CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 762Introduced by Senator JonesFebruary 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 1242 of the Water Code, relating to water. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 762, as introduced, Jones. Groundwater storage: beneficial use. Existing law specifies that the storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 1242 of the Water Code is amended to read:1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 762Introduced by Senator JonesFebruary 22, 2019 An act to amend Section 1242 of the Water Code, relating to water. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 762, as introduced, Jones. Groundwater storage: beneficial use. Existing law specifies that the storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill No. 762
Introduced by Senator JonesFebruary 22, 2019
Introduced by Senator Jones
February 22, 2019
An act to amend Section 1242 of the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 762, as introduced, Jones. Groundwater storage: beneficial use.
Existing law specifies that the storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.
Existing law specifies that the storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in those provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 1242 of the Water Code is amended to read:1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1242 of the Water Code is amended to read:1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
SECTION 1. Section 1242 of the Water Code is amended to read:
### SECTION 1.
1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
1242. The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such that storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.