BILL NUMBER: SB 317	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Rubio

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to add Section 1506 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to
fisheries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 317, as amended, Rubio. Kings River Fisheries Management
Program.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to enter
into contracts for fish and wildlife habitat preservation,
restoration, and enhancement with public and private entities
whenever the department finds that the contracts will assist in
meeting the department's duty to preserve, protect, and restore fish
and wildlife.
   Former law, repealed by its own provisions on January 1, 2011,
adopted and authorized a fisheries management program described in
the Kings River Fisheries Management Program Framework Agreement.
That former law authorized the department to contribute up to 50% of
any capital costs incurred by local agencies for the recreation and
fish and wildlife features of the program.
   This bill would reenact those provisions, to be operative
indefinitely  , and would require that   expenditures
made pursuant to those provisions only be funded, upon appropriation
by the Legislature, from the Hatcher   y and Inland
Fisheries Fund  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1506 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to
read:
   1506.   (a)    The fisheries management program
described in the Kings River Fisheries Management Program Framework
Agreement, effective May 28, 1999, and amended June 26, 2009, is
adopted and authorized. The department may contribute up to 50
percent of any capital costs incurred by local agencies for the
recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement features of the program.

   (b) Expenditures made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall only be
funded, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Hatchery and
Inland Fisheries Fund, created pursuant to Section 13007.