Bill Text: CA AB2657 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2657 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - Died at Desk. [AB2657 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2657-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2657	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chu

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 79741 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2657, as introduced, Chu. Water Quality, Supply, and
Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014.
   Existing law, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure
Improvement Act of 2014, approved by the voters as Proposition 1 at
the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, authorizes the
issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $7,545,000,000
to finance a water quality, supply, and infrastructure improvement
program. The bond act provides that the sum of $810,000,000 is to be
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditures
on, and competitive grants and loans to, projects that are included
in and implemented in an adopted integrated regional water management
plan and respond to climate change and contribute to regional water
security. The bond act states that in order to improve regional water
self-reliance security and adapt to the effects on water supply
arising out of climate change, the purposes of the available sum of
$810,000,000 are to help water infrastructure systems adapt to
climate change, provide incentives for water agencies to collaborate,
and to improve regional water self-reliance.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions.

   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 79741 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   79741.  In order to improve regional water self-reliance security
and adapt to the effects on water supply arising out of climate
change, the purposes of this chapter are  to:  
to do the following: 
   (a) Help water infrastructure systems adapt to climate change,
including, but not limited to, sea level rise.
   (b) Provide incentives for water agencies throughout each
watershed to collaborate in managing the region's water resources and
setting regional priorities for water infrastructure.
   (c) Improve regional water self-reliance consistent with Section
85021.