BILL NUMBER: SB 1378	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Morrell

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 3 of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency
Law (Chapter 1435 of the Statutes of 1961), relating to the San
Gorgonio Pass Water Agency.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1378, as introduced, Morrell. San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency:
board of directors.
   Existing law, the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Law, establishes
the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency to, among other things, acquire,
or contract to acquire, waterworks or a waterworks system, and other
property useful or necessary to store, convey, supply, or otherwise
make use of water, within a specified area of the County of
Riverside. The law provides for a 7-member board of directors, 5 of
whom are elected from 5 separate divisions, with 2 directors elected
at large by the voters of the agency as a whole.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the board of
directors provision.
   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 3 of the San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Law
(Chapter 1435 of the Statutes of 1961), as amended by Section 2 of
Chapter 41 of the Statutes of 1983, is amended to read:
  Sec. 3.  The board of directors shall, at its first meeting, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, divide the agency into five
divisions, which shall be as nearly as practicable equal in area. The
divisions shall be numbered first, second, third,  fourth
  fourth,  and fifth. One director shall be elected
for each division by the voters thereof at the next general agency
election following the organization of the agency, and two directors
at large shall be elected at the election by the voters of the agency
as a whole. Each director elected or appointed for a division shall
be an elector in that division, and each director at large shall be
an elector in the agency. Each director elected or appointed for a
division is herein called a "divisional director," and each of the
two directors elected or appointed for the agency at large is herein
called a "director at large." The two offices of directors at large
shall respectively be known as "director at large No. 1" and
"director at large No. 2."