AB 2677, as introduced, Rodriguez. Oil Spill Response Trust Fund.
The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response, including emergency drills and preparedness, and oil spill containment and cleanup, and to represent the state in any coordinated response efforts with the federal government. Existing law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the administrator generally for the purposes of covering costs of response, containment, and cleanup of oil spills into marine waters.
This bill would prohibit the use of moneys in the fund for any purpose other than the oil spill response and cleanup activities authorized by the administrator pursuant to these provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 8670.46 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) The Oil Spill Response Trust Fund is hereby
2created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340, the
3money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the administrator
4for expenditure, without regard to fiscal years, for the purposes of
5this article.
6(b) No loan, expenditure, or other use of moneys in the fund
7shall be made for any purpose other than the oil spill response
8and clean up activities authorized by the administrator pursuant
9to this article.
10(b)
end delete
11begin insert(c)end insert For the purposes of this article, “fund” refers to the Oil Spill
12Response Trust Fund.
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