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| More News Senate Press Release Steinberg Announcing Conferees, Schedule for Conference Committee on Water September 1, 2009 -- (SACRAMENTO) – Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) today named the Senate conferees to the conference committee on water and a schedule of hearings to reform California’s water system. The conference committee will have 14 members in total. Senate conferees are: Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez (D-Bakersfield), Senator Alex Padilla (D- Pacoima), Senator Fran Pavley (D- Agoura Hills), Senator Dave Cogdill (R- Modesto), Senator Sam Aanestad (R-Grass Valley) and Senator Bob Huff (R- Diamond Bar). Steinberg will chair the committee. The conference committee is scheduled to meet today at 3 p.m. in the State Capitol, Room 4203. It will also meet Wednesday, Thursday and Friday upon call of the chair in the same room, Room 4203. Draft conference reports will be available today on the websites of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee. Hard copies will be available in the offices of the respective committees. The conference has until Tuesday, September 8 to bring a final conference report to the floor of both houses. A conference report can only be brought to the floor if eight conferees (four from the Senate and four from the Assembly) sign the conference report. |