Bill Text: CA SB1208 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Wildlife: dudleya: taking and possession.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-25 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1208 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB1208-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
March 25, 2020 |
Introduced by Senator Monning (Coauthor: Assembly Member Kalra) |
February 20, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law makes it unlawful to take any bird, mammal, fish, reptile, or amphibian except as provided in the Fish and Game Code or regulations adopted pursuant to that code. Under existing law, possession of those animals or parts of those animals, under specified circumstances, is prima facie evidence the possessor took the animal or animal parts.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those latter provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 2024 is added to the Fish and Game Code, immediately following Section 2023, to read:2024.
(a) For purposes of this section, “dudleya” means a succulent plant that belongs to the genus Dudleya and referred to commonly as “live-forevers” or “dudleya” that is native to California and grows in natural habitats.SEC. 3.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.(a)It is unlawful to take a bird, mammal, fish, reptile, or amphibian except as provided in this code or in a regulation adopted pursuant to this code.
(b)Possession of a bird, mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, or part of any of those animals, in or on the fields, forests, or waters of this state, or while returning from those places with fishing or hunting equipment, is prima facie evidence the possessor took the bird, mammal, fish, reptile, or amphibian, or part of that animal.