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Jean Fuller and two other Republican state Assembly members have authored their own water bill, the Capitol Weekly reported.

Here's the text of CW blurb:

Assembly Republicans, unhappy with the water-reform package authored by the Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg, introduced their own water plan that they said would curb the authority over groundwater monitoring contained in the Senate plan.

The bill, AB 1 7x, was introduced hours after a closed-door meeting Monday of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Republican and Democratic leaders of both houses. During the meeting, Republicans said they were unhappy over the regulatory powers that the Steinberg bill authorized for illegal diversions, including up to $5,000-per-day fines. Republicans said the provisions were particularly difficult for small farmers in the delta.

The authors of the bill are three the Assembly's Republican negotiators on the water conference committee - Jean Fuller of Bakersfield, Jim Nielsen of Yolo and Kevin Jefferies of Riverside.

The Republicans, which deals with policy and not fiscal issues, was introduced on the same day that legislative hearings began on the Steinberg bill, SB 1 7x, which was the product of months of negotiations between water interests and environmental groups.

That bill seeks to expedite and stabilize water deliveries while providing enough water to protect the environment of the delta.