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Farm Labor

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SB 73 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) State fees: employee housing
Makes technical clarifying changes to existing law, enacted pursuant to AB 12XXXX (Evans-D), Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session, regarding fees collected in support of the Employee Housing Program, mobilehome licensing, mobilehome park compliance, and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2009

SB 477 (Florez-D) Employment: heat illness prevention
Specifies requirements for employers to provide employees access to shade when the temperature exceeds 85 degrees Fahrenheit and to implement designated high-heat procedures when the temperature equals or exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Prohibits an employer from allowing an employee or a supervisor to engage in outdoor work without receiving training on specified topics and requires the employer to designate a person to ensure that emergency procedures are invoked when appropriate.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 716 (Wolk-D) Local transportation funds
Updates reference to the federal decennial census that is to be used to determine if a county is rural or urban for purposes of administering claims from its local transportation fund, and requires a regional transportation planning agency, as part of its unmet transit needs determination process, to consider funding farm worker vanpool programs, under certain circumstances.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2009

SB 789 (Steinberg-D) Labor representatives: elections
Creates a new election process for agricultural workers to select their representatives for collective bargaining. Extends existing prohibitions and penalties to employers engaged in unfair labor practices, with regard to a majority signup election.
Vetoed

SB 813 (Kehoe-D) Farmworker housing grant program
Allows the Department of Housing and Community Development, for four years, to make financial assistance provided for self-help housing through the CalHOME program, Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods, Home Investment Partnership Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant program as a deferred payment loan to be paid through an increase in the future equity of the home.
Vetoed

AB 494 (Caballero-D) Local planning: agricultural laborer housing.
Exempts from the Subdivision Map Act the lease of agricultural zoned land to nonprofit organizations for the purpose of operating an agricultural labor housing project if the property is not more than five acres, the lease is for at least 30 years, and the lease is signed before 1/1/17.
Chapter 447, Statutes of 2009

AB 854 (Arambula-IN) Farm labor contractor: unpaid wages
Enacts specified requirements related to the application and renewal of licenses and/or registration by farm labor contractors and garment manufacturers.
Chapter 256, Statutes of 2009

AB 1065* (Gilmore-R) Low-income housing tax credits
Modifies the recapture amount for tax credits applicable to farmworker housing.
(In Assembly Housing and Community Development)

AB 1554* (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development And The Economy Committee) Low-income housing tax credit
Modifies the recapture amount for tax credits applicable to farmworker housing. Requires recapture of credit for low-income housing to be in conformity with federal law.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1563 (Assembly Labor And Employment Committee) Farm labor: contracts
Codifies an enforcement protocol for a provision of existing law dealing with financially-insufficient contracts for labor or services.
Vetoed

ACR 3 (Mendoza-D) Cesar Chavez Day
Recognizes 3/31/09, as the anniversary of the birth of Cesar Chavez, and calls upon all Californians to participate in appropriate observances to remember Cesar Chavez as a symbol of hope and justice to all persons.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2009

AJR 2 (Caballero-D) Mexican braceros: settlement
Urges the United States government to urge the Mexican government to extend the deadline for Mexican laborers, known as braceros, who worked in the United States beginning in 1942 as part of a labor importation program initiated by the United States to alleviate a labor shortage during World War II, to submit a claim to recover unpaid wages from a specified settlement fund. Urges the United States government to urge the Mexican government to accept a variety of documents as proof of a valid claim.
Resolution Chapter 51, Statutes of 2009

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Pests and Pesticides

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SB 2 (Wiggins-D) Pest control: Pierce's disease: glassy-winged sharpshooter
Extends the sunset of the Pierce's Disease Control Program date from 3/1/11 to 3/1/16, and makes other changes to existing law regarding the program.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2009

SB 140* (Corbett-D) Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to develop and establish the Citrus Nursery Stock Pest Cleanliness Program to protect citrus nursery source propagative trees from harmful diseases, pests, and other risks and threats, as specified.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2009

SB 759 (Leno-D) Federal state of emergency: aerial spraying of pesticide
Prohibits the use of pesticides for aerial spraying in emergency circumstances, unless the manufacturer had previously disclosed the pesticide ingredients to the state. Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to disclose ingredient information to local governments and specified health care providers in effected areas.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 219 (Ruskin-D) Pest control: plant quarantine inspection stations
Increases the civil penalties to every operator of a motor vehicle from $1,000 to $2,500 per violation, for not obtaining a certificate of inspection when entering the State of California with a shipment of any agricultural commodity, and makes other technical, nonsubstantive changes.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 288 (Nestande-R) Vector control
Requires a mosquito abatement and vector control district's board of trustees to adopt a formal written response to an irregularity or accounting issue identified in a regular audit. Requires the board to provide its response to each trustee's appointing authority.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 443 (Galgiani-D) Apple pests: pest and disease prevention
Enacts the California Apple Pest and Disease Prevention Act of 2009 which requires the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to appoint a committee, and a scientific advisory panel, for the purpose of preventing the future introduction of identified pests and diseases related to the California apple industry; expands the California Apple Commission's authority to include regulating apple movement and treatment to control new pests and diseases; and requires the Commission to administer and fund the committee.
Vetoed

AB 622 (Swanson-D) Pesticides: aerial application
Requires, with respect to aerial applications of a pesticide, the observance of a safety zone of no less than 3.3 miles from the aerial application for residential areas, including known sensitive sites. Exempts from these provisions the Department of Public Health, local vector control agencies, and mosquito abatement and vector control districts.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 835 (Monning-D) Pesticides: volatile organic compound emissions
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding fumigants and pesticides, their impacts, costs and damages, Department of Pesticide Regulation failure, the independence of the Air Resources Board (ARB), establishes a public hearing process for ARB dealing with emission data, changes the pesticide disclosure requirements and emission inventory baseline, and requires removal of reclassified products from the baseline.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 967 (Ma-D) Pesticides: safety: playgrounds and dog parks
Establishes the Healthy Parks Act of 2009 which prohibits the use on a playground or dog park of certain pesticides. Requires the owner or operator of a playground or dog park to maintain records of all pesticide use at the playground or dog park for a period of four years and to make the records available to the public upon request. Requires the owner or operator of a playground and dog park to post warning signs in an area of pesticide application at least 24 hours prior to application and to maintain the posting until 72 hours after the application.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1069 (Monning-D) Plant pests: eradication: pesticide use: notice
Requires telephone hotlines, used for reporting adverse health affects due to aerial pest eradication applications, to be toll-free, staffed by knowledgeable public health personnel and all health complaints to be entered into a data base.
Vetoed

