BILL NUMBER: AB 1117	CHAPTERED  07/28/03

	CHAPTER  131
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 28, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 27, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 14, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 10, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Matthews and Cogdill

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to amend Section 8555 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to grazing lands.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1117, Matthews.   Grazing lands:  payments.
   Existing law requires specified money, related to grazing lands,
received by the state from the United States to be deposited in the
United States Grazing Fees Fund in the State Treasury.  Existing law
requires that money be paid to counties in which specified grazing
lands or districts are situated in the proportion to the area of the
parcel or district situated in the county bears to the total area of
the parcel or district, as specified.
   This bill would, instead, require the payments to each county from
the receipts of any given parcel of grazing lands or of any grazing
district be allocated in accordance with a payment schedule that
distributes the payments in the same manner and basis upon which the
fees were collected, as officially established by the United States
Secretary of the Interior.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 8555 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   8555.  All moneys received by the State of California from the
government of the United States pursuant to the act referred to in
Section 8551, or pursuant to any other act of Congress providing for
the distribution and payment to states and territories of a fixed and
definite percentage of the moneys received by the government of the
United States from grazing lands or districts acquired or established
therein by the government of the United States or by any officer or
instrumentality thereof, shall, on order of the Controller, be
deposited in the United States Grazing Fees Fund, which is hereby
established in the State Treasury.  That money shall be disposed of,
in accordance with the terms of that act of Congress, by the payment
of that money to the counties in which  those grazing lands or
districts are situated. The payments made to each county from the
receipts of any given parcel of grazing lands or of any grazing
district shall be allocated in accordance with a payment schedule
that distributes the payments in the same manner and basis upon which
the fees were collected, as officially established by the Secretary
of the Interior or other authorized official of the  government of
the United States.