BILL NUMBER: AB 259INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Logue FEBRUARY 7, 2013 An act to amend Section 1215.6 of the Water Code, relating to water resources. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 259, as introduced, Logue. Areas of origin: water user or users. Existing law prohibits a protected area, as defined, from being deprived of the prior right to all the water reasonably required to adequately supply the beneficial needs of the protected area, or any of the inhabitants or property owners therein, by a water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside a protected area, as prescribed. Existing law provides that water users in a protected area have the right to purchase water made available by the construction of any works by a water supplier exporting or intending to export water for use outside the protected area, as specified. Existing law defines water user or users within a protected area for these purposes. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the definition of water user or users. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1215.6 of the Water Code is amended to read: 1215.6. For the purposes of this article, "water user or users" within a protected area means an appropriator or appropriators, a riparian user or users, or a groundwater user or users of water on land owned or controlled bythemthe user within a protected area.