CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1360

Introduced by Senator Alvarado-Gil

February 16, 2024

An act to amend Section 1005 of the Water Code, relating to water.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1360, as introduced, Alvarado-Gil. Water rights: appropriation.
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law prohibits certain statutory provisions from being construed as depriving any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, or lighting district of the benefit of any law passed for their benefit in regard to the appropriation or acquisition of water.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 1005 of the Water Code is amended to read:

1005.
 Nothing in this division shall be construed as depriving any city, city and county, municipal water district, irrigation district, or lighting district of the benefit of any law heretofore or hereafter passed for their benefit in regard to the appropriation or acquisition of water. Any right to the water of any stream which that flows along a boundary of the State state and which that is the subject of an interstate compact to which the State state is a party, to the extent such the right relates to quantities of water which that the United States has, under the authority of an act of Congress, contracted to deliver to any municipal corporation, political subdivision, or public district in the State, state, from storage constructed by the United States on any such the stream, shall not be subject to any requirement or limitation provided by law relating to the time within which the construction of works for the use of such the water shall be commenced, carried on, or completed, or within which such the water shall be put to use, or relating to the continuity of use of such the water; and water contracted to be delivered from such stream, a stream shall be reserved to the contractor therefor without diminution by reason of the contractor’s failure to apply such the water to use during any period, and shall not be subject to appropriation by any other than such the contractor.