This report is divided into two sections. Section I provides summaries and the status of bills that staff has identified as priority issues for the 1996 Legislative session. Section II provides summaries of bills which staff has identified as coastal related, or possibly affecting the Commission and the coastal program.
Please contact Jeff Stump, Legislative Coordinator, at (916) 445-6067 with any questions on the material contained in this report.
AB 1332 (Knox and Sweeney) Environmental Quality: State Boards and Commissions: Eligibility
AB 1332 would prohibit a person from being able to serve on the California Coastal Commission, the Fish and Game Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission or the State Board of Forestry if that person has been subject of an enforcement action for a violation of the provisions of law for which the person would be responsible as a board or commission member, and the enforcement action had specified results.
Introduced - 02/23/95
Last Amend - 08/08/96
Status -
Passed Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee (7-4)
Passed Senate Rules Committee (3-1)
Failed to pass Senate
AB 1431 (Firestone) Ocean Resources: Cities and Counties: Financial Assistance
AB 1431 would require by April 15, 1997 the Secretary for Resources, in conjunction with the Coastal Commission, to develop and implement a competitive application process to award grants to coastal counties and cities with approved LCPs to help them improve the management of the state’s coastal resources. Commencing in 1997, 50 percent of the funds received by the state pursuant to Section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. Sec. 1337(g)) over the amount of funds received in the 1996 calendar year would be made available to the Secretary for such grants. Financial assistance provided pursuant to this legislation may not exceed 90 percent of total project costs.
Introduced - 02/24/95
Last Amend - 08/23/96
Status -
Signed by governor - Chapter , Statutes of 1996.
AB 2130 (McPherson) California State Mussel Watch Program
AB 2130 would require the State Water Resources Control Board, in conjunction with the Department of Fish and Game, to continue to implement a long-term coastal monitoring program known as the California State Mussel Watch Program.
Introduced - 02/5/96
Last Amend - 07/01/96
Status
Passed Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee (10-0)
Senate Appropriations Committee - Referred to Suspense Calendar
AB 2291 would require the State Board of Control to allow a claim for reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by an owner of any interest in real property or a public entity in a specified civil action in which the owner or public entity gives permission to the public to enter or use the property for recreational purposes, the owner or this public entity was a defendant in this civil action, and the court has dismissed the civil action upon a demurrer or motion for summary judgment made by this owner or public entity or the owner or public entity prevails in the civil action.
Position - SUPPORT
Introduced - 02/14/96
Last Amend - 07/09/96
Status- Signed by Governor - Chapter , Statutes of 1996
AB 2445 (McPherson) Coastal Development Permit Fees: Coastal Access Grants
AB 2445 would require that coastal development permit fees collected by the Commission be deposited in the coastal access account, which would be created in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund, for grants to public agencies and private nonprofit entities or organizations for the development, maintenance, and operation of new and existing facilities that provide public access to the shoreline of the sea. Any funds not expended for those purposes would revert to this account.
Position - SUPPORT
Introduced - 02/20/96
Last Amend - 05/13/96
Status- Passed Assembly (73-0)
Passed Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee (7-0)
Senate Appropriations Committee - Referred to Suspense Calendar
AB 2659 (Kaloogian) State Coastal Conservancy: Mitigation Fees: City of Carlsbad
AB 2659 would authorize the State Coastal Conservancy to establish a special account in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund for the deposit of mitigation fees. The bill would specify that any interest accruing on the money in the special account is required to be expended in accordance with those specified purposes and priorities.
Introduced - 02/21/96
Last Amend - None
Status - Signed by Governor - Chapter 513, Statutes of 1996.
AB 2683 (Kaloogian) Mitigation Fees: Local Coastal Program: City of Carlsbad
AB 2683 would specify that mitigation fees collected for development on nonprime agricultural lands in the coastal zone in the City of Carlsbad and deposited in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund may be used for the purposes of enhancing the use of natural resources within the Coastal Zone in the City of Carlsbad.
