Automated License Data System: nonprofit conservation organizations.

Under existing law, all licenses, permits, tags, reservations, and other entitlements authorized by the Fish and Game Code are prepared and issued by the Department of Fish and Game or an authorized license agent. Existing law authorizes specified persons to obtain tags or stamps for the taking of specific animals or aquatic species, if certain requirements are met. Existing law authorizes the Fish and Game Commission to require and prescribe the form of applications for licenses, permits, tags, reservations, and other entitlements and the form of any contrivance to be used in connection therewith. An existing regulation defines the Automated License Data System as an automated system that replaced the department's paper license inventory system. This bill would require the department, if it determines that a nonprofit conservation organization, as defined, that seeks promotion, exposure, and awareness of the organization, is eligible, to include the organization's logo or other graphics in a space with a link to the organization's Internet home page on the Automated License Data System Online License Service Internet Web site (ALDS Web site) for a time period agreed upon by the department and the organization. The bill would authorize the department to impose a charge on a nonprofit conservation organization for inclusion on the ALDS Web site, and would prohibit that charge from exceeding the costs of administering these provisions. The bill would require the department to deposit revenues of the charge in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, exclusively to pay all initial and ongoing costs associated with the direct administration of these provisions. The bill would require the department to implement the links from the ALDS Web site by January 1, 2015, if it determines that date is feasible.