BILL NUMBER: SB 562	CHAPTERED  04/11/08

	CHAPTER  4
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 11, 2008
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  APRIL 11, 2008
	PASSED THE SENATE  APRIL 1, 2008
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 12, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 1, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wiggins
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Berg)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2007

   An act to add Section 6217.3 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to public resources, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 562, Wiggins. Public resources: salmon and steelhead:
protection: fishery restoration.
   (1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood
Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (bond act), an
initiative bond act that was approved by the voters at the November
7, 2006, statewide general election, among other things, makes
$180,000,000 in bond funds available to the Department of Fish and
Game (department) for bay-delta and coastal fishery restoration
projects. Of those funds, up to $45,000,000 are available for
appropriation for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration
projects that support the development and implementation of species
recovery plans and strategies for salmonid species listed as
threatened or endangered under state or federal law.
   This bill would appropriate $5,293,000 of the $45,000,000
available from the bond act to the department for the purposes of
coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects and the
Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan. The department would be permitted
to allocate no more than $2,520,000 for the purposes of the Coastal
Salmonid Monitoring Plan, and with the exception of the Coastal
Salmonid Monitoring Plan, the department would be required to follow
a specified process in expending the funds.
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Appropriation: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 6217.3 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   6217.3.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood
Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative
approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general
election, makes available the sum of one hundred eighty million
dollars ($180,000,000) in bond funds for bay-delta and coastal
fishery restoration projects.
   (2) Of the funds made available, up to forty-five million dollars
($45,000,000) is available for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery
restoration projects that support the development and implementation
of species recovery plans and strategies for salmonid species listed
as threatened or endangered under state or federal law.
   (b) From the forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000) available
for coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 75050, five million two
hundred ninety-three thousand dollars ($5,293,000) is appropriated to
the Department of Fish and Game for the purposes of coastal salmon
and steelhead fishery restoration projects, including the Coastal
Salmonid Monitoring Plan. The Department of Fish and Game shall not
allocate more than two million five hundred twenty thousand dollars
($2,520,000) of these funds for the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan.

   (c) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the process
governing the expenditure of funds described in Section 6217.1 shall
be applied to the expenditure of all funds allocated by the
Department of Fish and Game pursuant to subdivision (b).
   (2) The funds allocated to the Coastal Salmonid Monitoring Plan
are exempt from the requirements of Section 6217.1.
   (3) If there is a conflict between a provision of this section and
a provision of Division 43 (commencing with Section 75001), the
provision of Division 43 shall govern.
  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:
   An appropriation is needed as soon as possible in order for the
state to qualify for federal matching funds to finance coastal salmon
and steelhead fishery restoration projects, it is therefore
necessary that this act go into immediate effect.