Senate Bill No. 37

Introduced by Senator Nielsen

(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Gallagher)

December 1, 2014

An act relating to water, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 37, as introduced, Nielsen. Water: floods.

(1) Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to administer funding, from various sources, for flood risk reduction projects.

This bill would authorize the Department of Water Resources to provide reimbursement to funding recipients that execute a funding agreement under the Urban Flood Risk Reduction Projects program for expenditures associated with continued funding of a project initiated under the Early Implementation Project program and incurred after July 1, 2014, and before the execution of the funding agreement, but no later than December 31, 2015.

(2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Notwithstanding any other law, the Department
of Water Resources may provide reimbursement to funding
recipients that execute a funding agreement under the Urban Flood
Risk Reduction Projects program for any expenditure associated
with continued funding of a project initiated under the Early
Implementation Project program and incurred after July 1, 2014,
and before execution of the funding agreement, but no later than
December 31, 2015.

SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide for early reimbursement for funding recipients
to expedite urban flood risk reduction projects, it is necessary that
the bill take effect immediately.