Legislation

Legislative Update April 14, 2013

April 15, 2013

There was significant action in the SRA fee arena this week. In the first committee hearing of a “Repeal the SRA fee” bill, the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee heard SB-17; the result was predictable given that this is a Democrat-controlled committee and none of the Democrats are eager to see a funding source dry […]

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California Legislation Update April 6 2013

April 6, 2013

The legislature is back in session, and with that came a blizzard of status updates, hearing dates, and a smattering of legislative analyses and amendments.  All of the details are in our legislation table.  Do read the analyses for those bills that have passed through committee hearings; they are very illuminating. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers […]

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California Legislation update 3/27/13

March 29, 2013

This week the legislature is taking their spring break, which means we get our breather too. We previously covered the reasons for our stances on the various SRA fee bills.  This week we will look at some of the others. CCFA supports the following bills: AB 245 will lift the exemption from the Bagley-Keene Open […]

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Legislative Update, 3/18/2013 – CCFA supports legislation to repeal or amend the SRA fee

March 20, 2013

CCFA has sent letters of support for the following bills, all of which relate to the SRA fee or fire tax: AB 23, AB 124, SB 17 and SB 125.  AB 23, AB 124 and SB 17 all call for the repeal of the fee.  SB 125 exempts people who reside in a fire district […]

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SRA Fees – Preparation for the Second Round of Billing has Commenced

March 12, 2013

The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has advised us that CalFIRE is preparing the second round of billing for the State Responsibility Area Fee (the Fire Tax).  Even though the “fee” is being challenged by a lawsuit, CalFIRE will continue to bill every year until the class action lawsuit is resolved.  We can expect the lawsuit […]

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California legislation update – March 7, 2013

March 8, 2013

A lot has been happening in California legislation since the last post.  February 22 was the deadline for introducing new legislation, and there was a flood of bills introduced at the last minute.  At the end of the day, there were 2195 bills introduces, with at least 529 of them being “spot” bills that serve […]

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Forest Roads and the EPA Updated

February 21, 2013

At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, just days before the Supreme Court was to take on the Ninth Circuit’s decision that logging roads require National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for stormwater discharges, the EPA issued a clarification to their rule declaring their successful 37 year policy of allowing state-adopted Best Management Practices […]

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Federal Legislation and Regulation 2013

January 23, 2013

The biggest issue at the beginning of 2013 was the so-called “fiscal cliff”, caused by a standoff between the President and the liberal legislators, who demanded that the debt ceiling be raised, and the conservative legislators who demanded some real cuts in federal expenditures before they would consider any concessions to the liberals. At stake […]

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2013-2014 California Legislation

January 14, 2013

The 2013 legislative season is open and the following bills of possible interest to forestry have been introduced so far. There is nothing so far that directly affects forestry; the alternative fuel bills do address repowering agricultural equipment and trucks to Everything on this list is currently on a WATCH status: AB 1 Water quality: […]

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