Learn More About The Sea Otter Tax Check-Off

From Defenders of Wildlife :

"AB 2485, authored by Assemblymembers Dave Jones (Sacramento) and John Laird (Santa Cruz), created a tax check off (under Contributions, line #63 on the CA 2006 tax 540 form), to fund researchers who are working to understand the impacts facing the threatened sea otter and to find ways to recover their population in California."

From http://info.sen.ca.gov : (Relevant excerpt):

"This bill would additionally allow taxpayers to designate on their
tax returns that a specified amount in excess of their tax liability
be transferred to the California Sea Otter Fund, which would be
created by this bill. The bill would require money in that fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to be allocated to the Department
of Fish and Game for the purposes of establishing a sea otter fund,
as prescribed, and to the California Coastal Conservancy for research
and programs related to improving the near-shore ocean ecosystem,
including, but not limited to, program activities to reduce sea otter
mortality."

Complete Bill: 

http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/05-06/bill/asm/ab_2451-2500/ab_2485_bill_20060918_chaptered.html