AB 20XXXX (Audra Strickland-R) Structural Pest Control Board
Consolidates the Structural Pest Control Board within the Department of Pesticide Regulation, keeping the Board and its licensing and regulatory functions intact and maintaining the transparency and public input of the board's regulatory operations.
Chapter 18, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session

ACR 40 (Conway-R) West Nile Virus and Mosquito & Vector Control Awareness Week
Declares 4/20/09 through 4/26/09 as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 27, Statutes of 2009

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General Agriculture

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SB 135 (Florez-D) Animal abuse: cattle: tail docking
Makes the practice of tail docking of cattle a misdemeanor unless performed consistent with the Veterinary Medical Practices Act, as specified.
Chapter 344, Statutes of 2009

SB 170 (Florez-D) Williamson Act contracts
Creates a rebuttable presumption that tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing are alternative uses that are public concerns that substantially outweigh the Williamson Act's objectives when a federally recognized Indian tribe petitions to cancel a Williamson Act contract.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 362 (Florez-D) Milk pooling: exemptions
Provides that a dairy farm that existed on 7/1/09, may, on or after 1/1/10, elect to be excluded from the pooling plan if that dairy farm produces and processes fluid milk, and processes no more than 1,500 gallons of fluid milk produced by that dairy farm per day, as specified.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 382 (Florez-D) Agricultural burning: consistency with no burn days
Invalidates an agricultural burn permit issued in the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District on a day on which the district prohibits the use of wood burning fireplaces.
Vetoed

SB 416 (Florez-D) Antibiotics
Allows a school district to make every effort to purchase poultry and meat products that have not been treated with non-therapeutic antibiotics. Provides that each school district that purchases poultry or meat products that have not been treated with non-therapeutic antibiotics may report annually to the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI). Requires the SPI to request specified information from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and requires the SPI to provide the Legislature, no later than 7/1/11, with a copy of any information provided by the USDA including information relating to any lack of response to the request for information by the SPI.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 478 (Wolk-D) Agricultural facilities: manlifts
Allows the owner or operator of an agricultural facility to designate a competent non-certified employee to perform routine maintenance of manlifts at agricultural facilities. Requires all elevator companies to disclose its status as certified qualified conveyance company prior to bidding on or contracting for services.
Chapter 196, Statutes of 2009

SB 562 (Florez-D) Human food product: nontherapeutic antibiotics
Provides that commencing 1/1/11, any person who uses antibiotics for a non-therapeutic use in any animal raised for the production of any human food product made available commercially shall be required to label the product with a warning.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 664 (Cogdill-R) Local government: Williamson Act
Declares that the failure of a city or county to provide the notice of expiration of a Williamson Act contract to the Director of the Department of Conservation does not invalidate the contract's expiration.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 671 (Runner-R) Agricultural land: valuation
Requires a landowner applicant who challenges a county assessor's appraisal value of land utilizing the conservation provisions of the Williamson Act to provide a deposit for the purposes of having the county assessor reevaluate the cancellation value and provide support for the assessor's value.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2009

SB 677 (Yee-D) Workers' compensation: exclusions: farming operations
Excludes, until 1/1/13, any person employed by his/her parent, child, spouse, or registered domestic partner in a farming operation from having to secure the payment of workers' compensation, including medical treatment for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment if they meet certain conditions. Requires the owner(s) of the farming operation to submit specified information when registering with the Department of Industrial Relations for the exclusion. Specifies that a violation of the conditions shall constitute good cause for the department to cancel the farming operation's registration. Limits registrations within a calendar year to no more than 3,000 and provides that registration shall be in effect for one year, except as specified.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 715 (Wolk-D) Agricultural land: Williamson Act
Reforms the Williamson Act by increasing local enforcement authority over contract compliance and conditioning the subdivision of land for development if the land is under contract.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 3XX (Florez-D) Air pollution: grants: farm equipment
Expands eligibility for payment of subsidies under the Carl Moyer Program for agriculture diesel equipment.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session

SCA 23 (Florez-D) Food safety: antibiotics
Provides that, as of 1/1/15, no person shall, for a non-therapeutic purpose, cause any animal raised for the production of any human food product to ingest, or administer to any such animal, any antibiotic. Makes the violation of this provision a misdemeanor.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 49 (Feuer-D) Agricultural water plans
Requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban water use in California by 12/31/20 and requires agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt agricultural water management plans with specified components by 12/31/12, and update those plans every five years. Provides that the bill becomes operative only if the other comprehensive water bills are enacted: AB 39 (Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), SB 229 (Pavley-D), and SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D).
Conference Completed

AB 256 (Bill Berryhill-R) Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories
Exempts a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity from establishing and implementing a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of a hazardous materials, if the only hazardous materials that the farm has onsite are specified amounts of lubricating oils, fertilizers, or other hazardous materials that are onsite for less than 10 days at a time.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 281* (De Leon-D) Citrus disease prevention
Creates the California Citrus Disease Prevention Committee within the Department of Food and Agriculture for the purpose of preventing and controlling citrus disease in California, and allows the Committee to levy fees on citrus producers to pay for citrus disease detection and control programs.
Chapter 426, Statutes of 2009

AB 512 (Yamada-D) Agricultural land: Williamson Act: compatible uses
Includes horse breeding and training facilities as a compatible use of land under a Williamson Act contract.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 537 (Arambula-IN) Farmers' markets: electronic benefit transfers
Requires a farmers' market, a certified farmers' market, or any other open-air market selling fresh produce that does not already have a Food Stamps Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system in place by 1/1/12, to obtain the system or permit a Food and Nutrition Service authorized third-party organization to operate an EBT system on behalf of the produce sellers.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 547 (Mendoza-D) Commercial feed: license fee: inspection tonnage tax
Extends the sunset date from 1/1/10 to 1/15/15 for the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to (1) set a specific fee for feed licenses, and (2) designate a specified amount of commercial feed tonnage taxes collected be provided for funding for research and education regarding the safe manufacture, distribution, and use of commercial feed.
Chapter 245, Statutes of 2009

