BILL NUMBER: AB 935	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2016
	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, 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  a  certain 
projects,   project  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   seven  million
dollars  ($75,000,000) total,   ($7,000,000),
 the department shall provide funding for  the following
projects   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  if the project satisfies
the conditions described in subdivision  (c):  
(c).  
   (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.  
   (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   project  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   cost-share 
requirement of the project.
   (d) A project funded pursuant to this section shall  be
subject to all of the following:   comply with any other
applicable provisions of state and federal law.  
   (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.