of motorboat owners to comply with noise requirements.
Chapter 130, Statutes of 2004
AB 2572 (Kehoe-D) Water meters
Requires all urban water suppliers, by January 1, 2025, to install water meters on all municipal and industrial services, and, by January 1, 2010, to bill volumetrically based on those meters.
Chapter 884, Statutes of 2004
AB 2636 (Strickland-R) Boating and Waterways Commission
Requires one member of the State Boating and Waterways Commission to represent public agencies that operate freshwater lakes and makes other technical changes to existing law.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2653 (Strickland-R) Vessels: safety education: funding
Allows certain public agencies to obtain additional funding to enhance boating safety in areas of their jurisdiction.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2665 (Leslie-R) Harbors and ports: funding
Amends the existing requirement that the State Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) monitor public marina berthing rates to ensure that the charges are sufficient to ensure timely and complete repayment of the loan (existing law required DBW to monitor rates to ensure that they were "reasonable and not exorbitant"). Increases the maximum percentage (from 50 percent to 75 percent) of the private marina loan funding available for a single project. Authorizes DBW to make a loan to a private marina for the purposes of refinancing an existing loan if at least 30 percent of the new loan is used for construction.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2004
AB 2668 (Salinas-D) Watershed protection and flood control projects
Requires the State Reclamation Board or the State Department of Water Resources to proceed with the formation of a maintenance area only if it determines that the formation would result in the same or greater level of flood protection and that the costs to affected property owners would be comparable to the costs assessed by the local agency.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2672 (Simitian-D) Large passenger vessels: sewage
Prohibits cruise ships from releasing sewage into the state's marine waters, potentially subject to federal approval of a State Water Resources Control Board application to allow the prohibition.
Chapter 764, Statutes of 20 04
AB 2717 (Laird-D) California Urban Water Conservation Council: stakeholders
Declares the Legislature's intent that the California Urban Water Conservation Council convene a stakeholder workgroup to prepare a report by December 31, 2005, that includes recommendations for improving urban water use efficiency.
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2004
AB 2733 (Strickland-R) Water resources
Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to designate a local agency to receive and maintain groundwater extraction data, allow extraction notices to be filed with the designated local agency, and allows the local agency to charge a filing fee, which will be limited to the amount charged by the SWRCB.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2004
AB 2734* (Strickland-R) Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency
Increases the limit of water fees from $3 to $6 per acre-foot on the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency groundwater extraction charge.
Chapter 242, Statutes of 2004
AB 2755 (Strickland-R) Ventura County Watershed Protection District
Grants the Ventura County Watershed Protection District the same authority as existing provisions applicable to a county to abate nuisances, and requires the district to record abatement liens as judgment liens.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2004
AB 2767 (Richman-R) State Department of Water Resources: electricity purchases
Clarifies existing law to authorize the State Department of Water Resources to re-negotiate contractual agreements pertaining to electricity purchase contracts.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
AB 2834 (Canciamilla-D) Santa Margarita Water District & Irvine Ranch Water District
Allows the Santa Margarita Water District and Irvine Ranch Water District to convey water in a drainage course within the boundaries of each respective district for the purpose of treating and reusing that water, if provisions of state and federal laws are met.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2004
AB 2864 (Canciamilla-D) Water rights: fees
Establishes, until January 1, 2006, an advisory group to assist in the evaluation of water rights fees and to review existing and proposed regulations and fee schedules to ensure an equitable distribution of fees and costs among holders of water rights and the public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2883 (Diaz-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Authorizes the Santa Clara Valley Water District to investigate and perform cleanups of hazardous substances subject to conditions established under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2884 (Calderon-D) California regional water quality control boards: abatement
Modifies the responsibilities of a regional water quality control board when cleaning up pollution at properties with non-operating businesses, and authorizes the collection of abatement costs from the property owner by a civil suit.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2918 (Laird-D) Desalination facilities
Requires the State Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to evaluate electricity and water policies as they relate to desalination plants, and also requires the PUC to report its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 2006.
