County fish and wildlife propagation fund: wildlife coexistence: tear gas.

The bill text was reformatted from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers, page headers, and column formatting) to a web page structure with navigation elements, search boxes, and different heading hierarchy. No policy language was added, removed, or altered.

New Section 1501.8 added to the Fish and Game Code, creating an exception to Penal Code Section 22810 that permits a person authorized by the Department of Fish and Wildlife to apply aversive conditioning on wolves to purchase, possess, or use any tear gas weapon that expels a projectile, provided they have authorization from the sheriff of a county or the chief or head of a municipal police department.

Removed subdivision (n) of Section 13103, which had authorized expenditures from a county fish and wildlife propagation fund for costs incurred by a county sheriff for investigating, issuing citations, or making arrests for civil or criminal violations of the Fish and Game Code.

Remaining subdivisions (wildlife coexistence programs and other approved expenditures) were renumbered from (o) and (p) to (n) and (o) respectively after the removal of the sheriff costs provision. No substantive change to their content.

Removed authorization for counties to spend propagation fund money on land use planning, design, and construction necessary to mitigate a specific environmental impact to a particular fish or wildlife species.

Wildlife coexistence programs (education, outreach, engagement, nonlethal measures) now require approval by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife before funds can be expended from the county propagation fund.

A new section amending Fish and Game Code Section 13103 was added, expanding the list of authorized expenditures from county fish and wildlife propagation funds. The original bill only made nonsubstantive edits to Section 11.

New subdivision (n) authorizes use of county fish and wildlife propagation fund money for costs incurred by a county sheriff in investigating, issuing citations, or making arrests for civil or criminal violations of the Fish and Game Code.

New subdivision (o) authorizes use of county fish and wildlife propagation fund money for land use planning, design, and construction necessary to mitigate a specific environmental impact to a particular fish or wildlife species.

New subdivision (p) authorizes use of county fish and wildlife propagation fund money for wildlife coexistence programs to prevent human-wildlife conflict, including education, public outreach, engagement, and nonlethal measures.

The nonsubstantive cleanup of Section 11 (removing the phrase 'the doing of' and changing 'is allowed or prohibited' to 'allows or prohibits') was retained but renumbered as the second section of the bill, after the new Section 13103 amendment.