BILL NUMBER: AB 1429INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Chesbro (Principal coauthors: Senators Evans and La Malfa) MARCH 25, 2011 An act to add Section 8686.5 to the Government Code, relating to disaster relief, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1429, as introduced, Chesbro. Disaster relief: March 2011 tsunami. The California Disaster Assistance Act generally provides that the state share for disaster project allocations to local agencies is 75% of total state eligible costs, except for specified events for which the state share is 100% of state eligible costs. This bill would add the tsunami that occurred in Mendocino County and Del Norte County in March 2011, to the events for which the state share of state eligible cost is 100%.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 8686.5 is added to the Government Code, to read: 8686.5. (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 8686, the state share shall be up to 100 percent of total state eligible costs connected with the tsunami that occurred in Mendocino County and Del Norte County in March 2011. (b) For the disaster that the Legislature has designated in subdivision (a), the state shall assume the increased share specified in subdivision (a) if the Federal Emergency Management Agency or another applicable federal agency has approved the federal share of costs. (c) The state shall not make an allocation for any project application resulting in a state share of less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) under this section. SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: In order to timely provide essential relief to those persons who have suffered damage or loss as a result of the tsunami that occurred in Mendocino County and Del Norte County in March 2011, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.