MPWMD Bill
Track: 4-30-2010
AB 25 (Gilmore R)
Water discharges: mandatory minimum civil penalties.
Current
Text: Amended: 1/13/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 12/1/2008
Last Amended: 1/13/2010
Status: 2/11/2010-Referred
to Com. on EQ.
Location: 2/11/2010-S. E.Q.
Summary:
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the
Position: Watch
AB 55 (Jeffries R)
Water supply planning.
Current
Text: Introduced: 12/4/2008 pdf html
Introduced: 12/4/2008
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Existing law requires a city or county that determines a project is subject to
the California Environmental Quality Act to identify any public water system
that may supply water for the project and to request those public water systems
to prepare a specified water supply assessment. If no public water system is
identified, the city or county is required to prepare the water supply
assessment. This bill would revise that definition of "project" to
provide that specified business, commercial, hotel or motel, industrial,
manufacturing, and mixed-use developments are within the scope of that
definition only if the projected water demand of the development would be
equivalent to, or greater than, the amount of water required by a 500 dwelling
unit project, as determined by the public water system. This bill contains
other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position:
AB 610 (Caballero D)
Local infrastructure.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/25/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/25/2009
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Existing law provides that the Office of Planning and Research within the
Governor's office serves as the state's comprehensive planning agency in the
formulation, evaluation, and updating of, among other things, long-range goals
and policies for land use, population growth and distribution, urban expansion,
development, open space, resource preservation and utilization, air and water
quality, and other factors that shape statewide development patterns and
significantly influence the quality of the state's environment. This bill would
require the Office of Planning and Research to advise and educate local
agencies and other interested stakeholders about the role that public-private
partnerships can play in planning, studying, designing, financing,
constructing, operating, maintaining, or managing local infrastructure
projects.
Position:
AB 969 (Calderon,
Charles D) Recycled water.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/26/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/26/2009
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Existing law, the Water Recycling Act of 1991, establishes a statewide goal to
recycle a total of 700,000 acre-feet of water per year by the year 2000 and
1,000,000 acre-feet of water per year by the year 2010. The act requires, to
the extent that specified funds are made available, the Department of Water
Resources to identify and report to the Legislature on opportunities for
increasing the use of recycled water and constraints and impediments to
increasing the use of recycled water. The act requires the department to
convene a task force, known as the 2002 Recycled Water Task Force, to advise
the department in implementing the report requirement. Existing law requires
the department and the task force to report to the Legislature no later than
July 1, 2003. This bill would repeal the report and task force requirements.
The bill would change the statewide goal for recycled water to an unspecified
number of acre-feet of water per year by the year 2020. The bill also would
make changes to findings and declarations under the act.
Position:
AB 1187 (Huffman D)
Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/27/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to
provide funds for water protection, facilities, and programs. This bill would
enact the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if
approved by the voters, would authorize, for the purposes of financing
specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the
issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,035,000,000 pursuant to the State
General Obligation Bond Law. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position:
AB 1321 (Eng D)
Environment: The Advance Infrastructure Mitigation Program Act.
Current
Text: Amended: 5/6/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 5/6/2009
Status: 1/22/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/2/2009)
Location: 1/22/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to
prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an
environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry
out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as
defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will
not have that effect. This bill would enact the Advance Infrastructure
Mitigation Program Act, which would establish the Advance Infrastructure
Mitigation Program, including defining terms for that purpose. The bill would
authorize the Natural Resources Agency to administer and implement the program
by taking certain actions. Those actions would include preparing, approving,
and implementing regional advance mitigation plans, the contents of which the
bill would specify, for planned infrastructure projects, as defined, identified
by an infrastructure planning agency, as defined. The bill would specify that
the purpose of a regional advance mitigation plan is to provide effective
mitigation and conservation of natural resources and natural processes on a
landscape, regional, or statewide scale, to expedite the environmental review
of planned infrastructure projects, and to facilitate the implementation of
measures to mitigate the impacts of those projects by identifying and
implementing mitigation measures in advance of project approval. The bill also
would authorize the agency to acquire, restore, manage, monitor, and preserve
lands, waterways, aquatic resources, or fisheries, or fund those actions, in
accordance with an approved regional advance mitigation plan or as otherwise
specified, and to establish or fund the establishment of mitigation banks and
conservation banks and purchase credits at those types of banks . The bill
would authorize the agency to take other actions with respect to mitigation
credits or values created or acquired under the program. This bill contains
other related provisions.