AB 557 (Caballero-D) California Organic Products Advisory Committee: membership
Changes the membership of the California Organic Products Advisory Committee from 15 to 16 and requires that the additional member be a certifier accredited by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Vetoed

AB 604 (Fuller-R) Cotton: San Joaquin Valley Quality Cotton District
Repeals provisions of existing law governing the San Joaquin Valley Quality Cotton District authorizing an assessment upon cotton growers by the district, and repeals a provision authorizing the San Joaquin Valley Cotton District to sue and be sued.
(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 606 (Ma-D) California Blueberry Commission
Creates the California Blueberry Commission within state government to carry out programs of education, promotion, marketing, and research relating to blueberries. The programs are intended to produce economic benefits, such as increased awareness and sales, to California's blueberry industry.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2009

AB 735 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) California Wheat Commission
Makes various changes to the California Wheat Commission including the restructuring of its membership, requiring a 2/3 vote and the concurrence of the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to change the number of districts, and providing that a quorum shall be a majority of the commissioners.
Chapter 469, Statutes of 2009

AB 856 (Caballero-D) Fertilizing material: organic input material
Expands definitions and adds a new definition to the Department of Food and Agriculture's fertilizer program statutes, adding new requirements, fees and penalties.
Chapter 257, Statutes of 2009

AB 905 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agricultural commodities
Reduces the minimum weight requirements for proof of ownership, from 200 to 25 pounds, for fruits, nuts, and vegetables, and from 40 to 25 pounds for avocados. Defines persons who buy and sell the commodities, and allows commissioners to maintain custody of seized commodities.
Chapter 487, Statutes of 2009

AB 929 (Blakeslee-R) Agricultural resources: grants
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation to issue grants for specified agricultural conservation easements, and prohibits the use of funds from the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund for the new easements authorized by this bill.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 945 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Secretary of Food and Agriculture regulation: equine drugs
Deletes alternative certificate options for an individual horse show, competition, or sale, thereby having all designated shows, competitions and sales under the purview of the Department of Food and Agriculture and extends the sunset for fruit and vegetable standardization to 1/1/15.
Chapter 262, Statutes of 2009

AB 1014 (Galgiani-D) Vehicles: driver's licenses: farmers
Allows a restricted Class A or restricted Class B driver's license to be issued for the operation of any vehicle in the production, harvesting, or transportation of silage in specified counties.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1098 (Hagman-R) Resource conservation: Chino Agricultural Preserve
Authorizes the County of San Bernardino to exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with bond funds under the specified conditions. Revises one of those conditions to alternatively require the property received in an exchange and all the proceeds from a sale to be used for the improvement, operation, and maintenance of existing or replacement land within the Chino Agricultural Preserve.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1216 (Evans-D) Honey
Changes the definition of honey for labeling purposes in order to conform to new standards.
Chapter 388, Statutes of 2009

AB 1249 (Galgiani-D) Inedible kitchen grease transporters: dead animal haulers
Extends the sunset date for the additional fee assessed on inedible kitchen grease transporters from 7/1/10 to 7/1/15 and extends the repeal date to 7/1/16. Authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture to issue a waiver for dead animal disposal in cases of a declared state of emergency or local emergency. Authorizes the department to issue a permit to a licensed renderer, collection center, or dead animal hauler to haul the carcass to an appropriately permitted landfill in the event of a declared state of emergency or if a licensed hauler has a certification from a licensed renderer that they cannot process the dead animal.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2009

AB 1255 (Tom Berryhill-R) Agricultural seed: county seed enforcement subventions
Extends the sunset date for county subventions for seed enforcement from 1/1/10 to 1/1/15.
Chapter 281, Statutes of 2009

AB 1401 (Ma-D) Transition to Organics Act
Enacts the California Transition to Organics Act of 2009 which establishes, within the State Treasury, the Transition To Organics Fund (TTOF) to consist of monies from federal, industry and citizen sources. Expenditures of money from the TTOF shall be limited to providing financial assistance to persons who transition their uncertified farms to certified organic farms and for administrative expense. The TTOF shall be administrated by the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture who shall be authorized to adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of the act.
Vetoed

AB 1437 (Huffman-D) Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption
Prohibits selling shelled eggs for human consumption in California produced by egg-laying hens on farms not in compliance with animal care standards.
(In Senate Health Committee)

AB 1441 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot lines
Extends the automatic termination date from 1/1/10 to 1/1/11, in the state law that permits local officials to rescind a Williamson Act contract to facilitate a lot line adjustment.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2009

AB 1587* (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Fairs
Moves sections of existing law defining district agricultural associations from the Business and Professions Code to the Food and Agriculture Code and makes conforming changes.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

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Water Resources

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SB 12 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Council
Provides for a comprehensive plan for taking care of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta including the establishment of a Delta Stewardship Council and the Delta Independent Science Board. Expands the State Water Resources Control Board's collection and reporting of data concerning the delta and establishment of a Delta Watermaster. Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority. Becomes operative if the other bills of the comprehensive water planning package are enacted -- SB 229 (Pavley-D), SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D), AB 39 (Huffman-D), and AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D).
Conference Completed

SB 21 (Simitian-D) Fishing gear
Requires the Department of Fish and Game and the Ocean Protection Council to reduce the impact of derelict fishing gear in state and coastal waters by collecting information on the location of the lost gear. Requires the department and the Council to recommend a fund source for future prevention and recovery activities. Requires the Council to prioritize existing derelict fishing gear for future recovery.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 42 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: once-through cooling
Defines once-through cooling as a system that uses an open seawater intake to pump seawater from an ocean, estuary, or bay and then discharges the water after only one cycle of cooling. Prohibits once-through cooling for a new power plant or industrial facility that commences operation on or after 1/1/10 and requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a statewide policy on once-through cooling, in consultation with the California Energy Commission, by 3/1/10. Requires state regional water boards to review and reissue National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for power plants within six months of expiration or by 7/1/10 if that permit has already expired, and to regulate the cooling water intake of those plants according to standards of the federal Clean Water Act as it existed on October 18, 1972 and also restricts the enforcement of water discharges under the NPDES.
(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

