Water Issues

Water Bills from 2004

• SB 6674 (HB 2130 was the same bill, as introduced in the House) (this is the bill that proposes the details for a new water court)
• Bill text
• Bill report
• SJR 8225 (original bill) (constitutional amendment proposed by Governor Locke)
• Bill text

o      SSJR 8225 (substitute bill) (constitutional amendment proposed by Sen. Honeyford, requiring judges to be elected)

• Bill text
• Response from BJA on the water court bills

• Bill on judicial referees deciding quantity of water rights (the bill required almost all of the water rights in the state to be confirmed by the year 2014, creating a huge fiscal impact on the courts)
• SB 6734
• Bill text
• Fiscal note
• Response from BJA on SB 6734

• Bills on the authority of superior courts to adjudicate water right priorities
• HB 2393 (the so-called “partial fix” to the Sinking Creek decision, giving DOE authority to resolve priority disputes between permitted water rights, and specifying the superior court’s authority to resolve priority disputes when one or more water rights pre-date the state’s permitting system)
• Bill text (see section 16)
• Bill report
• HB 2396 (specifying the superior court’s authority to adjudicate priority disputes that involve one or more instream flow rights)
• Bill text (see section 18)
• Bill report

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