BILL NUMBER: SB 1216	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cannella

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 12578 of the Water Code, relating to water
resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1216, as introduced, Cannella. The State Water Resources Law of
1945.
   Existing law, the State Water Resources Law of 1945, declares that
the people of the state have a primary interest in the control and
conservation of flood waters, prevention of damage by flood waters,
the washing away of river and stream banks by floods, and in the
determination of the manner in which flood waters shall be controlled
for the protection of life and property and the control, storage,
and use of the state's water resources in the general public
interest.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that declaration.
   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 12578 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12578.  It is hereby declared that the people of  the
State   this state  have a primary interest in the
control and conservation of flood waters, prevention of damage by
flood waters, the washing away of river and stream banks by floods,
and in the determination of the manner in which flood waters shall be
controlled for the protection of life and property and the control,
storage, and use of  the State's   this state's
 water resources in the general public interest.