Bill Text: CA SB1373 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water data dashboard.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1373 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1373-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  March 20, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1373

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Introduced by Senators Cortese and Allen

February 16, 2024

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An act to amend Section 102 of the Water Code, relating to water. add Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 12411) to Chapter 2 of Part 4.9 of Division 6 of the Water Code, relating to water data.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1373, as amended, Cortese. Water: public use. Water data dashboard.

Existing law imposes on the Department of Water Resources various duties with respect to water in the state. Existing law, the Open and Transparent Water Data Act, requires the department, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, to create, operate, and maintain a statewide integrated water data platform that, among other things, integrates existing water and ecological data information from multiple databases and provides data on completed water transfers and exchanges.

This bill would require the department, with input from with the California Water Data Consortium, as defined, to create a water data dashboard that is accessible through its internet website, as specified.

Existing law declares that all water within the state is the property of the people of the state, but the right to the use of the water may be acquired by appropriation in the manner prescribed by law.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that declaration.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 12411) is added to Chapter 2 of Part 4.9 of Division 6 of the Water Code, to read:

Article  2.5. Water Data Dashboard

12411.

 (a) The department, with input from the California Water Data Consortium, shall create a water data dashboard that is accessible through its internet website.

(b) The department shall combine the following data into a comprehensive list that shall be accessible through the dashboard:

(1) Any data the federal government provides to the department or the California Water Data Consortium regarding the movement of water in the Central Valley Project.

(2) Any data collected by the state on the movement of water in the Central Valley Project.

(3) Any data collected by the state on the movement of water in the State Water Project.

(c) For the purposes of this section, “California Water Data Consortium” means the nonprofit corporation established in 2019 under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of Title 26 of the United States Code, pursuant to Section 12410.

SECTION 1.Section 102 of the Water Code is amended to read:

102.

All water within the state is the property of the people of the state, but the right to the use of water may be acquired by appropriation in the manner provided by law.