2003 Legislation (Assembly Bills)

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Assembly Bills	Summary
AB 14 (Horton, Jerome) Public contracts: job order contracting. (Chaptered 10/12/03)	Existing law provides various procedures, including competitive bidding, for different types of contracts involving state and local public entities, including school districts. This bill would authorize, until December 1, 2007, job order contracting, as defined, by the Los Angeles Unified School District, and would require the district, if it adopts this option, to submit an interim report to the Legislature and the Office of Public School Construction in the Department of General Services regarding all job order contract projects completed by December 31, 2004, and a report regarding the implementation of the job order contracting process for each job order procured, and the work completed on or before November 1, 2007. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 16 (Jackson) Oil and gas development: pipelines.(Chaptered 9/22/03)	The California Coastal Act of 1976 permits oil and gas development, if specified conditions relating to safety and the environmental mitigation are met. This bill would include, within those specified conditions that are required to be met where oil and gas development is permitted, a condition requiring that all oil, as defined, produced offshore in new or expanded oil extractions, as defined, be transported onshore by pipeline only, and that all pipelines used to transport this oil onshore utilize the best achievable technology, as defined, to ensure maximum protection of public health and safety and of the integrity and productivity of terrestrial and marine ecosystem. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 24 (McLeod, Negrete) Real property hazards: notice. (Chaptered 9/22/03)	Existing law requires an owner of residential real property or of a residential dwelling unit who knows that any release of an illegal controlled substance has come to be located on or beneath that property or that dwelling unit to give written notice to a prospective purchaser or a prospective tenant prior to the sale or the execution of a rental agreement, as applicable. These provisions are in effect only until January 1, 2004. The bill would extend the operative date of those provisions until January 1, 2006. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 28 (Jackson) Public resources. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	The existing California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a distributor of specified beverage containers to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Conservation, for each beverage container, as defined, sold or transferred, for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Existing law sets the amount of the redemption payment as 2.5 for every beverage container, and 5 for beverage containers with a capacity of 24 or more fluid ounces. The department is required to pay a processor the refund value for every empty beverage container received by the processor from a recycler and existing law sets the refund value as 5 for every 2 beverage containers redeemed or for a single beverage container with a capacity of 24 or more ounces and 3 for a single beverage container. The money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department to pay refund values, processing payments, and for other purposes. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would increase the amount of the redemption payment to 4 for every beverage container sold or transferred and would increase the redemption payment for beverage containers with a capacity of 24 or more ounces to 8 . The bill would increase the refund value to 8 for every 2 beverage containers redeemed or for a single beverage container with a capacity of 24 or more ounces, and 4 for a single beverage container. The bill would also provide for an increase in the amount of the redemption payment and refund value, on July 1, 2007, to 5 and, if the beverage container has a capacity of 24 ounces or more, to 10 , if the aggregate recycling rate for all beverage containers subject to the act is less than 75% for the 12-month reporting period from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2006, or for any calendar year thereafter. Since these funds would be deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would also make conforming changes regarding the labeling requirements for beverage containers subject to the act. existing act authorizes the department to pay a quality glass incentive payment of up to $25 per ton, not to exceed a total amount of $3,000,000 per calendar year. The department is authorized to make these payments to an operator of any curbside recycling program or any certified entity that color-sorts glass beverage containers for recycling. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 47 (Simitian) Timber harvesting plans: regulations: information. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	Existing law, the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973, prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, until the person files a timber harvesting plan with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, in accordance with specified requirements. This bill would require the board, on or before January 1, 2005, to adopt regulations requiring a timber harvesting plan to include specified map or maps. The bill would provide that this requirement may not be construed to require disclosure of proprietary information to the public. The bill would require the board to consider the impact of the regulations on smaller landowners, and avoid imposing excessive burdens and costs on those landowners. This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 66 (Leslie) Riparian habitat: Adopt-A-Riverway Program. (Chaptered 10/9/03	Under existing law, the Department of Transportation controls state highways and associated properties, counties are responsible for county highways, and cities are responsible for city streets. Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement to accept funds, materials, equipment, or services from any person for maintenance or roadside enhancement of a section of a state highway. The Director of Transportation is authorized to recognize the sponsoring person with the erection of a courtesy sign on the highway. Existing law further authorizes the department to issue encroachment permits. Pursuant to this authority, the department operates a government-volunteer partnership Adopt-A-Highway Program. This bill would authorize the Department of Food and Agriculture to accept funds or services from any person, as defined, for maintenance or enhancement of a section of a state riverway, as defined, for purposes of operating a government-volunteer partnership Adopt-A-Riverway Program. Participation in the program would include management of noxious and invasive weeds, as defined. Authorized program activities include planting and establishing native seedling trees, shrubs, native grasses, and wildflowers, and removing litter and weeds, consistent with an integrated weed management plan. The bill would establish an Adopt-A-Riverway Fund for proceeds donated, appropriated, transferred, or otherwise received for the purpose pertaining to the Adopt-A-Riverway Program. Upon receipt of donations to the fund totaling a minimum of $100,000, up to 5% of any individual donation of $5,000 or more may be used for courtesy signs recognizing the donor. This bill would provide that all startup costs incurred by the state in establishing the program would be reimbursed by the fund before any money in the fund may be expended for program purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 121 (Simitian) Large passenger vessels: water quality. (Chaptered 9/24/03)	Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board (board) is the principal state agency with primary authority over water quality matters. Under the act, the board prescribes waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste into the waters of the state. This bill would declare that the protection and enhancement of the quality of the marine waters of the state and national marine sanctuaries in the marine waters of the state requires that the release from large passenger vessels of oily bilgewater and sewage sludge, into those waters, should be prohibited. