BILL NUMBER: AB 935	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas
    (   Principal coauthor:   Senator 
 Galgiani   ) 
   (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 140 to the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 935, as amended, Salas.  Water projects.
   Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the
Department of Water Resources, which manages and undertakes planning
with regard to water resources in the state.
   This bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
the department to provide funding for certain  projects.
  projects, provided that certain conditions are met.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 140 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   140.   (a)    Upon appropriation by the
Legislature,  which shall not exceed seventy-five million dollars
($75,000,000) total,  the department shall provide funding for
the following  projects:   projects if the
project satisfies the conditions described in subdivision (c): 

   (a) 
    (1)  A project that substantially conforms to the
project description for the Reverse Flow Pump-back Facilities on the
Friant-Kern Canal Restoration Project set forth by the draft
investment strategy released by the San Joaquin River Restoration
Program in December 2014. 
   (b) 
    (2)  A project that substantially conforms to the
project description for the San Joaquin River Recapture at Patterson
Irrigation District Conveyed through Delta-Mendota Canal to San Luis
Reservoir Project set forth by the draft investment strategy released
by the San Joaquin River Restoration Program in December 2014. 
   (b) Funding pursuant to this section shall not exceed 80 percent
of the total cost of the project.  
   (c) The projects identified in this section shall not be eligible
for funding pursuant to subdivision (a) until all of the following
requirements are met:  
   (1) All feasibility studies are complete and draft environmental
impact reports are available for public review.  
   (2) The director receives commitments for not less than 75 percent
of the nonstate cost share requirement of the project.  
   (d) A project funded pursuant to this section shall be subject to
all of the following:  
   (1) The project shall comply with the requirements of Title X of
Public Law 111-11.  
   (2) The project shall comply with any other applicable provisions
of state and federal law.  
   (3) To the extent the project is used in furtherance of paragraph
(4) of subdivision (a) of Section 10004 of Title X of Public Law
111-11, that use shall be made proportionally available to all
entities subject to subdivision (a) of Section 10010 of Public Law
111-11.  
   (4) The project shall not result in any additional regulation of
the State Water Project's Bank Pumping Plant or the federal Central
Valley Project's Jones Pumping Plant, as compared to operation before
the implementation of Title X of Public law 111-11.