SB 51 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Council
Establishes the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a state agency in the National Resources Agency to implement certain preferred alternative activities set forth in the agency's Salton Sea Ecosystem Restoration Program to develop and implement, or finance, additional pilot or demonstration projects to improve the water quality of the Salton Sea, to restore the Salton Sea ecosystem, and to take other actions to enhance the sea. Prescribes requirements relating to the composition and administration of the Council. Requires the Council to include an executive committee, a science committee, a local government forum, and a stakeholder forum, as specified. Requires the executive committee to serve as the governing body of the Council and provide guidance and oversight on behalf of the restoration program. Requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide staff services that the Council needs to carry out its activities and to enter into interagency agreements with the Department of Water Resources and other state agencies to provide staff services.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 113 (Senate Local Government Committee) Water issues: Local Government Omnibus Act of 2009
Enacts the Local Government Omnibus Act of 2009, and makes 39 changes to the state laws affecting local agencies' powers and duties included therein, county waterworks districts' contracts, dredging and harbor improvements, as they relate to the Improvement Act of 1911. Includes changes to publishing water conservation ordinances and county waterworks districts extraterritorial services, and North Delta Water Agency's assessments.
Chapter 332, Statutes of 2009

SB 122 (Pavley-D) Groundwater
Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to establish a state-wide groundwater monitoring program, in which the groundwater monitoring could be performed by local entities or DWR. Authorizes DWR to institute a fee on well owners to recover the costs for monitoring.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 133 (Corbett-D) Groundwater: wells: exploratory holes
Amends the County Water District Act to authorize the Alameda County Water District to take specified actions within the cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2009

SB 207 (Florez-D) Delta smelt
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to develop, by 1/1/11, the Delta Smelt Hatchery Program that will be designed to preserve and restore the delta smelt, and serve as a mitigation bank.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 229 (Pavley-D) Water: diversion and use: groundwater
Provides a comprehensive plan for water diversion and use, establishes a groundwater monitoring program, which expands the role of the Department of Water Resources, and provides civil liability penalties to be adjusted for inflation. Becomes operative only if the other comprehensive water bills are enacted -- AB 39 (Huffman-D), AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D) and SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D).
Conference Completed

SB 233 (Aanestad-R) State Water Resources Control Board
Subjects a person to the current prohibition of being a member of the State Water Resources Control Board if he/she receives, or has received during the previous two years, 25% or more of his/her income directly or indirectly from any person subject to specified waste discharge requirements or applicants for specified waste discharge requirements.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 261 (Dutton-R) Water management plans
Establishes a statewide goal of a 20% reduction in per-capita urban water use by 2020 through the development and implementation of water conservation plans, and requires agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt agricultural water management plans.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 283* (DeSaulnier-D) Recycled water systems: building standards
Revises the date the Department of Water Resources is required to adopt and submit regulations to the Building Standards Commission to establish a version of Appendix J of the Uniform Plumbing Code for California for design standards for both potable and recycled water systems from 7/1/08 to 12/31/09. Requires, commencing 7/1/11, and annually thereafter, the Department of Water Resources to review and update, as necessary, the regulations.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2009

SB 301* (Florez-D) Water Supply Reliability & Ecosystem Recovery & Restoration
Enacts the Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Recovery and Restoration Act of 2009, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and ecosystem recovery and restoration programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the next statewide election.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 310 (Ducheny-D) Water quality: stormwater and runoff
Allows local government agencies that have permits for stormwater systems to voluntarily create a watershed improvement plan to improve stormwater management. Allows participating agencies to assess fees on activities that generate stormwater pollution to pay for the implementation of plans approved by the regional water board.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2009

SB 371* (Cogdill-R) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.98 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the next statewide election.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 456 (Wolk-D) and SB 735 (Steinberg-D) which are both in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

SB 407 (Padilla-D) Property transfers: plumbing fixtures replacement
Requires the replacement of all non-water conserving plumbing fixtures, as defined, in commercial and residential properties built prior to 1994 with water-conserving fixtures by either 2017 or 2019, depending on the type of property.
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2009

SB 413 (Ducheny-D) Waste discharge requirements: fees
Amends the definition of "recoverable costs" for purposes of waste discharge requirement fees to specify that it includes costs incurred by the regional water quality control boards to prepare basin plans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 456* (Wolk-D) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.98 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters in the next statewide election.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-D) which is in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; SB 735 (Steinberg-D) which is in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

SB 457 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Revises and recasts the Johnson-Baker-Andal-Boatwright Delta Protection Act of 1992. Requires the Delta Protection Commission (Commission) to adopt, not later than 7/1/11, a comprehensive resources management plan containing specified elements and requires the Commission to update the plan every five years. Requires the Delta Stewardship Council (Council), when developing a Delta plan, to take into consideration recommendations made by the Commission. Requires all general plans of cities and counties within the Delta to be consistent with the resources management plan that will be created and adopted by the Commission, and the Delta plan created and adopted by the Council. Revises and recasts the process by which local government is to submit proposed general plan amendments and land use elements to ensure that the general plan is consistent with the resource management plan. Requires the Commission to submit to the Legislature, by 1/1/12, recommendations on the potential expansion of the primary zone. Requires the Commission to develop a regional economic development plan for the Delta region that is consistent with the Delta plan. Establishes the Delta Investment Fund within the State Treasury. Monies in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, will be used by the Commission for the purposes of enhancing Delta communities.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 458 (Steinberg-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Conservancy: Delta Commission
Revises and recasts the Delta Protection Act of 1992 by expanding the role of the Delta Protection Commission in Delta Management Planning. Establishes, within the Natural Resources Agency, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to advance environmental protection and economic well being of the Delta residents. Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Fund where monies are to be deposited upon appropriation to finance projects. Becomes operative only if the other bills in the comprehensive water package are enacted -- AB 39 (Huffman-D), AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), and SB 229 (Pavley-D).
Conference Completed

