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 03/25/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/02/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/13/26 - Introduced

 AB-1987 Department-managed lands: wildlife areas: hunting.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/11/2026 09:00 PM

AB1987:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 11, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 25, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 02, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1987

Introduced by Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry and Hadwick
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Jeff Gonzalez and Soria)
(Coauthor: Senator Cortese)

February 13, 2026

An act to amend Sections 1745, 1745.1, and 1758 of, and to add Section 1528.5 to, the Fish and Game Code, relating to fish and wildlife, and making an appropriation therefor. wildlife.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1987, as amended, Aguiar-Curry.
 Department-managed lands: wildlife areas: hunting.

Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate department-managed lands on a nonprofit basis and authorizes the department to enter into contracts or other agreements for the management and operation of the department-managed lands with a nonprofit conservation group, as defined. Existing law authorizes the department to lease department-managed lands for agricultural activities if certain conditions are met and requires money collected from the lease of these lands to be deposited by the department in the Wildlife Restoration Fund or the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, and authorizes the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to use the funds to support the management, maintenance, restoration, and operations of department-managed lands. 

This bill would authorize the department to enter into contracts or
 other agreements for the management and operation of the department-managed lands for the purposes of administrating hunting or other public use programs. The bill would also require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the above-described agricultural lease funds to be used by the department to support the management, maintenance, restoration, and operations of department-managed lands.

Existing law requires the department to annually provide an opportunity for licensed hunters to comment and make recommendations on public hunting programs, including anticipated habitat conditions in hunting areas on Type A and Type B wildlife areas, as provided.

This bill would add wetland floodup to the topics that the department is required to provide an opportunity for comment and recommendation on as described above.

 This bill would create the Waterfowl Management Areas Operations and Maintenance Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund and would require all revenues generated from the sale of waterfowl hunting reservation applications and daily and season long entry passes from Type A and Type B Wildlife Areas to be deposited into the account. The bill would continuously appropriate require the department to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, expend those revenues for the operation and maintenance of, and the reasonable administrative costs directly related to to, the public hunting programs for,
 for Type A and Type B Wildlife Areas. The bill would require the department to, on or before October 1, 2033, prepare and submit a report to the appropriate policy and budget committees of the Legislature, as specified.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 1528.5 is added to the Fish and Game Code, to read:

1528.5.

 (a) All revenues generated from the sale of waterfowl hunting reservation applications and daily and season-long entry passes from Type A and Type B Wildlife Areas, as defined under the commission’s regulations, shall be deposited into the Waterfowl Management Areas Operations and Maintenance Account that is hereby created in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund to permit separate accountability. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the account shall be continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal year to
 expended by the department for both of the fo