Farm Labor
Pests and Pesticides
General Agriculture
Water Resources
Farm Labor
SB 286 (Lowenthal-D) Housing
Includes numerous provisions related to housing. Corrects a drafting error in the farmworker housing statutes, Health and Safety Code Section 17021.6 which currently provides that farmworker employee housing consisting of no more than 12 beds in a group quarters or f12 units or spaces designed for use by a single household is deemed an agricultural land use. This section was recently amended by SB 1777 (Ducheny-D), Chapter 818, Statutes of 2004 to apply to 12 beds or units, as opposed to the previous application to 12 farmworkers and their families. However, one of the references to 12 farmworkers remained unchanged. This bill corrects the drafting error and makes the section consistent by referring throughout to 12 units or spaces for single households or 12 beds in a group quarters.
Chapter 890, Statutes of 2006
SB 1135 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Agricultural Worker Transportation Program
Establishes, until July 1, 2010, the Agricultural Worker Transportation Program to be administered by the Department of Transportation (DOT). Allocates available funding to public agencies for the provision of agricultural workers transportation services and associated capital expenditures. Requires DOT to establish a committee and to report to the Legislature on implementation of the program, as specified.
Chapter 516, Statutes of 2006
SB 1154 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget deficiencies: agricultural labor
Appropriates $338,000 from unallocated special funds for unpaid wage claims from employees of a reimbursed farm labor contractor.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006
SB 1802 (Ducheny-D) Farmworker housing
Increases the number of beds in a group quarters from 12 to 36 that are allowable as employee housing on agricultural land without any use permits, zoning variance or clearance not required of any other agricultural activity in the same zone. Also clarifies that employee housing located on two or more lots which has been permitted under the Employee Housing Act and is limited to 12 single family units or 36 beds in a group quarters is not required to obtain the annual permit to operate required mobilehome parks.
Chapter 520, Statutes of 2006
AB 292 (Maze-R) Employee housing: agricultural workers
Allows a county to adopt regulations for farm worker housing to limit the current applications to two parcels two acres or larger.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1372 (Nunez-D) Farmworker housing
Authorizes a person or entity that employs agricultural employees to provide short-term housing, not to exceed 45 days, to those agricultural employees in preexisting hotels, motels, or apartment buildings.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Farmworker Remedial Account
General Government Trailer Bill to the 2006 Budget which, among other provisions, changes the amount of the farm labor contractors fee that goes to the Farmworker Remedial Account from $50 to $150, without changing the overall fee level.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 2327 (Arambula-D) Labor contractors
Requires an employer who is a farm labor contractor to disclose in the itemized statement furnished to employees the name and address of the legal entity that secured the employer's services.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2763 (Nava-D) Farmworker housing
Creates a new classification of housing specifically for use by migrant farmworkers and subject to compliance with the Employee Housing Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3054 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Employment fees
Increases the portion of the annual licensing fee for farm labor contractors which is deposited into a specified account to fund unpaid wage claims for farmworkers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AJR 20 (Nunez-D) Agricultural workers
States the Legislature's support of the federal immigration reform bill known as the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act.
(Died on the Assembly Inactive File)
Pests and Pesticides
SB 230* (Figueroa-D) Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program
Eliminates the July 1, 2006 sunset date of the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2006
SB 509 (Florez-D) Pesticide: notification
Requires 24 hour written notice of any Restricted Material pesticide application by the operator of property, with assistance from the county agricultural commissioner, to all individuals at risk of contact adjacent to the application site.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 879 (Escutia-D) Pest control: violations
Revises the procedures and requires mandatory penalties for the violations of pesticide application laws which result in harm to health or the environment.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 923* (Florez-D) West Nile Virus
Directs that any emergency funds that the Department of Health Services receives shall be spent on West Nile Virus control.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 87 (Bermudez-D) Trapping licenses: exemptions
Exempts structural pest control operators licensed by the Structural Pest Control Board and persons licensed or certified by the Department of Pesticide Regulation from the requirement to obtain a trapping license from the Department of Fish and Game when trapping rats, mice, voles, moles or gophers.
Chapter 406, Statutes of 2006
AB 552 (La Suer-R) Structural pest control
Requires the notice of proposed action against a person cited for pesticide misuse to be sent within 60 days of the initial notice of violation and provides that if the proposed action is not taken within 90 days after specific dates, the citation shall be dismissed.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 577 (Wolk-D) Invasive species
Requires the Secretary of the State Resources Agency and the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, by January 1, 2007, to submit to the Legislature a statewide plan for management and control of all invasive species.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1059 (Matthews-D) Department of Pesticide Regulation
Appropriates $12 million of the amount transferred to the Department of Pesticide Regulation for disbursement to counties, one percent but not less than $350,000 of the amount transferred to be distributed for reimbursement of state and county expenses associated with liaison and administration, five percent but not less than $1,650,000 of the amount transferred to be distributed to the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA) for overhead charges, $3 million of the amount transferred to be distributed to counties for pest detection or trapping programs, seven percent of the amount transferred to be distributed to counties to offset expenses associated with applying state agricultural policy or programs, nine percent but not less than $300,000 deposited in the Urgency Account of the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and appropriated to DFA for the detection and eradication of agricultural plant or animal pests or diseases, as specified, and the remaining portion of the amount transferred to be distributed to counties to offset costs associated with authorized agricultural programs, as specified. Provides that these provisions become operative on June 30, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1730 (La Malfa-R) Pesticide registration
Deletes the ability for the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation to require a registrant to provide efficacy data and studies on a antimicrobial pesticide product, and provides intent language that the Legislature will address the registrant's letter of authorization process for sharing data with third parties.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2078 (Montanez-D) Pesticides
Beginning January 1, 2007, prohibits any state agency, department, office, or board from accepting, considering, or relying upon certain pesticide studies that involve human exposure to pesticides, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2247 (La Suer-R) Structural pest control
Requires a notice of proposed action against a person cited for pesticide misuse in San Diego County to be sent to the lead agency, either the Structural Pest Control Board or the County Agricultural Commissioner, within 60 days of the initial notice of violation, and provides that if the proposed action is snot taken within 120 days after specific dates, the citation shall be dismissed.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
AB 2297 (Ruskin-D) Pests
Increases, from $5.5 million to $16.98 million, the amount of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act to the Department of Food and Agriculture as local assistance for agricultural plant and animal pest and disease prevention that must be allocated to counties' high-risk pest exclusion activities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2425 (Matthews-D) Apple pests
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to appoint a committee of the California Apple Commission, for the general purpose of identifying and designating destructive pests, diseases, and regions the committee finds to be infested with apply destroying pests and diseases.
(Died in Senate Agriculture Committee)
AB 2479 (Cogdill-R) Noxious and invasive weeds
Increases the maximum allowable administrative funds for the Noxious Weed Management Account within the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund from five percent to 10 percent, and makes legislative findings and declarations relative to the detrimental impact of noxious and invasive weeds.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2006
AB 2648 (Matthews-D) Pesticides
Makes technical and clarifying changes to correct drafting errors for AB 1011 (Matthews), Chapter 612, Statutes of 2005.
Chapter 93, Statutes of 2006
ACR 126 (Keene-R) West Nile Virus and Mosquito & Vector Control Awareness Week
Declares April 24 through April 30, 2006, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 35, Statutes of 2006
General Agriculture
SB 284 (Maldonado-R) Specialty crop funding
Appropriates $2,200,000 from the $63,800,000 specialty crop block grant awarded to California in 2001 to the Department of Food and Agriculture, in order to provide funding to California food banks for the purpose of supporting the marketing of specialty crops.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 611 (Speier-D) Meat and poultry recalls
Requires a meat or poultry supplier, distributor, broker or processor to immediately notify the Department of Health Services when meat or poultry products they sell are subject to a Class I or Class II recall by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Chapter 592, Statutes of 2006
SB 859 (Poochigian-R) Agricultural policy
Provides that California must maintain a formal agricultural policy, and also adds "ensuring food safety", "sustaining rural agricultural infrastructure", and "protecting California from biological pollution" as major principles of the state's agricultural policy.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 905 (Machado-D) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Adds provisions to the wholesale food law that requires persons, corporations, or firms, conducting bovine spongiform encephalopathy tests on beef to meet certain requirements and prevents the sale of beef labeled "BSE tested" unless prescribed conditions are met. Requires the Department of Health Services to adopt regulations establishing related standards.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
SB 931 (Florez-D) Pollution control authority
Prohibits the California Pollution Control Financing Authority from providing financing to animal feeding operations unless specific conditions are met.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1000 (Senate Agriculture Committee) Special interest license plates: agriculture
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, in consultation with the California Future Farmers of America Foundation, the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom, and the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation, to issue special agricultural interest license plates, as specified. Requires the DMV, after deducting its cost in administering this program, to deposit all revenues, except as specified, in the Agricultural License Plate Account, which the bill creates in the General Fund. Requires the State Controller, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to allocate the funds in the account, equally, to the foundations for expenditure for the purpose of promoting youth involvement in the agricultural industry of this state by funding agricultural education, youth leadership development, and youth outreach programs. Requires a foundation that receives those funds to report to the Legislature on or before June 30 of each year on its use and expenditure of those funds.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1041 (Denham-R) Purchasing program: District Agricultural Associations
Transfers, from the Department of General Services to the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, the responsibility to annually prepare a program for district agricultural associations for delegating purchasing authority to those associations.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
SB 1056 (Florez-D) Agriculture
Provides that the California Seed Law is of statewide concern and all provisions contained therein regarding the registration, labeling, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, notification of use, and actual use of seeds and nursery stock, preempt local regulations that are passed after July 1, 2006.
