Bill Text: CA SCR13 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Creation of the Joint Committee for the Protection of

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2009-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 118, Statutes of 2009. [SCR13 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SCR13-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 13	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  118
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Gaines and Jones)
   (Coauthors: Senators Cox and Dutton)
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Ma)

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   Relative to the creation of the Joint Committee for the Protection
of Lake Tahoe.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 13, Steinberg. Creation of the Joint Committee for the
Protection of Lake Tahoe.
   This measure would create the Joint Committee for the Protection
of Lake Tahoe. The measure would require the committee to consist of
8 members, who shall include 4 Senators appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules and 4 Assembly Members appointed by the Speaker of
the Assembly. In addition, this measure would require the members to
meet at various times and places on or before December 31, 2009.
This measure would authorize the termination of the committee on
November 30, 2010.



   WHEREAS, Lake Tahoe has long been recognized as a natural resource
of national and international significance as one of the world's
largest, clearest, and most scenic Alpine lakes and is one of only
two Outstanding National Resource Waters in the State of California;
and
   WHEREAS, It is the expressed policy of this state, of the State of
Nevada, and of the United States of America, through adoption and
ratification of the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact as amended in
1980, to preserve the scenic beauty and outdoor recreational
opportunities of the region by ensuring an equilibrium between the
region's natural endowment and its manmade environment; and
   WHEREAS, This state, along with the State of Nevada, the United
States of America, and other public and private entities, committed
itself in 1997 to the development and implementation of the
Environmental Improvement Program, a comprehensive 1.1-billion-dollar
($1,100,000,000) plan that allocates and guides capital investments
in conservation and restoration measures designed to achieve the
environmental threshold carrying capacities and to repair
environmental damage from the past that are beyond the capacity of
the Tahoe Regional Plan to address through regulation and the
mitigation of impacts of current activities; and
   WHEREAS, Representatives of the State of California are
participating in a variety of ways in the development of a new
Environmental Improvement Program, in partnership with the Tahoe
Regional Planning Agency; and
   WHEREAS, The Lake Tahoe region deserves special representation by
the Legislature to provide appropriate policy and budgetary guidance
on the adoption and implementation of a new Environmental Improvement
Program; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
hereby establishes the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake
Tahoe; and be it further
   Resolved, That the committee consist of eight members, who shall
include four Senators appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and
four Assembly Members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly; the
members of the committee from each house shall include three members
of the majority caucus and one member of the minority caucus; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the chair and vice chair of the committee shall be
appointed by mutual agreement of the Senate Committee on Rules and
the Speaker of the Assembly; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake
Tahoe shall meet at least once in the Lake Tahoe region on or before
December 31, 2009, and once with its respective committee
representing the State of Nevada on or before December 31, 2009; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Senate Committee on Rules may make the moneys
available from the Senate Operating Fund, as it deems necessary, to
pay expenses of the joint committee and its members, and that any
expenditure of moneys shall be made in compliance with policies set
forth by the Senate Committee on Rules and shall be subject to the
approval of the Senate Committee on Rules; and be it further
   Resolved, That the joint committee is authorized to act until
November 30, 2010, when its existence shall terminate; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.