BILL NUMBER: AB 426	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Richman

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2003

   An act to add Section 139 to the Water Code, relating to the State
Water Project.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 426, as introduced, Richman.  State Water Project:  solar
panels.
   Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the
State Water Project.
   This bill would require the department to establish a program to
authorize private entities to lease space above appropriate
conveyance facilities of the State Water Project for the purposes of
installing solar panels and generating electricity from those panels.
  The bill would authorize the department to impose charges, for the
purposes of carrying out these provisions, that reflect only the
actual costs incurred by the department.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the
interest of the state to conserve resources and to promote projects
that further that interest.
  SEC. 2.  Section 139 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   139.  (a) The department shall establish a program to authorize
private entities to lease space above appropriate conveyance
facilities of the State Water Project for the purpose of installing
solar panels and generating electricity from those panels.
   (b) For the purposes of carrying out subdivision (a), the
department may impose charges that reflect only the actual costs
incurred by the department.