(Died on the Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) Eminent domain: agricultural property
Provides that eminent domain may not be used to acquire agricultural property for a public use unless the condemnor either (1) retains direct ownership of the property for the state public use, or (2) transfers the property to a private entity for a public use limited to health care facilities, public utilities, and transit facilities, including railroads or other common carriers. Also makes legislative findings stating the importance of agriculture to this state.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1224 (Chesbro-D) Vehicles: limitation of access
Extends a provision of law that exempts specified livestock carriers on portions of Highway 102 from vehicle length limitations until January 1, 2012. Also extends the requirement that the Department of the California Highway Patrol study the effect of this law on public safety until January 1, 2011.
Chapter 449, Statutes of 2006
SB 1426* (Denham-R) Agriculture
Establishes the Emergency Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and appropriates $5 million from the General Fund for detection, emergency eradication, and research on agricultural plant and animal diseases. Creates the Emerging Threat Intervention Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and appropriates $9 million from the General Fund to that account for imposition of quarantines, sanitary, and police regulations as may be needed to respond to any condition determined to be necessary by the State Veterinarian, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1675 (Kehoe-D) Vehicular air pollution: renewable diesel fuel
Enacts the California Renewable Diesel Standards Act to require that diesel fuel sold in California contain at least two percent renewable diesel and two years thereafter it contains at least five percent renewable diesel. Specifies that the bill's provisions will take effect no later than one year after a specified finding is made by the State Air Resources Board. Requires the provisions of the bill to be enforced by the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), as specified, and requires DFA, by June 1, 2007, to submit a feasibility study to the Legislature that assesses the potential of California to produce feedstocks of renewable diesel fuel.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SB 1734 (Cox-R) Prison Industry Authority: dairy products
Provides that dairy products produced by the Prison Industry Authority within California prisons, can only be sold, purchased, and used by food service operations within state-owned facilities, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SJR 16 (Machado-D) Mad Cow Disease
Urges the President and Congress of the United States to allow private companies to voluntarily meet the requirements of currently closed foreign markets by using approved testing protocols to test cattle. Requests the President and Congress to take additional steps to improve food safety.
(Failed passage in Senate Agriculture Committee)
AB 393* (Frommer-D) California Walnut Commission
Makes substantial and technical changes to the California Walnut Commission to conform to changes in the definitions of the federal marketing order and current industry practices.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2006
AB 674 (Klehs-D) Diesel fuel tax exemption: farming purposes
Changes the method by which the excise tax on clear diesel fuel used on a farm for farming purposes is refunded.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 1147 (Leno-D) Industrial hemp
Defines industrial hemp as a legitimate, valuable and non-psychoactive agricultural product.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1343 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Irrigated agriculture operations: equipment
Stipulates that water monitoring equipment be used by an irrigated agriculture operation that participates in an approved watershed management program, for the purposes of that program, to be water quality control equipment for the purpose of determining eligibility for loans or grants related to the use of water quality control equipment.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1587 (Saldana-D) Farmed Animal Reform Act
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, creates a new crime for anyone to kill or attempt to kill any cow, bull, calf, horse, mule, sheep, swine, goat, fallow dear, or poultry by specified methods. Provides new definition for methods of slaughter.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 1598 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agriculture Omnibus Bill
Makes various changes to the Food and Agriculture Code, relative to a number of sectors and administrative functions pertinent to the agricultural industry.
Chapter 499, Statutes of 2006
AB 1644* (De La Torre-D) Tax exemption: farm equipment
Among other things, repeals the sales and use tax exemption for farm equipment and machinery purchased by farmers and other persons engaged in producing and harvesting agricultural products.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1693* (Matthews-D) Cut Flower Commission: assessments
Provides that assessments collected from a single cut-flower producer shall be limited to no more than $100,000 per marketing year. Provides that this limitation does not apply to producers who are not in compliance with assessment collection requirements.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2006
AB 1790 (Cohn-D) California Fresh Start Program
Replaces references to "nutritious" fruits and vegetables with references to "fresh" fruits and vegetables in the California Fresh Start Pilot Program.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 1834 (Garcia-R) The California Date Commission
Deletes provisions of existing law that limit the term of office of each member of the California Date Commission and alternate member of the commission to four consecutive terms.
Chapter 83, Statutes of 2006
AB 2187 (Liu-D) Livestock: liens
Creates a new and expedited method by which the holder of a livestock service lien may sell the livestock in order to recover payment due.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2201 (La Malfa-R) Vehicles: farm equipment: registration
Exempts from vehicle registration requirements a tractor truck owned by a farmer and operated on a highway exclusively for the purpose of transporting agricultural products, or implements of husbandry, from part of a farm to another part of a farm, or from one farm to another farm that is within a five-mile radius of each other, and a service truck, owned by a farmer and operated exclusively to transport parts, tools, and welding equipment in the servicing and repair of implements of husbandry, and that is driven on a highway incidentally to get from one farm to another that is within a five-mile radius of each other.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2332 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Cattle
Changes the requirement for a modified point-of-origin area from an annual meeting to a meeting, adds repeal provisions for modified and full point-of-inspection areas, updates fee schedule to current practices, provides for temporary research disposal projects, and makes technical changes.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2006
AB 2343 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Milk producers: trust fund
Requires cheese, butter and powdered milk processors (including specified cooperatives) to remit security charges to the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, for the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund, establishes a $30 million threshold for security charges to be halted by January 1, 2007 until such time that the fund falls below that threshold, requires the Secretary to consult with the fund board prior to transferring fund surplus to the Dairy Marketing Branch, and provides for enhanced security charges, to be collected from processors who conduct milk transfers that exceed the amount of the total fund balance.
Chapter 505, Statutes of 2006
AB 2354 (Laird-D) Agricultural and seafood industries
Permits commissions or councils to petition the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to administer any authorized activity the commissions and councils are permitted to do, and as permitted by the California Marketing Act of 1937 (Act), for their respective commodity. Permits the Secretary to waive a referendum vote only after a hearing, if the Secretary determines there is no substantial question of opposition to the petition by the affected assessment payers. Requires administration of the activity by the Secretary shall be in accordance with the Act.
Chapter 844, Statutes of 2006
AB 2443 (Klehs-D) Fertilizer
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to increase mill assessments for fertilizers, in order to further address nitrate groundwater contamination.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 2493 (Cogdill-R) Workers compensation and unemployment insurance
Exempts from the definition of "employee" in both the Labor Code and the Unemployment Insurance Code, specified family members who are employed without financial compensation on family farms that generate less than $100,000 per year in total taxable income, as specified.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 2676 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Farmers' markets
Extends, until January 1, 2012, the sunset dates for collection of a fee for specified participants in each Certified Farmers' Market and the authority for civil penalties for failure to comply with rules and regulations covering Certified Farmers' Markets.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2006
AB 2774 (Berg-D) The California Dungeness Crab Council
Creates the California Dungeness Crab Council in state government, with a prescribed membership representing commercial fishermen holding Dungeness crab vessel permits in various areas of the state, Dungeness crab handlers, restaurateurs, and the public. Authorizes the council to levy an assessment on Dungeness crab landed in the state if creation of the council is approved by Dungeness crab vessel permit holders. Also provides that the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, upon recommendation by the council, may adopt any regulations that cover the administration and enforcement of these provisions. Provides that a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2906 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agriculture
Captures independent bulk milk tanker cleaning facilities in the network of milk facilities that musts be inspected by the Department of Food and Agriculture, prohibits milk tankers form being cleaned by unlicensed facilities, establishes a cost related inspection fee, codifies the existing $50 fee, collected every five years, for a dairy exemption number, and establishes a penalty for violating provision under which the exemption numbers are provided.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2006
AB 2958 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agriculture programs
Allows commercial feed to be sold by volume, in addition to weight, in order to fulfill the current labeling or packaging requirements for commercial feed, replaces the $100 biennial commercial feed license fee with an annual fee of at least $100, but not more than $600, upon recommendation of the Feed Inspection Advisory Board, until January 1, 2010. Requires the license fee revenue to replenish the Feed Inspection program reserves to 25 percent of program expenditures, after which point license fee revenue must be used to reduce feed tonnage taxes to a level recommended by the advisory board. Increases, from $40 to $100, the penalty imposed for late renewal of a commercial feed license, until January 1, 2010.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2006
AB 2981 (La Malfa-R) Diesel fuel: farming: refund procedures
Excludes diesel fuel for use on a farm for farming purposes from current collection and refund procedures and, instead, requires the ultimate purchaser to remit only any underpayments of taxes and prescribes a refund procedure with respect to any overpayments. Requires the Board of Equalization to adopt rules and regulations to allow, to the extent practicable, a claim for refund of the state tax on diesel fuel sold to a purchaser for use on a farm for farming purposes to be submitted on the same form submitted to the Internal Revenue Service for a claim of a refund of federal tax on diesel fuel sold to a purchaser for use on a farm for farming purposes.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
ACR 125 (Matthews-D) Agriculture Day
Proclaims the week of March 19 to March 25, 2006, as National Agriculture Week, and Monday, March 20, 2006, as California Agriculture Day and National Agriculture Day.
Resolution Chapter 16, Statutes of 2006
ACR 135 (Matthews-D) County agricultural commissioners
Recognizes March 14, 2006, as the 125th anniversary of the county agricultural commissioner system in California and congratulates each agricultural commissioner and their staff for the dedicated service that has been performed.
