Bill Text: CA AB923 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Flood plain restoration projects: Central Valley: study.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB923 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB923-Amended.html
department, board, in coordination with the board, department, shall undertake a study to identify and assess barriers to the implementation of flood plain restoration projects that provide increased flood risk reduction and groundwater recharge benefits.
identify priority flood plain restoration or floodway expansion projects where increased flows due to climate change are likely to overwhelm existing flood protection infrastructure. Projects shall be consistent with the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan developed pursuant to Section 9612 and provide at least two of the following public benefits in priority order:
Bill Title: Flood plain restoration projects: Central Valley: study.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB923 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB923-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
May 18, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 923
| Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan |
February 14, 2023 |
An act to add Section 9604 to the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 923, as amended, Bauer-Kahan.
Flood plain restoration projects: Central Valley: study.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Water Resources to make examinations of lands subject to inundation and overflow by flood waters floodwaters and of the waters causing the inundation or overflow and to make plans and estimates of the cost of works to regulate and control the flood waters. floodwaters.
Existing law, the Central Valley Flood Protection Act of 2008, requires the department to prepare, and the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state
agency, to adopt, a plan identified as the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.
This bill would require the department, board, in coordination with the board,
department, to undertake a study to identify and assess barriers to the implementation of flood plain restoration projects that provide increased flood risk reduction and groundwater recharge benefits. The bill would also require the
department and the board to conduct broad stakeholder outreach to inform the study. The bill would require the study to make recommendations to the Legislature on ways to expedite and scale the implementation of flood plain restoration projects that provide flood risk reduction and groundwater recharge benefits. The bill would require the study to be completed by July 1, 2024. This requirement would be inoperative on July 1, 2028. identify priority flood plain restoration or floodway expansion projects where increased flows due to climate change are likely to overwhelm existing flood protection infrastructure, as specified. The bill would require the department and the board to conduct broad stakeholder outreach to identify priority projects and would require that those projects provide at least 2 of 4 specified public benefits. The bill would require the board, upon the appropriation of funds for this purpose, to begin
preconstruction activities, including acquisition of land, easements, or rights of way, to expedite the priority projects identified.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 9604 is added to the Water Code, to read:9604.
(a) The(1) Increased flood protection for disadvantaged communities, as defined in Section 79505.5.
(2) Groundwater recharge.
(3) Ecosystem restoration.
(4) Recreation.
(b) The
department and the board shall conduct broad stakeholder outreach to inform the study. identify priority projects. This outreach shall include, but not be limited to, cities, counties, local flood control agencies, nongovernmental organizations, community-based organizations, and academia. Upon the appropriation of funds for this purpose, the board shall begin preconstruction activities, including acquisition of land, easements, or rights of way, to expedite priority projects identified pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c)The study shall make recommendations to the Legislature on ways to expedite and scale the implementation of flood plain restoration projects that provide flood risk
reduction and groundwater recharge benefits. The study shall be completed by July 1, 2024.
(d)A report to be submitted to the Legislature pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(e)The requirement for submitting a report to the Legislature imposed by subdivision (c) is inoperative on July 1, 2028, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
