BILL NUMBER: AB 606 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 408
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 11, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 1, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Members Williams and Gorell
(Principal coauthor: Senator Jackson)
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
An act relating to environmental quality, making an appropriation
therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 606, Williams. Hueneme Beach shoreline protection.
Under existing law, the Division of Boating and Waterways has
powers and duties pertaining to beach erosion control, beach
stabilization, and beach repair and restoration.
Existing law establishes the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water,
Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Fund, available upon
appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of parks and resources
improvement. The fund makes moneys available to the State Coastal
Conservancy for specified purposes, including, but not limited to,
the acquisition, enhancement, restoration, protection, and
development of coastal resources, beaches, waterfronts, and public
accessways, as specified.
This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the Safe Neighborhood
Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Fund to
the State Coastal Conservancy for a grant to the City of Port
Hueneme. The bill would require funding to be allocated for emergency
measures along Hueneme Beach in the City of Port Hueneme to prevent
severe infrastructure damage to streets and property caused by beach
erosion and flooding, thereby making an appropriation.
This bill would make findings and declarations as to the necessity
of a special statute for Hueneme Beach.
This bill would become operative only if SB 436 is enacted and
takes effect on or before January 1, 2014.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) Funds are needed immediately for the City of Port Hueneme to
implement emergency measures to prevent significant damage caused by
severe erosion at Hueneme Beach to public infrastructure, public
roads that include a route identified by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency as feeding into a tsunami evacuation route, and
community areas.
(b) These funds are also needed to prevent down coast negative
impacts to the Ormond Beach Wetlands, a sensitive and ecologically
important public resource, to ensure that the environmental quality
of this unique estuary is protected.
(c) Given the sizeable waste that remains at the Halaco Superfund
Site, these funds are also critically needed to prevent downshore
erosion.
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other law, the sum of one million
dollars ($1,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the Safe
Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection
Bond Fund to the State Coastal Conservancy for a grant to the City of
Port Hueneme. The funding shall be allocated, pursuant to
subdivision (o) of Section 5096.310 of the Public Resources Code, for
emergency measures to prevent severe infrastructure damage to
streets and property located along the Hueneme Beach caused by beach
erosion and flooding. This appropriation shall only be used for
erosion control projects for which a permit has been approved by the
California Coastal Commission.
SEC. 3. The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the severe erosion occurring at Hueneme Beach that
threatens public infrastructure, public roads, and community areas.
SEC. 4. This act shall become operative only if Senate Bill 436 is
enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2014.
SEC. 5. 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:
To provide the necessary funding as soon as possible to implement
emergency measures designed to prevent severe infrastructure damage
to public infrastructure, public roads, and community areas
threatened by flooding as a result of severe erosion along Hueneme
Beach in the City of Port Hueneme, it is necessary for this measure
to take effect immediately.