Bill Text: CA AB1653 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1653 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB1653-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1653

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Introduced by Assembly Member Frazier

February 22, 2019

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An act to amend Section 12981 of the Water Code, relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1653, as introduced, Frazier. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Existing law makes legislative findings and declarations relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its invaluable and unique resources of major statewide significance.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those findings and declarations.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 12981 of the Water Code is amended to read:

12981.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the delta is endowed with many invaluable and unique resources and that these resources are of major statewide significance.

(b) The Legislature further finds and declares that the delta’s uniqueness is particularly characterized by its hundreds of miles of meandering waterways and the many islands adjacent thereto; to those waterways; that, in order to preserve the delta’s invaluable resources, which include its highly productive agriculture, recreational assets, fisheries, and wildlife environment, the physical characteristics of the delta should be preserved essentially in their present form; and that the key to preserving the delta’s physical characteristics is the system of levees defining the waterways and producing the adjacent islands. However, the Legislature recognizes that it may not be economically justifiable to maintain all delta islands.

(c) The Legislature further finds and declares that funds necessary to maintain and improve the delta’s levees to protect the delta’s physical characteristics should be used to fund levee work that would promote agricultural and habitat uses in the delta consistent with the purpose of preserving the delta’s invaluable resources.