Here is a copy of the bill.




BILL NUMBER: AB 2280 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Cogdill

FEBRUARY 19, 2004

An act to add Section 13007 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to
sport fishing, and making an appropriation therefor.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2280, as introduced, Cogdill. Sport fishing: license revenues:
Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities.
Under existing law, all money collected under the provisions of
the Fish and Game Code is deposited into the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund, unless otherwise provided.
Existing law provides that, of the money collected from fees for
lifetime sportsman's licenses, lifetime hunting licenses, and
lifetime sport fishing licenses, $20 from the initial issuance of
each lifetime license is deposited into the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund for the costs of hunting and sport fishing
programs, and the rest is deposited in the Lifetime License Trust
Account within that fund, the principal of which is to be used for
investment, except as specified.
This bill instead would provide an unspecified amount of
percentage derived from the issuance of all sport fishing licenses,
with the exception of revenue currently designated for deposit into
the Lifetime License Trust Account, be deposited into the Hatcheries
and Fish Planting Facilities Fund, which the bill would establish in
the State Treasury. The bill would continuously appropriate money in
the fund to the Department of Fish and Game for the Hatcheries and
Fish Planting Facilities program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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


SECTION 1. Section 13007 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to
read:
13007. Notwithstanding Section 13001 and paragraph (1) of
subdivision (a) of Section 13005, ____ percent of all sport fishing
license fees collected pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section
7145) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 6 shall be deposited into
the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities Fund, which is hereby
established in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of
the Government Code, the moneys in the fund are hereby continuously
appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the Department of
Fish and Game for the Hatcheries and Fish Planting Facilities
program.