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          Bill No:  SB 861
          Author:   Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
          Amended:  6/13/14
          Vote:     21


          PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT 

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Not available


           SUBJECT  :    Budget Trailer Bill:  Public Resources

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill makes various changes to implement the  
          resources, environmental protection, energy, and agriculture  
          budget actions adopted as part of the 2014-15 Budget package.

           Assembly Amendments  delete the Senate version of this bill,  
          which expressed legislative intent to enact statutory changes  
          relating to the Budget Act, and instead add the current  
          language.

           ANALYSIS  :    This bill includes the following key changes:

           1.Amendment for New Solar Homes Partnership  .  Includes a  
            technical amendment taken by the Senate Budget and Fiscal  
            Review Committee on June 15, 2014, related to the financial  
            components of the California Solar Initiative, including the  
            New Solar Homes Partnership, and the Electric Program  
            Investment Charge.  The amendment requires the Public  
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            Utilities Commission to be notified by the Energy Commission  
            that other funding sources for the program have been exhausted  
            before requiring those electrical corporations to continue  
            administration of the program until the monetary limit is  
            reached.

           2.Climate Resilience Account  .  Establishes the Climate  
            Resilience Account to provide additional funding to  
            specifically address the risk and impacts of climate change,  
            sea level rise, and associated extreme events.

           3.Climate Assessment  .  Allows the Environmental License Plate  
            Fund to be used for climate assessment.

           4.Drinking Water Reorganization  .  Provides the necessary  
            statutory authority to transfer the drinking water program  
            from the Department of Public Health to the State Water  
            Resources Control Board including merging of loan programs.

           5.Seismic Mapping  .  Allows the Strong-Motion Instrumentation and  
            Seismic Hazards Mapping Fund to fund the Alquist-Priolo  
            seismic mapping program and increases the amount assessed on  
            building permit fees that provide revenues to the Fund.

           6.Oil Spill Response  .  Authorizes the Oil Spill Prevention and  
            Administration Fund to be used for inland oil response,  
            eliminates the fee sunset, and expands the fee base to include  
            all crude oil entering the state.

           7.Hydraulic Fracturing  .  Provides necessary statutory cleanup  
            related to hydraulic fracturing regulations at the State Water  
            Resources Control Board including specifying that regulations  
            finalized on or before January 1, 2015, become effective July  
            1, 2015, and makes technical changes to the authority of the  
            Board related to area-specific ground water monitoring  
            programs.

           8.Enforcement of Marijuana Cultivation  .  Allows the Waste  
            Discharge Permit Fund and Department of Fish and Wildlife  
            civil penalty revenues to be used to pay back a loan from the  
            Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund, which is to be  
            used for the enforcement of environmental damage from  
            marijuana activities over the next three years.


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           9.Recycling Audits  .  Allows for audits of beverage manufacturers  
            and distributors to be reviewed every five years, rather than  
            three years, allowed under current statute.

           10.Rubberized Tire Chip Seals  .  Clarifies that rubberized chip  
            seal projects are eligible for project funding, in addition to  
            currently allowed asphalt concrete, within the tire recycling  
            programs.

           11.Parks Revenue Generation and Capital Projects  .  Extends the  
            revenue generation program at the Department of Parks and  
            Recreation for five years and re-establishes the Parks Project  
            Revolving Fund to allow capital outlay funds longer  
            encumbrance periods upon transfer to the fund.  Clarifies that  
            the State Park Contingent Fund, used for private donations to  
            parks, is continued.

           12.Fisheries Restoration Grants  .  Specifies that existing  
            restoration grants be prioritized to the Fisheries Restoration  
            Grant Program at the Department of Fish and Wildlife and to  
            grant programs administered by state conservancies.

           13.Coastal Permitting  .  Authorizes the California Coastal  
            Commission to impose an administrative civil penalty, by  
            majority vote and at a duly noticed public hearing, on a  
            person who intentionally and knowingly violates the public  
            access provisions of the California Coastal Act.

           14.Lumber Assessment  .  Codifies the Board of Equalization  
            retailer reimbursement regulations that were approved on  
            September 10, 2013.

           15.Local Conservation Corps  .  Diversifies the Local Conservation  
            Corps funding under the Department of Resources Recycling and  
            Recovery, and creates a separate statutory section to continue  
            the program.

           16.Environmental Justice Grants  .  Increases the cap on  
            environmental justice grants distributed by the Secretary for  
            Environmental Protection from $20,000 to $50,000 and  
            authorizes the award of up to $1.5 million for this purpose.

           17.Self-Generated Incentive Program  .  Extends the sunset date  
            for the program by five years and makes various technical  

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            changes and program reforms to specify eligibility for  
            incentives under the program limited to distributed energy  
            resource technologies.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes    
          Local:  Yes


          JA:e  6/15/14   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  NONE RECEIVED

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