Amended in Senate July 2, 2015

Senate Bill No. 113

Introduced by Senator Galgiani

January 13, 2015

An act begin delete to repeal Section 5096.828 of the Public Resources Code, end delete relating to disaster preparedness and flood begin delete prevention. end delete begin insert prevention, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 113, as amended, Galgiani. Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006.

The Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 authorizes bonds in the amount of $4,090,000,000 for the purposes of financing disaster preparedness and flood prevention begin delete projects. Funds provided by the act are only available for appropriation until July 1, 2016, and at that time the amount of indebtedness authorized by the act is reduced by the amount of funds that have not been appropriated. end delete begin insert projects and makes $3,000,000,000 available, upon appropriation to the Department of Water Resources, for the evaluation, repair, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or replacement of levees, weirs, bypasses, and facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control, for improving or adding facilities to the State Plan of Flood Control to increase levels of flood protection in urban areas, and to reduce the risk of levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Budget Act of 2015 appropriates $300,000,000 to the Department of Water Resources for these and other specified flood protection-related activities. end insert

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This bill would remove the restriction that the funds are available for appropriation only until July 1, 2016.

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This bill would make available, of the moneys appropriated to the department by the Budget Act of 2015, $110,000,000 for the upgrade of the levee system of Reclamation District No. 17 to provide urban level of flood protection.

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This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Reclamation District No. 17.

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

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Vote:  begin delete majority end delete begin insert ²⁄₃ end insert . Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

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

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Of the moneys appropriated to the Department
of Water Resources for capital outlay under Item end insert begin insert 3860-301-6052
of the Budget Act of 2015, one hundred ten million dollars
($110,000,000) shall be available for the upgrade of the levee
system of Reclamation District No. 17, consistent with Section
5096.821 of the Public Resources Code, to provide urban level of
flood protection. end insert

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The Legislature finds and declares that a special law
is necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable
within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution because of the necessity for economic development
to occur in one of the most struggling areas of California.

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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:

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In order to ensure the protection and safety of the public who
live in the flood plain of Reclamation District No. 17, it is necessary
for this act to take immediate effect.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 5096.828 of the Public Resources Code
is repealed.

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