BILL ANALYSIS ----------------------------------------------------------------- | | | SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER | | Senator Fran Pavley, Chair | | 2009-2010 Regular Session | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- BILL NO: AB 2277 HEARING DATE: June 29, 2010 AUTHOR: Fletcher URGENCY: No VERSION: May 17, 2010 CONSULTANT: Dennis O'Connor DUAL REFERRAL: No FISCAL: Yes SUBJECT: Water conservation: urban retail water suppliers. BACKGROUND AND EXISTING LAW One of the bills in the water package passed last November in the 7th Extraordinary Session was SBX7 7 (Steinberg). That bill, among other things, requires the state to achieve 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by December 31, 2020. The bill provided that urban retail water supplier's implementation plan consider the United States Department of Defense military installation's requirements under a specific federal executive order. PROPOSED LAW The bill corrects a reference to a federal executive order on how the military should be treated in the water conservation bill. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT This bill would correct the reference to the federal executive order. ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION: None COMMENTS Bill Conflicts. Provisions in this bill conflict with a number of other bills, not the least of which is this Committee's Committee Bill (SB 1478). Specifically, this bill includes similar but different language to SB 1478's on how to correct the reference to the federal executive order. Most significantly, it not only corrects the specific reference to the executive order affecting the military, it adds a provision that requires the urban retail water supplier to consider any other applicable executive order governing water conservation by 1 any federal agencies. To avoid conflicting language and chaptering issues, this Committee may wish to amend the bill to conform to the language in SB 1478. SUGGESTED AMENDMENT: On page 2, line 21, delete "and any other applicable presidential executive order governing water conservation by federal agencies". SUPPORT: San Diego County Water Authority OPPOSITION: None Received 2