BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    



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          Date of Hearing:   April 14, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

               AB 2277 (Fletcher) - As Introduced:  February 18, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Water, Parks and  
          Wildlife     Vote:                            12-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires urban water suppliers that provide water to a  
          military installation consider an executive order (EO) on water  
          conservation that is more recent than the EO currently specified  
          in law.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  Existing law concerning urban water suppliers  
            directs them to consider an EO signed by former-President Bush  
            in 2007.  This bill updates the law to reflect a more recent  
            EO concerning water conservation signed by President Obama in  
            2009.

           2)Background  .  State law establishes the goal of reducing urban  
            water use by 20% by December 31, 2020.  Urban retail water  
            suppliers are to develop urban water use targets that will  
            cumulatively result in the 20% water use reduction.  

            Existing law directs urban retail water suppliers that provide  
            water to a military installation to consider that  
            installation's requirements under federal Executive Order  
            13423 when developing water use plans.  That EO was signed by  
            former and order signed by former President Bush in 2007 and  
            set water conservation targets that federal agencies were to  
            have met by 2015.  Last year, President Obama signed an EO  
            establishing water conservation goals for federal agencies for  








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            2020.

           3)Support/Opposition  .  There is no official support for or  
            opposition to this bill.   
           
           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081