Resolution Chapter 25, Statutes of 2006
ACR 136 (Arambula-D) California Nectarine Day
Declares June 20, 2006, as California Nectarine Day.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2006
AJR 45 (Villines-R) Farming
Memorializes the President and Congress to support the priorities of the Specialty Crop Industry in the 2007 Farm Bill.
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2006
HR 33 (Houston-R) The National Zoonotic and Agricultural Research Center
Encourages the United States Department of Homeland Security to carefully review and consider the application of the University of California system and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to locate the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in California.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
Water Resources
SB 21 (Florez-D) San Joaquin River restoration
Allows the Secretary of the State Resources Agency, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, to undertake and participate in studies relating to restoration options for the San Joaquin River, including, but not limited to, the reestablishment of an anadromous fishery. Requires the studies to include an analysis of the economic impacts associated with the restoration options, including funding sources for restoration and for mitigation of expenses. Also makes a number of legislative findings regarding the value of water provided by Friant Dam to the local economy.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 31* (Florez-D) Water fees
Substantially revises and recasts current law for making water rights filings with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), among other things, to change the listing of applications subject to SWRCB's schedule of fees, to denominate the fees as transactional fees, to limit the fees to processing costs, to require adjustment of individual transactional fees that exceed or are less than average processing cost, to require prescribed fees for parties and entities participating in an evidentiary hearing. Requires the annual permit or license fees to be imposed based upon the number of acre-feet of water covered by the permit or license. Precludes charging duplicate annual permit or license fees to holders of multiple diversion or use licenses or permits, and requires the SWRCB to ensure comparable fees per acre foot as to all payors. Places prescribed total annual revenue caps on these fees and limits the SWRCB to expending these fees only for specified activities authorized for expenditure from the Water Rights Fund. Requires the SWRCB to adopt these fees by emergency regulation. Requires the transactional and annual fees to be imposed upon, or allocated to, lawful users of water. Precludes imposition of these fees with respect to riparian and pre-1914 water rights. Authorizes the SWRCB to waive all or a portion of the transactional and annual fees if offsetting appropriations are provided from the General Fund. Requires the SWRCB to convene an advisory group or groups, comprised of specified persons, to assist the evaluation of water rights fee requirements. Requires the SWRCB to provide public notice on its web site and, upon request, written notice to interested parties, of meetings of the advisory group or groups and to take other actions to facilitate the participation of the public. Sunsets the provisions concerning an advisory group or groups on January 1, 2007. Requires the SWRCB, by July 1, 2006, to perform a specified audit of the activities of the Division of Water Rights and to file a summary report of the results with the Legislature. Makes other related changes.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 74* (Perata-D) Emergency Flood Protection and Levee Repair Bond Act of 2006
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at statewide elections in 2006, $4.150 billion worth of general obligation bonds, from which sale proceeds would be allocated to infrastructure projects for flood protection and levee repair and improvement.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 113 (Machado-D) California Bay-Delta Authority Act
Defines the principle of beneficiary pays and requires the California Bay Delta Authority to approve or modify program and expenditure plans based on consistency with the beneficiary pays principle, among other considerations.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 120 (Florez-D) Water quality: sewage sludge
Requires a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) to submit a certification to the regional water quality control board that any sewage sludge transferred from the facility for disposal or further processing meets the requirements and standards for the pollutants listed in the waste discharge requirements for the POTW issued by the regional board, as specified. Requires the POTW to submit the certification to any person or facility that accepts sewage sludge from the POTW for disposal or processing and authorizes a person or facility that accepts sewage sludge, and the county in which the sewage sludge is disposed or processed, to require the POTW to indemnify the receiving party for any liability for remediation costs associated with the disposal or processing of the sewage sludge. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), by June 1, 2007, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the State Air Resources Board, and the Department of Food and Agriculture, to conduct a study on the content of, and management options for, sewage sludge. Requires the SWRCB to request the assistance of the California Environmental Protection Agency in conducting the study.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 153 (Chesbro-D) Parks and recreation
Earmarks the proceeds of bond funds authorized for park purposes through two state general obligation bond propositions, if approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide election.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 187 (Soto-D) Drinking water: contaminants
Authorizes the Department of Health Services (DHS) to consider, to the extent information is available, in determining economic feasibility, the potential affects of human health that may result form the adoption of a primary drinking water standard that is less stringent than the public health goal. Also requires DHS' analysis of technological and economic feasibility to be made available to the public along with the draft regulation for review and comment and requires DHS and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (Office) to make available to the public any documentation used to adopt primary drinking water standards or public health goals. Authorizes DHS or Office to review and consider the primary drinking water standards and public health goals adopted by other states, provided those standards and levels are not less stringent than existing state law. Requires DHS, if it fails to issue a primary drinking water standard by a deadline imposed by state law, to issue quarterly reports to the Legislature that explain the reasons for the delay and a summary of work activities.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 350 (Machado-D) San Joaquin River restoration and water management
Requires and appropriates bond funds for a San Joaquin River study and establishes a grant program to accomplish river restoration and water supply management improvements.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 475 (Runner-R) Residential self-regenerating water softeners
Establishes a process by which the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, upon voter approval of an ordinance adopted by the district board to do so, may require the removal of all residential water softening or conditioning appliances that discharge to the public sewer system, in an effort to reduce the volume of chloride discharged to the Santa Clara River.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2006
SB 511 (Hollingsworth-R) San Diego County Water Authority
Requires the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) to report back to the Legislature not before January 1, 2008, and not later than January 1, 2009, regarding the implementation of the procedures governing the meetings and actions of the standing committees of its board of directors that were adopted by the board in 2004 or 2005, and specifies that this shall be done at the expense of the SDCWA.
Chapter 243, Statutes of 2006
SB 574 (Campbell-R) Public utilities: water companies
Includes a limited liability company owning, controlling, operating, or managing a water system as a public entity among those public utilities currently subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Public Utilities Commission. Makes other technical nonsubstantive changes.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 623 (Aanestad-R) Water quality: civil penalties
Makes changes to provisions of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act which impose civil penalties for certain violations of the act relating to waste discharge requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 641 (Campbell-R) Electricity: electrical restructuring
Repeals the provisions of AB 1X (Keeley),Chapter 4, Statutes of 2001, First Extraordinary Session, suspending direct access during the term of the Department of Water Resources (DWR) contracts and, instead, requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to permit direct access, pursuant to a "core/non-core" structure to be defined by the PUC. Requires the PUC's core/non-core structure to require direct access customers to bear a fair share of DWR's electricity costs or to accept a proportionate allocation of the electrical generation resources used by the investor owned utility to serve the departing customer.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 646 (Kuehl-D) Water discharge requirements: waivers
Amends existing law to require specific findings when issuing waivers in discharge permits and to provide for adequate funding and enforcement for the waiver program.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 729 (Lowenthal-D) Water quality
Allows the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to have the same authority over certain investigative functions as a regional board does and to carry out this authority if, after consulting with the appropriate regional board, the SWRCB determines that it will not duplicate the efforts of the regional board. Requires that each regional board coordinate with the SWRCB and other state agencies with respect to water quality matters and report rates of compliance with the act. Requires the SWRCB and each regional board to post on the Internet certain water quality-related information, including, with regard to a regional board, a summary list of enforcement actions undertaken by that regional board and the dispositions of those actions.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2006
SB 773 (Cox-R) Groundwater aquifers: injection wells
Exempts any injection well used to inject drinking water from prohibitions on the release of hazardous waste to injection wells. Directs the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and regional water quality control boards to encourage projects that involve the injection, percolation, or conveyance of drinking water into groundwater aquifers for use by the public as part of the general provisions relating to powers and duties of the regional boards. Authorizes the SWRCB or a regional board to require any person injecting, percolating, or conveying into storage in a groundwater aquifer in accordance with the provisions of this bill to file a report demonstrating that any water so conveyed complies with the definition of "drinking water" as defined under the bill. Makes other changes relating to this subject.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 774 (Cox-R) Vended water
Requires the telephone number currently required to be displayed on drinking water machines to be a toll-free telephone number.
(Died in Senate Health Committee)
SB 775 (Cox-R) Watermasters: court appointments
Establishes a process by which a court is authorized to replace the public agency that was appointed by the Department of Water Resources to act as a watermaster to supervise water distribution within a water service area.
Chapter 246, Statutes of 2006
SB 831 (Machado-D) Stockton Metropolitan Area Flood Control Project
Authorizes the state to accept responsibility for the operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation of the Stockton Metropolitan Area Flood Control Project, under certain conditions.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 866 (Kehoe-D) Water use measurement information
Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report with regard to various matters concerning water use measurement information and to conduct a study to determine the cost-effectiveness of more accurate farm-gate measurement and to prepare and submit to the Legislature a related farm-gate measurement report. Requires DWR, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Department of Health Services to develop and implement jointly a coordinated water use reporting database, along with standardized forms for submitting information to be reflected in the database, to be made available through the Internet. Requires DWR to convene a group of technical staff and interested stakeholders to develop the scope and content of the database. Provides for the submission of other reports to the Legislature relating to the use of the database. Requires, not later than January 1, 2010, agricultural water suppliers to report, each year, aggregated farm-gate delivery data to DWR using the forms. Requires, not later than January 1, 2010, persons or water suppliers diverting surface water to measure and report, at least annually, those diversions to the board using the standardized forms. Sets conditions eligibility for certain grants or loans to persons who divert surface water for agricultural use on compliance with this reporting requirement. Requires the state agencies with responsibilities under this water measurement program to undertake their various described duties only to the extent that funds are made available for those purposes.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 902 (Denham-R) Water storage: bonds
Enacts the Upper San Joaquin River Storage and San Joaquin River Restoration Bond Act of 2006 which authorizes, subject to voter approval at the November 7, 2006 election, $1.225 billion worth of general obligation bonds.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 978 (Ashburn-R) Water use: military land and housing areas
Provides an exemption to current law requiring an urban water supplier to install water meters on all municipal and industrial water service connections for land under the administration of the military or housing projects included in the military housing privatization initiative program.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1070 (Kehoe-D) Water quality information
Establishes a California Water Quality Monitoring Council to be administered by the State Water Resources Control Board to improve coordination of water quality data collection programs and to ensure sufficient information is collected to track water quality improvements and the efficacy of programs designed to achieve clean water and healthy ecosystems.