Chapter 648, Statutes of 2004
AB 3039 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Ocean use planning: California Coastal Act
Repeals the provision of law that requires the State Resources Agency to initiate a comprehensive, long-range planning process for the use of offshore ocean waters and, instead, requires the Secretary for California Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the Resources Agency to (1) jointly conduct a review of the regulatory programs under their respective jurisdictions in light of the Pew Oceans Commission's June 4, 2003 report; and (2) report to the Legislature by April 1, 2005 regarding suggested structural and budgetary changes needed for a coordinated coastal and marine program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3084 (Jerome Horton-D) Metropolitan water districts: contracting
Authorizes the board of directors of a metropolitan water district to contract, on and after January 1, 2005, for services performed by employees to achieve cost saving if various requirements are met. Permits the district to contract for certain types of services, including the performance of new functions if the Legislature has required or authorized the performance of those functions by independent contractors.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
ACA 10 (Harman-R) Local government: property-related fees
Excludes fees and charges for storm water and urban runoff management from existing voter approval requirements for the imposition or increase of property-related charges and fees.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AJR 65 (Bogh-R) Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians: water rights
Memorializes the United States Department of the Interior and the U.S. Congress to support federal legislation regarding the water rights settlement between the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, the Interior Department, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the Eastern Municipal Water District, and the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2004
Index (in Bill Order)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
SB 21 | Machado-D Water | |
SB 34 | Soto-D Inland Empire Water Quality Authority | |
SB 117 | Machado-D Water | |
SB 149 | McPherson-R Monterey Peninsula Water Management District | |
SB 214 | Morrow-R Waste discharge requirements | |
SB 312 | Machado-D Urban Landscape Water Conservation Act of 2003 | |
SB 318 | Alpert-D Urban water suppliers: desalinated water | |
SB 391 | Florez-D Pesticide drift exposure | |
SB 456 | Ortiz-D Sacramento Suburban Water District: board: finances | |
SB 472 | Florez-D Water: nitrogen contamination | |
SB 475 | Florez-D Public freshwater bathing areas | |
SB 477 | Florez-D Housing: farm labor strategy | |
SB 479 | Machado-D Water transfers | |
SB 486 | Machado-D Agriculture: State Department of Food and Agriculture Fund | |
SB 506 | Sher-D Pharmaceuticals for food producing animals | |
SB 529 | Morrow-R Irrigation districts: electric power facilities: sale | |
SB 543 | Machado-D Water rights: groundwater cleanup operations | |
SB 563 | Ackerman-R Water Quality Information Clearinghouse | |
SB 564 | Ackerman-R Orange County: water-efficient landscape management | |
SB 603 | Speier-D Dairy products | |
SB 622 | Morrow-R Agriculture disasters: deductions for net operating losses | |
SB 643 | Aanestad-R Agricultural Land Protection Act | |
SB 658 | Florez-D Producer's liens | |
SB 702 | Florez-D Medium weight farm equipment | |
SB 750* | Machado-D Water | |
SB 794 | Battin-R Proposition 50: Saltceder eradication | |
SB 800 | Florez-D Farm labor contractors: toll-free number: directory | |
SB 840 | Chesbro-D Flood control: Middle Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project | |
