BILL NUMBER: SB 230	CHAPTERED  06/12/06

	CHAPTER  42
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 12, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 12, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 1, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 22, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 15, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 18, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Figueroa

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   An act to repeal Section 8698.6 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to pests, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 230, Figueroa  Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program.
   Existing law provides that the Los Angeles County Agricultural
Commissioner or the Orange County Agricultural Commissioner may
contract with the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation
to perform increased structural fumigation, inspection, and
enforcement activities. Existing law authorizes the director to adopt
regulations to carry out these provisions and to levy a civil
penalty against a person violating these provisions. Under existing
law, these provisions would be repealed on July 1, 2006.
   This bill would extend these provisions indefinitely.
   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 8698.6 of the Business and Professions 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repealed.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 ensure that the Structural Fumigation Enforcement
Program continues in operation, it is necessary that this act take
effect immediately.