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Farm Labor

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SB 477 (Florez-D) Farm labor employment: heat illness prevention
Codifies, and significantly expands, existing regulatory requirements related to the prevention of heat illness of employees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1121 (Florez-D) Agricultural workers: overtime wages
Withdraws the exemption on agricultural workers from overtime and meal period requirements.
Vetoed

SB 1474 (Steinberg-D) Farm labor representatives: elections
Requires the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to certify a labor organization for purposes of collective bargaining if a representation election has been set aside for employer misconduct.
Vetoed

AB 702* (Salas-D) Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program
Expands the criteria requirements of who may reside in farmworker housing to include any person who works on or off the farm in the processing of any agricultural commodity until it is shipped for distribution.
Chapter 348, Statutes of 2010

AB 1065* (Gilmore-R) Farmworker housing tax credits
Modifies the "recapture" provisions under the farmworker housing tax credit law by reducing the recapture period from 30 consecutive taxable years to 15 consecutive taxable years, and partially conforms the California low-income housing tax credit program to the federal low-income housing credit recapture provisions.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1554 (Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee) Farmworker housing tax credit
Resets the date and frequency that the Department of Housing and Community Development has to report to the Legislature on the effect of the enterprise zone program. Provides for a 15-year recapture provision for farmworker housing tax credits. Makes other technical changes to economic development area statutes.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2010 (Fong-D) Migrant farm labor centers
Repeals a current requirement that the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) consider whether there is adequate documentation that there is a need for residents of the migrant center to continue work in a specific area, as confirmed by the local entity. Adds the requirement that the HCD consider, for purposes of the extension, the disruption of a child's education, if required to be relocated during the middle of the school year.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)

AB 2293* (Torres-D) Farm worker housing: construction loans
Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development authority to reserve funds for awards for the Multifamily Housing Program, Transit-Oriented Development Program, and the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Grant Program that meet specified qualifications.
Vetoed

ACR 142 (Solorio-D) Cesar Chavez Day
Recognizes 3/31/10, 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 167, Statutes of 2010

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Pests and Pesticides

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SB 759 (Leno-D) Pesticides: aerial spraying: federal state of emergency
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 affected areas.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1157 (DeSaulnier-D) Pesticides: integrated management: schools
Requires, commencing on 1/1/14, all school sites to adopt an integrated pest management program.
Vetoed

SR 35 (Leno-D) Pesticides
Urges the Governor to request the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to act expeditiously to protect public health and the environment by requiring the disclosure of the identify of inert ingredients on pesticide product labels. Urges the Governor to request the USEPA to require the identification of hazardous inert ingredients, as quickly as possible, and begin the process of requiring disclosure of all inert ingredients, absent a finding that disclosure of a particular ingredient will cause competitive harm. Urges the Governor's continued support of the public's right to know every ingredient in pesticide products.
Adopted by the Senate

AB 604* (De Leon-D) Pest control: citrus disease prevention
Authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to spend funds collected in the Citrus Disease Management Account immediately, through 6/30/10, to help prevent citrus pests and diseases affecting citrus grown in California.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2010

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.
(Died 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, and 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.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1721 (Swanson-D) Pesticides: safe school zones
Creates a prohibition for specific types of pesticide applications and purposes, within one-half or one-quarter mile of a school zone, while exempting the Department of Public Health and vector control from these restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

AB 1736 (Ma-D) Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program
Extends the sunset date of the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program from 1/1/11 to 1/1/14. Makes participation in the Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program permissive. Revises board membership requirements for the Structural Pest Control Board.
Chapter 238, Statutes of 2010

AB 1963 (Nava-D) Pesticide poisoning
Requires clinical laboratories that perform cholinesterase testing for the purpose of determining workers' pesticide exposure to electronically report test results to the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
Chapter 369, Statutes of 2010

AB 2122 (Mendoza-D) Pesticides: regulations: continuing education
Requires any regulation, adopted or amended, dealing with continuing education for any pesticide application or license, to include specific minimum course requirements and requires the Director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation to act within 15 business days to approve or reject continuing education courses.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2010

