Bill Text: CA SB708 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water shortage emergencies: declarations: deenergization events.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 4)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 68, Statutes of 2021. [SB708 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB708-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  March 10, 2021

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 708

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Introduced by Senator Melendez

February 19, 2021

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An act to amend Section 79789 of the Water Code, relating to water. water, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 708, as amended, Melendez. Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014. Lake Elsinore Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project: local cost share.

The Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act, approved by the voters as Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, statewide direct primary election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $1,970,000,000 to finance specified programs relating to water, including, among others, the Lake Elsinore and San Jacinto Watershed Program to rehabilitate and improve the Lake Elsinore Watershed and San Jacinto Watershed and the water quality of Lake Elsinore.

This bill would appropriate $750,000 from the General Fund to the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District to cover 100% of the local cost share for the Lake Elsinore Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project.

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.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to a provision of the act defining “board” for purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY2/3   Appropriation: NOYES   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District to cover 100 percent of the local cost share for the Lake Elsinore Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project.

SECTION 1.Section 79789 of the Water Code is amended to read:

79789.

For the purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law, “board,” as defined in Section 16722 of the Government Code, means the secretary.