BILL NUMBER: AB 1429	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro
   (Principal coauthors: Senators Evans and La Malfa)

                        MARCH 25, 2011

   An act to add Section 8686.5 to the Government Code, relating to
disaster relief, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1429, as introduced, Chesbro. Disaster relief: March 2011
tsunami.
   The California Disaster Assistance Act generally provides that the
state share for disaster project allocations to local agencies is
75% of total state eligible costs, except for specified events for
which the state share is 100% of state eligible costs.
   This bill would add the tsunami that occurred in Mendocino County
and Del Norte County in March 2011, to the events for which the state
share of state eligible cost is 100%.This bill would declare that it
is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 8686.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   8686.5.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8686, the
state share shall be up to 100 percent of total state eligible costs
connected with the tsunami that occurred in Mendocino County and Del
Norte County in March 2011.
   (b) For the disaster that the Legislature has designated in
subdivision (a), the state shall assume the increased share specified
in subdivision (a) if the Federal Emergency Management Agency or
another applicable federal agency has approved the federal share of
costs.
   (c) The state shall not make an allocation for any project
application resulting in a state share of less than two thousand five
hundred dollars ($2,500) under this section.
  SEC. 2.  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 timely provide essential relief to those persons who
have suffered damage or loss as a result of the tsunami that occurred
in Mendocino County and Del Norte County in March 2011, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.