BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 2067| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- THIRD READING Bill No: AB 2067 Author: Weber (D) Amended: 8/7/14 in Senate Vote: 21 SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/10/14 AYES: Pavley, Cannella, Evans, Fuller, Hueso, Jackson, Lara, Monning, Wolk SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8 SENATE FLOOR : 32-0, 6/26/14 (Consent) AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Knight, Lara, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nielsen, Pavley, Roth, Torres, Vidak, Walters, Wyland NO VOTE RECORDED: Block, Calderon, Leno, Padilla, Steinberg, Wolk, Wright, Yee ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 4/24/14 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT : Urban water management plans SOURCE : Author DIGEST : This bill amends the Urban Water Management Planning Act (Act) to simplify and update the demand management measure (DMM) reporting requirements in a manner consistent with the CONTINUED AB 2067 Page 2 recommendations of the independent technical panel (ITP); and delays the due date for the urban water management plans (UWMPs) from December 31, 2015, by six months to July 1, 2016. Senate Floor Amendments of 8/6/14 add double-jointing language with SB 1420 (Wolk) and make technical changes. ANALYSIS : Existing law: 1. Imposes various water use reduction requirements that apply to urban retail water suppliers, including a requirement that the state achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by December 31, 2020. 2. Requires an urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets and to report to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) its progress on meeting its urban water use target as a part of its UWMP. 3. Requires an urban wholesale water supplier to include in its UWMP an assessment of its measures, programs, and policies to help achieve the required water use reductions. 4. Requires, by December 31, 2016, the DWR to review the 2015 UWMPs and report to the Legislature on the progress towards achieving the 20% reduction in urban water use. This bill: 1. Amends the Act to simplify and update the DMMs reporting requirements in a manner consistent with the recommendations of the ITP. 2. Delays the due date for the UWMPs from December 31, 2015, by six months to July 1, 2016. 3. Requires an urban retail water supplier to provide a description of the nature and extent of DMMs implemented, over the past five years, to achieve the required statewide water reductions, as specified. 4. Requires an urban wholesale water supplier to report on a CONTINUED AB 2067 Page 3 subset of DMM categories as well as provide a description of its distribution system asset management and wholesale supplier assistance programs. 5. Adds double-jointing language with SB 1420 (Wolk) to resolve chaptering out conflicts. Background Under the Act, all urban water suppliers are required to prepare and adopt UWMPs. Updated every five years, the plans include, among other things, a description of the service area of the supplier, the identity and quantity of water resources, and water use projections. The next update is due December 31, 2016. UWMPs help inform the public about the water challenges faced by their local water supplier and the suppliers' plans for addressing those challenges. They are also the basis for making water availability determinations under the "show us the water" statutes (SB 610, Costa, Chapter 610, Statutes of 2001, and SB 221, Kuehl, Chapter 642, Statutes of 2001). Compliance with the Act is a requirement to receive state funding. AB 1420 (Laird, Chapter 628, Statutes of 2007), among other things, required the DWR to convene an ITP to provide information and recommendations to DWR and the Legislature on new DMMs, technologies, and approaches. The panel was to be convened by January 1, 2009, and is required to report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2010, and every five years thereafter. In February 2014, the ITP issued its Report to the Legislature on Urban Water Management Plan DMMs Reporting and Requirements. The report made five recommendations for improving UWMPs. Recommendation #1 was "Amend the Act to Simplify and Update the DMMs Reporting Requirements." FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 8/8/14) Association of California Water Agencies California Municipal Utilities Association City of Pasadena CONTINUED AB 2067 Page 4 Desert Water Agency East Bay Municipal Utility District El Dorado Irrigation District La Puente Valley County Water District Newhall County Water District Pico Water District Roland Water District San Diego County Water Authority The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the Association of California Water Agencies, "The current list of 14 demand management measures required by the Urban Water Management Plans is outdated and unnecessary. There have been many technological advancements over the last decade that have made many of the reporting requirements obsolete. AB 2067 would implement a streamlined approach to reporting the actions taken by an urban water supplier to conserve water with the ability to report new innovative approaches under the 'other' category." ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 75-0, 4/24/14 AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chávez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez NO VOTE RECORDED: Gray, Harkey, Mansoor, Nazarian, Vacancy RM:d 8/11/14 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED AB 2067 Page 5 CONTINUED