BILL NUMBER: AB 78	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mathis

                        JANUARY 5, 2015

   An act to amend Section 10722.4 of the Water Code, relating to
groundwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 78, as introduced, Mathis. Groundwater basins.
   Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to
categorize each basin or subbasin as high-, medium-, low-, or very
low priority and to establish ground water the initial priority for
each basin no later than January 31, 2015.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   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 10722.4 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10722.4.  (a) Pursuant to Section 10933, for  the
 purposes of this  part   part,
the department shall categorize each basin as one of the following
priorities:
   (1) High priority.
   (2) Medium priority.
   (3) Low priority.
   (4) Very low priority.
   (b) The initial priority for each basin shall be established by
the department pursuant to Section 10933 no later than January 31,
2015.
   (c)  Any time   When  the department
updates Bulletin 118 boundaries pursuant to subdivision (b) of
Section 12924, the department shall reassess the prioritization
pursuant to Section 10933.
   (d)  Any time   When  the department
changes the basin priorities pursuant to Section 10933, if a basin is
elevated to a medium- or high-priority basin after January 31, 2015,
a local agency shall have two years from the date of
reprioritization to either establish a groundwater sustainability
agency pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 10723) and five
years from the date of reprioritization to adopt a groundwater
sustainability plan pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section
10727) or two years to satisfy the requirements of Section 10733.6.