Existing law sets forth a comprehensive plan for the conservation of the waters of the San Francisco Bay and the development of its shoreline and delegates to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission authority to implement the plan. Existing law establishes in the State Treasury a Bay Fill Clean-Up and Abatement Fund and requires moneys from specified sources to be paid into the fund, including all moneys collected civilly under specified proceedings. Existing law requires moneys in the fund to be available for the expenditure by the commission or the executive director, when appropriated by the Legislature, for specified purposes, including resource enhancement and remedial cleanup or abatement actions.
This bill would also require the money in the fund to be available for expenditure by the commission or the executive director, when appropriated by the Legislature, for the purpose of supporting enforcement activities. The bill would include funding of technology, services, programs, and personnel that directly support the above-described specified purposes as permissible expenditures.

Statutes affected:
03/24/25 - Amended Senate: 66647 GOV, 66647 GOV