BILL NUMBER: AB 2480	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 108.5 to the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2480, as introduced, Bloom. Source watersheds: maintenance and
repair.
   Existing law declares that it is state policy to consider all
water uses, including area-of-origin needs, in connection with the
development and completion of any general or coordinated plan
prepared and published by the Department of Water Resources. Existing
law requires the Legislature to consider other works as may be
necessary to develop water to satisfy the requirements of the
watershed in which water originates, as specified, whenever the
Legislature authorizes the construction or acquisition of a project
that will develop water for use outside that watershed.
   This bill would declare it to be state policy that source
watersheds are recognized and defined as integral components of
California's water system. The bill would also declare that their
maintenance and repair are eligible for financing on an equivalent
basis with other water collection and treatment infrastructure.
   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 108.5 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   108.5.  It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the
state that source watersheds are recognized and defined as integral
components of California's water system. The maintenance and repair
of source watersheds are eligible for financing on an equivalent
basis with other water collection and treatment infrastructure.