SB 466 (Oropeza-D) Hazardous waste water
Revises the condition for exempting manifest and transporter requirements pertaining to hazardous waste to an increased maximum weight of 10,000 pounds and increases the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 514 (Aanestad-R) Water quality: discharge
Provides that the mandatory minimum penalty for violating specified waste discharge will not apply if civil liability, either upon the request of the State Water Resources Control Board to the Attorney General or by the initiation of administration proceedings, is not imposed within 12 months of the Board learning of the violations.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 539 (Wiggins-D) Salmon and steelhead trout: trust fund
Expands the eligible uses of the Ocean Protection Trust Fund to include grants and loan to the public agencies or private entities that assist in the restoration of the native population of salmon and steelhead trout and the restoration of the state's salmon fishery.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 565 (Pavley-D) Water recycling
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in collaboration with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Water Resources, to adopt a statewide plan to ensure that at least 50% of wastewater that is annually discharged directly into the ocean, as of the year 2009, is recycled and put to beneficial use by the year 2030.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 581 (Leno-D) Hetch Hetchy Water and Power
Expands a state statute relating to San Francisco which limits their ability for having electrical energy projects limited only to photovoltaic solar, by giving them the ability to have more of a variety of renewable energy projects such as ocean power, in-line hydro, small urban wind, geothermal, and large and small scale solar projects.
Chapter 598, Statutes of 2009

SB 613 (Harman-R) Irvine Ranch Water District & Santa Margarita Water District
Authorizes the Irvine Ranch Water District and the Santa Margarita Water District to pledge and apply all or any part of the districts' revenues to the payment or security of that principal, redemption price, purchase price, and interest of any general obligation bonds for improvement districts or consolidated general obligation bonds for improvement districts issued or carried by the districts.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 619 (Strickland-R) Flood control: Santa Barbara
Authorizes the state to provide subvention funds to the County of Santa Barbara for the project relative to flood damage reduction on Lower Mission Creek, in the sum to be determined and appropriated by the Legislature upon recommendations and advice from the Department of Water Resources, and upon written determination by the department that the project meets all requirements.
Chapter 195, Statutes of 2009

SB 681 (Pavley-D) Water diversion and use
Enacts the recommendations of the Delta Vision Committee on water rights and water use reporting. Gives the State Water Resources Control Board additional regulatory authority with respect to water rights. Requires additional monitoring of water diversions. Establishes a pilot program for monitoring diversions of water in the Delta. Gives the Board the authority to initiate adjudications of streams and rivers.
(On Senate Inactive File)

SB 735* (Steinberg-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.785 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a water supply reliability and water source protection program.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-R) which is in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; SB 456 (Wolk-D) which is in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; and AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

SB 808* (Wolk-D) San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to implement its resolution entitled the Strategic Workplan for Actions to Protect Beneficial Uses of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary by commencing an investigation of the reasonableness of the methods of diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta used by the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project, ensuring that the implementation is consistent with its duties to protect the public trust and prevent the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water, and taking other action. Requires the SWRCB to prepare related quarterly reports, which the SWRCB will be required to make available to the public and to post on the SWRCB's Internet Web site.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 27XXX* (Negrete McLeod-D) Drinking water
Revises statute to ensure that federal stimulus funds for clean drinking water and wastewater can be allocated within federal deadlines and specifies expenditure of the funds.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session

SB 1XXXXXXX (Simitian-D) Water Resources
Provides for a comprehensive plan for taking care of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta including the establishment of a Delta Stewardship Council and the Delta Independent Science Board. Expands the State Water Resources Control Board's collection and reporting of data concerning the Delta and establishment of a Delta Watermaster. Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority. Appropriates $28,000,000 from 2006 bond funds for the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Program, managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session

SB 2XXXXXXX* (Cogdill-R) Water Bond Act
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11.14 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the 11/2/10, statewide general election.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session

SB 6XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D) Groundwater monitoring program
Establishes a statewide groundwater monitoring program. Requires the Department of Water Resources to work cooperatively to determine who will conduct the groundwater monitoring. If no entity volunteered to do the monitoring, the county would be required to conduct the monitoring.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session

SB 7XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D) Water conservation
Requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by 12/31/20, requires agricultural water management plans and efficient water management practices for agricultural water suppliers, and promotes expanded development of sustainable water supplies at the regional level.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session

SB 8XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D) Water project
Appropriates $546 million from various funds authorized by Proposition 84 to (1) support projects that reduce dependence on the Delta for water supply, (2) reduce the potential for levee failures that would jeopardize water conveyance, (3) provide grants for storm water projects, and (4) provide grants to local agencies to support the development and implementation of natural community conservation plans in or around the Delta. Provisions are contingent upon the enactment SB 1 X7 (Simitian-D and Steinberg-D), SB 6 X7 (Steinberg-D and Pavley-D), and SB 7 X7 (Steinberg-D). Revises the existing requirements mandating that certain diverters of surface waters report their diversions to the State Water Board. Requires diversions in the Delta to be reported to the State Water Board and provides the State Water Resources Control Board with 25 additional positions for water rights enforcement. (These provisions are contained in the 8/17/09 version of AB 900 [De Leon-D].)
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session

SCR 13 (Steinberg-D) Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe
Creates the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe and authorizes the termination of the Committee on 11/30/10.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2009

SCR 43 (Huff-R) California Water Awareness Month
Proclaims May 2009 as California Water Awareness Month, and encourages all Californians to participate in a statewide campaign that focuses on educating Californians about the value of water in everyday life.
Resolution Chapter 83, Statutes of 2009