Chapter 750, Statutes of 2006
SB 1109 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Salton Sea: restoration study
Revises the scope of the existing Salton Sea restoration study which is being conducted by various state and local agencies and provides that the restoration study is to establish a range of alternatives for the restoration of the Salton Sea and the fish and wildlife dependent on the Salton Sea, including a most cost-effective technical alternative, as provided.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1166* (Aanestad-R) Water
Enacts the Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Acts of 2006 and 2010. The Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Act of 2006, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance and sale of bonds in the amount of $3 billion for the purposes of financing specified flood protection and water management programs, as scheduled. The Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Act of 2010, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance and sale of bonds in the amount of $6 billion for the purposes of financing specified flood protection and water management programs, as scheduled.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1189 (Florez-D) Alpaugh Irrigation District
Designates the landowners within the Alpaugh Irrigation District as the District's voters. Landowners need not reside in the District to be voters.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1242 (Lowenthal-D) Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002
Revises the Integrated Water Regional Water Management Planning Act.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1251 (Alquist-D) Flood and stormwater management planning
Establishes a task force for the purpose of reporting on the risk and economic consequences of flooding in areas of the state outside of the Central Valley.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1343 (Chesbro-D) Flood control: Middle Creek Ecosystem restoration project
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to pay 50 percent of the state/local share of capital costs for a flood control project in the Clear Lake Basin (Lake County).
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1347 (Machado-D) Water: solar evaporators
Expands and makes permanent the regulatory framework at the State Water Resources Control Board that allows use of a solar evaporator system as one means to control or reduce potentially harmful high-salt content agricultural drainage into surface water and groundwater.
Chapter 309, Statutes of 2006
SB 1425 (Kuehl-D) Groundwater extraction
Requires, instead of allows, the State Water Resources Control Board to designate a local agency to receive and maintain the groundwater extraction data if the local agency meets all the statutorily established requirements. Also allows a local agency to agree to accept and maintain extraction data for groundwater users outside of the agency's district boundaries.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2006
SB 1434 (Kuehl-D) Natural resources: ocean protection: consultants
Authorizes the Ocean Protection Council to hire a science advisor and an executive policy officer.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1506 (Margett-R) Department of Water Resources: State Water Project
Waives provisions of state contracting requirements for the Department of Water Resources to buy and sell electricity and natural gas and engage in other financial instruments for the operation of the State Water Project.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1527 (Aanestad-R) Flood protection work: consolidated permits or approvals
Requires the Secretary of the State Resources Agency to convene those agencies with permit or approval authority over flood protection work for the purposes of coordinating and issuing unified, consolidated permits or approvals for each project for flood protection work funded by general obligation bonds or the General Fund.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1557 (Ducheny-D) Coachella Valley Water District: nonpotable water use
Finds, exclusively for the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD), that use of potable domestic water for non-potable uses is a waste or an unreasonable use if a non-potable water supply is available, including recycled water, if the CVWD board of directors finds that specific conditions are met.
Chapter 671, Statutes of 2006
SB 1574 (Kuehl-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Creates a cabinet-level committee, chaired by the Secretary of the State Resources Agency, to develop a strategic vision for a sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Chapter 535, Statutes of 2006
SB 1612* (Simitian-D) Water
Enacts the Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Bond Act of 2006 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for purposes of financing a water conveyance and environmental improvement program, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $3 billion. Requires the Secretary of State to submit the bond act to the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1617 (McClintock-R) Streambed alteration agreements: emergency work
Adds another emergency exemption to the streambed alteration agreement statute for emergencies declared by local government agencies. Requires that the local government agency resolution of emergency declare that such an action is needed in order to prevent or mitigate immediate future loss, or damage, to life, health, property, or essential public services that is likely to occur as a result of fire, flood, storm, earthquake, land subsidence, gradual earth movement, or landslide.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1623 (Cox-R) Flood damage reduction projects: Folsom Dam and Reservoir
References the Folsom Dam modification project as further modified by an addendum to that report dated June 12, 2006, and prepared by the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA), and authorizes the Department of Water Resources and the Reclamation Board to collaborate with the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Interior and SAFCA to adopt changes in those projects to achieve specified goals. Makes a related statement with respect to a legislative request.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 1628 (Perata-D) San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority
Allows each member of the eleven member board of directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority to appoint an alternate. Specifies that the alternate shall have all the powers and duties of the member by whom he or she is appointed.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1630* (Maldonado-R) Water corporations: sale: right of first refusal
Authorizes certain public entities to exercise first-right-of-refusal when a private water company is being sold. Specifies that the entities must be organized to provide utility service in Monterey County and must be incorporated as a municipal corporation, municipal utility district, or municipal water district.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1640 (Kuehl-D) Water
Amends disclosure requirements for certain information as to water use and planning.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1733 (Aanestad-R) Water quality
Provides that the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and regional water quality control boards more discretion to work with publicly-owned treatment works serving small communities with financial hardship to correct violations and other conditions of noncompliance without imposing mandatory minimum penalties. Provides more flexibility on how funds are spent on compliance projects and clarifies the rights of public agencies when appearing before the SWRCB or a regional water quality control board. Requires the SWRCB to provide training to the regional water quality control board members on adjudication procedures.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 2006
SB 1772 (Ashburn-R) Public health: vended water
Makes changes to the regulation of water vending machines.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 1776 (Cox-R) American River Parkway Plan
Adds the newly incorporated City of Rancho Cordova to the American River Parkway Plan of the Urban American River Parkway Preservation Act.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1795 (Machado-D) Groundwater storage: beneficial use
States legislative intent to enact legislation identifying the placement of surface water into a groundwater basin to repel saline intrusion and recover groundwater levels to improve water quality as a beneficial use of water.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
SB 1796 (Florez-D) Flood protection
Reforms and renames the State Reclamation Board to improve its proficiency and requires development of State Plan of Flood Control for the Central Valley.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1845 (Kuehl-D) Natural resources: Ocean Protection Council
Adds two public members to the Ocean Protection Council.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2006
SB 1846 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Public resources: underwater salvage operation
Restructures the State Lands Commission's regulatory authority over underwater salvage operations on the state's tide and submerged lands.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2006
SCA 31 (Simitian-D) Water
Establishes requirements for the amendment or repeal of a bond measure designated as the "Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Bond Act of 2006" to be submitted to the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election. Provides that it becomes operative only if the specified bond measure is approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election and provides, in that event, that it becomes operative commencing November 7, 2006.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 140* (Nunez-D) Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006
Enacts the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 which authorizes, subject to voter approval at the November 7, 2006 election, $4.090 billion worth of general obligation bonds, from which sale proceeds shall be allocated to infrastructure projects for flood protection and levee repair and improvement.
Chapter 33, Statutes of 2006
AB 142* (Nunez-D) Flood control: levee repair and flood control systems
Appropriates $500 million from the General Fund to the Department of Water Resources for levee evaluation and repair and to make improvements to flood control systems.
Chapter 34, Statutes of 2006
AB 159 (Salinas-D) Irrigation districts: directors
Removes the landownership requirement for the director of an irrigation district under specified circumstances.
Chapter 847, Statutes of 2006
AB 286* (Matthews-D) Banta-Carbona Irrigation District
Authorizes non-resident district landowners who live in San Joaquin County to serve on the board of directors for the Banta-Carbona Irrigation District.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 290 (Leslie-R) California waterworks standards
Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to conduct a five-year study on methodologies for determining water source capacities in hard-rock wells, and establishes a study committee with which DHS must consult.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 340 (Parra-D) Drinking water: arsenic levels
Requires the Department of Health Services to study the economic impact on rural counties meeting the new federal drinking water standards for arsenic contamination, and to report to the Legislature by December 31, 2005.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 362 (Aghazarian-R) Administrative proceedings
Provides that all persons, as defined, shall have equal procedural rights and be afforded equal treatment in all proceedings conducted pursuant to the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, during fiscal years in which funding is provided, to provide annual training to regional board members to improve adjudication procedures at the regional level.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 371 (Goldberg-D) Water recycling
Requires a recycled water producer to notify the Department of Transportation and the Department of General Services if the recycled water producer determines that, within 10 years, it proposes to provide recycled water for use for state landscape irrigation that meets certain conditions and requires all pipe installed by those state agencies for landscape irrigation within the area identified by the notice to meet prescribed requirements. Requires, subject to appropriation of funds for that purpose, the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, on or before July 1, 2008, to adopt and submit to the California Building Standards Commission regulations to establish a state version of Appendix J of the Uniform Plumbing code to provide design standards to safely plumb buildings with both potable and recycled water systems. Requires that its provisions be known as the Water Recycling Act of 2006 and also makes related legislative findings and declarations.
