BILL NUMBER: AB 1244	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 1229.2 to the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1244, as introduced, Gray. Water rights: small irrigation use.
   Existing law authorizes any person to obtain a right to
appropriate water for a small irrigation use upon registering the use
with the State Water Resources Control Board and thereafter applying
the water to reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence.
Existing law provides that the board is not required to adopt general
conditions applicable to appropriations for small irrigation use
until the board determines that funds are available for that purpose.
Existing law provides that the authority to register for small
irrigation use is effective only to the extent that the board
establishes the general conditions for the applicable category of
small irrigation use. Existing law requires the board, prior to
adopting other general conditions for small irrigation use, and no
later than June 30, 2012, to adopt general conditions for small
irrigation use for facilities used for frost protection in a
prescribed area, unless the board determines that sufficient funds
are not available for that purpose.
   This bill would require the board to adopt general conditions, in
consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, the
University of California Cooperative Extension, and others,
including, but not limited to the Department of Fish and Wildlife,
for small irrigation use, unless the board determines that sufficient
funds are not available for that purpose.
   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 1229.2 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   1229.2.  Notwithstanding Section 1229, the board shall adopt
general conditions, in consultation with the Department of Food and
Agriculture, the University of California Cooperative Extension, and
others, including, but not limited to, the Department of Fish and
Wildlife, for small irrigation use not described in subdivision (d)
of Section 1229, unless the board determines that sufficient funds
are not available for that purpose.