BILL NUMBER: AB 568	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dodd

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to amend Section 50906 of the Water Code, relating to
reclamation districts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 568, as introduced, Dodd. Reclamation District No. 108:
hydroelectric power.
   Existing law authorizes the formation of reclamation districts by
owners of swamp and overflowed lands, salt-marsh, or tidelands, or
other lands subject to flood or overflow and by owners of land
already reclaimed, or in progress of reclamation, and not included in
a reclamation district. Existing law authorizes Reclamation District
No. 1004, in conjunction with the County of Colusa, to construct,
maintain, and operate a plant, transmission lines, and other
necessary or appropriate facilities for the generation of
hydroelectric power, as prescribed. Existing law requires proceeds
from the sale of electricity to be utilized to retire any time
warrants issued for construction of the facilities and otherwise for
the powers and purposes for which the district was formed.
   This bill would grant the above-described hydroelectric power
authority to Reclamation District No. 108.
   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 50906 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   50906.   Reclamation District No. 1004 may, in conjunction
with the County of Colusa,   (a)    
A reclamation district specified in subdivision (d) may 
construct, maintain, and operate a plant for the generation of
hydroelectric power, together with transmission lines for the
conveyance thereof and with other facilities that may be necessary or
appropriate for the construction, maintenance, and operation of that
plant. Construction of the plant and transmission lines may be
financed by the issuance of time warrants pursuant to Article 3
(commencing with Section 53040) of Chapter 1 of Part 9 to pay the
cost of construction of the plant, transmission lines, and related
facilities, except that the board may, by resolution, provide for the
payment of those time warrants solely from the proceeds derived from
the operation of the hydroelectric powerplant, in lieu of the
assessment described in Section 53040, and may, in that event, pledge
the plant, transmission lines, and related facilities and the
revenues from the operation of the hydroelectric plant as the sole
security for the payment of the time warrants. 
   The 
    (b)     The  hydroelectric plant,
transmission lines, and related facilities constructed pursuant to
this section may be leased for operation to, or the power generated
may be sold to, a public utility or public agency engaged in the
distribution, use, or sale of electricity, but shall not be offered
for sale directly by the district to customers other than a public
utility or public agency. 
   Proceeds 
    (c)     Proceeds  from the sale of
electricity shall be utilized to retire any time warrants issued for
construction of the facilities and otherwise for the powers and
purposes for which the district was formed. 
   (d) This section applies only to the following reclamation
districts:  
   (1) Reclamation District No. 1004 acting in conjunction with the
County of Colusa.  
   (2) Reclamation District No. 108.