BILL NUMBER: AB 2701	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 12924 of the Water Code, relating to
groundwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2701, as introduced, Gonzalez. Groundwater basins:
investigation and report.
   Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, in
conjunction with other public agencies, to conduct an investigation
of the state's groundwater basins and to report its findings to the
Governor and the Legislature not later than January 1, 2012, and
thereafter in years ending in 5 or 0.
   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 12924 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12924.  (a) The department, in conjunction with other public
agencies, shall conduct an investigation of the state's groundwater
basins. The department shall identify the state's groundwater basins
on the basis of geological and hydrological conditions and
consideration of political boundary lines whenever practical. The
department shall also investigate existing general patterns of
groundwater pumping and groundwater recharge within those 
groundwater  basins to the extent necessary to identify basins
that are subject to critical conditions of overdraft.
   (b) The department shall report its findings to the Governor and
the Legislature not later than January 1, 2012, and thereafter in
years ending in 5 or 0.