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mandated under Brown’s emergency drought order and will eventually allow state regulators to assess thousands of dollars in fines against jurisdictions that do not meet the goals.

“In preparation for the next drought and our changing environment, we must use our precious resources wisely,” Brown said in a statement. “We have efficiency goals for energy and cars – and now we have them for water.”

The laws set an initial limit for indoor water use of 55 gallons per-person per-day in 2022, which gradually drops to 50 gallons per person by 2030. will provide little relief to fire victims who have found themselves underinsured and overly burdened by their insurance policies after two proposed bills encountered strong lobbying in Sacramento from the powerful property-and-causality industry.

State Sen. Mike Mcguire, D-healdsburg, on Thursday night said he declined a compromise with the industry, a mandate he said was laid down by Sen. Steven Glazer, D-orinda, the insurance committee chairman, to advance the legislation.

Mcguire’s bill would have required insurance companies to pay out at least 80 percent of the maximum limit under a homeowner’s personal property coverage without requiring policyholders to itemize their losses.

When insurance companies insisted on amendments that “watered down the bill close to useless, we rejected them,” Mcguire said.

– Appeal-democrat news services