Amended in Senate August 22, 2014

Amended in Senate June 17, 2014

Amended in Senate June 9, 2014

Amended in Assembly May 15, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 739

Introduced by Assembly begin delete Member end delete begin insert Members end insert Salas begin insert and Atkins end insert

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(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Gray and Perea)

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(Principal coauthor: Senator Vidak)

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February 21, 2013

An act to add Section begin delete 27513 end delete begin insert 10531.7 end insert to the begin delete Government end delete begin insert Water end insert Code, relating to begin delete local officers. end delete begin insert integrated regional water management plans. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 739, as amended, Salas. begin delete Local officers: deputy coroner. end delete begin insert Integrated Regional Water Management Plans: conveyance projects. end insert

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Existing law, the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act, authorizes a regional water management group to prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management plan with specified components relating to water supply and water quality. Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to award grants to eligible projects consistent with an adopted integrated regional water management plan.

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This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would require the department to provide grants and expenditures, consistent with an integrated regional water management plan, for the planning, design, and construction of local and regional conveyance projects that support regional and interregional connectivity and water management and provide certain benefits.

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Existing law generally sets forth the duties of a coroner. Existing law specifically requires a coroner to hold an inquest under certain circumstances and authorizes a coroner holding an inquest to, among other things, issue subpoenas.

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This bill would, for purposes relating to the duty of a coroner to hold an inquest, provide that a coroner’s appointed deputy or authorized deputy shall include a deputy coroner or part-time or volunteer personnel of the sheriff coroner’s office who is a reserve officer, as specified.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future
legislation that would do all of the following:

(a) Require the Department of Water Resources to provide
grants and expenditures, consistent with an adopted integrated
regional water management plan, for the planning, design, and
construction of local and regional conveyance projects that support
regional and interregional connectivity and water management
and that provide one or more of the following benefits:

(1) Improved regional or interregional water supply and water
supply reliability.

(2) Mitigation of conditions of groundwater overdraft, saline
water intrusion, water quality degradation, or subsidence.

(3) Adaptation to the impacts of hydrologic changes.

(4) Improved water security from drought, natural disasters,
or other events that could interrupt imported water supplies.

(5) Provision of safe drinking water for disadvantaged
communities and economically distressed areas.

(b) Require a cost share of not less than 50 percent of the total
project costs from nonstate sources and authorize the department
to waive or reduce the cost share requirement for projects that
directly benefit a disadvantaged community or an economically
distressed area.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 27513 is added to the Government Code,
to read:

27513.  

For purposes of this article only, a coroner’s appointed
deputy or authorized deputy shall include both of the following:

(a) Any deputy coroner who is regularly employed and paid in
that capacity.

(b) Any part-time or volunteer personnel of the sheriff coroner’s
office who is a level I reserve officer, as described in paragraph
(1) of subdivision (a) of Section 832.6 of the Penal Code. The
Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training shall not
reimburse any individual agency for training or certification of
any part-time or volunteer personnel.

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