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 170 (Reyes) Air quality element: San Joaquin Valley. (Chaptered 9/22/03)	Existing law requires the legislative body of each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. The law requires the plan to include a specified land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land for housing, business, industry, open space, and other categories of public and private uses of land. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations regarding air pollution problems in the San Joaquin Valley. The bill would require the legislative body of each city and county within the jurisdictional boundaries of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to amend the appropriate elements of its general plan to include data and analysis, comprehensive goals, policies, and feasible implementation strategies to improve air quality no later than one year from the date specified for the next revision of its housing element. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 256 (Vargas) Public works: state projects and property.(Chaptered 10/9/03)	The State Building Construction Act of 1955 authorizes the State Public Works Board to acquire or construct public buildings and to issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, and negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance that construction. That act also permits the leasing of these public buildings by the board to the Department of General Services or any other state agency approved by the department. This bill would revise various provisions related to this project, including authorizing the Department of General Services to contract for deconstruction services related to the project and requiring the department, in the event the bonds authorized for the project are not sold, to commit a sufficient amount of its support budget to repay any outstanding loans. The bill would specify that the authorized costs of the facilities include the costs of planning and concept drawings. The bill would authorize and direct the department to execute and deliver any and all leases, contracts, agreements, or other documents to consummate the sale of the bonds or otherwise effectuate the financing of the project. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 260 (Jackson) State highways: litter control. (Chaptered 9/24/03)	Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation shall have full possession and control of all state highways and associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement to accept funds, materials, equipment, or services from any person for maintenance of a section of a state highway, and also requires the department to place signs along state highways indicating the maximum penalty for littering. This bill would include the cleanup or abatement of litter of a section of a state highway within those purposes. The bill would require the department, within its maintenance programs relating to litter cleanup and abatement and using existing resources, to assign a high priority to litter deposited along state highway segments adjoining storm drains, streams, rivers, waterways, beaches, the ocean, and other environmentally sensitive areas.
AB 296 (Oropeza) State and local government. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services and the Director of General Services to perform specified activities for the purpose of achieving improved levels of performance. These provisions become inoperative on the effective date of the Budget Act of 2003, or June 30, 2003, whichever occurs later, and are repealed as of January 1, 2004. This bill would delete the inoperative date and the repeal date of these provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 302 (Chan) Polybrominated diphenyl ether. (Chaptered 8/12/03)	Existing law, the California Hazardous Substances Act, prohibits the manufacture, production, preparation, compounding, packing, selling, offering for sale, or keeping for sale within the State of California, of a package of misbranded hazardous substance or banned hazardous substance. This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2008, a person from manufacturing, processing, or distributing in commerce a product, or a flameretarded part of a product, containing more than 1/10 of 1% pentaBDE or octaBDE, by mass. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 314 (Kehoe) Desalination. (Chaptered 8/12/03)	Existing law declares that a substantial portion of the future water requirements of this state may be met economically by saline water conversion facilities and that the development and use of those facilities will contribute to the health and safety of the people of the state. This bill, instead, would declare that it is the policy of the state that desalination projects developed by or for public water entities be given the same opportunities for state assistance and funding as other water supply and reliability projects, and that desalination be consistent with all applicable environmental protection policies in the state.
AB 334 (Goldberg) Water softening and conditioning appliances.(Chaptered 8/5/03)	Existing law authorizes a residential water softening or conditioning appliance to be installed only if certain conditions are met. This bill would revise the findings that the local agency is required to make and include in the ordinance under this provision. This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 385 (Nakano) State employees: salary or wages: itemized statement. (Chaptered 9/22/03)	Existing law requires each state agency at the time of each payment of salary or wages, whether by direct deposit by electronic fund transfer or otherwise, to furnish each employee an itemized statement in writing showing all deductions made from his or her salary or wages. This bill would require each state agency to furnish each employee, at his or her discretion, the itemized statement in writing or electronically. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 390 (Montanez) Health facilities: backup generators. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Existing law designates air pollution control districts and air quality management districts as having the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources and, subject to the powers and duties of the State Air Resources Board, requires that districts adopt and enforce rules and regulations to achieve and maintain the state and federal ambient air quality standards in all areas affected by emission sources under their jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes each district to establish a permit system that requires, except as specified, that before any person builds, erects, alters, replaces, operates, or uses any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance that may cause the issuance of air contaminants, the person obtain a permit from the air pollution control officer of the district. This bill would require a health facility, as defined, to test its diesel-powered backup generator as prescribed, and would require a diesel backup generator to be started once per week when it is not being tested. This bill would require a health facility to submit this data to the department upon the department's request. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 433 (Nation) Vessels: release of nonindigenous species. (Chaptered 9/24/03)	Existing law generally requires the master, operator, or person in charge of a vessel to employ prescribed ballast water management practices for ballast water carried into the waters of the state from areas outside the exclusive economic zone, as defined, in order to minimize the uptake and release of nonindigenous species. Those persons are also required to maintain specified information on board the vessel and provide this information to the State Lands Commission. Existing law imposes civil penalties upon a person who fails to comply with the prescribed ballast water management practices. This bill would revise and recast the state's law pertaining to control of nonindigenous species and ballast water management, including revising and adding definitions. The bill would delete exemptions for specified vessels from compliance with the act and revise the qualification for the vessels subject to the act. The bill would impose additional requirements upon vessel masters, owners, operators, and persons in charge of vessels, to prevent the introduction of nonindigenous species into waters of the state or waters that may impact the waters of the state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 455 (Chu) Packaging materials: regulated metals. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Existing hazardous waste control laws regulate the disposal of discarded appliances, lead acid batteries, small household batteries, recyclable latex paint, and household hazardous waste. Existing law prohibits any person from managing any hazardous waste, except as provided in the hazardous waste control laws and regulations. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would enact the "Toxics in Packaging Prevention Act," and would define terms. The act would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2006, a manufacturer, importer, agent, or supplier, as defined, from offering for sale or for promotional purposes in this state a package or packaging component that includes a regulated metal, defined as lead, cadmium, mercury, or hexavalent chromium, if that regulated metal has been intentionally introduced into the package or packaging component during manufacturing or distribution, as defined. The act would also prohibit, on and after January 1, 2006, a person, as defined, from offering for sale or for promotional purposes in this state a product in a package that includes those intentionally introduced regulated metals. The bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2006, the sum of the incidental total concentration levels of all regulated metals present in a single-component package or individual packaging component from exceeding 100 parts per million by weight. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 635 (Wiggins) Salmon and steelhead salmon: effect of reduced waterflow. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Game to contract with the University of California to conduct a study on the effects of reduced waterflows in certain rivers on salmon and steelhead populations and restoration or reintroduction programs. Existing law prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board from approving an application to appropriate water from any river subject to the study until the department completes the study if the application involves the delivery of water by means other than a pipeline or aqueduct to a place outside a certain protected area. This bill, for the purposes of the study, would require the department to select rivers that, among other things, are subject to an application to appropriate water involving the delivery of water by means other than a pipeline, natural watercourse, well, or aqueduct to a place of use that is outside that described protected area. The bill would prohibit the board from approving an application to appropriate water, as described, until the study has been completed. This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 677 (Firebaugh) Environmental quality: local agency filing. (Chaptered 10/12/03)	The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also generally requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA provides some exemptions from its requirements for specified projects. This bill would require a local agency or specified person, when the agency determines that a project is exempt from CEQA's requirements for certain reasons and when the agency approves or determines to carry out that project, to file notice of the determination with the Office of Planning and Research. The bill would require those notices to be available for public inspection as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 706 (Maldonado) Community services districts. (Chaptered 7/24/03)	The Community Services District Law authorizes a district to borrow money and incur or assume indebtedness subject to certain limitations. This bill would additionally permit the Los Osos Community Services District to borrow money consistent with these provisions for the purpose of making loans to property owners within the district to pay for the costs of decommissioning septic systems and constructing lateral connections on private property to facilitate the connection of those properties to the district's wastewater treatment system. The bill would authorize the district to have debt payments or any delinquency collected with property taxes and to secure the loan by recording a lien, as specified.
AB 768 (Leno) Hunters Point Shipyard Public Trust Exchange Act. (Chaptered 9/22/03)	The Hunters Point Shipyard Conversion Act of 2002 grants to, and vests in, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, all of the state's right, title, and interest in the Hunters Point trust lands, and, upon conveyance by the federal government to the agency, in appurtenances located on Hunters Point submerged lands, subject to the public trust and the terms and conditions of the act. Existing law authorizes the agency to use, conduct, operate, maintain, manage, administer, regulate, improve, lease, and control the Hunters Point trust lands in conformance with the act and the public trust. This bill would approve an exchange of public trust lands within the Hunters Point Shipyard, whereby certain trust lands that meet specified criteria and are not now useful for public trust purposes will be freed from the public trust and may be conveyed into private ownership, and certain other lands that are not now public trust lands and that are useful for public trust purposes will be made subject to the public trust. The bill would revise the description of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Hunters Point submerged lands in the Hunters Point Shipyard Conversion Act of 2002 and make related changes in that act. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 826 (Jackson) The Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act: perchlorate materials: statewide database. (Chaptered 9/29/03)	Existing law, administered by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, prohibits the management of hazardous waste, except in accordance with the hazardous waste laws or in the regulations adopted by the department. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime. This bill would enact the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act and would require the department to adopt regulations, by December 31, 2005, specifying best management practices for managing perchlorate materials. The bill would prohibit a person from managing perchlorate materials after the effective date of those regulations, except in compliance with the best management practices specified in those regulations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 844 (Nation) Replacement Tire Efficiency Program. (Chaptered 10/01/03)	Existing law, with respect to energy conservation and development, states the policy of the state, among other things, to fully evaluate the economic and environmental costs of petroleum use and to establish a state transportation energy policy that results in the least environmental and economic cost to the state. This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board, to adopt, on or before July 1, 2007, and implement, no later than July 1, 2008, a replacement tire efficiency program of statewide applicability for replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks, that is designed to ensure that replacement tires sold in the state are at least as energy efficient, on average, as the tires sold in the state as original equipment on these vehicles. The bill would define "replacement tire." The bill would require the commission, in consultation with the board, to review and revise the program as necessary, but not less than once every 3 years.
AB 847 (Pavley) Natural resources: State Coastal Conservancy. (Chaptered 9/24/03)	Existing law authorizes the State Coastal Conservancy to undertake watershed restoration projects, or award grants for those projects, in order to improve coastal water quality. Existing law requires those projects to do one or more things, such as provide for the purchase and installation of equipment to monitor and map coastal currents to predict and determine areas of contamination and pollutant transport in coastal waters, or acquire, protect, and restore coastal wetlands, riparian areas, floodplains, and other sensitive watershed lands for coastal rivers. This bill, instead, would authorize the conservancy to undertake coastal watershed and coastal and marine habitat water quality protection and restoration projects, or award grants for those projects, to improve and protect coastal and marine water quality and habitats. The bill would revise existing project requirements and add additional project requirements.