Position:
AB 1365 (Berryhill,
Tom R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/13/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 4/13/2009
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to develop and
implement a program of flood control projects at specific Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta locations for the protection of certain public benefits,
including the protection of urbanized areas, water quality, recreation,
navigation, and fish and wildlife habitats, and for net long-term habitat
improvement. This bill would make an unspecified appropriation from an
unspecified source to the department for the purposes of acquiring land or other
property interests in certain properties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
and to initiate and implement improvements on those properties for the purposes
of flood control, habitat enhancement, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,
recreation, and other visions for a sustainable Delta. The bill would require
the Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Game, in
consultation with the State Air Resources Control Board, to prepare and submit
to the Governor and the Legislature a report on the proposed implementation of
the bill. The bill would prohibit the moneys appropriated in the bill from
being expended until the report is submitted. This bill contains other existing
laws.
Position:
AB 1371 (Smyth R)
Reasonable use of water: generating facilities.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/29/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 4/29/2009
Status: 1/15/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(1). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 5/1/2009)
Location: 1/15/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
The California Constitution provides that the right to water shall be limited
to that amount of water that is reasonably required for the beneficial use to
be served. Existing law declares that the use of potable domestic water for
cooling towers is a waste or on unreasonable use of water if recycled water is
available and other requirements are met. This bill would declare that the use
of potable domestic water for cooling towers that are part of a generating
facility that is an eligible renewable energy resource is a reasonable use of
water if certain conditions are met.
Position:
AB 1408 (Krekorian D)
Subdivisions: Water Demand Mitigation Fund.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/30/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 4/30/2009
Status: 1/22/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(2). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/8/2009)
Location: 1/22/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
The Subdivision Map Act establishes a statewide regulatory framework for
controlling the subdividing of land. The act generally requires a subdivider to
submit, and have approved by the city, county, or city and county in which the
land is situated, a tentative map. The act requires the legislative body of a
city or county or the advisory agency, to the extent that it is authorized by
local ordinance to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the tentative
map, to include as a condition in any tentative map that includes a subdivision
a requirement that a sufficient water supply be available. The act authorizes
the legislative body to request written verification of sufficient water
supply, and, when the written verification relies on projected water supplies
that are not currently available to the public water system to provide a
sufficient water supply to the subdivision, requires that the written
verification as to those projected water supplies be based on prescribed
elements. This bill would, instead, require the legislative body of a city or
county or the advisory agency, to the extent that it is authorized by local
ordinance to approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the tentative map,
to include as a condition in any tentative map that includes a subdivision a
requirement that the subdivision have a sufficient water supply available or
that sufficient water supplies will be made available through a Water Demand
Mitigation Fund, as defined, held by the public water system. The bill would
require the amount of funding needed for voluntary participation by the
subdivision applicant in the Water Demand Mitigation Fund to be based on
offsetting at least 100 percent of the projected water demand associated with
the subdivision, as determined by the public water system. The bill would
authorize the public water supplier to collect fees necessary to provide
additional analysis of extraordinary water conservation measures. The bill also
would require the public water system to expend all funds in the Water Demand
Mitigation Fund on water conservation measures that will offset at least 100
percent of the projected demand associated with the subdivision, as specified.
By adding to the duties of public water system officials, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position:
AB 1520 (Evans D)
Statewide Watershed Program.
Current
Text: Amended: 5/5/2009 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 5/5/2009
Status: 1/31/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). (Last location was 2 YEAR on 6/2/2009)
Location: 1/31/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
The California Watershed Protection and Restoration Act requires state agencies
to adopt guidelines for use by local watershed partnerships to provide
specified mechanisms and authorizes state agencies with jurisdiction over watershed
planning and protection to provide technical assistance to watershed management
partnerships, to the extent that funds are available. This bill would establish
the Statewide Watershed Program as a voluntary and nonregulatory program to
provide assistance and funds to local community-based efforts in the
conservation, protection, and restoration of the state's watersheds and to
promote coordinated management of watersheds under the authority of the
Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency and the Department of Conservation
(department) . This bill contains other related provisions.
Position:
AB 1774 (Saldana D)
Recycled water: state agency landscape irrigation.
