BILL NUMBER: SB 58	CHAPTERED  07/23/01

	CHAPTER  89
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 23, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 20, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 2, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 5, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alpert
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Harman)

                        JANUARY 4, 2001

   An act to repeal Section 6600 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to ocean fishery research.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 58, Alpert.  California Ocean Resources Enhancement and
Hatchery Program.
   (1) Existing law, until January 1, 2003, establishes the
California Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program for the
purpose of basic and applied research on the artificial propagation,
rearing, stocking, and distribution of adversely affected marine fish
species that are important to sport or commercial fishing in the
ocean waters off the coast of California south of a line extending
due west from Point Arguello.  Existing law also provides for funding
of the program from the revenues derived from fees for ocean fishing
enhancement stamps, which are required of persons taking fish, as
specified, in those ocean waters.  Under existing law, those fees are
deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, and are available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of the
program.
   This bill would extend the program indefinitely.  Because existing
law makes a violation of the provisions requiring fishing stamps a
crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by
extending a crime that otherwise would be repealed.
  (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 6600 of the Fish and Game Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution because the
only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district
will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction,
eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime
or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government
Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of
Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.