AB 2465 (Yamada-D) Vector control: state agencies
Requires that any land acquired by a state agency as of 1/1/11, be managed by the state agency consistent with the Department of Public Health's Best Management Practices for Mosquito Control on California state properties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2595 (Huffman-D) Pesticide use: operator identification number
Prohibits county agricultural commissioners from issuing an operator identification number for the use of agricultural pesticides if the operator is in violation of specified water quality regulations.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2607 (De Leon-D) Pest control: shipments: wood pallets: study
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), in conjunction with the University of California's Cooperative Extension and in consultation with certain state agencies, to conduct a study of the health and safety issues of wood pallets used for shipping and the risks they may pose to the state's food supply. Requires the study to evaluate sustainable and recyclable alternatives to wood pallets in California. Requires DFA to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before 2/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

ACR 135 (Smyth-R) West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness
Declares 4/26/10 through 4/30/10, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2010

HR 23 (Monning-D) Pesticides
Urges the Governor to request the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to act expeditiously to protect public health and the environment by requiring the disclosure of the identify of inert ingredients on pesticide product levels. Urges the Governor to request the USEPA to require the identification of hazardous inert ingredients, as quickly as possible, and begin the process of requiring disclosure of all inert ingredients, absent a finding that disclosure of a particular ingredient will cause competitive harm. Urges the Governor's continued support of the public's right to know every ingredient in pesticide produces.
Adopted by the Assembly

HR 34 (Galgiani-D) Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of August 2010 as Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month and encourages all Californians to help the state meet the challenge of invasive species by becoming aware of, and acting as needed, to effectively deal with the threat invasive species pose.
Adopted by the Assembly

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General Agriculture

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SB 170 (Florez-D) Agricultural lands: cancellation of 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. Creates a rebuttable presumption that for tribal cultural centers, infrastructure, and housing, land contiguous to an existing Indian reservation provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than development of nearby noncontracted land when a federally recognized Indian Tribe petitions to cancel a Williamson Act contract. Requires the Tribe to agree to a negative easement, at the time of the contract cancellation when the presumption is operative, so that the property could not be used for purposes other than a cultural center, housing, or infrastructure during the remainder of the nonrenewal period, subject to the Secretary of the Interior's approval.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

SB 362 (Florez-D) Agriculture: victory garden growers
Defines a victory garden grower (VGG) as a person who produces fruits, nuts or vegetables on an acre or less for sale directly to the public within a 15-mile radius of the VGG's garden; and excludes a VGG's gross income from the sale of VGG products for the purpose of personal and corporate income taxes.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 416 (Florez-D) Poultry products: 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.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Local Government 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.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 863* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Williamson Act: funding
Provides $10 million for the Williamson Land Conservation Act program and makes various changes to the program.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 2010

SB 1085 (Runner-R) 50th District Agricultural Association
Allows the 50th District Agricultural Association, with the consent of the Secretary of California Department of Food and Agriculture, to enter into a joint powers agreement with a Joint Powers Authority with the purpose of operating, maintaining and improving the 50th District Agricultural Association.
Chapter 320, Statutes of 2010

SB 1138 (Cedillo-D) Rendering and pet food: Rendering Industry Advisory Board
Establishes in state government the Rendering Industry Advisory Board composed of nine persons appointed by the Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, seven of whom are licensed, as specified, and two who are public members. Specifies the duties and responsibilities of the Board. Authorizes the Secretary to adopt regulations to be used by the Board in administering these provisions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1142 (Wiggins-D) Agricultural resources: grants
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation to make grants, from a source other than the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund, for the acquisition of agricultural conservation easements, upon legislative appropriation. Requires the Director to determine that those grants are consistent with the purposes of the California Farmland Conservancy Act and requires that agricultural conservation easements funded by those grants meet specified requirements.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2010

SB 1176 (Aanestad-R) Estrays: animals at large
Updates responsible party titles and references for cities and counties where estray laws or ordinances, or regulation, are in force. Permits any city or county, which has established laws, ordinances, or regulations for non-bovine estrays, to opt out of this chapter's requirements for those estrays and follow their laws, ordinances or regulations.
Chapter 325, Statutes of 2010