AB 859 (Nakano) Balboa Wetlands. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Bond Fund allocates $220,400,000 to the State Coastal Conservancy, including $25,000,000 to acquire, protect, and restore specified wetlands projects. This bill would reappropriate $25,000,000, appropriated in the Budget Act of 2000 from that fund to the State Coastal Conservancy for the Ballona Wetlands, to the State Coastal Conservancy to acquire, protect, and restore the Ballona Wetlands, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 866 (Pavley) Water quality.(Chaptered 9/24/03)	The Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act provides for a program of grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects designed to improve water quality at public beaches, improve water quality monitoring and sewer capability, protect water quality by reducing runoff pollution, and control nonpoint source water pollution. This bill would require the board in developing criteria for evaluating projects considered for grants under the agricultural water quality grant program to also consult with the program advisory review board established to advise the University of California on pilot demonstration projects to implement biologically integrated farming systems. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 897 (Jackson) Water quality. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Existing law prohibits any person from initiating a discharge or making a material change in a discharge of waste after filing a waste discharge report and prior to the issuance of waste discharge requirements or, under certain circumstances, the expiration of 120 days after compliance with certain requirements relating to the filing of that report, whichever is earlier. Under the act, any person discharging hazardous waste in violation of these provisions is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be liable civilly in an amount that does not exceed $5,000 for each day in which the violation occurs. This bill would change that time period to 140 days and would make the requirement relating to the expiration of that time period applicable only to the discharge of waste that does not create, or threaten to create, a condition of pollution or nuisance. Because, under certain circumstances, a violation of this requirement would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The bill would require any moneys collected from the imposition of penalties for a violation of this requirement to be deposited in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund, for expenditure by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to assist the regional boards, and certain other public agencies, in carrying out certain duties relating to water quality. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 906 (Nakano) Large Passenger vessels: water quality. (Chaptered 9/24/03)	Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State Water Resources Control Board (board) is the principal state agency with primary authority over water quality matters. Under the act, the board prescribes waste discharge requirements for the discharge of waste into the waters of the state. This bill would declare that it is in the public interest to prohibit large passenger vessels from releasing waste, as defined, into national marine sanctuaries in the marine waters of the state, and that the protection and enhancement of the quality of the marine waters of the state and national marine sanctuaries in the marine waters of the state requires that the release from large passenger vessels of hazardous waste and other waste, as defined, into those waters should be prohibited. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 944 (Steinberg) Property and business improvement areas: benefit assessments. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	The Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 authorizes cities to form property and business improvement districts that may levy assessments within a district for the purpose of making improvements and promoting activities of benefit to the properties within the district. This bill would also authorize the assessments to be levied for the purpose of making improvements and promoting activities of benefit to the businesses within the district. The bill would revise various provisions to refer to the rights and obligations under this law of property or business owners within the district. The bill would authorize a city council, by resolution, to determine that bonds should be issued to finance improvements within a district. The bill would make other related changes.
AB 998 (Lowenthal) Air quality: Nontoxic Dry Cleaning Incentive Program. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards. This bill would require the state board to impose a $3 per gallon fee on every manufacturer of perchloroethylene in the state, and on every person that imports perchloroethylene into the state for use in dry cleaning, and to deposit the revenues generated by that fee in the Nontoxic Dry Cleaning Incentive Trust Fund, which would be established in the State Treasury by the bill. The bill would increase that fee by $1 each year until 2013, inclusive. The bill would provide that moneys deposited in the fund are available for expenditure by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund a grant program and demonstration program, and would require those programs to be developed by the state board. This bill would require the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys sufficient to repay any General Fund moneys expended to implement the programs. The grant program would provide $10,000 grants to any eligible dry cleaner in the state that utilizes perchloroethylene in its operations to aid its transition to dry cleaning systems determined by the state board, in consultation with certain other entities, to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming. The bill would require the state board to ensure that 50% of the grant moneys are awarded in a manner that directly reduces air contaminants or reduces the public health risk associated with air contaminants in communities with the most significant exposure to air contaminants or localized contaminants, or both, including communities of minority populations or low-income populations, or both. The bill would require the state board, commencing January 1, 2007, and every 3 years thereafter, to provide a report to the Legislature evaluating the effectiveness of the grant program. The bill would require the demonstration program to be funded 50% by matching funds.
AB 1008 (Dutton) Public school facilities funding: hazardous materials evaluation and removal (Chaptered 9/29/03)	Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition, including prescribed amounts for hazardous materials evaluation and response action for new construction projects. This bill would authorize the board, within those limits, to adjust the grant amount for new construction projects if, due to increased requirements, the actual cost and associated fees paid by a school district for allowable hazardous materials evaluation and removal exceeds the grant apportionment.
AB 1090 (Longville) South Coast Air Quality Management District: membership (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Existing law sets forth the requirements for membership on the South Coast Air Quality Management District governing board. One of those requirements is that all members shall be residents of the district. This bill would except from that requirement, until January 1, 2006, the member appointed by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors.
