BILL NUMBER: AB 681	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  574
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 8, 2011
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 8, 2011
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 7, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 22, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 25270.11 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to aboveground storage tanks.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 681, Wieckowski. Aboveground storage tanks: funds.
   Existing law makes the Environmental Protection Trust Fund and the
training account in that fund inoperative as of July 1, 2011, and
repeals the fund and account as of January 1, 2012. Until July 1,
2011, existing law authorizes the expenditure of a portion of the
moneys in the Environmental Protection Trust Fund, upon appropriation
by the Legislature, for purposes of a training account established
and maintained by the Secretary for Environmental Protection and
allocates all remaining funds to the unified program agencies for
expenditure to implement the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act.
   This bill would make the fund and account operative until July 1,
2013, and would repeal the fund and the account on January 1, 2014.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 25270.11 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   25270.11.  (a) All moneys in the Environmental Protection Trust
Fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the
following manner:
   (1) A portion of the funds, in an amount determined by the
secretary in consultation with the UPAs, to a training account
established and maintained by the secretary, to be used for purposes
of training UPA personnel in the requirements of this chapter.
   (2) All remaining funds in the Environmental Protection Trust
Fund, shall be allocated to the UPAs, in accordance with a formula
and process determined by the secretary in consultation with the
UPAs. The UPAs shall expend those funds for the purpose of
implementing this chapter. Eighty percent or less of each UPA's
allocation may be distributed to the UPA in advance of actual
expenditure by the UPA.
   (b) All moneys remaining in the training account established
pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), as of June 1, 2013, may
be expended pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), upon
appropriation by the Legislature.
   (c) All moneys remaining in the Environmental Protection Trust
Fund that have not been expended, as of June 1, 2013, shall be
deposited into the Unified Program Account created pursuant to
Section 25404.5 and expended pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a), upon appropriation by the Legislature.
   (d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013, and, as
of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2014, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.