Appropriates an additional $300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Water Resources for fiscal year 2018; and authorizes an additional 2 full-time equivalent positions for fiscal year 2018.

This trailer appropriation bill funds S1101 in the amount of $300,000 from the General Fund. In the Snake River Basin Adjudication ("SRBA"), small stockwater right holders were not required to file claims in the adjudication, but could defer the filing until a later time. S1101 encourages stockmen grazing livestock on federal lands to file the deferred water right claims by limiting the filing fee payment to no more than $100, and exempts the stockmen from any cost of publication, or any costs of investigation, assistance, and recommendation by IDWR. There will be no other fees or costs imposed for such claims. S1101thencontemplatesthatIDWRwillassumethecostsofinvestigation,assistance,andrecommendation.