AB 1104 (Laird) Highways. (Chaptered 8/5/03)	Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to remove an encroachment on a state highway if the owner fails to comply with a notice by the department to do so, and authorizes the department to recover in a legal action expenses for removal, costs and expenses of suit, and $10 for each day the encroachment remains after the expiration of 5 days from the service of a notice or demand to remove the encroachment. Existing law also authorizes the department to commence an action to abate an encroachment as a public nuisance if a person refuses to remove or permit the removal of the encroachment and, if a judgment is recovered by the department, to recover $10 for each day the encroachment remains after the department serves a notice to remove the encroachment. This bill would increase the amount that the department may recover in these actions to $350 each day. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1124 (Nunez) School facilities maintenance and repair. (Chaptered 9/12/03)	Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition. This bill would require that a priority for the use of that maintenance funding be to ensure that facilities, including, but not limited to, restroom facilities for pupils, are functional and that they meet local hygiene standards generally applicable to public facilities. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1214 (Firebaugh) Net energy metering: fuel cell customer-generators. (Chaptered 10/03/03)	Existing law, until January 1, 2006, requires electrical corporations, as defined, to provide eligible biogas digester customer-generators, as defined, with net energy metering, as defined, under a pilot program. This bill, until January 1, 2006, would require every electrical corporation, as defined, to provide net energy metering, as defined, for eligible fuel cell customer-generators, as defined, until the total cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators equals 45 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation for an electrical corporation with a peak demand above 10,000 megawatts, or equals 22.5 megawatts within the service territory of the electrical corporation for an electrical corporation with a peak demand of 10,000 megawatts or below. The bill would prohibit the combined statewide cumulative rated generating capacity used by the eligible fuel cell customer-generators in the service territories of all electrical corporations from exceeding 112.5 megawatts. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime under existing law, this bill, by establishing a new crime, would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1218 (Dutra) Underground storage tanks: claims: performance-based contracts: fire safety agency claims. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Under the existing Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund Act of 1989, owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tanks requires every owner of an underground storage tank to pay a storage fee for each gallon of petroleum placed in the tank. The fees are required to be deposited in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund. The money in the fund may be expended by the State Water Resources Control Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for various purposes, including the payment of claims to aid owners and operators of petroleum underground storage tanks who take corrective action to clean up unauthorized releases from those tanks. This bill would authorize the board to pay a claim to reimburse the cost of a performance-based contract that is approved by the board as being consistent with the requirements of the bill. The bill would require a performance-based contract to include specified terms and would require the board to make payments under a performance-based contract based upon the reduction of designated constituents of concern to specified concentrations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1247 (Aghazarian) Hazardous waste facility: postclosure (Chaptered 9/04/03)	Existing law requires the owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility to submit a hazardous waste facility closure and postclosure plan to the Department of Toxic Substances Control and to the California regional water quality control board for the region in which the facility is located. The department is required to review the plan and to approve the plan if the department makes specified findings. A violation of the hazardous waste control law, including any requirements issued or adopted pursuant to the hazardous waste control law, is a crime. This bill would require the department to impose the requirements of a hazardous waste facility postclosure plan by issuing a postclosure permit, issuing an enforceable order, or entering into an enforceable agreement. The bill would require the postclosure plan imposed or modified pursuant to an enforcement order, a permit, or an agreement to be approved in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and would require the department, before approving or modifying a hazardous waste facility postclosure plan, to provide meaningful opportunity for public comment. The bill would require the owner or operator who submits the plan for approval and who is issued an enforceable order or enforceable agreement, at the time the plan is submitted, to pay specified fees or enter into a specified cost reimbursement agreement to reimburse the department for its costs. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1248 (Aghazarian) Waste discharge requirements. (Chaptered 10/09/03)	Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards to carry out various duties relating to water quality, including the issuance of waste discharge requirements, water reclamation requirements, and related orders. This bill would require the state board or the regional board, as appropriate, to provide notice and a period of at least 30 days for public comment prior to adopting waste discharge requirements, water reclamation requirements, or those related orders.
AB 1284 (Leslie) Direct transactions: cost responsibility surcharges. (Chaptered 8/12/03)	Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission regulates electrical corporations. The Public Utilities Act requires the commission to authorize direct transactions between electricity suppliers and retail end-use customers. However, other existing law suspends the right of retail end-use customers to acquire service from certain electricity suppliers after a period of time to be determined by the commission until the Department of Water Resources no longer supplies electricity under that law. Under existing law, the commission has imposed a cost responsibility surcharge on retail end-use customers that continue to receive service in a direct transaction. This bill, until January 1, 2009, would authorize the commission, if it finds it is in the public interest and there is no feasible alternative, to defer or waive the collection of a portion of the cost responsibility surcharge otherwise applicable to a qualifying direct transaction customer, as defined, to the extent necessary to mitigate certain conditions described in an application and declaration submitted by the customer to the commission. The bill would require the commission to issue a decision on such an application on or before September 4, 2003. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1330 (Simitian) Outdoor Environmental Education Program. (Chaptered 10/03/03)	Existing law contains legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for an educational program that is designed to build attitudes of stewardship toward the maintenance of the quality of our environment and to enable all citizens to use resources wisely. This bill would establish the Outdoor Environmental Education Program, the purpose of which is to foster stewardship of the environment and an appreciation of the importance of the wise use of natural resources. The bill would require the State Department of Education to administer the program and, according to a priority system to be developed by the department, select applicants for participation in the program, pursuant to prescribed criteria. The bill would require the department to contract with an independent evaluator to conduct an evaluation of the program and submit a report to the Legislature no later than February 1, 2005. The bill would provide that the program and its evaluation be implemented only if the Department of Finance determines that private funds are made available for purposes of the costs of the program and its evaluation. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1340 (Kehoe) Petroleum: information reports. (Chaptered 10/09/03)	Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission in the Resources Agency, and specifies the powers and duties of the commission with respect to energy resources in the state. Existing law requires major oil producers, refiners, major marketers, major oil transporters, and major oil storers to supply to the commission each month certain designated information regarding petroleum supplies, as specified. Existing law permits any person required to submit this information to request that specific information be held in confidence. Existing law also permits the commission to request additional information as necessary. This bill would require an oil refiner, oil producer, petroleum product transporter, petroleum product marketer, petroleum product pipeline operator, and terminal operator, as designated by the commission, to submit a report each week providing information, as required by the energy commission relating to receipts, inventory levels, imports, exports, transportation, sources, and prices. The bill would also permit any person required to submit this information to request that specific information be held in confidence. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1348 (Lowenthal) Hazardous waste. (Chaptered 9/12/03)	Existing law requires any person generating hazardous waste that is transported, or submitted for transportation, for offsite handling, treatment, storage, disposal, or any combination thereof, to complete a manifest prior to the time the waste is transported or offered for transportation and to submit the manifest to the Department of Toxic Substances Control. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2005, an offsite hazardous waste facility operator that rejects an entire shipment or partial shipment of hazardous waste, after signing the manifest, to prepare a new manifest pursuant to a specified procedure, subject to more stringent requirements or preemption under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA). This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1360 (Steinberg) Environmental quality: environmental indicators. (Chaptered 10/03/03)	Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection, on or before January 1, 2002, to convene a Working Group on Environmental Justice to assist the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) in developing, on or before July 1, 2002, an agencywide strategy for identifying and addressing gaps in existing programs, policies, or activities that may impede the achievement of environmental justice. This bill would require the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), on behalf of the office of the Secretary for Environmental Protection, beginning on July 1, 2004, and, to the extent that funds are appropriated by the Legislature, to develop and maintain a system of environmental indicators that meets specified objectives. The bill would define the term "environmental indicator." The bill would require the Secretary of the Cal/EPA to periodically assess the ability of the environmental indicators system to meet each of those objectives and the ability of the system to support the development and implementation of the agencywide environmental justice strategy. The bill would require the Secretary of the Cal/EPA to submit a report on those environmental indicators to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2006, and by January 1 every two years thereafter. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1368 (Kehoe) Bonds. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	The existing State General Obligation Bond Law contains procedures for use in authorizing the issuance and sale and providing for the repayment of state general obligation bonds. Existing law also requires prescribed accountability measures to be included in local bond measures. This bill would require any state general obligation bond measure to be subject to the making, at least annually, of a specified report, by the head of the lead state agency administering the bond proceeds, to the Legislature and the Department of Finance.
AB 1405 (Wolk) California Watershed Protection and Restoration Act. (Chaptered 10/09/03)	Existing law provides for a watershed protection program, and provides funds to assist in implementing watershed plans to reduce flooding, control erosion, improve water quality, and improve aquatic and terrestrial species habitats, to restore natural systems of groundwater recharge, native vegetation, waterflows, and riparian zones, to restore the beneficial uses of waters of the state in watersheds, and to provide matching funds for federal grant programs. This bill would enact the California Watershed Protection and Restoration Act. The act would declare that the Legislature encourages the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Resources Agency to provide assistance and grants under the act to those who choose to participate in watershed restoration and enhancement. The act would make certain declarations regarding voluntary, local, and collaborative watershed partnerships. The bill would require state agencies that adopt guidelines for use by local watershed partnerships to provide specified mechanisms and would authorize state agencies with jurisdiction over watershed planning and protection to provide technical assistance to watershed management partnerships, to the extent that funds are available.
AB 1497 (Montanez) Solid waste facilities: permits. (Chaptered 10/11/03)	The existing California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, establishes an integrated solid waste management program. Existing law prohibits the operation of a solid waste facility without a solid waste facilities permit and requires the operator of a solid waste landfill to submit to the board and the enforcement agency a plan for the closure and postclosure maintenance of the solid waste landfill and evidence of financial ability to provide for those costs. Existing law prohibits the operator of a solid waste facility from making any significant change in the design or operation of the solid waste facility not authorized by the existing permit, unless the change is approved by the enforcement agency, pursuant to a specified procedure. Existing law requires an operator to appeal a decision of the enforcement agency with regard to the approval of that change. This bill would require a person who is required to file a closure plan to also file with the enforcement agency a Labor Transition Plan that includes provisions for the preferential reemployment and transfer rights of displaced employees, as specified, and provisions to ensure compliance with existing statutory requirements for relocations, terminations, and mass layoffs that are applicable to certain employers. The bill would require a person submitting a final closure plan to additionally submit a certification to the board and the enforcement agency that the provisions in the labor transition plan will be implemented. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1541 (Montanez) Waste discharge requirements: penalties. (Chaptered 9/29/03)	Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, with certain exceptions, requires the imposition of a mandatory minimum penalty in the amount of $3,000 for certain violations of waste discharge requirements, including for each serious violation, as defined, and, under certain circumstances, for a violation of a waste discharge requirement effluent limitation, a failure to file a waste discharge report, or a violation of a toxicity discharge limitation. This bill would classify a failure to file a required discharge monitoring report for each complete period of 30 days following the deadline for submitting the report, if the report is designed to ensure compliance with effluent limitations contained in waste discharge requirements, as a "serious violation" for the purposes of these provisions and, subject to certain exceptions, would make that serious violation subject to a penalty of $3,000 for each 30-day period a report is not submitted as required. The bill would require the penalties imposed for a failure to file one or more of these reports to be deposited in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund for expenditure by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to assist regional boards, and other public agencies with authority to clean up waste or abate the effects of the waste, in responding to significant water pollution problems. The bill would define "effluent limitations" for certain purposes. This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 1545 (Smitian) Environmental quality: public comments. (Chaptered 10/09/03)	The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would require the lead agency, with respect to the consideration of comments received on a draft EIR, proposed negative declaration, proposed mitigated negative declaration, or specified notice, to accept comments via e-mail and treat e-mail comments as equivalent to written comments. The bill would require any law or regulation relating to those written comments to also apply to e-mail comments received for those purposes. The bill would, if the agency offers to provide the notices by e-mail, authorize a person, upon filing a written request for notices, to request that the notices be provided to him or her by e-mail. This bill contains other existing laws.
