BILL NUMBER: SB 520	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Bigelow)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to repeal Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of
Part 2 of Division 4 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire
prevention.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 520, as introduced, Berryhill. State responsibility areas: fire
prevention fees.
   Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire
Protection to adopt regulations to establish a fire prevention fee in
an amount not to exceed $150 to be charged on each habitable
structure on a parcel that is within a state responsibility area, as
defined, and requires that the fire prevention fee be adjusted
annually using prescribed methods. Existing law requires the State
Board of Equalization to collect the fire prevention fees, as
prescribed. Existing law establishes the State Responsibility Area
Fire Prevention Fund and prohibits the collection of fire prevention
fees if there are sufficient amounts of moneys in the fund to finance
specified fire prevention activities for a fiscal year. Existing law
requires that the fire prevention fees collected, except as
provided, be deposited into the fund and be made available to the
board and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for certain
fire protection activities that benefit the owners of habitable
structures in state responsibility areas who are required to pay the
fee. Existing law further requires the board to submit an annual
written report to the Legislature on specified topics relating to the
fund.
   This bill would repeal 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.  Chapter 1.5 (commencing with Section 4210) of Part 2 of
Division 4 of the Public Resources Code is repealed.