BILL NUMBER: SB 37	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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.