Chapter 541, Statutes of 2006
AB 479 (Parra-D) San Joaquin Valley
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study the economic impacts of water supply reductions on the San Joaquin Valley, including Kern, King, Fresno, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare Counties. Requires a report on the study's findings to the Legislature by December 31, 2008.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 797 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Authorizes an agricultural land conservation easement within the primary or secondary zone in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta be related to contract rescissions in any other portion of the secondary zone without respect to county boundary limitations and increases the Delta Protection Commission's membership from 19 to 23 members. The additional members include the public member of the California Bay-Delta Authority, who represents the Delta region, and three public members who are appointed by the Governor, representing conservation of wildlife and habitat resources, outdoor recreational opportunities, and agricultural production. Authorizes the Delta Protection Commission to comment on secondary zone projects if they impact the primary zone.
Chapter 547, Statutes of 2006
AB 798* (Wolk-D) Delta levee maintenance
Extends sunset on the Delta Flood Protection Fund and the 75-25 State cost-sharing formula for levee maintenance or improvement projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to 2010, subject to certain conditions.
Chapter 548, Statutes of 2006
AB 802 (Wolk-D) Land use: water supply
Requires cities and counties to update specified elements of the general plan to account for flood protection.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 848 (Berg-D) Ocean ecosystem conservation and management
Establishes, by January 1, 2008, at either the Department of Fish and Game or the California Coastal Conservancy, the Ocean Ecosystem Resource Information System to serve as a coordinating repository of data related to ecosystem conservation and the management of offshore waters and marine resources.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 966 (Saldana-D) Water quality: California-Baja California border region
Authorizes various state and local water agencies to collaborate on the design, construction and permitting of international wastewater treatment facilities near the California-Baja California border.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 984 (Laird-D) Tamarisk plant control
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources, in collaboration with the federal government and other specified entities, to prepare a plan to control or eradicate tamarisk in the Colorado River watershed and to reestablish native vegetation.
Chapter 710, Statutes of 2006
AB 1128 (Blakeslee-R) Water board members: conflicts of interest
Allows regional water quality control board members to vote on all matters that apply on a region-wide basis.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1140 (Dymally-D) Water districts: landowner requirements
Requires a person to be a resident of a water district and a registered voter in order to vote on elections in that district or serve on the board of that district. Provides that only a registered voter who resides within the territory of a water district that provides services to that voter may serve on the board of that district. Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning landownership requirements affecting the ability to vote in an election or to hold public office.
(Died in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 1232 (Jerome Horton-D) Water replenishment districts
Repeals the $10 million statutory limit on the Water Replenishment District of Southern California's annual reserve fund. Repeals the requirement that the District's board of directors annually report on the amount by which its reserve funds will exceed that statutory limit. Repeals the requirement that the District spend excess reserve funds to reduce rates or buy more water in the next fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 1244 (Wolk-D) California Water Commission: CALFED Bay-Delta Program
Establishes a California Water Commission (Commission), consisting of seven public members appointed in a specific manner, for the purpose of providing oversight for the development and implementation of state water policy. Requires the Commission to (1) assess the overall achievement of state objectives in the implementation of the California Water Plan and the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, (2) review the program priorities of state agencies with jurisdiction over any subject area included in the plan and program, (3) make recommendations to the Legislature regarding the accomplishment of certain goals and objectives, needed policy changes, and budgets for the implementing agencies, and (4) review and approve prescribed long-term plans and three-year implementation plans for the plan and program. Requires implementing agencies, as defined, to submit to the Commission, for review and approval, three-year program plans and objectives for those programs that implement components of the California Water Plan update or subsequent updates, and the CALFED Bay-Delta Program. Requires implementing agencies to submit to the Commission, for reviews and comments, its annual program plan and proposed budget for the following budget year. Requires the department to submit to the Commission, for review and approval, all proposed regulations of the department, other than those relating exclusively to the internal administration and management of the department. Repeals the State Act and, instead, enacts the CALFED Bay-Delta Program Reform Act (Reform Act) to revise and recast the management of the existing program on behalf of the bay-delta, as defined. The Reform Act will require state implementing agencies to carry out the programs, projects, and activities necessary to implement the program, which consists of specified program elements. The Reform Act establishes the Resources Agency a CALFED Bay-Delta Executive Management Team, consisting of representatives of state and federal agencies involved in the program. The team will be chaired by the Secretary of the Resources Agency, who will be required to coordinate the work of the state and federal agencies. The Reform Act will establish the agency as the successor agency to the authority, which the Reform Act will abolish. The Reform Act will establish a Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee to provide recommendations to the Secretary and implementing agencies on the implementation of the program. Repeals the Reform Act on January 1, 2010, unless the Secretary makes a specified determination.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 1245 (Wolk-D) West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency
Expands the authority of the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency to accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to achieve and maintain at least a 200 year level of flood protection and, prior to January 1, 2009, authorizes the issuance of debt to finance these projects and thereafter continue to levy special assessments to repay the indebtedness.
Chapter 533, Statutes of 2006
AB 1269* (Pavley-D) Clean air, clean water, coastal protection and parks
Enacts the Clean Air, Clean Water, Coastal Protection, and Parks Bond Act of 2007 which, if adopted, authorizes, for purposes of financing an air and water quality, coastal protection, and parks program, the issuance of an unspecified amount of bonds, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1271 (Blakeslee-R) Central Coast Agricultural Best Management Practices
Requires the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to conduct a five-year pilot project, to be known as the Agricultural Best Management Practices Pilot Project, in order to promote clean water practices in the region within the jurisdiction of that regional board. Requires that regional board to define and adopt achievable, attainable agricultural best management practices, based on current scientific findings, on or before January 1, 2007. Specifies possible limitations on the scope of the pilot project. Requires that regional board to report the results of the pilot program to the Legislature at the conclusion of the pilot project.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1343 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Irrigated agriculture operations: equipment
Deems water monitoring equipment used by an irrigated agriculture operation that participates in an approved watershed management program, for the purposes of that program, to be water quality control equipment for the purpose of determining eligibility for loans or grants related to the use of water quality control equipment.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1354 (Baca-D) Drinking water: perchlorate levels
Requires the Department of Health Services to establish a maximum contaminant level for perchlorate of six parts per billion, to be phased in over a period of two years commencing January 1, 2006. Declares the intent of the Legislature to include provisions to require persons or entities found responsible for perchlorate contamination of drinking water to pay the costs of removing that contamination.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1421 (Laird-D) Water: discharge permits
Defines the terms "affected" and "background water quality condition," for the purposes of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Also authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board or a regional board to require replacement water for groundwater or surface water, where water quality has been degraded or otherwise impacted above background water quality conditions, and provides that nothing in those provisions shall limit the authority of the state board or a regional board to require complete cleanup of all waste discharged and restoration of affected water to background water quality.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1453 (Daucher-R) Adjudication of rights to produce groundwater
Establishes nine water divisions in the superior courts of specified counties, and requires the presiding judge of the superior court of each specified county to assign a water judge to the water division to preside over actions that involve the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, and provides for the transfer of groundwater actions to those courts. Requires the presiding judge to consider the experience in groundwater adjudications of each candidate for assignment as water judge, and provides for filling the position of water judge in the event of a vacancy. Further provides that a water judge has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction, and a water division has exclusive venue, over all matters relating to the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, as specified. Also requires the Judicial Council to promulgate special rules governing those actions, in consultation with the water judges the Department of Water Resources, and the State Water Resources Control Board.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1528 (Jones-D) Flood control liability
Provides that the state is entitled to rights of indemnity and contribution against any local public entity whose actions contribute, or whose failure to act contributes, to the failure of a flood control project when that failure causes property damage or personal injury. Provides that a local public entity shall be subject to joint liability and the state's right of indemnity and contribution to the extent that the local public entity increases the amount of property damage sustained in a flood by approving new development in a previously underdeveloped area, as defined. Prohibits the board from providing assurances for a project that increases the level of flood protection until all cities and counties that lie in whole or in part within the benefited area of that project have executed an agreement with the Department of Water Resources or the Reclamation Board whereby those cities and counties agree to be subject to joint liability and contribution when any action related to the project is brought against the state or a state agency.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1547* (Levine-D) Alluvial Fan Task Force
Extends the due dates for the Alluvial Fan Task Force for two years.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1665 (Laird-D) Water resources
Addresses a variety of Central Valley flood protection issues, including new authorities for the Department of Water Resources and the Reclamation Board, flood planning, flood liability, emergency response planning, and "beneficiaries pay" study for levee costs.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1679 (Mullin-D) Ano Nuevo hydrologic unit
Provides that notwithstanding the defined and described boundary descriptions, the Ano Nuevo hydrologic unit is subject to the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Regional Board and not the Central Coast Regional Board.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1713 (Villines-R) Temperance Flat Water Storage Facility
Requires the Department of Water Resources to establish a water storage facility at Temperance Flat.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1724 (Villines-R) Water quality: reclamation: excessive rainfall
Prohibits a regional board from requiring a holder of a master reclamation permit or a water district to provide plans or water reclamation facilities to reclaim or recycle all water subject to a permit or passing through a water reclamation facility during a period of excessive rainfall. Authorizes a regional board to require a permittee or a water district to meet reasonable water quality standards during such a period based on other factors determined by the regional board. Requires the regional board to adopt those standards in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1727 (Aghazarian-R) State and regional water quality control boards
