BILL ANALYSIS Ó
AB 2067
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2067 (Weber)
As Amended August 7, 2014
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |75-0 |(April 24, |SENATE: |35-0 |(August 14, |
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Original Committee Reference: W., P. & W.
SUMMARY : Simplifies urban water management plan (UWMP) demand
management measure (DMM) reporting requirements, as recommended
by an Independent Technical Panel.
The Senate amendments :
1)Give urban water suppliers an additional six months before
their next UWMP update is due.
2)Address a chaptering issue between this bill and SB 1420
(Wolk) of the current legislative session, which also amends
Water Code Section 10631. The amendments achieve this by:
a) Inserting a new Section 3.5 in this bill that includes
both the amendments to Water Code Section 10631 contained
in this bill as well as the amendments to Water Code
Section 10631 contained in SB 1420; and
b) Specifying, in uncodified language, that Section 3.5
will become effective instead of Section 3 if both bills
still amend Water Code Section 10631 and this bill is
enacted after SB 1420.
3)Make technical non-substantive grammatical corrections to
several words.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Mandates every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an
UWMP, in accordance with specified requirements, for
submission to the Department of Water Resources.
2)Requires urban water suppliers to provide information in their
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UWMPs relating to the supplier's DMMs including, but not
limited to, specific measures set forth in the statute.
3)Mandates that each urban retail water supplier shall achieve,
by 2020, a 20% reduction from baseline per capita water use in
2010. This is often referred to simply as "20 x 2020."
4)Requires an urban retail water supplier to comply with the 20
x 2020 mandate, including developing and implementing
reduction targets, or be rendered ineligible for state water
grants or loans after July 1, 2016.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.
COMMENTS : This bill seeks to streamline DMM reporting
requirements from 14 specific measures to seven more general
requirements plus an "other" category. This streamlining is the
recommendation of an Independent Technical Panel that was
convened pursuant to state statute specifically for the purpose
of improving UWMPs.
The Senate amendments give urban water agencies until July 1,
2016, to submit the next update of their UWMPs. Ordinarily,
that update would be due December 31, 2015. This provides them
six more months than the current deadline and was adopted in
response to a number of agencies asserting that they need more
time to gather and process data to more accurately reflect their
progress towards the 20 x 2020 mandate in their 2015 UWMP. The
Senate amendments also add double-jointing language to avoid
chaptering out issues between this bill and SB 1420, in the
event both bills are enacted.
Analysis Prepared by : Tina Cannon Leahy / W., P. & W. / (916)
319-2096
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