BILL NUMBER: SB 1337	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators DeSaulnier and Hancock
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Buchanan)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to the Zone 7 Water Agency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1337, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Zone 7 Water Agency.
   Existing law, the Alameda County Flood Control and Water
Conservation District Act, establishes the Alameda County Flood
Control and Water Conservation District and grants to the district
authority relating to, among other things, flood control and
stormwater. Under the district law, the Board of Supervisors of
Alameda County serves as the Board of the Alameda County Flood
Control and Water Conservation District.
   The district law authorizes the board of the district to establish
zones and provides for the formation of a zone lying, in whole or in
part, in Pleasanton or Murray Townships. That zone is required to be
governed by a board of 7 directors who are required to be elected by
the voters residing within that zone.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create the Zone 7 Water Agency.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create a flood control and water district
called the Zone 7 Water Agency, formed of the territory of Zone 7 of
the Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District,
including the City of Pleasanton and the former Murray Township and
the Dougherty Valley in the southern part of the City of San Ramon.