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                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Johnson</ns0:AuthorText>
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                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 20202 of the Water Code, relating to water. </ns0:Title>
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                        <ns0:Subject>Water district directors: compensation.</ns0:Subject>
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                        <html:p>Existing law authorizes a water district, as defined, to adopt an ordinance that provides compensation to members of the governing board, as specified. Existing law prohibits a water district from adopting an ordinance that compensates members of the governing board for more than a total of 10 days in any calendar month.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would authorize a water district to adopt an ordinance that compensates members of the governing board for up to a total of 20 days in any calendar month.</html:p>
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                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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                                Section 20202 of the
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                                 is amended to read:
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                                                                (a)
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                                                                An ordinance, adopted pursuant to this chapter, to increase the amount of compensation
                                  that may be received by members of the governing board of a water district above the amount of one hundred dollars ($100) per day may not exceed an amount equal to 5 percent, for each calendar year following the operative date of the last adjustment, of the compensation that is received when the ordinance is adopted.
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                                                                No ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter shall authorize compensation for more than a total of 20 days in any calendar month.
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