Senate Standing Committee on Governmental Organization

We will now move to the file. Item number one, AB 295, SB. Excuse me. Any witnesses in support? Good morning. I mean, really. Would you like to take over the case?

I'll do that right now. Okay. Do we have an author for item number one? Anybody? Anybody?

I thought we were really cruising today.

We are cruising. Just dispense from the reading. Oh, Senator Dodd, would you like to present your Bill?

Yes, Mister chair, and members, today I'm presenting SB 295, which is back for concurrence vote. The Bill, as amended in the Assembly, creates a needed flexibility in the pilot boat surcharge account by authorizing the board of pilot commissioners to collect bank and expend funds necessary to replace or re-engineer pilot vessels while saving on significant interest costs.

The bill has no opposition and has received bipartisan support. Respectfully. As for your aye vote.

Did you bring anybody to, I mean, an expert witness or anything to interpret that for us? Go ahead, sir.

I'll be very brief. Thank you, Mister chair. Matt Robinson, on behalf of the Pacific Merchants Shipping Association, because they're not in the room, I'll go ahead and mention our co-sponsors, the San Francisco Bar Pilots and Cruise Lines International Association, all in support.

This Bill would allow us to pay off those vessel replacements sooner while saving about $30 million in interest. And we respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Is there anybody else in support who'd like to come up and offer their support? If not. Oh, is she going to run up? Okay, he has. You all right? Anybody in opposition to the bill wants to testify? No. Okay, good. It comes back to the dais.

Senator Bradford, did you have any questions for Senator Dodd? No. So. And neither do I. So when we have a quorum, we'll get a vote on this Bill. So it'll be on call or not on call. It'll be waiting.

Thank you, Vice Chair. So, do we have word in Rubio?

Okay, we're going to move to file. Item number two, SB 536. Senator Rubio is not in the building, and Senator Seyarto is going to present the Bill on her behalf.

I'm here on behalf of Miss Rubio. So it's not funny. It is funny. You just don't have a sense of humor this morning. So for too long, the Herman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility has sat closed and unused in the City of Chino.

Basically what this Bill does is enables the City of Chino to purchase this land from the State of California and they will make various improvements that are going to be very beneficial for the community of Chino. So I respectfully ask for an aye vote when the time comes and I don't.

I believe we do have an expert witness here who's going to testify on how much he likes the bill.

Well, thank you, Mister Chairman. And thank you, Senator Searto, for pitch-hitting. Jason Gonzales on behalf of the City of Chino. This, as the Senator says, enables the city to begin negotiations with DGS. And we want to thank the committee and the author for their leadership on this. And I guess it's your last chairmanship, Senator Dodd.

So thank you for maybe. You never know, you never know how. It rolls here, right? But it's a pleasure to be before you. Thank you.

Thank you, Mister Gonzales. Appreciate you. And please let the City of Chino know that Senator Seyarto did the heavy lifting on this one with reinforcement.

You never know.

You got it.

And his brother, Senator See-arto also. Wow. No, I'm just kidding.

That wasn't funny either.

It was. You just don't have a sense of humor this morning.

Is there anybody in opposition? There's none. We'll bring the discussion back to the members.

Senator Wilk, you're going to ask me some hard hitting questions.

Okay, the motion. We don't need a motion right now because we don't have a quorum. So we are done presenting bills in Government Organization Committee. Members need to come down and vote. As soon as we get a quorum. We are closing the roll.

We're not going to keep the roll open.

I would like to acknowledge my staff Member from Los Angeles who came to visit. Hi, Anthony. Everyone wave to Anthony. He's right there. Wave, Anthony. Let him know that this is how serious you are about the work. Thank you for visiting. Yeah. Everyone wave.

The GO Committee will start in 30 seconds. All right. We are reconvening the GO Committee at this point. If we could call the role to establish a quorum.

[Roll Call]

All right, we have a quorum. We've already had Bill presentations, so I'm just going to recap, and then we'll put it to a vote. Item number one was from the chair, SB 295. The motion was that the Assembly amendments be concurred in.

Just to recap, the Bill removes caps on annual spending from the pilot boat surcharge account in the board of Pilots Commissioner special Fund, which existing law allows to cover costs of obtaining new boats and funding design and engineering modifications for the purpose of extending the service life of existing boats, excluding costs for repair and maintenance. Clearly, you can tell I'm reading that for the first time. With that, let's call the vote.

[Roll Call]

Will hold the roll open momentarily. Oh, everybody's here. What about Glazer? Of course. Okay, so that's. Bill is out 13-0. Yeah, I know. Let's go to item number two. We have a motion on SB 536.

Do you have a motion?

No, I'll make a motion because Senator Seyarto did a great job presenting Senator Rubio's Bill.

Thank you, Senator Wilk. Motion. Senator Wilk, please call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Bill is out 14-0. That concludes the business before the GO Committee. This meeting is adjourned.