BILL NUMBER: AB 23	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to repeal Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of
Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire
prevention.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 23, as introduced, Donnelly. State responsibility areas: fire
prevention fees.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire
Protection, on or before September 1, 2011, to adopt emergency
regulations to establish a fire prevention fee in an amount not to
exceed $150 to be charged on each structure on a parcel that is
within a state responsibility area, as defined, and requires that the
fire prevention fee be adjusted annually using prescribed methods.
Existing law requires the State Board of Equalization to collect the
fire prevention fees, as prescribed, commencing with the 2011-12
fiscal year. Existing law establishes the State Responsibility Area
Fire Prevention Fund and prohibits the collection of fire prevention
fees if, commencing with the 2012-13 fiscal year, there are
sufficient amounts of moneys in the fund to finance specified fire
prevention activities for a fiscal year. Existing law requires that
the fire prevention fees collected, except as provided, be deposited
into the fund and be made available, to the board and the Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection for certain specified fire protection
activities that benefit the owners of structures in state
responsibility areas who are required to pay the fee. Existing law
further requires the board, on and after January 1, 2013, to submit
an annual written report to the Legislature on specified topics.
   This bill would repeal the above provisions relating to the fire
prevention fees.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to repeal the fire
prevention fee imposed pursuant to Chapter 1.5 (commencing with
Section 4210) of Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code.
  SEC. 2.  Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of Part 2 of
Division 4 of the Public Resources Code is repealed.