AB 1548 (Pavley) Office of Education on the Environment (Chaptered 10/03/03)	Existing law establishes the Office of Integrated Environmental Education within the Integrated Waste Management Board, and requires the office to develop and implement a unified education strategy on the environment for elementary and secondary schools. This bill would repeal those provisions and, instead, establish the Office of Education and the Environment with similar duties. The bill would require the Office of Education and the Environment to report to both the Secretary for Environmental Protection and to the board. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1640 (Laird) Hazardous materials: enforcement. (Chaptered 10/09/03)	Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to adopt regulations and implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. Existing law authorizes a city or local agency that meets specified requirements to apply to the secretary to implement the unified program, and requires every county to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program. Existing law requires a unified program agency to develop and implement a procedure for issuing, to a unified program facility, a unified program facility permit, which encompasses specified permitting requirements. Existing law authorizes a unified program agency, if it determines that a person has committed, or is committing, a violation of any requirement that the UPA is authorized to enforce or implement pursuant to the unified program, to issue an administrative enforcement order requiring that the violation be corrected and imposing an administrative penalty. Existing law provides that an order issued by the unified program agency setting a penalty pursuant to the hearing by the unified program agency is final upon issuance. This bill would authorize a unified program agency to suspend or revoke any unified program facility permit or element of a unified program facility permit for not paying the permit fee or a fine or penalty associated with the permit pursuant to a specified procedure. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1685 (Leno) Energy: self-generation incentive program: peak reduction. (Chaptered 10/12/03)	Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission on or before March 7, 2001, and in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to take certain actions, including, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), adopting energy conservation demand-side management and other initiatives in order to reduce demand for electricity and reduce load during peak demand periods, including, but not limited to, differential incentives for renewable or superclean distributed generation resources. Pursuant to this requirement, the commission has developed a Self Generation Incentive Program to encourage customers of electrical corporations to install distributed generation that operates on renewable fuel or contributes to system reliability. Existing law defines "ultra-clean and low-emission distributed generation" as an electric generation technology that produces zero emissions during operation or that produces emissions that are equal to or less than limits established by the State Air Resources Board, if the electric generation technology commences operation between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2005. This bill would require the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission, to administer, until January 1, 2008, a self-generation incentive program for distributed generation resources in the same form that exists on January 1, 2004, but would require that combustion-operated distributed generation projects using fossil fuels commencing January 1, 2005, meet a NOx emission standard, and commencing January 1, 2007, meet a more stringent NOx emission standard and a minimum efficiency standard, to be eligible for incentive rebates under the program. The bill would establish a credit for combined heat and power units that meet a certain efficiency standard. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1700 (Laird) Military base remediation: funding: federal grants. (Chaptered 10/12/03)	Existing law, the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act, imposes liability for hazardous substance removal or remedial actions and requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt, by regulation, criteria for the selection and for the priority ranking of hazardous substance release sites for removal or remedial action under the act. The act authorizes the department to expend the funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account in the General Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to pay for, among other things, removal and remedial actions related to the release of hazardous substances. Existing law generally requires the Controller to abolish any state position that is vacant for 6 consecutive months on the following July 1. This bill would prohibit the Controller and the Director of Finance from eliminating any direct or indirect position funded through an agreement with a responsible party, that provides oversight associated with remediation and hazardous substance management at military bases, including closed military bases; or eliminating any direct or indirect position that is funded by a federal grant that does not require a state match funded from the General Fund. The bill would also prohibit the Controller and the Department of Finance from imposing any hiring freeze or personal services limitations, including any position reductions, upon any direct or indirect position of the department funded in those manners, and would require the Controller and the Department of Finance to exclude, from the department's base for purposes of calculating any budget or position reductions required by any state agency or state law, the specific amounts and direct or indirect positions that are funded in those manners. The bill would also prohibit the Controller and the Department of Finance from requiring the department to reduce authorized positions or other appropriations for other department programs, including personal services, to implement those prohibitions and requirements. The bill would require the Controller, upon request of the department, and upon review and approval by the Department of Finance, to augment any Budget Act appropriations, except for appropriations from the General Fund, necessary to implement these provisions. The bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to any department appropriation or expenditure of General Fund moneys. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1702 (Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Material) Hazardous substances: underground storage tanks: redevelopment. (Chaptered 7/08/03)	Existing law generally regulates the storage of hazardous substances in underground storage tanks and requires underground storage tanks that are used to store hazardous substances to meet certain requirements. These requirements are required to be implemented by the local agency. Under existing law, with specified exceptions, no person may own or operate an underground storage tank containing hazardous substances unless a permit for its operation has been issued. Existing law defines the term "unauthorized release" for purposes of these requirements to exclude a release that is authorized by the State Water Resources Control Board or a California regional board pursuant to the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Local agencies are required to take various actions with regard to an unauthorized release. This bill would revise the definition of unauthorized release to delete the exclusion for releases authorized by the board or a regional board. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1724 (Committee on Agriculture) Pesticides. (Chaptered 9/12/03)	Existing law authorizes the Structural Pest Control Board, or county agricultural commissioners when acting as representatives of the Director of Pesticide Regulation to suspend a structural pest control operator's license or impose specified monetary civil penalties for violations of the laws relating to structural pest control. This bill would include violations of specified provisions relating to structural fumigation in the above provision. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1746 (Committee on Budget) Budget Act of 2002. (Chaptered 7/08/03)	The Budget Act of 2002 appropriated specified amounts for local assistance to the Department of Health Services. This bill would appropriate $727,225,000, as scheduled, from the General Fund in augmentation of these Budget Act appropriations. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1747 (Committee on Budget) Public resources. (Chaptered 8/13/03)	Under existing law, the changes in the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services is used as the index to determine an annual rate of increase or decrease in the fees for hunting and fishing licenses, stamps, permits, and tags. This bill would include other entitlements in that index. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1756 (Committee on Budget) State government. (Chaptered 8/12/03)	Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of accountants by the California Board of Accountancy. Existing law specifies certain requirements in order for persons to be admitted to the examination held by the board for a certified public accountant license, and requires the board to charge the applicant an examination fee. This bill would authorize the board to require an applicant for a certified public accountant license to pass an examination conducted by a public or private organization as an alternative to a board-conducted examination. The bill would authorize the board to charge the applicant an application fee, and in the case of an examination conducted by a public or private organization, would authorize the board to require the applicant to pay the examination fee directly to that organization. The bill would enact other related provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1757 (Committee on Budget) State agencies. (Chaptered 8/12/03)	Existing law establishes the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency and prescribes the duties of the Secretary of Technology, Trade, and Commerce. This bill would abolish the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency, and would transfer specified duties of that agency to other state agencies as follows: This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1765 (Committee on Budget) 2003-04 Budget Act. (Chaptered 8/02/03)	This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2003-04 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.
