Bill Text: CA AB2441 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2441 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: removal of abandoned commercial vessels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 540, Statutes of 2018. [AB2441 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2441-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2441

Introduced by Assembly Member Frazier

February 14, 2018

An act to amend Section 6217.6 of the Public Resources Code, relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2441, as introduced, Frazier. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Abandoned Vessel Removal Account: removal of abandoned vessels.

Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission control over specified public lands in the state, including tidelands and submerged lands. Existing law requires that all rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the commission be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund, except for certain income from state school lands, royalties received from the extraction of minerals on the surface of those lands, and all rental income from surface uses for lands at Lake Tahoe.

This bill would additionally exclude from the above requirement relating to the use of rental income received from surface uses of public lands, all rental income from surface uses for lands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined. The bill would create the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Abandoned Vessel Removal Account in the General Fund and would require that moneys in the account be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the commission for the removal of abandoned and derelict commercial vessels on lands, including tidelands and submerged lands, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 6217.6 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

6217.6.

All rental income received for surface uses, including, but not limited to, surface drilling rights, upon lands under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund, except as follows:

(a) Income from state school lands, as provided in Section 6217.5.

(b) Royalties received from extraction of minerals on the surface of those lands, as provided in Section 6217.

(2) The rental income specified in paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement Account, for expenditure upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to Section 6217.6.1.

(d) (1) All rental income from surface uses for lands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined in Section 12220 of the Water Code.
(2) The rental income specified in paragraph (1) shall be deposited into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Abandoned Vessel Removal Account, which is hereby created in the General Fund. Moneys in the account shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the commission for expenditure for purposes related to the removal of abandoned and derelict commercial vessels on lands, including tidelands and submerged lands, within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.