Current
Text: Amended: 3/24/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/9/2010
Last Amended: 3/24/2010
Status: 4/14/2010-In
committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/14/2010-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
Existing law sets forth legislative findings and declarations stating that the
use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of residential landscaping is
a waste or unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available for that
use, as determined by the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law
authorizes a public agency to require the use of recycled water for the
irrigation of residential landscaping if recycled water is available for that
use, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. This bill
would state legislative findings and declarations that the use of potable
domestic water for the irrigation of landscaping generally is a waste or an
unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available for that use, as
determined by the board. The bill would authorize a public agency, including
local public agencies, to require a state agency whose property is located
within the jurisdiction of the public agency to use recycled water for
landscape irrigation of the property of that state agency if certain
requirements are met.
Position: Support
AB 1797 (Berryhill,
Bill R) State Water Resources Development System: Delta
Corridors Plan.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/7/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/10/2010
Last Amended: 4/7/2010
Status: 4/28/2010-In
committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/28/2010-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
(1) Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the State
Water Resources Development System that includes dams, reservoirs, and other
infrastructure. This bill would require the department to undertake an
expedited evaluation and feasibility study with regard to the implementation of
a specified Delta Corridors Plan as part of the State Water Resources Development
System. The bill would require the department to consult with the Department of
Fish and Game to study specified impacts and benefits of the Delta Corridors
Plan and to include in the study an assessment of the incorporation of the
Two-Gates Fish Demonstration Project managed by the United States Bureau of
Reclamation into the Delta Corridors Plan. The department would be required to
prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2012, a report
that includes its feasibility findings. If the department determines the
implementation of the plan is feasible, the department would be required to
include recommendations with regard to specific facilities to be constructed,
and to identify potential funding sources, for the purposes of implementing the
plan. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch
AB 1834 (Solorio D)
Rainwater Capture Act of 2010.
Current
Text: Amended: 3/25/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/12/2010
Last Amended: 3/25/2010
Status: 4/28/2010-In
committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Location: 4/28/2010-A. APPR.
SUSPENSE FILE
Summary:
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the
Position: Watch
AB 1843 (Gilmore R)
Water supply security: reports.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/12/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/12/2010
Status: 4/23/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was G.O. on 3/4/2010)
Location: 4/23/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Existing law, the Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach
Protection Act of 2002, an initiative approved by the voters, among other
things, provides for funding to protect state, local, and regional drinking
water systems from terrorist attacks or deliberate acts of destruction or
degradation, and authorizes the Legislature to enact legislation as necessary
to implement its provisions. This bill would require the California Office of
Homeland Security to submit confidential reports to the Legislature regarding
the current security status of the state's existing drinking water systems and
facilities, with a special focus on any vulnerability to terrorist attacks and
recommended actions necessary to bring the security status to acceptable
levels.
Position: Watch
AB 1929 (Hall D)
Invasive aquatic species: mussels.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/17/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2010
Status: 4/22/2010-In
Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Location: 4/22/2010-S. RLS.
Summary:
Existing law, until January 1, 2012, generally prohibits a person from
possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing,
planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state,
dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Game or his or her
designee to engage in various enforcement activities. Existing law exempts a
public or private agency that operates a water supply system from those
enforcement activities, if the operator of the facilities has prepared and
implemented a prescribed plan to control or eradicate dreissenid mussels. This
bill would provide that an operator of water delivery and storage facilities,
who has prepared, initiated, and is in compliance with a plan to control and
eradicate dreissenid mussels in accordance with the above existing provisions
of law, would not be subject to any civil or criminal liability for the introduction
of dreissenid mussel species as a result of operations of those facilities. The
bill would provide that neither the director's enforcement activities, nor the
prohibition on a person possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting
dreissenid mussels in the state would apply to an operator who has prepared,
initiated, and is in compliance with a plan to control and eradicate dreissenid
mussels, unless the department had required the operator to update its plan and
the operator failed to do so. This bill contains other existing laws.
Position: Watch
AB 1975 (Fong D)
Water charges and meters: multiunit structures.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/29/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/17/2010
Last Amended: 4/29/2010
Status: 4/29/2010-Read
third time, amended, and returned to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on
APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Location: 4/29/2010-A. APPR.
