Bill Text: CA SB66 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014: Drinking Water Capital Reserve Fund: administration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB66 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB66-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 66

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Introduced by Senators Hurtado and Cortese

January 05, 2023

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An act relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 66, as introduced, Hurtado. Water: predictive models and data collection.

Existing law establishes the Department of Water Resources in the Natural Resources Agency and the State Water Resources Control Board in the California Environmental Protection Agency. Existing law requires the department, as part of updating The California Water Plan every five years, to conduct a study to determine the amount of water needed to meet the state’s future needs and to recommend programs, policies, and facilities to meet those needs.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to ensure that reliable predictive models and data collection systems are used to properly forecast and allocate surface water.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to ensure that the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board are using reliable predictive models and data collection systems allowing them to properly forecast and allocate surface water.