Bill Text: CA SB113 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB113 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB113-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 113 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 2, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Senator Galgiani
JANUARY 13, 2015
An act to repeal Section 5096.828 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to disaster preparedness and flood
prevention. prevention, and declaring the
urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 113, as amended, Galgiani. Disaster Preparedness and Flood
Prevention Bond Act of 2006.
The Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006
authorizes bonds in the amount of $4,090,000,000 for the purposes of
financing disaster preparedness and flood prevention
projects. Funds provided by the act are only available for
appropriation until July 1, 2016, and at that time the amount of
indebtedness authorized by the act is reduced by the amount of funds
that have not been appropriated. projects and makes
$3,000,000,000 available, upon appropriation to the Department of
Water Resources, for the evaluation, repair, rehabilitation,
reconstruction, or replacement of levees, weirs, bypasses, and
facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control, for improving or
adding facilities to the State Plan of Flood Control to
increase levels of flood protection in urban areas, and to reduce the
risk of levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The
Budget Act of 2015 appropriates $300,000,000 to the Department of
Water Resources for these and other specified flood
protection-related activities.
This bill would remove the restriction that the funds are
available for appropriation only until July 1, 2016.
This bill would make available, of the moneys appropriated to the
department by the Budget Act of 2015, $110,000,000 for the upgrade of
the levee system of Reclamation District No. 17 to provide urban
level of flood protection.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for Reclamation District No. 17.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Of the moneys appropriated to the
Department of Water Resources for capital outlay under Item
3860-301-6052 of the Budget Act of 2015, one hundred ten million
dollars ($110,000,000) shall be available for the upgrade of the
levee system of Reclamation District No. 17, consistent with Section
5096.821 of the Public Resources Code, to provide urban level of
flood protection.
SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that a
special law is necessary and that a general law cannot be made
applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the
California Constitution because of the necessity for economic
development to occur in one of the most struggling areas of
California.
SEC. 3. This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to ensure the protection and safety of the public who
live in the flood plain of Reclamation District No. 17, it is
necessary for this act to take immediate effect.
SECTION 1. Section 5096.828 of the Public
Resources Code is repealed.
