BILL NUMBER: SB 409	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 8300 of the Water Code, relating to flood
control.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 409, as introduced, La Malfa. Flood control: Department of
Water Resources.
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to make
examinations of lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood
waters and of the waters causing the inundation or overflow and
authorizes the department to make plans and estimates of the cost of
works to regulate and control the flood waters.
   This bill would make technical, nonsusbtantive changes to this
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 8300 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   8300.  The department may  make examinations of 
 examine  lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood
waters and  of  the waters causing the inundation or
overflow and may make plans and estimates of the cost of works to
regulate and control the flood waters.