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          SENATE THIRD READING
          SB 71 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
          As Amended March 14, 2011
          2/3 vote.  Urgency 

           SENATE VOTE  :Vote not relevant  
           
           SUMMARY  :  This is the Resources Trailer Bill for the Budget Act 
          of 2011.  It makes various changes necessary to implement the 
          Budget Act of 2011.  Specifically,  this bill  : 

          1)Ensures the continuing cleanup of Santa Susanna Field 
            Laboratory (per existing statute) and allows for the 
            California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process in the new 
            agreements with the federal agencies to occur while 
            prohibiting the transfer of toxic lands to the state. 

          2)Requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to 
            report by January 10 of every year on its interactions with a 
            newly established foundation, the "CPUC Foundation," including 
            any endorsements, funding, and actual and proposed 
            expenditures by the CPUC, its officers or its staff with the 
            CPUC Foundation.

          3)Authorizes the State Water Board and the regional water 
            quality control boards to include the regulatory and 
            programmatic costs for the development of water quality 
            control plans ("basin plans") as recoverable costs.
          
          4)Requires the Governor to submit a zero-based fiscal year 
            budget and programmatic review for 2012-13 for all state 
            agency programs that implement water and ecosystem restoration 
            activities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta), 
            including those related to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program.  

          5)Eliminates state support for the California Network of Fairs 
            including the annual transfer from the General Fund (GF).  
            Repeals provisions related to the fairs including reporting, 
            auditing, and program management, as well as technical changes 
            necessary to remove state support for the program.

          6)Provides for a monthly transfer from the Motor Vehicle Fuel 
            Account to the GF in order to implement a reduction to the 
            Off-Highway Vehicle program.








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          7)Provides criteria for determining which units of the State 
            Park System will be closed in order to implement the approved 
            State Parks reduction.  Provides liability assurances for 
            parks that are closed, partially closed and those with service 
            reductions.


          8)Adds an urgency clause allowing this bill to take effect 
            immediately upon enactment.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   Enactment of this bill results in over $65 
          million in GF solutions, as assumed in the 2011-12 Budget Act.


           Analysis Prepared by  :   Christian Griffith / BUDGET / (916) 
          319-2099

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