BILL NUMBER: SB 1112	CHAPTERED  08/11/04

	CHAPTER  219
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 11, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 11, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 29, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 28, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 27, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

                        JANUARY 12, 2004

   An act to repeal Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 4138) of
Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to public resources, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1112, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review.  State
responsibility area fire protection benefit fee.
   Existing law imposes an annual state responsibility area fire
protection benefit fee, as specified, on each parcel of land located,
in whole or in part, within state responsibility areas, except on
certain parcels.  Existing law requires counties to collect the fees,
as prescribed, and creates the State Responsibility Area Fire
Protection Benefit Fund, into which the fees are deposited, to be
available, upon appropriation, for fire prevention and suppression
services by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  Existing
law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to convene
a stakeholder group to evaluate the method by which fire protection
and suppression services in state responsibility areas are provided,
and to make a specified report to the Legislature on or before
January 1, 2006.
   This bill would repeal the above provisions.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Article 3.5 (commencing with Section 4138 of Chapter 1
of Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to implement necessary statutory changes relating to the
Budget Act of 2004, it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately as an urgency statute.