SCR 60 (Negrete McLeod-D) Water utility and chemical facilities
Urges the state, county, and local governments, the owners and operators of water utility facilities, and the chemical companies that supply these utilities, to mitigate the potential harm involved in the release of hazardous substances by substituting Inherently Safer Technology.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 18 (Simitian-D) Marine aquaculture
Requests the United States Congress to develop a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for marine aquaculture that is at least as protective as that codified in California's Sustainable Oceans Act to address environmental and economic concerns.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 13 (Salas-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to restore, maintain, and enhance ecosystems, including habitats, wildlife corridors, native species, and open space, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and to develop and implement projects to address the economic viability of the Delta region, consistent with a specified Delta Plan.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 25 (Gilmore-R) Water: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a regional water board from imposing a mandatory minimum penalty for a violation for which an action to impose liability is not requested or imposed by the SWRCB or a regional water board within one year of the date the SWRCB or regional water board receives notice of the violation. Authorizes the SWRCB or regional water board to impose a mandatory minimum penalty for a serious violation involving the failure to file a certain discharge monitoring report for each complete 30-day period following the deadline for submitting the report only if the SWRCB or regional water board has provided notification to the violator of the ongoing violation. Specifies that in the absence of notification, the failure to file that monitoring report constitutes a single violation.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 28 (Jeffries-R) Natural gas engines: water movement
Prohibits air pollution control districts and air quality management districts (local air districts) from imposing specified emissions, testing, and reporting requirements for natural gas engines.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 39 (Huffman-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta Plan
Requires the Delta Stewardship Council, created pursuant to SB 12 (Simitian-D), 2009-10 Session, on or before 1/1/12, to develop, adopt, and commence implementation of a comprehensive management plan for the Delta, meeting specified requirements. Provides that these provisions only become operative if AB 49 (Feuer-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), SB 229 (Pavley-D), and SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D) of the 2009-10 Session of the Legislature, relating to water use and resource management, are enacted and become effective on or before 1/1/10.
Conference Completed

AB 49 (Feuer-D) Water conservation: urban and agricultural water
Requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban water use in California by 12/31/20 and requires agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt agricultural water management plans with specified components by 12/31/12, and update those plans every five years. Provides that the bill becomes operative only if the other comprehensive water bills are enacted: AB 39 (Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), SB 229 (Pavley-D), and SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D).
Conference Completed

AB 55 (Jeffries-R) Water supply planning
Revises the definition of "project" to provide that specified business, commercial, hotel or motel, industrial, manufacturing, and mixed-use developments are within the scope of the definition only if the projected water demand of the development will be equivalent to, or greater than, the amount of water required by a 500 dwelling unit project, as determined by the public water system.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 74 (Chesbro-D) Flood control: Lake County
Authorizes state funding for the Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Lake County pursuant to specified federal studies and legal authority. Authorizes state funding for the Hamilton City Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Glenn County pursuant to specified federal studies and legal authority.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2009

AB 80 (Blakeslee-R) Reservoirs: recreational use
Amends water storage and treatment requirements for the Nacimiento Reservoir.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 139 (Brownley-D) Los Angeles County Flood Control District
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control District to impose a fee to pay the cost and expenses of carrying out projects and providing services to improve water quality and reduce stormwater and urban runoff in the District and provides for a division of those fees collected between the District and other jurisdictions within the boundaries of the District.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 166 (Lieu-D) Vessels: abandonment: abatement
Establishes a pilot program that authorizes the sale of surrendered vessels prior to their potential or eventual abandonment, and authorizes local agencies to accept title of vessels from willing owners for the purpose of disposal.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2009

AB 234 (Huffman-D) Water use: federal stimulus
Authorizes the Energy Commission to make grants and enter into contracts to award federal energy efficiency and conservation funds.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 248 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Ballast water management
Requires the person in charge of a vessel to maintain and submit to the State Lands Commission specified information relating to the vessel's ballast water treatment system.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2009

AB 268 (Gaines-R) On-site sewage treatment systems
Repeals current requirements for the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulations and standards for the safe operation of on-site waste treatment systems.
(Failed passage in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 300 (Caballero-D) Subdivisions: water supply
Requires that the water supply assessments mandated by SB 221 (Kuehl-D), Chapter 642, Statutes of 2001, that amended the Subdivision Map Act, and SB 610 (Costa-D), Chapter 643, Statutes of 2001, that amended the California Environmental Quality Act, be based on the anticipated water demand for the subdivision project, given planned water demand reduction actions contained in an adopted urban water management plan and current statutory, regulatory, and local ordinance requirements, reduced by the amount of voluntary demand management measures.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 301 (Fuentes-D) Vended water
Requires applicants for an annual bottled-water license to include information on the total volume of water bottled or sold in the state and source information. Requires the Department of Public Health to annually compile this information and make it available to the public.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 408 (Saldana-D) Local planning: water supplies
Requires a planning agency to notify the California regional water quality control board servicing the area before adopting or amending the general plan. Requires the regional board, upon receiving this notice, to provide the planning agency with certain information regarding implementation of low-impact development water management to increase local water supplies by increasing stormwater recharge and reuse.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 410 (De La Torre-D) Recycled water
Requires the Department of Water Resources to give additional consideration to salt and nutrient management plans when awarding integrated regional water management grants. Sets out new statewide targets for water recycling.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 419 (Caballero-D) Joint power agreements: water utilities
Authorizes a water utility that is regulated by the Public Utilities Commission to enter into a joint powers agreement with one or more public agencies and other water suppliers, if the purpose of the joint powers agreement pertains to regional or local water management.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 450 (De La Torre-D) Recycled water: oil refineries
Prohibits oil refineries from using water from any source of quality suitable for potable domestic use for nonpotable uses if recycled water is available that meets the requirements of the State Water Resources Control Board.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 466 (Coto-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Changes the composition and representation of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board effective 12/3/10, expands a district exemption from special fees, and makes other governance changes.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2009

AB 471 (Arambula-IN) Water: eligible project
Expands the definition of "eligible project" as used in the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act, approved by the voters as Proposition 13 at the 3/7/00 primary election, to mean a project that is either (1) identified in the CALFED EIS/EIR, or (2) within at least one of the six prescribed categories of projects. Changes the barrier improvement project category to, instead, include a project that constructs a barrier to protect fish and other barriers in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channels to improve water quality and water level for local diversions. Provides for the submission of its provisions as a proposed amendment of a general obligation bond act to the voters at the next statewide election in accordance with specified law.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 474 (Blumenfield-D) Water efficiency improvements
Expands the authorization that allows public agencies to enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of specified improvements to now include water efficiency improvements.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2009

