 | Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mammals: taking. | 2 | 5 | AB 342 (2003-2004) | Koretz | |
| This bill prohibits allowing dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. | |||||
| Fish and game: rabbits: Fish and Game Preservation Fund. | 1 | 3 | SB 1434 (2003-2004) | Ackerman | |
| This bill authorizes any owner or tenant of land that is being damaged or destroyed, or is in danger from cottontail or brush rabbits, to apply to the State Department of Fish and Game for a permit to kill them. | |||||
| Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement Program. | 3 | 1 | AB 396 (2003-2004) | Harman | |
| This bill requires that the Department of Fish and Game establish the Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement Program, in which they encourage private property owners to share their property with the public for wildlife dependent recreation (hunting, fishing, observation). | |||||
| Endangered species: designation: economic or social impacts. | 1 | 1 | SB 737 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | |
| This bill amends state endangered species act to require that decisions to list a species as either threatened or endangered shall consider social and economic effects. | |||||
| Trapping licenses: structural pest control operators. | 1 | 1 | AB 1312 (2003-2004) | Bermudez | |
| This bill exempts licensed structural pest control operators, who are operating under the scope of their license, from the trapping license requirement in the Fish and Game Code. | |||||
| Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002: Saltceder eradication. | 2 | 0 | SB 794 (2003-2004) | Battin | |
| This bill appropriates $1,500,000 to the state board for removal of invasive non-native plants, the creation and enhancement of wetlands, and the acquisition, protection, and restoration of open space and watershed lands. | |||||
| Protected animals. | 0 | 1 | SB 1207 (2003-2004) | Hollingsworth | |
| This bill removes the protection afforded to several of the species listed in Penal Code Section 653o | |||||
| Fishing: trawl nets. | 2 | 0 | SB 1459 (2003-2004) | Alpert | |
| This bill would grant the Fish and Game Commission authority over all state-managed bottom trawl fisheries, and over other types of gear targeting the same species as those fisheries. | |||||
| Salmon and steelhead salmon: effect of reduced waterflow. | 1 | 0 | AB 635 (2003-2004) | Wiggins | |
| This bill requires the Department of Fish and Game to select certain rivers for a study of the effect of reduced water flow on salmon and steelhead trout. | |||||
| Pesticides. | 2 | 0 | AB 1724 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill clarifies the law regarding requirement to operate as a pest control business, clarifies the existing process through which violations of pesticide laws are prosecuted, and establishes penalties for violation of specified structural fumigation laws. | |||||
| Structural pest control: violations. | 2 | 0 | AB 1725 (2003-2004) | ||
| This bill provides for administrative fines of up to $5,000 for any violation of the laws governing structural pest control licensees. | |||||
| Wildlife management areas: mosquito abatement. | 3 | 0 | AB 1982 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |
| Requires that habitat management work plans for State Wildlife Areas include an element that incorporates Best Management Practices to minimize mosquito production while maintaining targeted wetland values and functions. | |||||
| Desert species: fines. | 1 | 0 | AB 2140 (2003-2004) | Runner | |
| Increase the fine for unlawful harvesting of California desert native plants and species. | |||||
| Natural resources: invasive species. | 2 | 0 | AB 2631 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |
| This bill establishes the Invasive Species Council to coordinate the states efforts in eradicating invasive species. | |||||
| Endangered species: recovery strategy pilot program. | SB 216 (2003-2004) | Sher | |||
| This bill extends the sunset for the recovery strategy pilot program for the Greater Sandhill Crane. | |||||
| Wildlife. | SB 866 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | |||
| Requires the Wildlife Conservation Board to establish a process for property owners to seek redress for certain complaints. | |||||
| Invasive species. | SB 925 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |||
| This bill extends the deadline for the production of a plan to address invasive aquatic species. | |||||
| Noxious weeds. | SB 972 (2003-2004) | Denham | |||
| This bill makes a nonsubstantive change in the law regulating noxious weeds. | |||||
| California Endangered Species Act: species review. | SB 1200 (2003-2004) | Oller | |||
| Makes non-substantive changes to the law governing the review of endangered species and their changing conditions. | |||||
| Department of Fish and Game and Department of Parks and Recreation: Public Resources Account and Environmental License Plate Fund appropriations. | SB 1215 (2003-2004) | Morrow | |||
| This bill would transfer money from the Public Resources Account, in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Fund for programs to protect the waterfowl habitat, to the Department of Fish and Game. | |||||
| Mosquito abatement. | SB 1545 (2003-2004) | Figueroa | |||
| This bill appropriates money for mosquito abatement. | |||||
| Solid waste: incorporated cities. | SB 1886 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill appropriates $750,000 GF to the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to fund a program that requires the department to coordinate with local mosquito abatement districts to reduce mosquito populations and maintain wildlife habitat values in wildlife management areas (WMAs) maintained by the department. | |||||
| Wildlife habitat enhancement and management areas. | AB 492 (2003-2004) | Cogdill | |||
| This bill establishes that property owners must be notified that their land is adjacent to a wildlife habitat enhancement and management area before the area can be licensed as such. | |||||
| Winegrape pest and disease control districts. | AB 1293 (2003-2004) | Samuelian | |||
| This bill makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to pest control law. | |||||
| Working landscapes. | AB 1404 (2003-2004) | Wolk | |||
| This bill declares that it is in the interest of the people of California to encourage integration of wildlife conservation practices with ongoing farming and ranching activities and declares the intent of the Legislature to authorize local governments or state agencies to compensate landowners for implementing working landscapes on their properties. | |||||
| Sex offenders. | SB 277 (2003-2004) | Ducheny | |||
| This bill provides for the restoration of the Salton Sea ecosystem and the permanent protection of the wildlife dependent on that ecosystem. | |||||
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