BILL NUMBER: AB 2336	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 17, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 19, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuller
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gilmore)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 85308.5 to the Water Code, relating to the
Delta.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2336, as amended, Fuller. Delta Stewardship Council.
   The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 establishes
the Delta Stewardship Council as an independent agency of the state.
The act requires the council, on or before January 1, 2012, to
develop, adopt, and commence implementation of a comprehensive
management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta Plan),
meeting specified requirements. The act establishes the Delta
Independent Science Board to provide oversight of the scientific
research, monitoring, and assessment programs that support adaptive
management of the Delta through periodic reviews.
   This bill would require the council, in the course of developing
and adopting the Delta Plan, to direct the board to conduct an
assessment of certain stressors on populations of native fish species
in the Delta, the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and the
tributaries to those rivers below the rim dams of the central valley,
and recommend changes in statute and actions by state agencies to
remedy the situation in as timely a manner as possible.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  In order to protect and preserve the existing
populations of native fish species that live and migrate through the
San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it is
the intent of the Legislature that the Delta Stewardship Council
consider for inclusion in its final Delta Plan, in addition to
measures addressing the impacts of the State Water Resources
Development System (State Water Project) and federal Central Valley
Project operations, the identification of effective and
scientifically justified measures to reduce or eliminate the impact
of other significant stressors on California's native fish
populations.
  SEC. 2.  Section 85308.5 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   85308.5.  The council, in the course of developing and adopting
the Delta Plan, shall direct the Delta Independent Science Board to
conduct an assessment of stressors,  other than 
 in addition to  the operations of the State Water Resources
Development System and the federal Central Valley Project, on
populations of native fish species in the Delta, the Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers, and the tributaries to those rivers below the rim
dams of the central valley, and recommend changes in statute and
actions by state agencies to remedy the situation in as timely a
manner as possible. The assessment shall include, but is not
necessarily limited to, those stressors identified in the Delta
Vision Strategic Plan, including the impacts of invasive species and
nonnative species, water quality impairments, and predation on native
species.