BILL NUMBER: AB 2049	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Arambula

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to add Section 147.2 to the Water Code, relating to the
State Water Resources Development System.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2049, as introduced, Arambula. State Water Resources
Development System: water delivery.
   Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources administers
water supply contracts pursuant to which water suppliers
(contractors) are supplied water from the State Water Resources
Development System, in accordance with the California Water Resources
Development Bond Act and other provisions of law.
   This bill would prohibit the Director of Water Resources, to the
extent permitted by law, from approving a transfer or assignment, for
more than 10 years, of any contractual right to the delivery of a
water supply from the State Water Resources Development System that
is held by a contractor for agricultural use to another contractor
for municipal use.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 147.2 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   147.2.  (a) To the extent permitted by law, the director shall not
approve a transfer or assignment, for more than 10 years, of any
contractual right to the delivery of a water supply from the State
Water Resources Development System that is held by a contractor for
agricultural use to another contractor for municipal use.
   (b) Subdivision (a) does not affect a transfer or assignment of a
contractual right, as otherwise described in that subdivision, if the
transfer or assignment is for a period that does not exceed 10
years.