Summary:
The Water Measurement Law requires every water purveyor to require, as a
condition of new water service on and after January 1, 1992, the installation
of a water meter to measure water service. That law also requires urban water
suppliers to install water meters on specified service connections, and to
charge water users based on the actual volume of deliveries as measured by
those water meters in accordance with a certain timetable. This bill, with a
certain exception, would require every water purveyor that provides water
service to a multiunit residential structure or a mixed-use residential and
commercial structure, for which the first occupancy permit for a newly
constructed building is issued on or after January 1, 2012, to require the
installation of meters or submeters on each individual dwelling unit as a
condition of new water service to that property. The bill would require the
owner, or his or her agent, to charge occupants for water and sewer service
based on the actual volume of water delivered as measured by the water meter or
submeter .
Position: Watch
AB 2080 (Hernandez D)
Joint powers authorities: government receivables.
Current
Text: Amended: 3/18/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2010
Last Amended: 3/18/2010
Status: 4/29/2010-From
committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 28).
Location: 4/28/2010-A. APPR.
Calendar:
5/3/2010 #59 ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY SECOND READING FILE
Summary:
Existing law authorizes joint powers authorities to, among other things, issue
bonds and loan the proceeds to local agencies to finance specified types of
projects and programs. Existing law also authorizes a joint powers authority to
purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or its revenue, a local agency's right
to payment of moneys due or to become due to a local agency in connection with
specified provisions of law, which rights of payment are defined as VLF
receivables and Proposition 1A receivables. Existing law permits a joint powers
authority to pledge, assign, resell, or otherwise transfer these receivables
for the purpose of securing bonds issued to finance the purchase price of the
receivables, subject to specified criteria. Existing law limits the aggregate
amount of all bonds issued in connection with Proposition 1A receivables and
permits a joint powers authority to charge a fee to a local agency from which
it purchases a Proposition 1A receivable. This bill would authorize a joint
powers authority to purchase, with the proceeds of its bonds or its revenue, a
local agency's right to payment of moneys due or to become due to a local
agency from the federal government in connection with direct subsidy payments
related to Buy America Bonds, which would be defined as government receivables.
The bill would authorize local agencies to make these sales. The bill would
permit the authority to pledge the government receivables to the payment of
bonds issued by the authority or to resell them to public or private purchasers
at public or negotiated sale, in whole or in part, separately or together with
other government receivables. The bill would also make various conforming
changes.
Position:
AB 2146 (Berryhill,
Bill R) Water resources: bond funds: appropriations.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/5/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2010
Last Amended: 4/5/2010
Status: 4/23/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was W.,P. & W. on 4/6/2010)
Location: 4/23/2010-A. DEAD
Summary:
Under existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood
Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative bond act
approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election,
authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000 for the
purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood
control, and resource protection program. The Water Security, Clean Drinking
Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Bond Act of 2002, approved by the voters at
the November 5, 2002, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of
bonds in the amount of $3,440,000,000 for the purposes of financing a safe
drinking water, water quality, and water reliability program. This bill would
appropriate an unspecified amount from these funds for purposes of certain
projects.
Position: Watch
AB 2304 (Huffman D)
Groundwater management plans: components.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/6/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/19/2010
Last Amended: 4/6/2010
Status: 4/27/2010-From
committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes
3.) (April 27).
Location: 4/27/2010-A. L.
GOV.
Calendar:
5/5/2010 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 127 ASSEMBLY LOCAL
GOVERNMENT, SMYTH, Chair
Summary:
(1) Existing law authorizes specified local agencies that provide water service
to adopt and implement a groundwater management plan. Existing law requires a
local agency seeking specified state funds to include in a groundwater
management plan that is adopted pursuant to that authority various components,
including components relating to the monitoring and management of groundwater
levels within the groundwater basin. Existing law authorizes a groundwater
management plan to additionally include other components relating to, among other
things, identification and management of wellhead protection areas and recharge
areas, replenishment of groundwater, and review of land use plans and
coordination with land use planning agencies. This bill would add coordination
with local planning agencies to develop and implement land use strategies that
protect prime recharge areas to the list of authorized components of a
groundwater management plan. This bill contains other related provisions and
other existing laws.
Position: Watch
AB 2717 (Skinner D)
Insurance: agents and brokers: senior designation: use.
