BILL NUMBER: AB 1106	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 600 of the Public Resources Code, relating
to conservation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1106, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. Department of Conservation:
Director of Conservation.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Conservation in the
Natural Resources Agency and provides that the department succeeds to
and is vested with all of the duties, powers, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction formerly vested in the Department
of Natural Resources or the Director of Natural Resources and
exercised by specified divisions of that department. Existing law
also provides that the department is under the control of an
executive officer known as the Director of Conservation, who is
appointed by and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   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 600 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   600.  As used in this  chapter, "department" 
 chapter: 
    (a)     "Department"  means the
Department of  Conservation and "director"  
Conservation. 
    (b)     "Director"  means the Director
of Conservation.