BILL NUMBER: AB 426	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  634
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 8, 2013
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 8, 2013
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2013

   An act to amend Section 1740 of the Water Code, relating to water
rights.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 426, Salas. Water: water transfers: water right decrees.
   Existing law regulates water transfers and, among other things,
allows a permittee or licensee to temporarily change the point of
diversion, place of use, or purpose of use due to a transfer or
exchange of water or water rights if the transfer would only involve
the amount of water that would have been consumptively used or stored
by the permittee or licensee in the absence of the proposed
temporary change, would not injure any legal user of the water, and
would not unreasonably affect fish, wildlife, or other instream
beneficial uses. Under existing law, any water right determined under
a court decree issued after January 1, 1981, is transferable, as
specified.
   This bill would eliminate the requirement that the court decree be
issued after January 1, 1981.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1740 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   1740.  Any water right determined under a court decree issued
pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 2500) of Part 3 shall
be transferable pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 10 (commencing
with Section 1700). The court having the appropriate jurisdiction
over the decreed rights may enter a supplemental decree modifying any
rights involved upon motion of the board or any party with a vested
water right.