BILL NUMBER: AB 49	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 9, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 29, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 18, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Feuer and Huffman

                        DECEMBER 1, 2008

    An act to add Part 2.55 (commencing with Section 10608)
to, to amend and repeal Section 10631.5 of, and to repeal and add
Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 10800) of, Division 6 of the Water
Code,   An act  relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 49, as amended, Feuer. Water  conservation:
agricultural water management planning.   conservation.
 
   Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to
undertake or administer various programs related to water
conservation.  
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a 20% water efficiency requirement for the
year 2020 for agricultural and urban water users.  
   (1) Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to
convene an independent technical panel to provide information to the
department and the Legislature on new demand management measures,
technologies, and approaches. "Demand management measures" means
those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that
prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient
use and reuse of available supplies.  
   This bill would require the state to achieve a 20% reduction in
urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020. The
state would be required to make incremental progress towards this
goal by reducing per capita water use by at least 10% on or before
December 31, 2015. The bill would require each urban retail water
supplier to develop an urban water use target and interim urban water
use targets by December 31, 2010, in accordance with specified
requirements. The bill would require agricultural water suppliers to
implement efficient water management practices and would impose
related reporting requirements on agricultural water suppliers. The
bill would require the department, in consultation with other state
agencies, to develop a single standardized water use reporting form.
The bill, with certain exceptions, would condition eligibility for
certain water management grants or loans to urban water suppliers,
beginning July 1, 2016, and agricultural water suppliers, beginning
July 1, 2013, on the implementation of water conservation
requirements established by the bill. The bill would repeal on July
1, 2016, an existing requirement that conditions eligibility for
certain water management grants or loan to an urban water supplier on
the implementation of certain water demand management measures.
 
   (2) Existing law, until January 1, 1993, and thereafter only as
specified, requires certain agricultural water suppliers to prepare
and adopt water management plans.  
   This bill would substantially revise existing law relating to
agricultural water management planning to require agricultural water
suppliers to prepare and adopt agricultural water management plans
with specified components on or before December 31, 2012, and updated
on or before December 31, 2015, and on or before December 31 every 5
years thereafter. An agricultural water supplier that becomes an
agricultural water supplier after December 31, 2012, would be
required to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan
within one year after becoming an agricultural water supplier. The
agricultural water supplier would be required to notify each city or
county within which the supplier provides water supplies with regard
to the preparation or review of the plan. The bill would require the
agricultural water supplier to submit copies of the plan to the
department and other specified entities. The bill would provide that
an agricultural water supplier is ineligible to receive specified
state funds if the supplier does not prepare, adopt, and submit the
plan in accordance with the requirements established by the bill.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  yes
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to establish a 20-percent water efficiency
requirement for the year 2020 for agricultural and urban water users.
 All matter omitted in this version of the bill appears in the
bill as amended in Senate, June 29, 2009 (JR11)