BILL NUMBER: SB 701	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Calderon

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act  to amend Section 71261 of the Water Code, 
relating to the Central Basin Municipal Water District.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 701, as amended, Calderon. Central Basin Municipal Water
District:  report.   directors: report. 
   (1) Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911,
authorizes the formation of a municipal water district to acquire and
sell water.
   This bill would require the Central Basin Municipal Water
District, on or before July 1, 2012, to submit a report to the
Legislature on the status of the Central Groundwater Basin and
seawater barrier operations, and would prescribe the information to
be included in the report. The bill would require the municipal water
district to provide an annual update of that report, and would
require the Department of Water Resources and the Water Replenishment
District of Southern California to cooperate with the municipal
water district in providing information necessary for the completion
of the report. The bill would repeal this reporting requirement on
July 1, 2016, in accordance with a specified provision of law. 
   This bill would require the Board of Directors of the Central
Basin Municipal Water District to consist of 7 directors.  
   By imposing new duties on the Central Basin Municipal Water
District, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 

   (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.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The Central Basin Municipal Water District is a wholesale
water supplier in southeast Los Angeles County and overlies
approximately 75 percent of the Central Groundwater Basin.
   (b) The Central Basin Municipal Water District was formed under
the Municipal Water District Law of 1911 (Division 20 (commencing
with Section 71000) of the Water Code), and is a groundwater rights
holder in the Central Groundwater Basin.
   (c) The Central Basin Municipal Water District is vested with
broad authority, including the authority to acquire, distribute,
store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage
water, including sewage and stormwater, for the beneficial use of the
district, its inhabitants, and the holders of water rights in the
district.
   (d) Therefore, the Central Basin Municipal Water District has
primary oversight responsibility with respect to protecting the
public's interest in the Central Groundwater Basin.
  SEC. 2.  (a) On or before July 1, 2012, the Central Basin Municipal
Water District shall submit a report to the Legislature on the
Central Groundwater Basin and associated seawater barrier operations.
The report shall include all of the following:
   (1) A review of all actions by the Department of Water Resources
and the Water Replenishment District of Southern California relating
to the Central Groundwater Basin and associated seawater barrier
operations to determine the current status of the Central Groundwater
Basin and the seawater barrier operations.
   (2) Short-term and long-term recommendations to improve the
overall health and transparency of the Central Groundwater Basin.
   (b) The Central Basin Municipal Water District shall provide an
annual update of the report to the Legislature by July 1 of each
year.
   (c) The Department of Water Resources and the Water Replenishment
District of Southern California shall cooperate with the Central
Basin Municipal Water District to provide all information, reports,
and any other data regularly generated by those agencies, that is
necessary for the completion of reports pursuant to this section.
   (d) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

   (2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on July 1, 2016.
   SEC. 3.    Section 71261 of the   Water Code
  is amended to read: 
   71261.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the
Board of Directors of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District 
and the Central Basin Municipal Water District  shall consist
of seven directors. Each director shall be a resident of the division
from which he or she is elected.
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 4.   If the Commission on
State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by
the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for
those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section
17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.