BILL NUMBER: AB 1242	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  18
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 8, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  APRIL 6, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  MARCH 21, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 21, 2002
	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 Members Wiggins and Florez
   (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, 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, and to cover
administrative expenses directly related to the program, as
specified.
   The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


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 grapevines.  This has resulted in
rural unemployment and severely threatens local rural economies.
  SEC. 2.  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 in accordance with criteria
established by the department, consistent with federal guidelines.
The department may retain not more than 5 percent of the federal
allocation to cover administrative expenses directly related to the
program, including department overhead and third-party verifications.

   Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for
expenditure by the department until December 31, 2002.
  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.