AB 580 (Huber-D) Onsite sewage treatment systems
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board regulations for onsite water treatment systems to include regulatory tiers based on the demonstrated risk posed to public health and the environment by the system.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

AB 626 (Eng-D) Bond revenues: integrated regional water management
Requires the Department of Water Resources to achieve the 10% statewide allocation of Integrated Regional Water Management funding within each region.
Chapter 367, Statutes of 2009

AB 629 (Krekorian-D) School facilities: water
Requires a school district, by 1/1/12, to conduct a one-time analysis of the level of lead in water in schools that were constructed before 1/1/93 (except for those schools whose plumbing has been completely replaced after 1993).
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 642 (Huber-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
Establishes the California Bay-Delta Authority and assigns responsibility for the CALFED Bay-Delta program's Ecosystem Restoration Program to the Department of Fish and Game.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 687 (Salas-D) Tijuana River Valley Conservancy
Enacts the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy Act. Establishes, in the Natural Resources Agency, the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy. Specifies the composition of the board of the Conservancy. Requires the Conservancy to oversee the implementation of a comprehensive Tijuana River Valley cleanup and restoration project.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 752* (Caballero-D) Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $12,250,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligations Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Provides for the submission of the bond to the voters at the 11/2/10 statewide general election.
(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 804 (Hall-D) Invasive aquatic species: mussels
Removes an operator of water delivery and storage facilities from civil and criminal liability for the introduction of dreissenid mussels as a result of their operations if that operator has prepared, initiated, and is in compliance with all elements of their approved plan.
Vetoed

AB 889* (Jones-D) Bushy Lake and Urban American River Parkway
Codifies the latest revision of the American River Parkway Plan.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2009

AB 890 (John Perez-D) City of Maywood: drinking water
Requires the public water systems serving the City of Maywood to conduct a study on the City of Maywood's water addressing the impacts of manganese on water quality, requires the city to conduct a public hearing, and requires the public water system to respond in writing to public comment received at the hearing. Requires that the study and comments to be posted on the public water systems' Internet Web sites.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2009

AB 900 (De Leon-D) Water diversion
Revises the existing requirements mandating that certain diverters of surface waters report their diversions to the State Water Resources Control Board. Requires diversions in the Delta to be reported to the Board.
(On Senate Third Reading File)

AB 913 (Logue-R) Water: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a regional board from imposing a mandatory minimum penalty for a violation for which an action to impose liability is not requested or imposed by the SWRCB or a regional board within 12 months of the SWRCB or regional board receiving notice of the violation.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 914 (Logue-R) Water: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Requires the financing plan proposed by a publicly owned treatment works to include the completion of a compliance project within five years. Specifies that the State Water Resources Control Board, when determining financial hardship for small or rural communities pursuant to Section 13385 of the Water Code, may consider ratepayers' ability to pay penalties, in those instances when other financial indicators do not adequately represent the range of economic circumstances of the community.
Vetoed

AB 916 (Logue-R) Onsite sewage treatment systems
Provides that the State Water Resources Control Board shall establish recommended standards for onsite waste treatment systems rather than enforceable regulations.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 934 (Gilmore-R) San Joaquin Valley: water supply
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study the economic impacts of water supply reductions in the San Joaquin Valley.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 958 (Eng-D) Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Authorizes the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to use a design-build procedure for contracts involving the design, construction, fabrication, and installation of a solar energy system in excess of $1 million. Sunsets 1/1/16.
Vetoed

AB 975 (Fong-D) Water corporations: water meters
Requires water corporations regulated by the Public Utilities Commission to install water meters on new service connections and on unmetered connections.
Chapter 495, Statutes of 2009

AB 1041 (Audra Strickland-R) Drinking water: private wells
Prohibits a city, county, or city and county from regulating a private system with four or fewer service connections.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1052 (Caballero-D) Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp
Repeals the requirement to obtain a Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp or validation. Continues indefinitely the Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Advisory Committee and requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to implement various provisions related to expenditures from the Sport Fish Enhancement Stamp Account. Requires DFG, in consultation with the advisory committee, to develop a grant program, as prescribed. Requires DFG to post on its Internet Web site projects undertaken with funds from the Account.
Chapter 381, Statutes of 2009

AB 1079 (V. Manuel Perez-D) California-Mexico border
Requires the California-Mexico Border Relations Council to develop a strategic plan containing specific elements to guide the implementation of the New River Improvement Project in Imperial County. Creates the New River Improvement Account in the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund and specifies that monies in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, are to be expended for activities related AB 1100 (Duvall-R) Potable reuse demonstration water
Authorizes bottling of potable reuse demonstration water for educational purposes and to promote water recycling.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1100 (Duvall-R) Potable reuse demonstration water
Authorizes bottling of potable reuse demonstration water for educational purposes and to promote water recycling.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)

AB 1115 (Fuentes-D) Natural resources: outdoor recreation
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to create a new competitive grant program among certain state agencies for the state portion of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund to replace the existing mandatory apportionment of the funds.
Vetoed

AB 1165 (Yamada-D) Flood protection
Makes clarifying amendments to a variety of flood management bills passed two years ago. Specifically, this bill (1) authorizes the Central Valley Flood Control Board to find a local flood management agency is making adequate progress in working toward the completion of the flood protection system, as specified; (2) clarifies when issuance of a permit requires an evidentiary hearing by the Board; (3) changes Board ex parte communications requirements; (4) authorizes the issuance of cease and desist orders by the Board and civil liability for a person or public agency that undertakes an encroachment or violates other specified requirements relating to encroachments; (5) clarifies state liability for Central Valley flood control facilities; and (6) makes technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2009

AB 1172 (Galgiani-D) Eastern San Joaquin County Water District
Allows a local agency formation commission (LAFCO) to increase the number of members on the board of directors of a consolidated water conservation district to seven, nine or eleven, as specified, and may provide an alternative schedule for reducing the size of the consolidated district's board until the number of members' equals five, seven, or nine, as specified. Allows the Eastern San Joaquin County Water District to continue to collect acreage charges, ground water assessments, and stream-delivered water charges in successive years in accordance with constitutional requirements, as specified. States that these provisions become operative on the effective date set by the San Joaquin County LAFCO for the consolidation of the Stockton-East Water District and the Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District.
Chapter 514, Statutes of 2009

AB 1187 (Huffman-D) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10.035 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
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Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-R), SB 735 (Steinberg-D) and SB 456 (Wolk-D) which are in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, and AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee.

