BILL NUMBER: AB 2453	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 380 of the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2453, as introduced, Achadjian. Water supply.
   Existing law makes findings and declarations relating to local or
regional level water management decisions.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in these
provisions.
   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 380 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   380.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:
   (a) The various regions of the state differ widely in the
availability of water supplies and in the need for water to meet
beneficial uses.
   (b) Decisions regarding operations to meet water needs can depend
in part upon regional differences.
   (c) Many water management decisions can best be made at a local or
regional level, to the end that local and regional operational
flexibility will maximize efficient statewide use of water supplies.
   (d) The authority granted by this chapter to local and regional
public agencies, as defined in  subdivision (a) of 
Section 65930 of the Government Code and not including federal
agencies, is in furtherance of the policy declared in Section 2 of
Article X of the California Constitution and in Section 109.