BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 22, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Richard Gordon, Chair
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68 (Galgiani) - As Introduced May 26, 2015
SENATE VOTE: 40-0
SUBJECT: California Invasive Species Action Week.
SUMMARY: Declares June 6, 2015 to June 14, 2015, inclusive, as
the 2015 California Invasive Species Action Week and urges all
Californians to participate in activities that raise awareness
of invasive species issues and to take action to prevent their
spread. Specifically, this resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1)Invasive species which include plants, animals, insects,
diseases, and other biological organisms that are nonnative to
California, threaten California's environment, economy, water,
natural resources, agriculture, and climate adaptation.
2)The destructive impact of invasive species is profound,
affecting California's cropland, rangeland, forests, parks,
wildlands, and waterways, and causing enormous losses of
private, state, and federal resources through decreased land
productivity, degradation of wildlife habitat, and outright
destruction of crops, livestock, wetlands, watersheds, and
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recreational areas.
3)Scientists estimate the costs to prevent, monitor, and control
invasive species combined with the costs of damages to crops,
fisheries, forests, and other natural resources cost the
United States $137 billion annually.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916)
319-2800
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