Bill Text: CA AB676 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Assembly Bill 676

Bill Title: Water: general state policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB676 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB676-Enrolled.html

Enrolled September 12, 2023

Passed IN Senate September 07, 2023

Passed IN Assembly September 11, 2023

Amended IN Senate August 21, 2023

Amended IN Senate July 12, 2023

Amended IN Senate June 12, 2023

Amended IN Assembly May 04, 2023

Amended IN Assembly March 13, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 676

Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett

February 13, 2023

An act to amend Section 106 of the Water Code, relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 676, Bennett. Water: general state policy.

Existing law establishes various state water policies, including the policy that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of water and that the next highest use is for irrigation.

This bill would specify that the use of water for domestic purposes includes water use for human consumption, cooking, sanitary purposes, care of household livestock, animals, and gardens, fire suppression and other safety purposes, and a purpose determined to be a domestic purpose as established by the common law.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 106 of the Water Code is amended to read:

106.

(a) It is hereby declared to be the established policy of this state that the use of water for domestic purposes is the highest use of water and that the next highest use is for irrigation.

(b) Domestic purposes include water use for all of the following:

(1) Human consumption, cooking, or sanitary purposes.

(2) Care of household livestock and animals.

(3) Care of household gardens.

(4) Fire suppression and other safety purposes.

(5) A purpose determined to be a domestic purpose as established by the common law.

(6) Deliveries of water for those purposes listed in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, by water corporations regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, community water systems, and other public, municipal, and industrial water agencies.