BILL NUMBER: AB 1230	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 2070 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to protected species.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1230, as introduced, Donnelly. Endangered species and
threatened species: establishment of lists.
   The California Endangered Species Act requires the Fish and Game
Commission to establish a list of endangered species and a list of
threatened species. The act requires the commission to add or remove
species from either list if it finds, upon the receipt of sufficient
scientific information pursuant to the act, that the action is
warranted.
   This bill, instead, would require the commission to add or remove
species based upon the receipt of adequate, rather than sufficient,
scientific information.
   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 2070 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   2070.  The commission shall establish a list of endangered species
and a list of threatened species. The commission shall add or remove
species from either list if it finds, upon the receipt of 
sufficient   adequate  scientific information
pursuant to this article, that the action is warranted.