AB 1202 (Anderson-R) Water usage and efficiency study
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study whether the Legislature should establish a statewide water usage and water efficiency measuring system.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1217 (Monning-D) Ocean Protection Council: sustainable seafood
Requires the Ocean Protection Council to develop and implement a voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2009

AB 1242 (Ruskin-D) State water policy
Establishes in law a state policy that all residents of the state have a right to clean, affordable, and accessible drinking water. Directs relevant state agencies to take reasonable steps to implement the policy.
Vetoed

AB 1253 (Fuller-R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: fish predation report
Requires the CALFED Science Program to evaluate the effects of predation on native fish species in the Delta. Requires the evaluation to review mitigation measures being used by the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project and makes recommendations for potential changes in those mitigation measures to improve fish survival.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1365 (Tom Berryhill-R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Makes an unspecified appropriation from an unspecified source to the Department of Water Resources for the purposes of acquiring land or other property interests in certain properties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and to initiate and implement improvements on those properties for the purposes of flood control, habitat enhancement, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, recreation, and other visions for a sustainable Delta.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1366 (Feuer-D) Residential self-regenerating water softeners
Authorizes local agencies that own and operate a community sewer system or water recycling facility to control salinity inputs from residential self-regenerating water softeners to protect the quality of the waters of the state, subject to certain conditions.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2009

AB 1371 (Smyth-R) Reasonable use of water: generating facilities
Declares that the use of potable domestic water for cooling towers that are part of a generating facility that is an eligible renewable energy resource is a reasonable use of water if certain conditions are met.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1408 (Krekorian-D) Water Demand Mitigation Fund: subdivisions
Establishes a Water Demand Mitigation Fund that a public water system may authorize a subdivision project applicant to voluntarily contribute to in order to offset at least 100% of the projected water demand associated with the subdivision, and requires all monies in the Fund to be expended on water conservation measures that will offset at least 100% of the subdivision's projected water demand.
(On Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1425 (Fuller-R) Water: Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Requires the Central Valley Flood Protection Board to acknowledge receipt of all applications in writing within 14 days of receipt.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1438 (Conway-R) Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund
Makes several changes to the statutes governing the administration of the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. Expands the Department of Public Health's authority to provide funding through grants, primarily for projects in disadvantaged communities.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2009

AB 1465 (Hill-D) Urban water management planning
Provides that the urban water supplier members of the California Urban Water Conservation Council that are in compliance with the "Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California" dated 12/10/08, as it may be amended, shall be deemed to be in compliance with the Urban Water Management Planning Act's demand management measures reporting requirements. Revises the requirement for a description and quantification of specific potential uses of recycled water to also address indirect potable reuse of recycled water.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2009

AB 1482 (Anderson-R) Water softener systems
Requires the Department of Water Resources, in consultation with the Pacific Quality Water Association, to study whether the Legislature should establish a rating system to measure the efficiency levels of self-regenerating water softener systems.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1520 (Evans-D) Statewide Watershed Program
Establishes a Statewide Watershed Program in the Department of Conservation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1550 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Department of Water Resources: refunding bonds
Authorizes the Department of Water Resources to restructure a portion of its power supply revenue bonds, with the aim of reducing its long-term borrowing costs.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2009

AB 1570* (Salas-D) Coastal development: desalination facility
Extends the expiration date of a coastal development permit for a seawater desalination facility that was approved after 1/1/07, as specified, by 12 months and requires that such a permit for a seawater desalination facility will not expire less than three years from the date on which the California Coastal Commission or the local government approved the project if development has not begun. Requires that the above extension be implemented without additional authorization or action by the Commission or the local government and that it be in addition to any extension of the expiration date as provided for in the California Coastal Act, any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to the Act, any local coastal program, applicable coastal development permit, or any other provision of state law.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 41XXX (Evans-D) Budget Act of 2009: resources
Bans suction dredge mining in California until the Environmental Impact Report is completed and new regulations for suction dredge mining have been adopted. Increases the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup fee by six mills ($0.006) in order to address a growing backlog of cases. This increase will generate approximately $110 million annually. Requires a report of the funds spent on the Marine Life Protection Act and the Marine Life Management Act implementations, as well as the efforts the Department of Fish and Game has made toward the implementation of both acts. Requires the advisory board members of the Marine Life Protection Act be subject to the Political Reform Act of 1974 and the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act. Requires the Department of Water Resources to annually report on the off-budget State Water Project expenditures. Ends the terms of the current Central Valley Flood Protection Board members on January 1, 2010. Requires the CALFED Bay-Delta Authority to post their science contracts on a publicly accessible Internet Web site.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 44XXX (Evans-D) Budget Act of 2009
Increases the fees to cover state costs relative to the Department of Public Health administering the Small Drinking Water Program dealing with waterborne disease and contamination.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 11XXXX* (Evans-D) Water projects
Requires the Department of Water Resources to annually report on the off-budget State Water Project expenditures and requires CALFED Bay Authority to post their science contracts on a publicly accessible Internet Web site.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session

ACA 12 (Logue-R) Water: area of origin statutes
Prohibits the Legislature from amending, repealing, or changing the scope or effect of any provisions in existing law providing for the protection of designated areas within which water originates unless the bill is passed in each house by a two-thirds vote of the membership of each house.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

HR 10 (Salas-D) Drinking Water Week
Proclaims 5/3/09-5/9/09 as Drinking Water Week and makes legislative findings related to water.
Adopted by the Assembly

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