BILL NUMBER: SB 246	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2013

   An act to amend Section 33305 of the Water Code, relating to water
districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 246, as introduced, Fuller. Desert View Water District-Bighorn
Mountains Water Agency.
   Existing law, the Desert View Water District-Bighorn Mountains
Water Agency Consolidation Law, authorized a consolidation between
the Desert View Water District and the Bighorn Mountains Water Agency
and required a county water district consolidated with the Bighorn
Mountains Water Agency to separately account for and use all funds
derived from the operation of the former district system exclusively
for the purposes of maintenance, operation, betterments, and bond
debt service of the acquired system until all debt of the former
system has been paid in full or until a majority vote of the
electorate, as prescribed, authorizes other expenditures.
   This bill would instead specify procedures for the repayment of
bonded indebtedness incurred prior to the consolidation and would
prohibit the consolidation from being construed to impair any
existing contract.
   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 33305 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   33305.   Section 31012 applies to a county water district
consolidated with the   (a)     The
consolidated successor district shall separately account for and use
funds derived from the operation of the Desert View Water District
and the  Bighorn Mountains Water Agency  for the purpose of
bond debt service for each of the former systems  . 
   (b) Nothing in this part shall be construed to impair any contract
entered into prior to January 1, 2014.