BILL NUMBER: AB 935	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Atkins, Bigelow, Gray, Olsen, Perea,
and Rendon)
   (Coauthors: Senators Berryhill, Cannella, Fuller, Galgiani, and
Vidak)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 10531.7 to the Water Code, relating to
integrated regional water management plans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 935, as introduced, Salas. Integrated Regional Water Management
Plans: conveyance projects.
   Existing law, the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning
Act, authorizes a regional water management group to prepare and
adopt an integrated regional water management plan with specified
components relating to water supply and water quality. Existing law
authorizes the Department of Water Resources to award grants to
eligible projects consistent with an adopted integrated regional
water management plan.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
future legislation that would require the department to provide
grants and expenditures, consistent with an integrated regional water
management plan, for the planning, design, and construction of local
and regional conveyance projects that support regional and
interregional connectivity and water management and provide certain
benefits.
   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 10531.7 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10531.7.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future
legislation that would do all of the following:
   (a) Require the Department of Water Resources to provide grants
and expenditures, consistent with an adopted integrated regional
water management plan, for the planning, design, and construction of
local and regional conveyance projects that support regional and
interregional connectivity and water management and that provide one
or more of the following benefits:
   (1) Improved regional or interregional water supply and water
supply reliability.
   (2) Mitigation of conditions of groundwater overdraft, saline
water intrusion, water quality degradation, or subsidence.
   (3) Adaptation to the impacts of hydrologic changes.
   (4) Improved water security from drought, natural disasters, or
other events that could interrupt imported water supplies.
   (5) Provision of safe drinking water for disadvantaged communities
and economically distressed areas.
   (b) Require a cost share of not less than 50 percent of the total
project costs from nonstate sources and authorize the department to
waive or reduce the cost share requirement for projects that directly
benefit a disadvantaged community or an economically distressed
area.