California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 2163 — Forest practices: timber harvesting plans.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 376, Statutes of 2010.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 5 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) The Z'Berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and approved. The act provides that a timber harvesting plan is effective for a period of not more than 3 years, unless extended as specified. The act provides that a timber harvesting plan, on which work has commenced but not been completed, may be extended by amendment for a one-year period in order to complete the work, up to a maximum of 2 one-year extensions if 2 requirements are met. The act requires the notice of extension to include the circumstances that prevented a timely completion of the work under the plan and an agreement to comply with the specified law, rules, and regulations as they exist on the date the extension notice is filed. The act allows, until January 1, 2012, an extension of a timber harvesting plan, on which timber operations have commenced but not been completed, by amendment for up to a maximum of 4 one-year extensions, if those 2 requirements are met, and in addition, the plan expired in 2008 or 2009, and the notice of extension includes written certification by a registered professional forester that listed species have not been discovered in the logging area of the plan since approval of the plan and significant physical changes to the harvest area or adjacent areas have not occurred since the plan's cumulative impacts were originally assessed. This bill would, in addition, allow up to a maximum of 4 one-year extensions, including any other extension granted prior to January 1, 2010, under those same conditions for a plan that was extended in 2008 or 2009. (2) The act allows, until January 1, 2012, a timber harvesting plan that is approved on or after January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2011, inclusive, to be extended by amendment for a 2-year period in order to complete the timber operations, up to a maximum of 2 2-year extensions, if the plan complies with certain requirements. This bill would remove the sunset date for the extension of these plans. (3) Existing law, beginning January 1, 2012, provides that a timber harvesting plan is effective for a period of not more than 3 years, unless extended. This bill would instead provide that, beginning January 1, 2012, a plan approved on or after January 1, 2012, is effective for a period not more than 3 years, unless extended. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 376, Statutes of 2010.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.

  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

  5. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 4575.)

  6. Read second time. To third reading.

  7. From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  8. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 29).

  9. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  10. Referred to Com. on N.R. & W.

  11. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  12. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 7. Page 5258.)

  13. Ordered to third reading.

  14. From Consent Calendar.

  15. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.

  16. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  17. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 12).

  18. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  19. Read second time and amended.

  20. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 19).

  21. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  22. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.

  23. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  24. (Corrected April 7.)

  25. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.

  26. Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  27. From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  28. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Mendoza · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Mendoza

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Assembly 3rd Reading AB2163 Mendoza Urgency Clause

Passed 33 Yea · 1 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 30105
Democratic 2000
Republican 1000
Total 33105
% of votes cast 85%3%0%13%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Nay
Hancock — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Cogdill — Yea
Corbett — Not Voting
Correa — Yea
Florez — Yea
Harman — Yea
Hollingsworth — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Runner — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Romero — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
Aanestad — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Huff — Yea
Liu — Yea
Oropeza — Not Voting
Price — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wiggins — Not Voting
Emmerson — Yea
Denham — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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AB 2163 MENDOZA Third Reading Urgency

Passed 63 Yea · 7 Nay · 21 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 596020
Democratic 3000
Republican 1101
Total 637021
% of votes cast 69%8%0%23%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Bill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Eng — Yea
Evans — Not Voting
Charles — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Hagman — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Hall — Yea
Yamada — Nay
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Fletcher — Not Voting
Fong — Not Voting
Bonnie — Not Voting
Lowenthal — Not Voting
Saldana — Not Voting
Audra — Not Voting
John — Not Voting
A. — Not Voting
Perez — Not Voting
Harkey — Not Voting
Nava — Not Voting
Norby — Not Voting
Coto — Not Voting
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huffman — Yea
De — Not Voting
La — Not Voting
Torre — Not Voting
Ammiano — Nay
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Davis — Yea
DeVore — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Ruskin — Nay
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Nay
Torres — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Adams — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Blakeslee — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Nay
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Not Voting
Buchanan — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Huber — Yea
Knight — Yea
Ma — Yea
Monning — Not Voting
Nestande — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Tran — Yea
Villines — Not Voting
Emmerson — Yea
Feuer — Nay
Furutani — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar.

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15002
Democratic 0001
Total 15003
% of votes cast 83%0%0%17%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
Hall — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Charles — Not Voting
Harkey — Yea
Hill — Yea
Miller — Yea
Norby — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Ammiano — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Conway — Yea
Coto — Yea
Davis — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting

Official roll call →

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2163 do?
(1) The Z'Berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and approved. The act provides that a timber harvesting plan is effective for a period of not more than 3 years, unless extended as specified. The act provides that a timber harvesting plan, on which work has commenced but not been completed, may be extended by amendment for a one-year period in order to complete the work, up to a maximum of 2 one-year extensions if 2 requirements are met. The act requires the notice of extension to include the circumstances that prevented a timely completion of the work under the plan and an agreement to comply with the specified law, rules, and regulations as they exist on the date the extension notice is filed. The act allows, until January 1, 2012, an extension of a timber harvesting plan, on which timber operations have commenced but not been completed, by amendment for up to a maximum of 4 one-year extensions, if those 2 requirements are met, and in addition, the plan expired in 2008 or 2009, and the notice of extension includes written certification by a registered professional forester that listed species have not been discovered in the logging area of the plan since approval of the plan and significant physical changes to the harvest area or adjacent areas have not occurred since the plan's cumulative impacts were originally assessed. This bill would, in addition, allow up to a maximum of 4 one-year extensions, including any other extension granted prior to January 1, 2010, under those same conditions for a plan that was extended in 2008 or 2009. (2) The act allows, until January 1, 2012, a timber harvesting plan that is approved on or after January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2011, inclusive, to be extended by amendment for a 2-year period in order to complete the timber operations, up to a maximum of 2 2-year extensions, if the plan complies with certain requirements. This bill would remove the sunset date for the extension of these plans. (3) Existing law, beginning January 1, 2012, provides that a timber harvesting plan is effective for a period of not more than 3 years, unless extended. This bill would instead provide that, beginning January 1, 2012, a plan approved on or after January 1, 2012, is effective for a period not more than 3 years, unless extended. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors AB 2163?
AB 2163 is sponsored by Mendoza.
What is the current status of AB 2163?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.
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