BILL NUMBER: AB 1242	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 14, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 4, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member Wiggins  
Members Wiggins and Florez 
    (Coauthor:  Senator Chesbro) 
    (Principal coauthor:  Senator Costa) 
    (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Hollingsworth, Rod Pacheco, and
Zettel) 
    (Coauthors:  Senators Alpert, Battin, Bowen, Chesbro, Haynes,
Johannessen, Kuehl, Machado, Poochigian, Soto, and Torlakson) 

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act relating to the glassy-winged sharpshooter, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1242, as amended, Wiggins.  Pest control:  glassy-winged
sharpshooter.
   Existing law generally creates programs in the Department of Food
and Agriculture for eradication of Pierce's disease and its vector
the glassy-winged sharpshooter.
   This bill would state various findings and declarations relating
to the glassy-winged sharpshooter and Pierce's disease and their
effect on the wine and grape industry.
   This bill would appropriate  $7,140,000 in  federal funds
made available to the department  ,  to the
Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, to be distributed via
grants, as specified.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  yes.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares the following:
   (a) California is the leading producer of wine in the United
States, accounting for 91 percent of the total United States wine
production and 72 percent of total wine sales.
   (b) The glassy-winged sharpshooter is a potent vector for Pierce's
disease that has the potential to harm California's multibillion
dollar wine industry by transmitting the bacterium Xylella
Fastidiosa.  This bacterium destroys wine grape plants by shutting
down the plant's ability to take up water and nutrients.
   (c) To date, the glassy-winged sharpshooter and the resulting
Pierce's disease have destroyed millions of dollars of California's
most productive wine and table grape vines.  This has resulted in
rural unemployment and severely threatens local rural economies.
  SEC. 2.   Federal   The sum of seven million
one hundred forty thousand dollars ($7,140,000) in federal 
funds made available to the Department of Food and Agriculture
pursuant to Public Law 106-224, and pursuant to regulations and
guidelines adopted thereunder, to compensate grape growers for vine
losses resulting from Pierce's disease spread by the glassy-winged
sharpshooter, are hereby appropriated to the Department of Food and
Agriculture Fund for distribution via individual grants  and to
cover reasonable administrative costs  in accordance with
criteria established by the department, consistent with federal
guidelines.  
   Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for
expenditure by the department until September 30, 2003. 
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to restore rural economic stability to grape production
areas of California at the earliest possible time, it is necessary
for this act to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.