Current
Text: Amended: 4/26/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/19/2010
Last Amended: 4/26/2010
Status: 4/27/2010-Re-referred
to Com. on APPR.
Location: 4/27/2010-A. APPR.
Summary:
Existing law provides that a broker or agent may not use a senior designation
unless he or she has met certain conditions, including, but not limited to,
that the broker or agent has been granted the right and is currently authorized
to use the senior designation by the organization that issues the designation,
and the senior designation has been approved by the Insurance Commissioner for
use by brokers and agents in the sale of insurance to seniors, as provided.
This bill would require that the commissioner approve a senior designation only
if the organization that issues the designation satisfies specified
requirements, including, but not limited to, accreditation standards, education
and examination requirements, and having minimum standards and procedures
regarding disciplining the organization's designees for improper or unethical
conduct. This bill contains other related provisions.
Position: Watch
SB 565 (Pavley D)
Water resources.
Current
Text: Amended: 2/1/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/27/2009
Last Amended: 2/1/2010
Status: 2/1/2010-From
committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to
Com. on W.,P. & W.
Location: 2/1/2010-A. W.,P.
& W.
Summary:
Existing law generally prohibits the state, or a county, city, district, or
other political subdivision, or any public officer or body acting in its
official capacity on behalf of any of those entities, from being required to
pay any fee for the performance of an official service. Existing law exempts
from this provision any fee or charge for official services required pursuant
to specified provisions of law relating to water use or water quality. This
bill would expand the exemption to other provisions relating to water use,
including provisions that require the payment of fees to the State Water
Resources Control Board (board) for official services relating to statements of
water diversion and use. This bill contains other related provisions and other
existing laws.
Position:
SB 1173 (Wolk D)
Recycled water.
Current Text: Amended: 3/24/2010
pdf html
Introduced: 2/18/2010
Last Amended: 3/24/2010
Status: 4/20/2010-Set
for hearing May 3.
Location: 4/20/2010-S. APPR.
Calendar:
5/3/2010 11 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
Summary:
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program
for the control of the quality of all the waters in the state. This bill would
define raw water for purposes of the act. This bill contains other related
provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Support
SB 1234 (Kehoe D)
Water: unreasonable use.
Current Text: Introduced: 2/19/2010
pdf html
Introduced: 2/19/2010
Status: 4/23/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
3/4/2010)
Location: 4/23/2010-S. DEAD
Summary:
Under existing law, the right to water or to the use of water is limited to
that amount of water that is reasonably required for the beneficial use to be
served, and does not extend to the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method
of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water. Existing law requires the
Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board to
take appropriate actions to prevent the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable
method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water. This bill would
require the board, by January 1, 2012, to adopt regulations to identify
unreasonable uses of water during various periods of water shortage, as
specified, and would set forth related legislative findings and declarations.
Position: Watch
SB 1412 (Calderon D)
Water replenishment districts.
Current
Text: Introduced: 2/19/2010 pdf html
Introduced: 2/19/2010
Status: 4/23/2010-Failed
Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was N.R. & W. on
3/11/2010)
Location: 4/23/2010-S. DEAD
Summary:
The Water Replenishment District Act provides for the formation of water
replenishment districts. The act grants authority to a water replenishment
district relating to the replenishment, protection, and preservation of
groundwater supplies within that district. The act requires the board of
directors of a water replenishment district to prepare annually an engineering
survey and report that includes information relating to the groundwater
supplies within the district. The act requires the board to make certain
determinations in connection with a decision to impose a water replenishment
assessment to purchase replenishment water or to remove contaminants from the
groundwater supplies of the district. The act requires the water replenishment
assessment to be fixed at a uniform rate per acre-foot of groundwater produced
within the district. This bill, instead, would require information in that engineering
survey and report, and those related determinations, to pertain to the
groundwater in each basin within the district. The board of directors of a
water replenishment district, upon determining to impose a water replenishment
assessment on the production of groundwater from each groundwater basin, would
be required, except as otherwise provided, to impose the assessment in an
amount that is calculated to pay for costs that include the actual costs of
replenishing the groundwater basin, removing contaminants from the groundwater
basin, and the administrative costs of the district. The charge would be
required to be fixed at a uniform rate. The bill would make other conforming
changes. By establishing these requirements on a water replenishment district,
the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other
related provisions and other existing laws.
Position: Watch