AB 1770 (Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife) Fish and Game Commission: marine resources. (Chaptered 9/29/03)	Existing law requires the Fish and Game Commission to hold meetings in odd-numbered years for the purpose of considering and adopting revisions to regulations relating to fish, amphibia, and reptiles, even-numbered years for regulations relating to mammals, and even-numbered years for regulations relating to resident game birds. This bill would instead require the commission to hold those meetings at least once every 3 years. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
AB 1771 (Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife) State government. (Chaptered 10/9/03)	Under existing law, appropriations for the support of various state programs are made through the annual Budget Act, subject to certain restrictions. This bill would provide that the provisions of a specified section of the Budget Act of 2002 that apply to the items of the Budget Act that are augmented by appropriations made pursuant to specified provisions of law relating to public resources, are also applicable to those augmentations.
ABX1 10 (Oropeza) Resources. (Chaptered 3/18/03)	Existing law designates air pollution control districts and air quality management districts as having the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law authorizes each district to establish a permit system that requires, except as specified, that before any person builds, erects, alters, replaces, operates, or uses any article, machine, equipment, or other contrivance that may cause the issuance of air contaminants, the person obtain a permit from the air pollution control officer of the district. Existing law also authorizes each district board to adopt, by regulation, a schedule of annual fees for the evaluation, issuance, and renewal of those permits. Existing law authorizes the State Air Resources Board to require districts to impose additional permit fees on nonvehicular sources within their jurisdiction for the purposes of recovering costs of additional state programs related to those sources. Existing law requires that priority for expenditure of those permit fees be given to specified activities relating to air pollution from nonvehicular sources, and requires that those permit fees be collected from nonvehicular sources that are authorized by district permits to emit 500 tons or more per year of any nonattainment pollutant or its precursors. Existing law also limits the total amount of funds collected by those permit fees, exclusive of district administrative costs, to $3,000,000 in any fiscal year. This bill would authorize the state board to impose additional permit fees directly on nonvehicular sources within a district's jurisdiction. The bill would also authorize the state board to require a district to collect those fees, to establish a system for direct collection of those fees by the state board, and to contract with any other state agency for the collection of those fees. The bill would lower the threshold emission level for the imposition of the permit fees on nonvehicular sources by requiring those fees to be collected from nonvehicular sources that are authorized by the district to emit 250 tons or more per year of any nonattainment pollutant or its precursors. The bill would increase the limit on the total amount of funds that may be collected by the districts in permit fees to $13,000,000 and would authorize the state board to increase that limitation by an amount not to exceed the annual percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index as compiled and reported by the Department of Industrial Relations. The additional duties for districts under this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
ABX1 11 (Oropeza) Reductions in the Budget Act of 2002 relating to state government. (Chaptered 3/18/03)	Existing law provides that moneys in the State Treasury may be loaned from one state fund or account to any other state fund or account to address the 2002-03 fiscal year budget shortfall. This bill would provide that, in addition, moneys in the State Treasury may be loaned from one state fund or account to any other state fund or account to address the 2001-02 and 2003-04 fiscal year budget shortfalls. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
ABX2 1 (Jackson) California Coastal Commission: membership. (Chaptered 2/20/03)	Under existing law, members of the California Coastal Commission generally serve for 2 years at the pleasure of the selecting or appointing authority. This bill would instead provide that members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules or the Speaker of the Assembly would serve a 4-year term. Members appointed by the Governor would serve a 2-year term at the pleasure of the Governor. This bill contains other related provisions.
ACR 75 (Chan) Indoor Air Quality Tools for School Program. (Chaptered 6/24/03)	This measure would express the Legislature's recognition that poor indoor air quality in schools exacerbates asthma symptoms of California children. The measure, in addition, would urge school districts in California to implement the Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools Program to benefit the health of the entire school population.
ACR 99 (Liu) Groundwater Awareness Month. (Chaptered 6/03/03)	This measure would declare May as Groundwater Awareness Month, and state the commitment of the Legislature to supporting efforts to protect and improve the management of this precious and limited resource, while preserving existing water rights.

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