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SB 1853 file:///CjAVEB/AIRPORT/SB 1853.HTM California Senate Bill 1853 History April 14, 1998: Amended in Senate March 31: Senate Transportation Committee MOTION: Do pass as amended, and re -refer to the Committee on Appropriations. (AYES 9. NOES 0.) (PASS) AYES: Ayala, Costa, Hayden, Karnette, Monteith, Polanco, Rainey, Kelley, and Kopp AMENDED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Kopp COAUTHORS Senators Hughes and Sher; Assembly members Alquist, Knox, Lempert, Perata, and Wildman APRIL 14, 1998 An act to add Section 21669.5 to the Public Utilities Code, relating to aeronautics. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 1853, as introduced, Kopp. Airports: noise standards: violations. (1) The State Aeronautics Act requires the Department of Transportation to adopt noise standards governing the operation of aircraft and aircraft engines for specified airports, as prescribed. Under existing regulations adopted by the department pursuant to the act, the department may issue a variance from those noise standards. This bill would authorize any city or county to submit a written request to the department for a public hearing regarding aircraft noise at or near an airport. The bill would require the department to hold a public hearing within 60 days of receipt of such a request and would require the owner and operator of _ the airport to participate in the hearing. The bill would require an airport operating pursuant to a variance, if a recommended flight path for aircraft is scheduled to change, to make every reasonable effort to notify the residents and businesses that will be affected by that change at least 15 days before the date that the change will take effect, thereby imposing a state -mandated local program. The bill would require the district attorney of a county in which an airport operating pursuant to a variance is located, within 60 days of receipt of a request from a city or a county regarding an airport, to investigate any alleged violation of that variance. The bill would require the Attorney General to investigate the alleged violation if the district attorney fails to investigate the request within 90 days. Because a violation of the act is a crime, the bill would impose a state -mandated local program by creating new crimes. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement, including the creation of a State Mandates Claims Fund to pay the costs of mandates that do not exceed $1,000,000 statewide and other procedures for claims whose statewide costs exceed $1,000,000.