Bill Text: CA AB1519 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-08 - In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. [AB1519 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1519-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1519	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Donnelly
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Beth Gaines, Harkey, Jones, Morrell,
and Wilk)
   (Coauthors: Senators Fuller, Gaines, and Nielsen)

                        JANUARY 16, 2014

   An act to amend Section 4225 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to forestry and fire protection.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1519, as introduced, Donnelly. State responsibility areas: fire
prevention fees.
   Existing law requires the state to have the primary financial
responsibility for preventing and suppressing fires in areas that the
State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection has determined are state
responsibility areas, as defined. Existing law requires the State
Board of Equalization to collect a fire prevention fee not to exceed
$150 to be charged on each structure on a parcel that is within a
state responsibility area. Existing law specifies that the fire
prevention fee determined to be due by the Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection is due and payable at the time it becomes final, and
imposes a specified civil penalty for each 30-day period during
which the fee remains unpaid.
   This bill would eliminate the specified civil penalty imposed for
unpaid fire prevention fees.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 4225 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   4225.  The fire prevention fee determined to be due by the
department under this article is due and payable at the time it
becomes  final, and if it is not paid when due and payable,
notwithstanding the penalty imposed pursuant to Section 55042 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, a penalty of 20 percent of the fee
determined to be due shall be added to the amount due and payable for
each 30-day period in which the fee remains unpaid  
final  .