BILL NUMBER: AB 2677	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rodriguez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 8670.46 of the Government Code, relating
to oil spills.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2677, as introduced, Rodriguez. Oil Spill Response Trust Fund.
   The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act
generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting
at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to
oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and
oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any
coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing
law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund in the State
Treasury. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the
administrator generally for the purposes of covering costs of
response, containment, and cleanup of oil spills into marine waters.
   This bill would prohibit the use of moneys in the fund for any
purpose other than the oil spill response and cleanup activities
authorized by the administrator pursuant to these provisions.
   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.  Section 8670.46 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   8670.46.  (a) The Oil Spill Response Trust Fund is hereby created
in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the money in
the fund is continuously appropriated to the administrator for
expenditure, without regard to fiscal years, for the purposes of this
article. 
   (b) No loan, expenditure, or other use of moneys in the fund shall
be made for any purpose other than the oil spill response and clean
up activities authorized by the administrator pursuant to this
article.  
   (b) 
    (c)  For the purposes of this article, "fund" refers to
the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund.