BILL NUMBER: AB 2268	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 102 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to
the Fish and Game Commission.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2268, as introduced, Bigelow. Fish and Game Commission.
   The California Constitution establishes the 5-member Fish and Game
Commission, with members appointed by the Governor and approved by
the Senate. Existing law requires the commissioners to annually elect
one of their number as vice president. Existing law prohibits the
vice president to serve more than 2 consecutive years.
   This bill would eliminate this prohibition.
   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 102 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   102.  (a) The commissioners shall annually elect one of their
number as president and one as vice president, by a concurrent vote
of at least three commissioners.
   (b) No president  or vice president  shall serve
more than two consecutive years.
   (c) The president or vice president may be removed from the
position of president or vice president by a vote, at any time, of at
least three commissioners.
   (d) In the event of a vacancy in either the position of president
or vice president, the commission shall fill that vacancy at the next
regularly scheduled meeting of the commission. The elected successor
president or vice president shall serve for the unexpired term of
the predecessor until the annual election pursuant to subdivision
(a).
   (e) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission may not
adopt or enforce a policy or a regulation that provides for the
president and vice president to be chosen by seniority nor may the
commission adopt or enforce any other policy or regulation that would
make a commissioner ineligible to be elected as president or vice
president of the commission.