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Legislature Votes the Environment on Same-House Bills
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Last week marked the halfway point for Legislative Season 1997. Friday
was the final day for bills to pass through their house of origin. The
environment is doing quite well so far this season, and we have been
pleasantly surprised by the success of pro-environment bills in both houses.
There is bipartisan support for initiatives relating to issues such as coastal
protection and air pollution reduction, and we are encouraging legislators
to take real action by funding environmental protection. All is not perfect,
however; anti-regulatory rhetoric is alive and well in Sacramento, and some
good bills have failed and some bad ones passed under the guise of
"reducing government infringement on people's lives."

The following is an update on the progress of bills that have been listed in
previous LegAlerts. A short description of each bill is included here, and
you can refer back to the original LegAlert for a more complete analysis.

** Coast and Ocean **
AB 411 (Wayne): Beach sanitation: posting
LegAlert: #97-8
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Health and Human Services

AB 1188 (Lempert): Coastal access easements
LegAlert: #97-2
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife

AB 1429 (Shelley): Water quality
LegAlert: #97-8
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Rules

AB 1464 (Strom-Martin): Water quality
LegAlert: #97-8
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Rules

SB 62 (McPherson): California State Mussel Watch Program
LegAlert: #97-7
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

SB 72 (McPherson): Coastal access grants
LegAlert: #97-7
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

SB 499 (Alpert): Water quality: nonpoint source pollution
LegAlert: #97-7
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

SB 673 (Karnette): Water quality: contaminated sediment
LegAlert: #97-7
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

**Air Quality **
AB 278 (Escutia): Children's Health Bill
LegAlert: #97-8
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Rules

AB 375 (Firestone): Tire recovery programs
LegAlert: #97-6
SC Position: OPPOSE
Status: Did not pass Assembly.

** Water Quality and Water Policy **
AB 667 (Lempert): Oil spills: state waters
LegAlert: #97-2
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Rules

SB 661 (O'Connell): Water quality: containment zones
LegAlert: #97-8
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

SB 1188 (Hayden): Los Angeles River
LegAlert: #97-6
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Assembly

** Forestry **
AB 1313 (Lempert): Timber harvesting plans: exemptions
LegAlert: #97-4
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Did not pass Assembly.

** Pesticides **
SB 1161 (Costa): Pesticide mill assessment
LegAlert: #97-3
SC Position: OPPOSE
Status: Assembly

** Recycling **
AB 362 (Bowen): Environmental advertising
LegAlert: #97-2
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Did not pass Assembly.

** Transportation **
AB 595 (Brown): Metropolitan Transportation Commission
LegAlert: #97-4
SC Position: SUPPORT
Status: Senate Transportation

** Wildlife **
AB 363 (Goldsmith): Wild animals: domestic ferrets
LegAlert: #97-5
SC Position: OPPOSE
Status: Senate Rules

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Address your letters to: Assembly Member/Senator ______
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

To find out who your state legislators are, call:
(916) 445-3614 (Assembly)
(916) 445-4251 (Senate)

To find out the email addresses for your state legislators, check the
following Web pages:
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset7.htm
http://www.sen.ca.gov/htbin/seninfo/sen.senator

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