Marc Levine
- Democratic
Author
Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to administer the Significant Natural Areas Program, and requires the department, among other things, to develop and maintain a spatial data system that identifies those areas in the state that are most essential for maintaining habitat connectivity, including wildlife corridors and habitat linkages. Existing law requires the department, contingent upon the provision of certain funding, to investigate, study, and identify those areas in the state that are most essential as wildlife corridors and habitat linkages and prioritize vegetative data development in those areas. Existing law requires the department to seek input from representatives of other state agencies, local government, federal agencies, nongovernmental conservation organizations, landowners, agriculture, recreation, scientific entities, and industry in determining essential wildlife corridors and habitat linkages. This bill would declare that it is the policy of the state to encourage, wherever feasible and practicable, voluntary steps to protect the functioning of wildlife corridors through various means, as applicable. Existing law provides for the establishment of conservation banks, defined as publicly or privately owned and operated sites that are to be conserved and managed for habitat protection purposes in accordance with an agreement with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Existing law provides for the issuance of credits by a conservation bank to, among other things, reduce adverse impacts to fish or wildlife resources from certain activities. Existing law also provides for the establishment of mitigation banks, as defined. This bill would include within the authorized purposes of a conservation bank the protection of habitat connectivity for fish and wildlife resources. This bill would provide that the fact that a project applicant does not take voluntary steps to protect the functioning of a wildlife corridor prior to initiating the application process for the project shall not be grounds for denying a permit or requiring additional mitigation beyond what is otherwise required by law to mitigate project impacts.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 625, Statutes of 2015.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 2910.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 2407.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1621.)
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1541.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 6).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on W., P., & W. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB498 | HTML |
| 02/23/15 - Introduced | |
| 04/08/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/28/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/22/15 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/16/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/31/15 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/09/15 - Enrolled | |
| 10/08/15 - Chaptered |
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