BILL NUMBER: AB 2268	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act  to amend Section 102 of the Fish and Game Code,
  relating to the  Department of  Fish and 
Game Commission.   Wildlife. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2268, as amended, Bigelow.  Department of  Fish and
 Game Commission.  Wildlife   . 

   Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to
prepare a plan for the management of wild pigs to determine the
status and trend of wild pig populations and to designate management
units within the state. Existing law requires the department, in
preparing the plan, to consider available, existing information and
literature relative to wild pigs.  
   This bill would require the department to conduct a study on the
wild pig population in California that includes in its
recommendations solutions to mitigate the wild pig population. 

   The California Constitution establishes the 5-member Fish and Game
Commission, with members appointed by the Governor and approved by
the Senate. Existing law requires the commissioners to annually elect
one of their number as vice president. Existing law prohibits the
vice president to serve more than 2 consecutive years. 

   This bill would eliminate this prohibition. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION   1   .    The Department
of Fish and Wildlife shall conduct a study on the wild pig population
in California that includes in its recommendations solutions to
mitigate the wild pig population.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 102 of the Fish and Game
Code is amended to read:
   102.  (a) The commissioners shall annually elect one of their
number as president and one as vice president, by a concurrent vote
of at least three commissioners.
   (b) No president shall serve more than two consecutive years.
   (c) The president or vice president may be removed from the
position of president or vice president by a vote, at any time, of at
least three commissioners.
   (d) In the event of a vacancy in either the position of president
or vice president, the commission shall fill that vacancy at the next
regularly scheduled meeting of the commission. The elected successor
president or vice president shall serve for the unexpired term of
the predecessor until the annual election pursuant to subdivision
(a).
   (e) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the commission may not
adopt or enforce a policy or a regulation that provides for the
president and vice president to be chosen by seniority nor may the
commission adopt or enforce any other policy or regulation that would
make a commissioner ineligible to be elected as president or vice
president of the commission.