Amended in Senate April 6, 2015

Senate Bill No. 718

Introduced by begin delete Senator end delete begin insert Senators end insert Leno begin insert and Hancock end insert

February 27, 2015

begin delete An act to amend Section 1 of the Fish and Game Code, relating to fish and wildlife. end delete begin insert An act to add Section 8670.48.4 to the Government Code, relating to fish and wildlife, and making an appropriation therefor. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 718, as amended, Leno. begin delete Fish and Game Code: name change. end delete begin insert Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount. end insert

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Existing law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for, among other purposes, providing funds to rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and dispose wildlife injured by an oil spill. Existing law establishes the Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount, a continuously appropriated subaccount in the Fish and Wildlife Pollution Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, for, among other purposes, the protection, preservation, and restoration of fish and wildlife impacted by discharges of hazardous materials into the environment of the state.

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This bill would authorize the administrator for oil spill response to loan moneys from the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund to the Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount in an amount, not to exceed $500,000 annually, necessary to reimburse wildlife rehabilitation centers for expenses incurred by rescue and rehabilitation stations for wildlife injured by nonoil spill-related events, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the administrator to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee of the loan.

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Existing law establishes the Fish and Game Code.

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This bill would rename the Fish and Game Code as the Fish and Wildlife Code and would require that any reference to the Fish and Game Code in that code or any other code means the Fish and Wildlife Code.

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Vote: majority. 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 SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 8670.48.4 is added to the end insert begin insert Government
Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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(a) (1) At the discretion of the administrator,
moneys may be loaned from the fund to the Hazardous Materials
Response and Restoration Subaccount, created pursuant to Section
13010 of the Fish and Game Code, in an amount, not to exceed
five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) annually, that is
necessary to reimburse wildlife rehabilitation centers for expenses
incurred by rescue and rehabilitation stations for wildlife injured
by nonoil spill-related events.

(2) The administrator shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee of any loans made pursuant to paragraph (1) at the
time of the loan.

(b) A loan made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a)
shall be repaid, with interest at the rate earned by the Pooled
Money Investment Account at the time of the loan, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, from either of the following:

(1) Moneys recovered from a party responsible for the nonoil
spill-related event.

(2) If no responsible party is found, the General Fund.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 1 of the Fish and Game Code is amended
to read:

1.  

This code shall be known as the Fish and Wildlife Code.
Any reference to the Fish and Game Code in this or any other code
means the Fish and Wildlife Code.

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