BILL NUMBER: AB 259	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2013

   An act to amend Section 1215.6 of the Water Code, relating to
water resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 259, as introduced, Logue. Areas of origin: water user or
users.
   Existing law prohibits a protected area, as defined, from being
deprived of the prior right to all the water reasonably required to
adequately supply the beneficial needs of the protected area, or any
of the inhabitants or property owners therein, by a water supplier
exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected
area, as prescribed. Existing law provides that water users in a
protected area have the right to purchase water made available by the
construction of any works by a water supplier exporting or intending
to export water for use outside the protected area, as specified.
Existing law defines water user or users within a protected area for
these purposes.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the
definition of water user or users.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1215.6 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   1215.6.  For the purposes of this article, "water user or users"
within a protected area means an appropriator or appropriators, a
riparian user or users, or a groundwater user or users of water on
land owned or controlled by  them   the user
 within a protected area.