BILL NUMBER:  AB 1429
  VETOED	DATE: 10/04/2011




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 1429 without my signature.

This measure would require the state to pay 100 percent of total
state eligible costs for damages sustained to Del Norte County by the
March 2011 tsunami.

The state has not paid for a local government's share of disaster
costs since 2006 and this measure would cost the state over $1
million.  In addition, if I sign this measure, other counties that
sustain similar damages would likely request the same relief -- a
precedent that the state currently cannot afford.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.