Bill Text: CA AB2517 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Water: irrigation districts: long-term maintenance agreements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-18 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB2517 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2517-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2517
| Introduced by Assembly Member Vince Fong |
February 13, 2024 |
An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 20630) to Part 1 of Division 11 of the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2517, as amended, Vince Fong.
Water: water districts: irrigation districts: long-term maintenance agreements.
Existing law, the Irrigation District Law, provides for the formation of irrigation districts with prescribed powers. The law authorizes an irrigation district to control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recapture, and salvage any water, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to give information so far as it may be practicable to persons contemplating the formation of districts.
This bill would require the department to respond to a request to enter into a long-term maintenance agreement requests from agreement, as defined,
with an irrigation districts district within 120 days and to prioritize responding to long-term maintenance agreements agreement requests for waterways that already have existing short-term regular-term maintenance agreements. agreements, as defined.
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.
Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 20630) is added to Part 1 of Division 11 of the Water Code, to read:CHAPTER 6. Maintenance Agreements with Department
20630.
(a) The department shall respond to a request to enter into a long-term maintenance agreement(b) The department shall prioritize responding to long-term maintenance agreements
agreement requests for waterways that already have existing short-term regular-term maintenance agreements.
(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Long-term maintenance agreement” means an agreement with a duration of greater than five years.
(2) “Regular-term maintenance agreement” means an agreement with a duration of five years or fewer.
