Bill Text: CA AB2940 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Water rights: reasonable and beneficial use of water.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-19 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. [AB2940 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2940-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2940
Introduced by Assembly Member Megan Dahle |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to amend Section 100 of the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2940, as introduced, Megan Dahle.
Water rights: reasonable and beneficial use of water.
Existing law declares that the right to water is limited to that water that is reasonably required for the beneficial use to be served, and does not extend to the waste or unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 100 of the Water Code is amended to read:100.
(a) It is hereby declared that because of the conditions prevailing in this(b) The
right to water or to the use or flow of water in or from any natural stream or watercourse in this State
state is and shall be limited to such that water as shall be that is reasonably required for the beneficial use to be served, and such that right does not and shall not extend to the waste or unreasonable use or use,
unreasonable method of use use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water.