BILL NUMBER:  AB 444
  VETOED	DATE: 10/12/2009




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 444 without my signature.

Although I am supportive of this bill's effort to allow
non-governmental entities to manage funds set aside for the long-term
management of lands and easements, authorizing them to hold funds
without adequate fiscal assurances, as this bill would provide, is
unacceptable.

I am directing the Department of Fish and Game to work with the
Author and interested parties toward developing an alternative that
provides sufficient protections for the financial and environmental
resources subject to third-party agreements.

For this reason I am unable to sign this bill.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger