BILL NUMBER: SB 470	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Evans

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 7861.1 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to commercial fishing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 470, as introduced, Evans. Commercial fishing: salmon stamp.
   Existing law prohibits specified persons from taking salmon for
commercial purposes unless the person has a commercial fishing salmon
stamp affixed to his or her commercial fishing license. Existing law
requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a commercial
fishing salmon stamp, upon application for the stamp and payment of a
base fee of $85. That base fee is required to be adjusted during
specified commercial salmon seasons. However, existing law prohibits
the total fees, as adjusted, from exceeding $260. Under existing law,
fee revenues are deposited in the Commercial Salmon Stamp Account in
the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, and the money in the account is
continuously appropriated to the department for new or expanded
salmon restoration and enhancement programs in the state that will
serve to increase ocean salmon landings. Existing law prohibits the
department from charging administrative overhead costs exceeding 3.3%
of the annual expenditures from the account. These provisions of
existing law are repealed as of January 1, 2012.
   This bill would decrease that administrative overhead cost limit
from 3.3% to 1% of the annual expenditures from the account.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 7861.1 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   7861.1.  The  department shall not charge the  Commercial
Salmon Stamp Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund 
shall not be charged  administrative overhead costs
exceeding  3.3   1  percent of the annual
expenditures from the account. Interest derived from the account
shall be deposited in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund to help
defray ongoing operational costs of the department.