BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 27, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
Das Williams, Chair
SB
1473 (Committee on Natural Resources and Water) - As Amended
March 30, 2016
SENATE VOTE: 37-0
SUBJECT: Natural resources
SUMMARY: Makes procedural and technical changes to the Fish and
Game Code and deletes obsolete statutes.
EXISTING LAW:
1)Pursuant to Chapter 1700 of the Statutes of 1967, grants
specified state lands to the Cities of Santa Monica and Los
Angeles and Los Angeles County, subject to specified
conditions. Requires that if the conditions are not met, the
chapter becomes inoperative and the lands revert to the state.
2)Establishes the Fish and Game Code governing fish and wildlife
in California, including laws regarding the conservation and
management of fish and wildlife resources, and laws governing
the recreational and commercial take of game and nongame
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species. Specifies the duties, responsibilities, and
authorities of the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) and
the Fish and Game Commission (Commission).
3)Establishes the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), which
governs rulemaking procedures and standards for state agencies
in California. The requirements set forth in the APA are
designed to provide the public with a meaningful opportunity
to participate in the adoption of state regulations and to
ensure that regulations are clear, necessary, and legally
valid.
THIS BILL:
1)Repeals Chapter 1700 of 1967.
2)Clarifies that, except where otherwise expressly excluded, all
Commission regulations governing take or possession of wild
animals are subject to the general rulemaking procedures
specified in Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Division 1 of the Fish
and Game Code.
3)Revises and updates the regulatory procedures specified in
Article 1 to make the rules consistent with the requirements
of the APA.
4)Repeals several obsolete and superfluous provisions of the
Fish and Game Code and reorganizes other provisions.
5)Makes various related technical changes.
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FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, this bill has
negligible state costs.
COMMENTS: This bill is a committee omnibus bill that updates
and clarifies provisions of the Fish and Game Code based on
recommendations of the California Law Revision Commission
(CLRC). The changes are proposed to modernize the code by
conforming procedural rules to current practices and the APA,
improving organization of the code, and eliminating obsolete
provisions.
Additionally, the State Lands Commission (SLC) has asked the
Legislature to repeal Chapter 1700 of the Statutes of 1967,
which conditionally granted public trust lands to the Cities of
Santa Monica and Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. To become
operative, the grantee was required to submit a land use plan to
the SLC for approval. The plan was never submitted to SLC, and
the lands reverted back to the state. In order to clarify the
lands' ownership, this bill repeals this provision.
This bill has been double referred to the Assembly Water, Parks,
and Wildlife Committee, where it passed on a unanimous vote with
a recommendation to the consent calendar on June 14th.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
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State Lands Commission (sponsor, SLC provisions)
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Elizabeth MacMillan / NAT. RES. / (916)
319-2092