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HUNTER EDUCATION (Berryhill) |
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| Description: |
AB 1254, Tom Berryhill. Fish and Game Commission: wildlife.
(1) The California Constitution creates the Fish and Game
Commission. Existing law establishes the commission in the Natural
Resources Agency to perform specified functions. Existing law
requires the commission to hold no fewer than 10 regular meetings per
year, with no more than 2 regular meetings to be held in Sacramento
per year.
This bill would require the commission to hold no fewer than 10
meetings per year, if the commission has adequate funding for related
travel, including funding for department travel. It would also
require no more than 3, rather than 2, regular meetings to be held in
Sacramento per year.
(2) Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Game to
prescribe a minimum level of skill and knowledge to be required of
all hunter education instructors, and authorizes the department to
limit the number of students per instructor in all required classes.
This bill would require the department to offer special hunting
opportunities to qualified hunter education instructors by providing
a limited number of existing tags and other hunting opportunities.
(3) Under existing law,1/2 of all fines and forfeitures imposed or
collected in any court of this state for violations of the Fish and
Game Code are paid to the county in which the offense was committed
and deposited in a county fish and wildlife propagation fund to be
expended for the protection, conservation, propagation, and
preservation of fish and wildlife, in accordance with specified
requirements. Existing law authorizes the department to audit, or to
require the county to audit, expenditures by the county from its fish
and wildlife propagation fund in order to determine compliance with
these requirements.
The bill would authorize the department to require that all
expenditures from the fund be temporarily suspended, or to seek
reimbursement of funds that the department determines, based on the
audit, were expended improperly, or both, if, after reviewing the
audit, the department determines that expenditures are not in
compliance with the requirements.
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| Latest Info: |
01/13/2010 - Yesterday AB 1254, Hunter Education, passed the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife committee.
Next committee appearence is the Assembly Appropriations committee.
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