SB 904 | Chesbro-D Wild and scenic rivers | |
SB 909 | Machado-D Public water systems: mutual water companies: grant funds | |
SB 922 | Soto-D Perchlorate: information | |
SB 925 | McPherson-R Invasive species | |
SB 934 | Machado-D Farmers' markets: nonprofit agricultural cooperatives | |
SB 994 | Hollingsworth-R San Diego County Water Authority: voting | |
SB 1000 | Aanestad-R Beneficial use: extension of time | |
SB 1026 | Machado-D Milk | |
SB 1036 | Machado-D Milk: forward price contract | |
SB 1089 | Johnson-R State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund | |
SB 1102* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Migrant services programs | |
SB 1107* | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee State Department of Pesticide Regulation: local subventions | |
SB 1132* | Brulte-R Proposition 50 of 2002: water management projects | |
SB 1134 | Chesbro-D Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants | |
SB 1136 | Chesbro-D Lake County Flood Control and Water Conservation District | |
SB 1155 | Machado-D Water quality standards: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | |
SB 1166 | Chesbro-D Pest control: Pierce's disease | |
SB 1197 | Denham-R Proposition 50 of 2002: water storage facility | |
SB 1215 | Morrow-R Department of Fish and Game: Public Resources Account | |
SB 1261 | Vasconcellos-D International relations | |
SB 1302 | Alarcon-D Water-vending machines and retail water facilities | |
SB 1310 | Johnson-R Metropolitan Water District of Southern Calif.: complaints | |
SB 1318 | Burton-D Proposition 50 of 2002 | |
SB 1319 | Burton-D Natural resources: ocean protection | |
SB 1374 | Machado-D Water transfers: economic or environmental impacts | |
SB 1447 | Kuehl-D State regulated wetlands: regulations | |
SB 1477 | Sher-D Water quality | |
SB 1479 | Sher-D California regional water quality control boards: membership | |
SB 1482 | Sher-D Wild and scenic rivers: special treatment areas | |
SB 1514 | Poochigian-R Water districts: enforcement of delinquent assessments | |
SB 1518 | Poochigian-R Agricultural policy | |
SB 1529 | McPherson-R Monterey Peninsula Water Management District: dissolution | |
SB 1545 | Karnette-D Mosquito abatement | |
SB 1552 | Machado-D Water quality: total maximum daily loads | |
SB 1604* | Ashburn-R Pest control: Pierce's disease | |
SB 1620 | Aanestad-R Yuba Area Flood Control Agency | |
SB 1636 | Battin-R Oil refineries: exemptions | |
SB 1650* | Chesbro-D Pest control: Pierce's disease | |
SB 1677 | Knight-R Los Angeles County Flood Control District: storm drains | |
SB 1720 | Alarcon-D Metropolitan water districts: civil service | |
SB 1728 | Aanestad-R Private property: state agency access | |
SB 1732 | Hollingsworth-R Dairy: environmental quality | |
SB 1820 | Machado-D Land conservation contracts | |
SB 1826 | Poochigian-R Dead animals | |
SB 1840* | Denham-R Diseased animals: bovine tuberculosis | |
SB 1844 | Aanestad-R Irrigation districts: ditches and laterals | |
SB 1888 | Florez-D Pesticide poisoning: EMS training | |
SB 1899* | Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee Water Omnibus Act of 2004 | |
SB 1901 | Alarcon-D Safety in employment: grape tasting | |
SB 1910 | Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee Agriculture: fruit, nut, and vegetable standards | |
SB 1911 | Senate Agriculture And Water Resources Committee Milk: handlers: surety bonds | |
SCR 73 | Battin-R Mosquito & Vector Control & West Nile Virus Awareness Week | |
SB 1X* | Poochigian-R State economy: suspension of statutes | |
AB 32 | Salinas-D Housing: farmworker housing | |
AB 58 | Bates-R State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account | |
AB 63* | Cogdill-R Taxation: irrigation system improvements | |
