BILL NUMBER: SB 1686	CHAPTERED  09/26/06

	CHAPTER  469
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 17, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 8, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kuehl

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2006

   An act to add Section 1356 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to
wildlife conservation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1686, Kuehl  Wildlife conservation: project impact on
greenhouse gases.
   Under the Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947, the Wildlife
Conservation Board may authorize the Department of Fish and Game or
the State Public Works Board to acquire real property, rights in real
property, water, or water rights for the benefit of wildlife. Under
that law, money in the Wildlife Restoration Fund, which is
continuously appropriated, is available for expenditure for those
purposes. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency
to establish the California Climate Action Registry (registry) as a
public benefit nonprofit corporation, and makes legislative findings
and declarations relating to the registry. Existing law requires the
registry to perform various functions, including, among other things,
the adoption of procedures and protocols for the reporting and
certification of greenhouse gas emission reductions resulting from a
project or an action of a participant in the registry.
   This bill would authorize the board, when it prioritizes the use
of available funds for proposed acquisitions, with regard to the
priority of a proposal to acquire forestland, to consider and take
into account the potential of that proposed acquisition to
beneficially reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions. The bill
would authorize the board to use information developed by the
registry as a basis for determining a project's potential to reduce
or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1356 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to
read:
   1356.  The board, when it prioritizes the use of available funds
for proposed acquisitions, with regard to the priority of a proposal
to acquire forestland, may consider and take into account the
potential of that proposed acquisition to beneficially reduce or
sequester greenhouse gas emissions. The board may use policies,
protocols, or other relevant information developed by the California
Climate Action Registry as a basis for determining a project's
potential to reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.