Bill > AB1001

This bill proposes a minor amendment to Section 13198.4 of the Water Code related to drought relief funding. The existing law allows implementing agencies to provide grants and direct expenditures for drought relief, with the ability to give advance payments of up to 25% of grant funds to various entities such as public agencies, nonprofit organizations, farmers, Native American tribes, and groundwater sustainability agencies that can demonstrate cash flow problems. The bill makes a nonsubstantive change by removing the phrase "according" from the existing text, which appears to be a technical clarification rather than a significant substantive modification to the law. The legislation maintains the existing framework for drought relief funding, which allows agencies to provide advance payments to help entities affected by drought and permits funding of up to $10,000 without requiring a written agreement. The bill's purpose seems to be a minor technical correction to the existing drought relief funding authorization.

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