AB 83 | Corbett-D Bottled water | |
AB 105* | Wiggins-D Agriculture and Water Omnibus Act of 2003 | |
AB 107 | Steinberg-D Flood control standards | |
AB 120 | Wyland-R Proposition 50: Caulerpa taxifolia eradication | |
AB 148 | Dymally-D Municipal water districts | |
AB 157 | Salinas-D Pajaro River Watershed Flood Prevention Authority | |
AB 288* | Aghazarian-R Taxation: agriculture: irrigation | |
AB 306 | Kehoe-D Water meters | |
AB 329 | Parra-D Animal nutrition | |
AB 339* | Aghazarian-R Farmworker housing tax credits | |
AB 347* | Kehoe-D District agricultural associations | |
AB 363* | Garcia-R Income and corporation tax credits: health care | |
AB 386 | Aghazarian-R Drinking water: local primacy agencies | |
AB 387 | Aghazarian-R Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories | |
AB 404 | Garcia-R Imperial County Air Pollution Control District | |
AB 430* | Dutra-D Santa Clara Valley Water District: underground tanks | |
AB 450 | Maze-R Friant Water Users Authority | |
AB 496 | Correa-D Santa Ana River Conservancy | |
AB 536 | Calderon-D Water replenishment districts | |
AB 594 | Leno-D Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation | |
AB 607 | Plescia-R Landscape water conservation | |
AB 611 | Negrete McLeod-D Waste discharges: dental amalgam | |
AB 732 | Hancock-D Crimes | |
AB 740* | Pavley-D Clean Air, Clean Water, and Coastal Protection Act of 2004 | |
AB 742 | Canciamilla-D Streambed alteration | |
AB 760 | Maldonado-R Water quality: civil liability | |
AB 817 | Pacheco-R Proposition 50: water pollution and conservation | |
AB 860 | Bates-R Electrical corporations: desalination plants | |
AB 868 | Parra-D Migrant farm labor centers | |
AB 869 | Parra-D Food and agriculture violations | |
AB 877 | Maddox-R Urban runoff | |
AB 888 | McCarthy-R Water shortage emergencies | |
AB 989* | La Malfa-R Tax credit: rice straw | |
AB 1006 | Chu-D The Healthy Schools Act of 2003 | |
AB 1015 | Laird-D Land use: water supply | |
AB 1020 | Steinberg-D Flood control: local cooperation | |
AB 1054 | Spitzer-R Water quality: bond appropriation | |
AB 1071 | Matthews-D Commercial feed: inspection tonnage tax | |
AB 1076 | Maldonado-R Regulations: low volume pesticide applications | |
AB 1107 | Liu-D Groundwater: uniform data standards | |
AB 1119* | Nation-D Municipal water districts | |
AB 1157 | Canciamilla-D Public utilities: water and gas rates | |
AB 1159 | Liu-D Groundwater data | |
AB 1300 | Laird-D Water supply projects: Monterey Peninsula | |
AB 1375 | Daucher-R Municipal separate storm sewer systems | |
AB 1385 | Haynes-R County water authorities | |
AB 1406 | Wolk-D Mosquito abatement: West Nile Virus | |
AB 1427 | Maddox-R Biosolids: study | |
AB 1462 | Salinas-D Farmworker housing | |
AB 1522 | Parra-D Water rights: permits | |
AB 1546 | Simitian-D Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management | |
AB 1647 | Jerome Horton-D Public water systems: mutual water companies: grant funds | |
AB 1659 | Shirley Horton-R Gray water recycling irrigation systems | |
AB 1672 | Cogdill-R Emission reduction credits | |
AB 1703 | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Water trades | |
AB 1722 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee State Agricultural Labor Relations Board | |
AB 1725 | Matthews-D Structural pest control: violations | |
AB 1726 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Agriculture: certified farmers' markets | |
AB 1809 | La Malfa-R Commercial motor vehicle: weight fee exclusion | |
AB 1896* | Jerome Horton-D Agricultural inspectors | |
AB 1908 | Canciamilla-D Water corporations | |
AB 1926 | Bermudez-D Trapping licenses: exemptions | |
AB 1934 | Leslie-R Bear Lake Reservoir: recreational use | |