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to appoint an executive director and, for each of the regional water quality control boards, an executive officer, all of whom will be exempt from civil service. Requires each executive officer to report to the executive director of the state board. Requires each regional board to delegate the issuance, modification, and revocation of waste discharge requirements to its executive officer and require appeals to these decisions made by that executive officer to be made to the executive director. Reduces the number of members on a regional board from nine to seven members, but will not affect the term of a member who serves on a regional board on January 1, 2006. Revises certain eligibility requirements for membership on a regional board. Requires the Governor to designate the chairperson of each regional board from the membership of that regional board, who will serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Requires each regional board to select one of its members to serve as vice chairperson. Makes other changes.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1752* (Levine-D) Environmental quality
Extends the operative date for a determination of whether a small community is eligible for an exception to the mandatory minimum penalties from January 1, 2007 to July 1, 2007.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2006
AB 1839* (Laird-D) Water
Enacts the Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Acts of 2006 and 2010. The Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Act of 2006, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance and sale of bonds in the amount of $3 billion for the purposes of financing specified flood protection and water management programs, as scheduled. The Flood Protection and Clean, Safe, Reliable Water Supply Bond and Financing Act of 2010, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance and sale of bonds in the amount of $6 billion for the purposes of financing specified flood protection and water management programs, as scheduled.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 1881 (Laird-D) Water conservation
Reauthorizes the Department of Water Resources to prepare an updated model local water efficient landscape ordinance for adoption by local governments and requires the Energy Commission to adopt performance standards for landscape irrigation equipment and bans the sale of noncompliant irrigation equipment after January 1, 2012.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2006
AB 1898 (Jones-D) Flood insurance
Requires that owners of property located in flood hazard zones within specified watersheds maintain flood insurance.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Financing Committee)
AB 1899 (Wolk-D) Land use: flood protection
Requires cities and counties to obtain verification from the Reclamation Board that land proposed for residential development meets specified standards for flood protection.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1969 (Yee-D) Electrical corporations: water agencies
Requires investor-owned utilities to take renewable energy produced by a public water or wastewater agency and pay the agency a market price determined by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to the Renewables Portfolio Standard.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2006
AB 2000 (La Malfa-R) Levees: unlawful entry
Creates a new part in the Water Code to make it an infraction to drive a motor vehicle on a levee on which signs forbidding trespass are displayed, or to damage or otherwise impair the functions of a levee.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2018 (Saldana-D) Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections
Revises provisions of current law with regard to the election of trustees in Reclamation District No. 348 (district). Requires the board of trustees of the district, commencing with the first election of trustees held by the district in 2007, to consist of five persons, and requires three trustees to be persons who are residents of, and registered voters in, the district, and also requires those trustees to be elected by persons who meet those same qualifications. Requires two trustees to be persons who are residents of, and registered voters and landowners in, the district, and requires those trustees to be elected by persons who meet those same qualifications. Provides, for the purpose of electing the trustees who are required to own land, that each voter is entitled to cast one vote for each dollar's worth of assessed valuation of land owned by that voter, as specified. Requires the trustees to serve four-year terms. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the need for special legislation.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2026 (Aghazarian-R) Flood control
Establishes protection of public health and safety as the highest consideration in the State Reclamation Board setting standards for maintenance and operation of flood protection facilities.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2027 (La Malfa-R) Flood control projects
Deletes existing prohibition on "net long-term loss of riparian, fisheries, or wildlife habitat" caused by the state Delta Levees Program, including both Delta levee subventions and special flood control projects.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2029 (Villines-R) Imminent breach or failure flood threat emergency
Includes, within the definition of "state of emergency," an imminent breach or failure flood threat emergency, as declared by the Governor.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2080 (Strickland-R) Water quality objectives: Arroyo Conejo
Requires the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), on or before April 1, 2007, to undertake a review of the water quality objectives of the North Fork of the Arroyo Conejo. Requires the RWQCB to revise the water quality objectives of the North Fork of the Arroyo Conejo pursuant to the findings of the review to ensure appropriate protection of the applicable beneficial uses associated with it. Makes a legislative finding that a general law within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution cannot be made applicable to the North Fork of the Arroyo Conejo because of the unique and special water problems associated with it.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2162 (Maze-R) Flood control and environmental restoration projects
Prohibits the Department of Water Resources, the State Reclamation Board and the California Bay-Delta Authority from allocating any funds for any flood control project or environmental restoration project if the project involves the transfer of ownership of any portion of a flood control facility to a nonpublic entity.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2172 (Evans-D) St. Helena-Napa River Flood Protection
Requires the City of St. Helena to give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the local cooperation required by the federal Flood Control Act of 1954 will be furnished by the city in coordination with the St. Helena-Napa River Flood Protection and Estuary Restoration Project in connection with a specified plan of flood control.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2208 (Jones-D) Delta levee and conveyance system: water user fee
Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR), in consultation with the State Reclamation Board and other appropriate agencies, to conduct a study to identify the persons or entities that benefit from the delta levees, project levees, and levee conveyance system. Requires DWR to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2008, that reflects the conclusions of the study. Requires DWR to include in the report recommendations as to those persons and entities on which a fee should be imposed to create a dedicated revenue stream to pay for the maintenance of, and improvements to, the delta levees, project levees, and levee conveyance system.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2236 (Ruskin-D) Los Trancos County Water District
Removes the Los Trancos County Water District from the boards of directors of the Bay Area Water Reliability Financing Authority and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency. In the statutory table that assigns the Agency's voting power based on the purveyors' historic water deliveries, this bill shifts Los Trancos County Water District's 161-acre foot allotment to the California Water Service Company.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2006
AB 2348 (Laird-D) Flood control: Pajaro River
Authorizes state participation in funding for a flood control project on the Pajaro River in the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz.
Chapter 354, Statutes of 2006
AB 2394 (Aghazarian-R) Minor violations: air pollution: water quality
Reinstates provisions that sunset January 1, 2006, that subject a person who commits a minor violation of an air pollution law to administrative penalties instead of civil penalties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2397 (Calderon-D) Metropolitan water districts: service contracts
Prohibits the Metropolitan Water District from entering into a contract for permanent or temporary services, skilled or unskilled, if those services can be performed adequately and competently by civil service employees.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2402 (Ruskin-D) Public water systems: treatment
Requires the Department of Health Services to identify potentially dangerous drinking water disinfection byproducts and to identify and evaluate treatment methods, technologies, and other management options that reduce or eliminate the need to add disinfectants to drinking water.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2406 (De La Torre-D) Water
Provides that these provisions become operative only if the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 is approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election. Makes $80 million of those funds provided to address multiregional needs or issues of statewide significance available to the Department of Water Resources (DWR), upon appropriation by the Legislature, for direct expenditure or allocation pursuant to competitive local assistance grants to municipalities, for water recycling projects that are consistent with the implementation of specified integrated regional water management plans and include certain features relating to recycled water, as specified. Makes $20 million of those specified funds available to the DWR, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund voluntary, cost-effective capital outlay urban water conservation programs and projects, as prescribed. Subjects these expenditures or allocations to a determination by DWR that they meet certain applicable requirements of the act.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2435 (Coto-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Makes changes to the Santa Clara Valley Water District's enabling act to give the District's board sole responsibility for its budget. Eliminates two at-large board member positions currently appointed by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors by 2009. Requires, beginning January 1, 2010, vacancies on the District's board to be filled pursuant to existing law.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2006
AB 2463 (Houston-R) Reclamation districts: elections
Increases the size of the board of trustees for Reclamation District No. 348.
(Failed passage in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2496 (Laird-D) Water conservation: low-flush water closets
Phases in requirements that water closets and urinals have lower flush volumes, generally reducing toilets from 1.6 gallons per flush to 1.3, and urinals from 1.0 gallons per flush to 0.5 gallons per flush.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2500 (Laird-D) Project levee upgrade funds: local safety plans
Prohibits the state from providing funds to upgrade a project levee that protects an urban area with more than 1,000 people, unless the levee operator and any city or county protected by the levee, enter into an agreement to adopt a safety plan within two years. Stipulates that the state shall not allocate or expend funds for the upgrade of a project levee, if that upgrade is authorized by statute on or after July 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2515 (Ruskin-D) Water conservation: report
Requires the Public Utilities Commission to prepare a report describing the progress of regulatory mechanisms which encourage water conservation consistent with the Water Action Plan.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2006
AB 2522 (Nava-D) Groundwater protection: septic tank systems
Creates the Groundwater Protection Fund and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board to allocate the money in that fund to Ventura County, for grants, in the amount of up to $12,000 for each eligible homeowner's parcel to reduce the cost to an eligible homeowner who is prohibited by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board from using a septic tank system, to connect to a public sewer system. Specifies that a homeowner will be eligible for a grant if his or her annual income does not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level applicable to a family of the size involved. Limits the grant to one connection per parcel and one parcel for an eligible homeowner.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2573 (Leno-D) Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation
Increases the amount of solar generation permissible for the City and County of San Francisco's net-metering facilities, and requires Pacific Gas and Electric Company to accept San Francisco-generated photovoltaic (solar) power at one location and provide electricity to a San Francisco-designated remote location up to the amount of electricity contemporaneously being used by the remote location.
