Amended in Senate August 17, 2016

Amended in Senate August 2, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2896

Introduced by Assembly Member begin delete Roger Hernández end delete begin insert Eduardo  end insert begin insert Garcia end insert

March 1, 2016

An act begin delete to amend Section 1684 of the Labor Code, relating to private employment. end delete begin insert relating to water, and making an appropriation therefor. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2896, as amended, begin delete Roger Hernández end delete   begin insert Eduardo Garcia end insert . begin delete Farm labor contractors: license: payment. end delete begin insert Water quality: funding for planning, environmental, and design documents: Salton Sea. end insert

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Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, referred to as the state act. The state act imposes various penalties for a violation of its requirements. The state act requires specified penalties be deposited into the Waste Discharge Permit Fund and separately accounted. The state act requires moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the state board for the purposes of the act.

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This bill would appropriate $1,400,000 from the fund to the state board to provide grants and enter into contracts for the development of planning, environmental, and design documents in furtherance of projects to eliminate public health and safety risks from drainage of wastewater, agricultural runoff, and runoff from urbanized areas into tributaries of the Salton Sea.

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Existing law requires farm labor contractors to be licensed by the Labor Commissioner and to comply with specified employment laws applicable to farm labor contractors. Existing law requires farm labor contractors to pay license fees to the Labor Commissioner, and continuously appropriates a portion of the fee revenues from the Farmworker Remedial Account for enforcement and verification purposes.

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This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to accept a credit card charge as a method of payment for those license fees, as provided.

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Vote:  begin delete majority end delete begin insert ²⁄₃ end insert . Appropriation:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . Fiscal committee:  begin delete no end delete begin insert yes end insert . State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 13264,
subdivision (f) of Section 13268, subdivision (k) of Section 13350,
and paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 13385 of the Water
Code, one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) is
hereby appropriated to the State Water Resources Control Board
from the moneys deposited into, and separately accounted for, in
the Waste Discharge Permit Fund pursuant to the balance of
penalty revenues generated by the imposition of liabilities pursuant
to subdivision (c) of Section 13264, subdivision (f) of Section
13268, subdivision (k) of Section 13350, and paragraph (2) of
subdivision (n) of Section 13385 of the Water Code. The moneys
appropriated pursuant to this section are available to the State
Water Resources Control Board to provide grants or to enter into
contracts for the development of planning, environmental, and
design documents in furtherance of projects to eliminate public
health and safety risks from drainage of wastewater, agricultural
runoff, and runoff from urbanized areas into tributaries of the
Salton Sea. end insert

All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the bill as amended in the Senate, August 2, 2016. (JR11)