AB 1095, as introduced, Eduardo Garcia. Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014: restoration funding: Salton Sea.
Existing law, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, approved by the voters as Proposition 1 at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $7,545,000,000 to finance a water quality, supply, and infrastructure improvement program. The act makes $475,000,000 available, upon appropriation, to the Natural Resources Agency to support projects that fulfill certain obligations of the state, including, among others, intrastate or multiparty water quantification settlement agreement provisions, including ecosystem restoration projects, as set forth in specified provisions of law.
This bill would appropriate an unspecified sum from that portion of the Proposition 1 funds to the Natural Resources Agency to be used for restoration projects that fulfill obligations of the state in complying with the above-referenced intrastate or multiparty water quantification settlement agreement provisions relating to the Salton Sea.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Of the funds authorized pursuant to Section 79736
2of the Water Code, the sum of ____ dollars ($____) is hereby
3appropriated from the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure
4Improvement Fund of 2014 to the Natural Resources Agency to
5support restoration projects that fulfill the obligations of the state
6in complying with intrastate or multiparty water quantification
7settlement agreement provisions, as set forth in Chapters 611, 612,
8and 613 of the Statutes of 2003.
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