Bill Text: CA SB762 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 762 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Groundwater storage: beneficial use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB762 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB762-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 762

Introduced by Senator Jones

February 22, 2019

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 762, as introduced, Jones. Groundwater storage: beneficial use.

Existing law specifies that the storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of that 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.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO 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.

The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of ~~such~~ that 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.