Amended
IN
Senate
September 01, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 29, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett |
February 13, 2023 |
(e)Reliable funding of the California Monitoring Program is necessary to ensure continuous operation of this program and to eliminate data gaps.
(f)To date, the California Monitoring Program has been funded through temporary funds, including bond funding, which is no longer sufficient to maintain this program’s essential monitoring activities.
(g)The California Monitoring Program Fund will provide a dedicated long-term source of funding to ensure robust, comprehensive, and long-term monitoring of salmonid species.
(a)“Fund” means the California Monitoring Program Fund created pursuant to Section 6952.
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(a)The California Monitoring Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury to fund monitoring of California salmonid species. Moneys in the fund shall be available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to support the California Monitoring Program and the activities described in Section 6951.
(b)All of the following may be deposited into the fund:
(1)Sums the Legislature may appropriate.
(2)Moneys received from federal, state, or other sources, including bond funds, for the purposes of the program.
(3)Grants, awards, donations, gifts, transfers, or moneys derived from private sources for the purpose of the program established in Section 6951.
(4)Moneys derived from interest, dividends, or other income from the above sources.
The operation of this chapter is contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for purposes of this chapter.