Bill Text: CA SB579 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Fish: Annual Provisional Stocking Document.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 181, Statutes of 2023. [SB579 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB579-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Fish: Annual Provisional Stocking Document.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-09-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 181, Statutes of 2023. [SB579 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB579-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 579
Introduced by Senator Umberg |
February 15, 2023 |
An act to add Section 6404 to the Fish and Game Code, relating to fish.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 579, as introduced, Umberg.
Fish: Annual Provisional Stocking Document.
Existing law establishes the Department of Fish and Wildlife and prescribes the functions and responsibilities of the department with regard to the implementation, administration, and enforcement of laws regulating fish and wildlife in the state.
This bill would require the department, before January 1 of each year, to make publicly available on the department’s internet website a specified annual document that contains conditional or provisional plans for freshwater fish plants.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 6404 is added to the Fish and Game Code, immediately following Section 6403, to read:6404.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make the Annual Provisional Stocking Document available to the public, recognizing that this document expresses the department’s intended plans for fish plants and that the department’s execution of these plans is not guaranteed.(b) The department, before January 1 of each year, shall make an updated Annual Provisional Stocking Document publicly available on the department’s internet website.
(c) As used in this section, the “Annual Provisional Stocking Document,” also known as the “Provisional Fish Release Plans for the Current Fiscal Year,” means a document used by the department that contains conditional or provisional plans for
freshwater fish plants.