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 01/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-274 Abandoned and derelict vessels: inventory.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/26/2025 09:00 PM

AB274:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 26, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 03, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 274

Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom

January 21, 2025

An act to add Section 6112 to the Public Resources Code, relating to vessels. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 274, as amended, Ransom.
 Abandoned and derelict vessels: inventory.

Existing law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency, the State Lands Commission consisting of the Controller, the Lieutenant Governor, and the Director of Finance. Existing law vests in the commission with exclusive jurisdiction over all ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the state, and of the beds of navigable rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, inlets, and straits, including tidelands and submerged lands. Existing law authorizes the commission to take immediate action to remove from areas under its jurisdiction a vessel that is left unattended and is moored, docked, beached, or made fast to land in a position as to obstruct the normal movement of traffic or in a condition as to create a hazard to navigation, other vessels using a waterway, or the property of another. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2019, and in consultation with other
 relevant state and local agencies directly involved in the removal of abandoned vessels, to develop a plan for the removal of abandoned commercial vessels.

This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, to create an inventory of all abandoned and derelict commercial and recreational vessels on or in waters within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including commercially navigable waters, as specified. The bill would require the inventory to include specified information about each vessel, including, among other things, the amount number of commercial and recreational vessels located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the estimated size and weight of each commercial or recreational vessel. The bill would make these provisions contingent upon an
 appropriation by the Legislature.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) California’s coastline, ports, and other waterways are polluted with abandoned and derelict commercial vessels and marine debris, which contain high levels of hazardous materials from both their construction and use, including solvents, asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, lead paint, batteries, and petroleum products, such as fuel, oil, oily waste, hydraulic fluid, and grease.

(b) Abandoned and derelict commercial vessels create navigation, environmental, and public health and safety
 hazards.

(c) Abandoned and derelict commercial vessels usually consist of, but are not limited to, ferries, tugs, barges, cranes, dredges, work boats workboats and work platforms that were designed and used for commercial work, military craft, and other vessels, but at end of life are often sold at auction to any willing buyer. These vessels evolve into a dilapidated condition and eventually end up in an unusable state, leading the vessel to be sunk, partially sunk, or a sinking hazard.

(d) The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is California’s most crucial water and ecologic resource. It is the largest
 freshwater tidal estuary of its kind on the West Coast, providing important bird and marine habitat, among other ecological and recreational benefits.

(e) The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is also home to the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project, which provide a portion of the drinking water for 29,000,000 Californians and irrigation water for much of the state’s $50 billion agricultural industry.

(f) While this is a statewide problem, the unique makeup