Bill Text: CA ACA12 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water: area of origin statutes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-16 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [ACA12 Detail]

Download: California-2009-ACA12-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACA 12	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California
an amendment to the Constitution of the State, by adding Section 8 to
Article X thereof, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACA 12, as introduced, Logue. Water: area of origin statutes.
   Existing provisions of the Water Code provide for the protection
of designated areas within which water originates or related areas,
including the "area of origin," "county of origin," "watershed
protection," and "Delta protection" statutes.
   This measure would prohibit the Legislature from amending,
repealing, or changing the scope or effect of any of those provisions
unless the bill is passed in each house by a 2/3 vote of the
membership of each house.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated
local program: no.



   Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That the
Legislature of the State of California at its 2009-10 Regular Session
commencing on the first day of December 2008, two-thirds of the
membership of each house concurring, hereby proposes to the people of
the State of California, that the Constitution of the State be
amended as follows:
    That Section 8 is added to Article X thereof, to read:
      SEC. 8.  The Legislature may not amend, repeal, or change the
scope or effect of any of the following provisions of the Water Code,
unless the bill is passed in each house by rollcall vote entered in
the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring:
   (a) Article 1.7 (commencing with Section 1215) of Chapter 1 of
Part 2 of Division 2, except Section 1220.
   (b) Section 10505 or 10505.5.
   (c) Section 11128.
   (d) Article 3 (commencing with Section 11460) of Chapter 3 of Part
3 of Division 6.
   (e) Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12200) of Part 4.5 of
Division 6.