Introduced - 02/21/96
Last Amend - 06/18/96
Status - Passed Assembly (73-0)
Passed Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee (10-0)
Passed Senate Appropriations Committee
Held in Senate
AB 2963 (Firestone) Environmental Quality
AB 2963 would exempt the following from coastal development permits: emergency work necessary to protect life or property; emergency repairs to public service facilities necessary to maintain service; projects undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to maintain, repair, restore, demolish, or replace property or facilities damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster in a disaster-stricken area in which a state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Governor; specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency; and projects undertaken, carried out, or approved by a public agency to maintain, repair, or restore an existing highway, as defined in Section 360 of the Vehicle Code, substantially within the existing right-of-way of the highway, damaged as a result of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or landslide, except for a highway designated as an official state scenic highway pursuant to Section 262 of the Streets and Highways Code.
Introduced - 02/23/96
Last Amend - None
Status - Signed by Governor - Chapter 825 , Statutes of 1996.
AB 3044 (Olberg) Interagency Natural Resources Coordination Committee
AB 3044 would establish a permit “coordinating” process through which any owner, lessee or operator of a commercial or industrial facility may request that the Office of Permit Assistance designate a consolidated permit agency for the issuance of all permits required for a repair and maintenance project for such facilities. In the case of an oil spill, this bill would designate the administrator for oil spill response as an administering agency for purposes of supervising and coordinating any site investigation or restoration action.
Introduced - 02/23/96
Last Amend - 06/13/96
Status - Signed by Governor - Chapter 776, Statutes of 1996
AB 3431 (Bowen) Geographic Information Systems
AB 3431 would establish a geographic information grant program within the Department of Information Technology for the development and maintenance of framework data bases for geographic information systems. It would establish the Geographic Information Grant Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding the grant program, and specify that a portion of the excess moneys in the Energy Resources Surcharge Fund be deposited in this fund.
Introduced - 02/29/96
Last Amend - 04/08/96
Status- Passed Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency and Economic Development Committee (5-2)
Referred to Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation - Withdrawn from committee by author.
SB 39 (Thompson) South Spit of Humboldt Bay: Acquisition
SB 39 would authorize the Wildlife Conservation Board and the State Coastal Conservancy to use funds avaliable to them for the purposes of acquiring the South Spit of Humboldt Bay. The bill would also require the Conservancy to prepare a management plan for the South Spit area and to submit the plan to the Legislature on or before June 30, 1997.
Introduced - 12/15/94
Last Amend - 06/04/96
Status - Passed Senate (39-0)
Passed Assembly (96-3)
Enrolled - To Governor.
SB 1615 (Craven) Beach Replenishment
SB 1615 would appropriate $3,300,000 from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund to the Department of Boating and Waterways for the 19996-97 fiscal year for a grant to the San Diego Association of Governments to pay for costs of beach replenishment associated with the United States Navy Aircraft Carrier Homeporting Project in San Diego Harbor.
Introduced - 02/20/96
Last Amend - 04/09/96
Status - Referred to Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee
AB 2080 (McPherson) Public Beaches: Contamination: Warning Signs
AB 2080 would require, when a public beach has failed to meet bacteriological standards, that warning signs be visible from all beach access points.
Introduced - 01/18/96
Last Amend - 04/11/96
Status - Senate Appropriations Committee - Referred to Suspense Calendar
SB 1542 (Peace) San Diego Unified Port District
SB 1542 would make numerous changes to the operations of the San Diego Unified Port District including allowing the modification of the port master plan with a majority vote of the governing body, instead of the 2/3 vote currently required.
Introduced - 02/14/96
Last Amend - 05/14/96
Status - Signed by Governor - Chapter , Statutes of 1996.
SB 1748 (Committee on Housing and Land Use) Housing and Land Use Omnibus Act of 1996
SB 1748 would enact the Housing and Land Use Omnibus Act of 1996. The bill would state legislative intent to combine several minor statutory changes relating to housing, land use and related topics into a single measure, and would make related findings and declarations.
Introduced - 02/22/96
Last Amend - 05/06/96
Status - Enrolled - to Governor
SB 1803 (Ayala and Kopp) Open Meetings
SB 1803 would make various changes to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, which requires that the meetings of state bodies be conducted openly.
Introduced - 02/22/96
Last Amend - 06/17/96
Status - - Enrolled - to Governor
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