AB 1961 | Harman-R Ocean surf area lifesaving standards | |
AB 1982 | Wolk-D Wildlife management areas: mosquito abatement | |
AB 1983 | Wolk-D State Reclamation Board | |
AB 2054 | Wolk-D Biologically integrated farming systems: pilot projects | |
AB 2055 | Wolk-D General plan elements | |
AB 2063* | Negrete McLeod-D Resource conservation: Chino Agricultural Preserve | |
AB 2072 | Wyland-R Vessels: prohibited activities: Caulerpa Taxifolia | |
AB 2074 | Runner-R Fairs: report | |
AB 2121 | Assembly Budget Committee Water resources | |
AB 2141 | Longville-D Floodplain management: Alluvial Fan Task Force | |
AB 2165* | Houston-R Disaster relief | |
AB 2197 | Aghazarian-R Dam and reservoir regulation | |
AB 2243 | Vargas-D County water authorities: board of directors | |
AB 2257 | Salinas-D The California Pepper Commission | |
AB 2260 | Nakanishi-R Streambed alteration agreements | |
AB 2279 | Dymally-D Irrigation districts | |
AB 2298 | Plescia-R Public water systems: water meters | |
AB 2342 | Jackson-D Drinking water: public health goals | |
AB 2422 | La Malfa-R Water use fees | |
AB 2439 | Haynes-R Canyon Lake Reservoir: recreational use | |
AB 2470 | Kehoe-D Water conservation programs | |
AB 2478 | Cogdill-R Milk | |
AB 2528 | Lowenthal-D Public water systems | |
AB 2529 | Kehoe-D Water quality: marine managed areas | |
AB 2566 | Nakano-D Boating: noise levels | |
AB 2572 | Kehoe-D Water meters | |
AB 2636 | Strickland-R Boating and Waterways Commission | |
AB 2653 | Strickland-R Vessels: safety education: funding | |
AB 2655 | Bates-R Agreements: accuracy standards | |
AB 2665 | Leslie-R Harbors and ports: funding | |
AB 2668 | Salinas-D Watershed protection and flood control projects | |
AB 2672 | Simitian-D Large passenger vessels: sewage | |
AB 2717 | Laird-D California Urban Water Conservation Council: stakeholders | |
AB 2733 | Strickland-R Water resources | |
AB 2734* | Strickland-R Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency | |
AB 2745 | Strickland-R Animal diseases: quarantines: Contagious Equine Metritis | |
AB 2755 | Strickland-R Ventura County Watershed Protection District | |
AB 2767 | Richman-R State Department of Water Resources: electricity purchases | |
AB 2808 | Canciamilla-D State comprehensive plan | |
AB 2834 | Canciamilla-D Santa Margarita Water District & Irvine Ranch Water District | |
AB 2864 | Canciamilla-D Water rights: fees | |
AB 2883 | Diaz-D Santa Clara Valley Water District | |
AB 2884 | Calderon-D California regional water quality control boards: abatement | |
AB 2916 | Negrete McLeod-D Milk products: licensing fees | |
AB 2918 | Laird-D Desalination facilities | |
AB 2920 | Laird-D Nursery stock | |
AB 2999 | Lieber-D Retail and wholesale food: beef labeling and information | |
AB 3024 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Seed law | |
AB 3025 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Agriculture | |
AB 3028 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Pesticide mill assessment | |
AB 3030 | Assembly Agriculture Committee State Veterinarian employees: continuing education | |
AB 3031 | Matthews-D Milk | |
AB 3039 | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Ocean use planning: California Coastal Act | |
AB 3045 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Milk: inspection fees | |
AB 3046 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Milk inspection | |
AB 3084 | Jerome Horton-D Metropolitan water districts: contracting | |
ACA 10 | Harman-R Local government: property-related fees | |
ACR 20 | Aghazarian-R California Agriculture Week | |
ACR 213 | Wiggins-D Filipino farmworkers | |
AJR 65 | Bogh-R Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians: water rights | |
HR 44 | Matthews-D National Agriculture Week |