Bill Text: CA AB2896 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water quality: funding for planning, environmental, and design documents: Salton Sea.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2896 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2896-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2896	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 2, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Roger Hernández 
 Eduardo Garcia 

                        MARCH 1, 2016

   An act  to amend Section 1684 of the Labor Code, relating
to private employment.   relating to water, and making
an appropriation therefor. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2896, as amended,  Roger Hernández  
Eduardo Garcia  .  Farm labor contractors: license:
payment.   Water quality: funding for planning,
environmental, and design documents: Salton Sea.  
   Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and
the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste
discharge requirements in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act
and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, referred to as the
state act. The state act imposes various penalties for a violation
of its requirements. The state act requires specified penalties be
deposited into the Waste Discharge Permit Fund and separately
accounted. The state act requires moneys in the fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the state board
for the purposes of the act.  
   This bill would appropriate $1,400,000 from the fund to the state
board to provide grants and enter into contracts for the development
of planning, environmental, and design documents in furtherance of
projects to eliminate public health and safety risks from drainage of
wastewater, agricultural runoff, and runoff from urbanized areas
into tributaries of the Salton Sea.  
   Existing law requires farm labor contractors to be licensed by the
Labor Commissioner and to comply with specified employment laws
applicable to farm labor contractors. Existing law requires farm
labor contractors to pay license fees to the Labor Commissioner, and
continuously appropriates a portion of the fee revenues from the
Farmworker Remedial Account for enforcement and verification
purposes.  
   This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to accept a
credit card charge as a method of payment for those license fees, as
provided. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   yes  . Fiscal committee: no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of
Section 13264, subdivision (f) of Section 13268, subdivision (k) of
Section 13350, and paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 13385
of the Water Code, one million four hundred thousand dollars
($1,400,000) is hereby appropriated to the State Water Resources
Control Board from the moneys deposited into, and separately
accounted for, in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund pursuant to the
balance of penalty revenues generated by the imposition of
liabilities pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 13264, subdivision
(f) of Section 13268, subdivision (k) of Section 13350, and 
 paragraph (2) of subdivision (n) of Section 13385 of the Water
Code. The moneys appropriated pursuant to this section are available
to the State Water Resources Control Board to provide grants or to
enter into contracts for the development of planning, environmental,
and design documents in furtherance of projects to eliminate public
health and safety risks from drainage of wastewater, agricultural
runoff, and runoff from urbanized areas into tributaries of the
Salton Sea. All matter omitted in this version of the bill
appears in the bill as amended in the Senate, August 2, 2016. (JR11)