BILL NUMBER: SB 1558	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

    An act to amend Section 10630 of the Water Code, relating
to water.   An act relating to the payment of claims
against the state, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring
the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1558, as amended, Kehoe.  Urban water management plans.
  Claims against the state: payment.  
   Existing law authorizes a procedure for the state to pay claims
against the state.  
   This bill would appropriate funds in prescribed amounts for the
payment of certain claims against the state.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires an urban water
supplier to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan that
identifies and quantifies the existing and planned sources of water
available to the water supplier's service area, based on specified
factors. The act states the intent of the Legislature, in enacting
the act, to permit levels of water management planning commensurate
with the number of customers served and the volume of water supplied.
 
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
intent provision. 
   Vote:  majority  2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   yes  . Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    The sum of one million three hundred
thousand dollars ($1,300,000) is hereby appropriated from the General
Fund to the Department of Justice to pay the settlements and
accumulated interest in Darling v. Douglas, United States District
Court, Northern District of California, Case No. 4:09-cv-03798-SBA.
Any funds appropriated in excess of the amount required for the
payment of this claim shall revert to the General Fund. 
   SEC. 2.    The sum of one million three hundred
thousand dollars ($1,300,000) is hereby appropriated from the Federal
Trust Fund to the Department of Justice to pay the settlements and
accumulated interest in Darling v. Douglas, United States District
Court, Northern District of California, Case No. 4:09-cv-03798-SBA.
Any funds appropriated in excess of the amount required for the
payment of this claim shall revert to the Federal Trust Fund. 
   SEC. 3.   This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to pay claims against the state and end hardship to
claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary that this bill go
into immediate effect.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 10630 of the Water Code is
amended to read:
   10630.  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this
part, to permit levels of water management planning commensurate with
the number of customers served and the volume of water supplied.