Chapter 786, Statutes of 2006
AB 2598 (Houston-R) Water quality violations: mandatory minimum penalties
Makes changes to existing law with regard to a publicly-owned treatment works that discharges less than one million gallons of waste per day, revises the described mandatory minimum penalties by requiring those penalties to be calculated pursuant to a specified formula.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2619 (Daucher-R) Orange County Water District
Revises the Orange County Water District Act in six ways in order to update provisions to conform to current law and best practices.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2006
AB 2644 (Montanez-D) Vended water
Increases the frequency and scope of inspections of water vending machines done by the Department of Health Services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2659 (Ruskin-D) Bay area regional water system: capital improvement program
Prohibits a state agency from taking any action to delay the implementation of the capital improvement program as that program is required to be undertaken by the Wholesale Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act. Authorizes a public entity or private person to notify the Department of Health Services or the Seismic Safety Commission of any delay in violation of the bill's provisions.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2700 (Saldana-D) San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board
Requires the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board (regional board) to take all necessary action under the Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act to facilitate compliance by the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States Section, with the Clean Water Act and the act in connection with its operation of the International Wastewater Treatment Plan in San Diego County and the discharge of waste through the "South Bay Ocean Outfall." Requires the regional board, to the extent permitted by law, to assist the commission in its efforts to oversee the design and construction of a secondary wastewater treatment project and to expedite the issuance of any necessary waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2701 (Blakeslee-R) San Luis Obispo County
Allows the County of San Luis Obispo to construct and operate a community wastewater collection and treatment system for a specified "prohibition zone" in the Baywood Park-Los Osos area to meet the needs of the Los Osos Community Services District. Allows the county to levy benefit assessments to pay for constructing and operating the wastewater system and also allows the county to charge sewer standby charges as well. The county can collect user fees and other charges to pay for wastewater services.
Chapter 360, Statutes of 2006
AB 2710 (Koretz-D) Backflow protection
Authorizes the Department of Health Services to adopt regulations establishing standards to be followed by public water systems if they install real-time, continual-monitoring sensing devices on valves designed to control water backflow instead of manually testing the valves to make sure they control backflow.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2779 (Strickland-R) Sewer System Maintenance Fund
Establishes the Sewer System Maintenance Fund in the State Treasury and requires the State Water Resources Control Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend the monies in the fund to reimburse property owners who discharge by means of onsite sewage disposal system for costs incurred in connecting to a community sewer system if required to do so by a public agency.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2901 (Wolk-D) Mercury monitoring and remediation
Establishes the Mercury Monitoring and Remediation Fund to be administered by the State Water Resources Control Board, from which funds appropriated by the Legislature can be spent on unspecified purposes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2943 (Salinas-D) Water charges: residential fire sprinkler systems
Prohibits a local water supplier that supplies water to retail customers from imposing or increasing water charges solely due to the installation of a residential fire sprinkler system.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2972 (Nava-D) Oil and gas leases: state waters
Imposes a one-year limit on the time that applicants for new and expanded oil leases have to provide complete information to the State Lands Commission.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2006
AB 3003 (La Malfa-R) Department of Water Resources: administrative expenses
Limits, to five percent, the amount of bond funds that could be used by the Department of Water Resources for program administration costs.
Chapter 831, Statutes of 2006
AB 3022 (Umberg-D) Flood control: seller disclosures
Requires any person who intends to sell or lease subdivided lands containing qualifying real property to include in his/her application for a public report a "Notice of Levee Failure Flood Hazard" which states that the property is subject to a risk of flooding if a nearby levee fails, as well as information about purchasing subsidized federal flood insurance. This notice requirement only applies to public report applications submitted between July 1, 2007 and January 1, 2012.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 3025 (La Malfa-R) Reclamation Board: mitigation plans
Bars the Reclamation Board from requiring any mitigation plan to acquire or designate preservation of lands in excess of the acreage adversely affected by a flood project.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 3050 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Flood control liability
Provides that liability for property damage or personal injury due to the failure of a flood control project shall be shared jointly among the state and local agencies that are responsible for the failure and subsequent damages.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
ACA 13 (Harman-R) Local government: assessments and fees or charges
Exempts from current law governing an assessment levied for purposes of flood control, an assessment for the purposes of financing the capital costs or maintenance and operation expenses of flood control, whether the assessment existed on November 6, 1996, or is imposed after that date.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
ACR 84 (Walters-R) Ocean water desalination
Memorializes the Legislature's support of the development of ocean water desalination, where economically and environmentally appropriate, as an element of a balanced water supply portfolio to increase California's available water supply, to meet current and future water demands, and to reduce the level of dependence on imported water supplies. Also memorializes the Legislature's support of state policy that ensures that state agencies, administrators, and regulatory bodies consider the impacts of their decisions on the future viability of desalination projects and the disposition of potential ocean desalination sites and facilities.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 21 | Florez-D San Joaquin River restoration | Water Resources |
| SB 31* | Florez-D Water fees | Water Resources |
| SB 74* | Perata-D Emergency Flood Protection and Levee Repair Bond Act of 2006 | Water Resources |
| SB 113 | Machado-D California Bay-Delta Authority Act | Water Resources |
| SB 120 | Florez-D Water quality: sewage sludge | Water Resources |
| SB 153 | Chesbro-D Parks and recreation | Water Resources |
| SB 187 | Soto-D Drinking water: contaminants | Water Resources |
| SB 230* | Figueroa-D Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 284 | Maldonado-R Specialty crop funding | General Agriculture |
| SB 286 | Lowenthal-D Housing | Farm Labor |
| SB 350 | Machado-D San Joaquin River restoration and water management | Water Resources |
| SB 475 | Runner-R Residential self-regenerating water softeners | Water Resources |
| SB 509 | Florez-D Pesticide: notification | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 511 | Hollingsworth-R San Diego County Water Authority | Water Resources |
| SB 574 | Campbell-R Public utilities: water companies | Water Resources |
| SB 611 | Speier-D Meat and poultry recalls | General Agriculture |
| SB 623 | Aanestad-R Water quality: civil penalties | Water Resources |
| SB 641 | Campbell-R Electricity: electrical restructuring | Water Resources |
| SB 646 | Kuehl-D Water discharge requirements: waivers | Water Resources |
| SB 729 | Lowenthal-D Water quality | Water Resources |
| SB 773 | Cox-R Groundwater aquifers: injection wells | Water Resources |
| SB 774 | Cox-R Vended water | Water Resources |
| SB 775 | Cox-R Watermasters: court appointments | Water Resources |
| SB 831 | Machado-D Stockton Metropolitan Area Flood Control Project | Water Resources |
| SB 859 | Poochigian-R Agricultural policy | General Agriculture |
| SB 866 | Kehoe-D Water use measurement information | Water Resources |
| SB 879 | Escutia-D Pest control: violations | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 902 | Denham-R Water storage: bonds | Water Resources |
| SB 905 | Machado-D Bovine spongiform encephalopathy | General Agriculture |
| SB 923* | Florez-D West Nile Virus | Pests and Pesticides |
| SB 931 | Florez-D Pollution control authority | General Agriculture |
| SB 978 | Ashburn-R Water use: military land and housing areas | Water Resources |
| SB 1000 | Senate Agriculture Committee Special interest license plates: agriculture | General Agriculture |
| SB 1041 | Denham-R Purchasing program: District Agricultural Associations | General Agriculture |
| SB 1056 | Florez-D Agriculture | General Agriculture |
| SB 1070 | Kehoe-D Water quality information | Water Resources |
| SB 1099 | Hollingsworth-R Eminent domain: agricultural property | General Agriculture |
| SB 1109 | Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee Salton Sea: restoration study | Water Resources |
| SB 1135 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Agricultural Worker Transportation Program | Farm Labor |
| SB 1154 | Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget deficiencies: agricultural labor | Farm Labor |
| SB 1166* | Aanestad-R Water | Water Resources |
| SB 1189 | Florez-D Alpaugh Irrigation District | Water Resources |
| SB 1224 | Chesbro-D Vehicles: limitation of access | General Agriculture |
| SB 1242 | Lowenthal-D Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002 | Water Resources |
| SB 1251 | Alquist-D Flood and stormwater management planning | Water Resources |
| SB 1343 | Chesbro-D Flood control: Middle Creek Ecosystem restoration project | Water Resources |
| SB 1347 | Machado-D Water: solar evaporators | Water Resources |
| SB 1425 | Kuehl-D Groundwater extraction | Water Resources |
| SB 1426* | Denham-R Agriculture | General Agriculture |
| SB 1434 | Kuehl-D Natural resources: ocean protection: consultants | Water Resources |
| SB 1506 | Margett-R Department of Water Resources: State Water Project | Water Resources |
| SB 1527 | Aanestad-R Flood protection work: consolidated permits or approvals | Water Resources |
| SB 1557 | Ducheny-D Coachella Valley Water District: nonpotable water use | Water Resources |
