BILL NUMBER: AB 2551	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Gallagher and Olsen
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Nielsen)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 79714.5 to the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2551, as introduced, Gallagher. Surface storage: design-build
contracts.
   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 bond act provides that the sum of $2,700,000,000 is
continuously appropriated from the fund to the California Water
Commission for public benefits associated with water storage projects
that improve the operation of the state water system, are cost
effective, and provide a net improvement in ecosystem and water
quality conditions.
   This bill would authorize certain surface storage projects that
receive Proposition 1 funding to use the design-build method of
project delivery.
   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 79714.5 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   79714.5.  A surface storage project identified in the CALFED
Bay-Delta Program Record of Decision, dated August 28, 2000, that
receives funding pursuant to this division may use the design-build
method of project delivery.