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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 288
Author: Levine (D)
Amended: 1/9/14 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER COMMITTEE : 8-1, 6/10/14
AYES: Pavley, Cannella, Evans, Hueso, Jackson, Lara, Monning,
Wolk
NOES: Fuller
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 5-0, 8/14/14
AYES: De Le�n, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
NO VOTE RECORDED: Walters, Gaines
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 69-2, 1/27/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Coastal Commission: meeting notices
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the California Coastal Commission
(CCC) to make the notice of any public meeting or hearing
available in both English and Spanish. It further authorizes
but does not require the CCC to make the notice available in any
other language.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
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1.Provides that, existing law under the Division of Oil, Gas and
Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation
regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and
abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state.
2.Requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to supervise the
drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and
the operation, maintenance and removal or abandonment of tanks
and facilities related to oil and gas production within an oil
and gas field so as to prevent, as far as possible, damage to,
among other things, underground and surface waters suitable
for irrigation or domestic purposes by the infiltration of, or
the addition of, detrimental substances.
This bill requires the CCC to make the notice of any public
meeting or hearing available in both English and Spanish. It
further authorizes but does not require the CCC to make the
notice available in any other language.
Background
The major purpose of the CCC is to make permit decisions
regarding development in the coastal zone. To that end, it
reviews local coastal programs prepared by local governments and
submitted for CCC approval, and reviews federal activities that
affect the coastal zone.
Prior to a CCC hearing at which a permit application will be
heard, existing law requires the Commission's executive director
to provide at least 10 days' notice (a) to all affected cities
and counties; (b) to all public agencies which have
jurisdiction, by law, with respect to the proposed project; (c)
to all persons who have requested notice; and (d) to all persons
known by the executive director to have a particular interest in
the application.
Hearing notices of the CCC are required to contain: (a) the
number assigned to the permit application; (b) a description of
the application's proposed development and location; and (c) the
date, time and place at which the application will be heard by
the CCC and other provisions.
The State Water Resources Control Board is required to post its
notices in Spanish and may post its notices in other languages.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Annual costs between $15,840 and $52,800 from the General Fund
to the commission for Spanish translation services.
Ongoing cost pressures at least in the thousands to tens of
thousands of dollars from the General Fund for translation
services into languages other than Spanish and English and for
the translation of additional documents.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/15/14)
Marin County Board of Supervisors/Coastal Commission Member,
Steve Kinsey
Promotoras Verdes (Green Promoters)
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to Marin County Supervisor
Steve Kinsey, this bill " will allow Spanish-speaking
individuals the same opportunity that the State Water Resource
Control Board and all California Regional Water Quality Control
Boards currently provide as a result of Senator Wright's SB 965
legislation that was signed into law in 2011. With each
incremental expansion of public notices in the Spanish language,
we are expanding the ability of nearly 10 million
Spanish-speaking Californians to participate in our civic
affairs in the most culturally inclusive manner."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 69-2, 1/27/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Linder, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Melendez,
Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams,
Yamada, John A. P�rez
NOES: Donnelly, Beth Gaines
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NO VOTE RECORDED: Allen, Jones, Logue, Mansoor, Nestande,
Olsen, Patterson, V. Manuel P�rez, Wilk
RM:e 8/15/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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