BILL NUMBER: SB 1472	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 12803 of the Water Code, relating to flood
management.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1472, as introduced, Mendoza. Flood management.
   Existing law, the Flood Control Law of 1946, authorizes, on a
project-by-project basis, and in accordance with designated plans,
state participation in federal flood control projects, and specifies
the degree of cooperation to be assumed by the state and local
agencies in connection with those projects. Existing law provides
that the Legislature intends to pay from the General Fund for the
construction of flood control projects adopted and authorized by the
Congress of the United States, recommended by the Department of Water
Resources, and approved by the Legislature.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in these provisions.
   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 12803 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12803.  The Legislature intends  that from time to time by
law   to make  allocations from the General Fund
for flood control projects  will be made  to pay for
the cost of all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for
the construction of flood control projects adopted and authorized by
the Legislature prior to March 12, 1946, and also those adopted and
authorized on or after that date by the Congress of the United
States, recommended by the department, and approved by the
Legislature, in the order in which the Congress makes available funds
for  their   the project   's 
construction.