BILL NUMBER: SB 1330	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 12300 of the Fish and Game Code, relating
to Native Americans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1330, as introduced, Galgiani. California Indian tribe members.

   Existing law, except as specified, exempts members of California
Indian tribes from laws regulating fish and wildlife while on the
tribal reservation.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12300 of the Fish and Game Code is amended to
read:
   12300.  (a) Notwithstanding any other  provision of
 law, the provisions of this code are not applicable to 
a member of a  California  Indians whose names are
  Indian tribe whose name is  inscribed upon the
tribal  rolls,   roll,  while on the
reservation of that tribe and under those circumstances in this state
where the code was not applicable to them immediately before the
effective date of Public Law 280, Chapter 505, First Session, 1953,
83d Congress of the United States.
   (b)  No Indian   A member of a California
Indian tribe  described in subdivision (a)shall  not 
be prosecuted for  the   a  violation
 of any provision  of this code occurring in the
places and under the circumstances described in subdivision (a).
Nothing in this section, however, prohibits or restricts the
prosecution of  an Indian   any member of a
California Indian tribe  for the violation of a provision of
this code prohibiting the sale of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, or
reptile.