BILL NUMBER: AB 1097	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nestande

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 700 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to
fish and game.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1097, as introduced, Nestande. Department of Fish and Wildlife:
primary function.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife in
the Natural Resources Agency.
   This bill would state that the primary function of the department
is to provide services to persons who fish and hunt in the state.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 700 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   700.  (a) There is in the Natural Resources Agency a Department of
Fish and Wildlife administered through the director.  The
primary function of the department is to provide services to persons
who fish and hunt in the state. 
   (b) The Department of Fish and Wildlife shall succeed to, and is
vested with, all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities,
property, and jurisdiction previously vested in the Department of
Fish and Game.
   (c) Whenever the term "Department of Fish and Game" appears in a
law, the term means the "Department of Fish and Wildlife."
   (d) No existing supplies, forms, insignias, signs, logos,
uniforms, or emblems shall be destroyed or changed as a result of
changing the name of the Department of Fish and Game to the
Department of Fish and Wildlife, and those materials shall continue
to be used until exhausted or unserviceable.