| SB 1574 | Kuehl-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Water Resources |
| SB 1612* | Simitian-D Water | Water Resources |
| SB 1617 | McClintock-R Streambed alteration agreements: emergency work | Water Resources |
| SB 1623 | Cox-R Flood damage reduction projects: Folsom Dam and Reservoir | Water Resources |
| SB 1628 | Perata-D San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority | Water Resources |
| SB 1630* | Maldonado-R Water corporations: sale: right of first refusal | Water Resources |
| SB 1640 | Kuehl-D Water | Water Resources |
| SB 1675 | Kehoe-D Vehicular air pollution: renewable diesel fuel | General Agriculture |
| SB 1733 | Aanestad-R Water quality | Water Resources |
| SB 1734 | Cox-R Prison Industry Authority: dairy products | General Agriculture |
| SB 1772 | Ashburn-R Public health: vended water | Water Resources |
| SB 1776 | Cox-R American River Parkway Plan | Water Resources |
| SB 1795 | Machado-D Groundwater storage: beneficial use | Water Resources |
| SB 1796 | Florez-D Flood protection | Water Resources |
| SB 1802 | Ducheny-D Farmworker housing | Farm Labor |
| SB 1845 | Kuehl-D Natural resources: Ocean Protection Council | Water Resources |
| SB 1846 | Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee Public resources: underwater salvage operation | Water Resources |
| SCA 31 | Simitian-D Water | Water Resources |
| SJR 16 | Machado-D Mad Cow Disease | General Agriculture |
| AB 87 | Bermudez-D Trapping licenses: exemptions | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 140* | Nunez-D Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 | Water Resources |
| AB 142* | Nunez-D Flood control: levee repair and flood control systems | Water Resources |
| AB 159 | Salinas-D Irrigation districts: directors | Water Resources |
| AB 286* | Matthews-D Banta-Carbona Irrigation District | Water Resources |
| AB 290 | Leslie-R California waterworks standards | Water Resources |
| AB 292 | Maze-R Employee housing: agricultural workers | Farm Labor |
| AB 340 | Parra-D Drinking water: arsenic levels | Water Resources |
| AB 362 | Aghazarian-R Administrative proceedings | Water Resources |
| AB 371 | Goldberg-D Water recycling | Water Resources |
| AB 393* | Frommer-D California Walnut Commission | General Agriculture |
| AB 479 | Parra-D San Joaquin Valley | Water Resources |
| AB 552 | La Suer-R Structural pest control | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 577 | Wolk-D Invasive species | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 674 | Klehs-D Diesel fuel tax exemption: farming purposes | General Agriculture |
| AB 797 | Wolk-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Water Resources |
| AB 798* | Wolk-D Delta levee maintenance | Water Resources |
| AB 802 | Wolk-D Land use: water supply | Water Resources |
| AB 848 | Berg-D Ocean ecosystem conservation and management | Water Resources |
| AB 966 | Saldana-D Water quality: California-Baja California border region | Water Resources |
| AB 984 | Laird-D Tamarisk plant control | Water Resources |
| AB 1059 | Matthews-D Department of Pesticide Regulation | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 1128 | Blakeslee-R Water board members: conflicts of interest | Water Resources |
| AB 1140 | Dymally-D Water districts: landowner requirements | Water Resources |
| AB 1147 | Leno-D Industrial hemp | General Agriculture |
| AB 1232 | Jerome Horton-D Water replenishment districts | Water Resources |
| AB 1244 | Wolk-D California Water Commission: CALFED Bay-Delta Program | Water Resources |
| AB 1245 | Wolk-D West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency | Water Resources |
| AB 1269* | Pavley-D Clean air, clean water, coastal protection and parks | Water Resources |
| AB 1271 | Blakeslee-R Central Coast Agricultural Best Management Practices | Water Resources |
| AB 1343 | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Irrigated agriculture operations: equipment | General Agriculture Water Resources |
| AB 1354 | Baca-D Drinking water: perchlorate levels | Water Resources |
| AB 1372 | Nunez-D Farmworker housing | Farm Labor |
| AB 1421 | Laird-D Water: discharge permits | Water Resources |
| AB 1453 | Daucher-R Adjudication of rights to produce groundwater | Water Resources |
| AB 1528 | Jones-D Flood control liability | Water Resources |
| AB 1547* | Levine-D Alluvial Fan Task Force | Water Resources |
| AB 1587 | Saldana-D Farmed Animal Reform Act | General Agriculture |
| AB 1598 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Agriculture Omnibus Bill | General Agriculture |
| AB 1644* | De La Torre-D Tax exemption: farm equipment | General Agriculture |
| AB 1665 | Laird-D Water resources | Water Resources |
| AB 1679 | Mullin-D Ano Nuevo hydrologic unit | Water Resources |
| AB 1693* | Matthews-D Cut Flower Commission: assessments | General Agriculture |
| AB 1713 | Villines-R Temperance Flat Water Storage Facility | Water Resources |
| AB 1724 | Villines-R Water quality: reclamation: excessive rainfall | Water Resources |
| AB 1727 | Aghazarian-R State and regional water quality control boards | Water Resources |
| AB 1730 | La Malfa-R Pesticide registration | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 1752* | Levine-D Environmental quality | Water Resources |
| AB 1790 | Cohn-D California Fresh Start Program | General Agriculture |
| AB 1806* | Assembly Budget Committee Farmworker Remedial Account | Farm Labor |
| AB 1834 | Garcia-R The California Date Commission | General Agriculture |
| AB 1839* | Laird-D Water | Water Resources |
| AB 1881 | Laird-D Water conservation | Water Resources |
| AB 1898 | Jones-D Flood insurance | Water Resources |
| AB 1899 | Wolk-D Land use: flood protection | Water Resources |
| AB 1969 | Yee-D Electrical corporations: water agencies | Water Resources |
| AB 2000 | La Malfa-R Levees: unlawful entry | Water Resources |
| AB 2018 | Saldana-D Reclamation District No. 348: trustee elections | Water Resources |
| AB 2026 | Aghazarian-R Flood control | Water Resources |
| AB 2027 | La Malfa-R Flood control projects | Water Resources |
| AB 2029 | Villines-R Imminent breach or failure flood threat emergency | Water Resources |
| AB 2078 | Montanez-D Pesticides | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2080 | Strickland-R Water quality objectives: Arroyo Conejo | Water Resources |
| AB 2162 | Maze-R Flood control and environmental restoration projects | Water Resources |
| AB 2172 | Evans-D St. Helena-Napa River Flood Protection | Water Resources |
| AB 2187 | Liu-D Livestock: liens | General Agriculture |
| AB 2201 | La Malfa-R Vehicles: farm equipment: registration | General Agriculture |
| AB 2208 | Jones-D Delta levee and conveyance system: water user fee | Water Resources |
| AB 2236 | Ruskin-D Los Trancos County Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2247 | La Suer-R Structural pest control | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2297 | Ruskin-D Pests | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2327 | Arambula-D Labor contractors | Farm Labor |
| AB 2332 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Cattle | General Agriculture |
| AB 2343 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Milk producers: trust fund | General Agriculture |
| AB 2348 | Laird-D Flood control: Pajaro River | Water Resources |
| AB 2354 | Laird-D Agricultural and seafood industries | General Agriculture |
| AB 2394 | Aghazarian-R Minor violations: air pollution: water quality | Water Resources |
| AB 2397 | Calderon-D Metropolitan water districts: service contracts | Water Resources |
| AB 2402 | Ruskin-D Public water systems: treatment | Water Resources |
| AB 2406 | De La Torre-D Water | Water Resources |
| AB 2425 | Matthews-D Apple pests | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2435 | Coto-D Santa Clara Valley Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2443 | Klehs-D Fertilizer | General Agriculture |
| AB 2463 | Houston-R Reclamation districts: elections | Water Resources |
| AB 2479 | Cogdill-R Noxious and invasive weeds | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2493 | Cogdill-R Workers compensation and unemployment insurance | General Agriculture |
| AB 2496 | Laird-D Water conservation: low-flush water closets | Water Resources |
| AB 2500 | Laird-D Project levee upgrade funds: local safety plans | Water Resources |
| AB 2515 | Ruskin-D Water conservation: report | Water Resources |
| AB 2522 | Nava-D Groundwater protection: septic tank systems | Water Resources |
| AB 2573 | Leno-D Electricity: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power solar generation | Water Resources |
| AB 2598 | Houston-R Water quality violations: mandatory minimum penalties | Water Resources |
| AB 2619 | Daucher-R Orange County Water District | Water Resources |
| AB 2644 | Montanez-D Vended water | Water Resources |
| AB 2648 | Matthews-D Pesticides | Pests and Pesticides |
| AB 2659 | Ruskin-D Bay area regional water system: capital improvement program | Water Resources |
| AB 2676 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Farmers' markets | General Agriculture |
| AB 2700 | Saldana-D San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board | Water Resources |
| AB 2701 | Blakeslee-R San Luis Obispo County | Water Resources |
| AB 2710 | Koretz-D Backflow protection | Water Resources |
| AB 2763 | Nava-D Farmworker housing | Farm Labor |
| AB 2774 | Berg-D The California Dungeness Crab Council | General Agriculture |
| AB 2779 | Strickland-R Sewer System Maintenance Fund | Water Resources |
| AB 2901 | Wolk-D Mercury monitoring and remediation | Water Resources |
| AB 2906 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Agriculture | General Agriculture |
| AB 2943 | Salinas-D Water charges: residential fire sprinkler systems | Water Resources |
| AB 2958 | Assembly Agriculture Committee Agriculture programs | General Agriculture |
| AB 2972 | Nava-D Oil and gas leases: state waters | Water Resources |
| AB 2981 | La Malfa-R Diesel fuel: farming: refund procedures | General Agriculture |
| AB 3003 | La Malfa-R Department of Water Resources: administrative expenses | Water Resources |
| AB 3022 | Umberg-D Flood control: seller disclosures | Water Resources |
| AB 3025 | La Malfa-R Reclamation Board: mitigation plans | Water Resources |
| AB 3050 | Assembly Judiciary Committee Flood control liability | Water Resources |
| AB 3054 | Assembly Labor And Employment Committee Employment fees | Farm Labor |
| ACA 13 | Harman-R Local government: assessments and fees or charges | Water Resources |
| ACR 84 | Walters-R Ocean water desalination | Water Resources |
| ACR 125 | Matthews-D Agriculture Day | General Agriculture |
| ACR 126 | Keene-R West Nile Virus and Mosquito & Vector Control Awareness Week | Pests and Pesticides |
| ACR 135 | Matthews-D County agricultural commissioners | General Agriculture |
| ACR 136 | Arambula-D California Nectarine Day | General Agriculture |
| AJR 20 | Nunez-D Agricultural workers | Farm Labor |
| AJR 45 | Villines-R Farming | General Agriculture |
| HR 33 | Houston-R The National Zoonotic and Agricultural Research Center | General Agriculture |