Bill Text: CA AB2517 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Water: irrigation districts: long-term maintenance agreements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-18 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB2517 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2517-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Assembly
March 21, 2024 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong |
February 13, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law authorizes an irrigation district to control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture, and salvage any water, including, but not limited to, sewage waters for the beneficial use or uses of the district or its inhabitants or the owners of rights to waters therein. Existing law authorizes a water district, with exceptions, to acquire, control, distribute, store,
spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water, including sewage and stormwaters, for the beneficial use or uses of the district, its inhabitants, or the owners of rights to water in the district.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to streamline the process for water districts and irrigation districts to remove debris in waterways.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 20630) is added to Part 1 of Division 11 of the Water Code, to read:CHAPTER 6. Maintenance Agreements with Department
20630.
(a) The department shall respond to long-term maintenance agreement requests from irrigation districts within 120 days.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to streamline the process for water districts and irrigation districts to remove debris in waterways.
