Bill Text: CA AB1873 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County costs: mutual aid: reimbursement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-25 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1873 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1873-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1873	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act relating to mutual aid, making an appropriation therefor,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1873, as amended, Galgiani. County costs: mutual aid:
reimbursement.
   The California Emergency Services Act provides for the rendering
of mutual aid by the state government and by the political
subdivisions of this state to mitigate the effects of natural,
manmade, or war-caused emergencies. The act requires aid to be
rendered in accordance with approved emergency plans during any state
of war emergency or state of emergency when the need arises for
outside aid in any county, city and county, or city. The act
authorizes state agencies and political subdivisions to exercise
mutual aid powers in accordance with the Master Mutual Aid Agreement
and local ordinances, resolutions, agreements, or plans in periods
other than a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local
emergency.
   This bill would appropriate  an unspecified sum 
 $90,000  from the General Fund to the County of San Joaquin
and Calaveras County to reimburse those counties for the costs they
incurred during 2012 for the excavation and recovery of victims of a
serial killing and costs incurred for assistance provided by outside
agencies that offered mutual aid.  The bill would make specified
legislative findings and declarations. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    (a)     The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following:  
   (1) Numerous victims went missing from northern California and
throughout California's rural Central Valley prior to the arrest of a
team of two serial killers in 1999. In December 2011, one of the
subjects began revealing information about the locations of homicide
victims and leading investigators to burial sites containing an
unknown number of victims.  
   (2) The search and recovery effort occurred in a remote area in
Calaveras County and an abandoned well in a cattlefield in San
Joaquin County from December 2011 to February 2012.  
   (3) This case may lead to the reopening of numerous missing
persons cases in perhaps as many as 72 missing person cold case files
in up to 21 Northern California counties.  
   (4) The United States Congress has granted the Federal Bureau of
Investigations with the authority to investigate serial killings in
accordance with Section 540B of Title 28 of the United States Code.
 
   (5) The Federal Bureau of Investigations is assisting the Sheriffs'
Departments of Calaveras and San Joaquin counties with the
investigation, search, and recovery effort, due to the need to
continue the search of other sites, the need to process the volume of
remains and evidence being recovered, and the need to communicate
information between multiple jurisdictions.  
   (6) The recovery of additional evidence in the initial search was
a matter of statewide interest as additional evidence likely would
have led to additional charges, and probable convictions against one
of the serial killers prior to his suicide. This subject was serving
the final eight months of his parole term, and was due to be released
to the general population in September 2012.  
   (b) The Legislature further finds and declares all of the
following:  
   (1) The recovery of remains of missing victims is of utmost
importance to show respect to the victims, and to ease the suffering
of the victims families.  
   (2) A search and recovery effort for missing loved ones should not
be hampered or delayed by any lack of funds or resources available
to a county for such purposes. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.    An
unspecified   The  sum  of ninety thousand
dollars ($90,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund
to the County of San Joaquin and Calaveras County to reimburse those
counties for the costs they incurred during 2012 for the excavation
and recovery of victims of a serial killing and costs incurred for
assistance provided by outside agencies that offered mutual aid.
  SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide the County of San Joaquin and Calaveras County
with urgently needed fiscal assistance at the earliest possible
time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.