BILL NUMBER: AB 2165	CHAPTERED  09/25/04

	CHAPTER  778
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 25, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 7, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Houston
   (Principal coauthor:  Senator Poochigian)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aghazarian, Matthews, and Nakanishi)

   (Coauthor:  Senator Machado)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2004

   An act to add Section 8686.1 to the Government Code, relating to
disaster relief, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2165, Houston.  Disaster relief.
   The Natural Disaster Assistance Act generally provides that the
state share for disaster project allocations to local agencies is 75%
of total state eligible costs, except for specified events for which
the state share is 100% of state eligible costs.
   This bill would add the Middle River levee break that occurred in
San Joaquin County in June 2004, to the events for which the state
share of state eligible cost is 100%.
  This 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.  Section 8686.1 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8686.1.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8686, the
state share shall be up to 100 percent of total state eligible costs
connected with the Middle River levee break in San Joaquin County
that occurred in June 2004.
   (b) For the disaster that the Legislature has designated in
subdivision (a), the state shall assume the increased share specified
in subdivision (a) if the Federal Emergency Management Agency or
another applicable federal agency has approved the federal share of
costs.
   (c) The state shall make no allocation for any project application
resulting in a state share of less than two thousand five hundred
dollars ($2,500) under this section.
  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 timely provide essential relief to those persons who
have suffered damage or loss as a result of the Middle River levee
break that occurred in San Joaquin County in June 2004 it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.