Bill Text: CA AB937 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Groundwater planning: technical assistance: disadvantaged communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB937 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB937-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 937	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act  to amend Section 1242 of the Water Code, 
relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 937, as amended, Salas. Groundwater  recharge.
  storage: beneficial use. 
   Under existing law, the right to water or to the use of water is
limited to that amount of water that may be reasonably required for
the beneficial use to be served. Existing law declares that the
storing of water underground, and related diversions for that
purpose, constitute a beneficial use of water if the stored water is
thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the
appropriation for storage was made. 
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to groundwater recharge.  
   This bill would declare that the recharging of a groundwater basin
by a local groundwater management agency or a local groundwater
sustainability agency for the purposes of repelling saline intrusion
or recovering basin groundwater levels and the flowing of waters on
lands or other similar means necessary for the accomplishment of
groundwater recharge for these purposes, constitutes a beneficial use
of water if the recharge is consistent with the local agency's
groundwater management plan or groundwater sustainability plan. 

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


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 1242 of the   Water
Code   is amended to read: 
   1242.   (a)    The storing of water underground,
including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands
necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a
beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied
to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage
was made. 
   (b) The recharging of a groundwater basin by a local groundwater
management agency or a local groundwater sustainability agency for
the purposes of recovering basin groundwater levels or repelling
saline intrusion and the flowing of waters on lands or other similar
means necessary for the accomplishment of groundwater recharge for
these purposes, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the local
agency has determined that the recharge is consistent with the local
agency's groundwater management plan or groundwater sustainability
plan adopted pursuant to Part 2.75 (commencing with Section 10750) or
Part 2.74 (commencing with Section 10720) of Division 6,
respectively.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation relating to groundwater recharge.