SB 1177 (Kehoe-D) 22nd District Agricultural Association: greenway zone
Requires the 22nd District Agricultural Association to develop, manage and maintain a 100-foot wide greenway zone along the San Dieguito River and develop a public access trail for the greenway.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 1229 (Denham-R) Agricultural vehicles
Adds all-terrain vehicles to the list of vehicles that state law classifies as implements of husbandry and which may therefore be driven incidentally on public roads.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2010

SB 1241 (Wolk-D) Agriculture: greenhouse gas emissions reduction
Establishes the California Agricultural Climate Benefits Advisory Committee within the Department of Food and Agriculture. Requires the Advisory Committee to advise the Air Resources Board on ways to support agricultural activities that reduce climate change impacts, and to recommend strategies to implement several specified activities relating to agriculture and climate change.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1303 (Wolk-D) Agricultural activities: protected species: accidental take
Extends the repeal date on the exemption in the California Endangered Species Act for accidental take of species resulting from otherwise lawful routine and ongoing agricultural activities from 1/1/11 to 1/1/14. Encourages public education of voluntary programs for agricultural activities that promote wildlife habitat.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2010

SB 1308 (Maldonado-R) Farm product prices: grocery display
Requires a grocer that directly buys farm products from a farmer to display the price the grocer paid the farmer for his/her farm product. Requires that the price shall be displayed underneath the price the grocer is charging the consumer for the farm product.
(Died in Senate Food and Agriculture Committee)

SB 1325 (Harman-R) Agricultural commodities and equipment: crimes: theft
Requires persons convicted of repeated thefts of agricultural commodities or equipment to pay enhanced fines, including a $5,000 fine for a second conviction and a $10,000 fine for a third conviction, in addition to any other punishment.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1336 (Wiggins-D) Alcoholic beverages: winegrowers: certified farmers' market
Removes the limitation on the amount of wine that can be sold pursuant to the certified farmers' market sales permit.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 1338 (Harman-R) Farm crops: grand theft
Provides that in a grand theft prosecution, the value of specified agricultural products shall be determined as the wholesale value of the products on the day of the theft, just as the value of citrus fruits and avocados are determined under existing law.
Chapter 694, Statutes of 2010

SB 1464 (Simitian-D) Land use planning
Authorizes referral of a proposed action to adopt or substantially amend a general plan to an adjacent city or county to be conducted concurrently with the scoping meeting required by California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for a project of statewide, regional or area-wide significance, and authorizes the city or county to submit its comments on the proposed general plan action at the CEQA scoping meeting.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

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.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SJR 22 (Florez-D) Horses
Memorializes the Congress of the United States to support federal legislation to protect American horses from slaughter for human consumption.
Resolution Chapter 135, Statutes of 2010

SJR 36 (Cedillo-D) Cuba: removal of agricultural restrictions
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to consider the removal of commercial, economic, and financial restrictions relating to agricultural sales to Cuba.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SR 30 (Florez-D) Horses: slaughter
Supports passage of federal legislation to protect American horses from slaughter for human consumption.
(Died 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. 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. 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). (All these bills subsequently died on the Assembly Inactive File.)
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 219 (Ruskin-D) Agricultural commodity: shipment: inspection: violation
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.
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2010

AB 256 (Bill Berryhill-R) Farms: hazardous materials: 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.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2010

AB 604* (De Leon-D) Citrus disease prevention
Authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to spend funds collected in the Citrus Disease Management Account immediately, through 6/30/10, to help prevent citrus pests and diseases affecting citrus grown in California.
Chapter 17, Statutes of 2010

AB 715 (Caballero-D) Williamson Act: subventions to local government: funding
Appropriates $36 million from the General Fund for state subventions to counties that have lands under Williamson Act contracts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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

AB 1014 (Galgiani-D) Farmers: vehicles: driver's licenses
Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue a class A or class B restricted driver's license for the operation of a vehicle in the production, harvesting, or transportation of silage by a farmer, employee of the farmer, or contracted employee of the farmer, between one part of a farm and another part of that farm or from one farm to another farm, on a highway for a distance not to exceed 20 miles from the point of origin of the trip. Requires DMV to follow specified federal regulations in issuing those driver's licenses, and requires a licensed California driver applying for one of those driver's licenses, upon application and every two years thereafter, to submit medical information on a form approved by DMV.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1098 (Hagman-R) Chino Agricultural Preserve: resource conservation
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.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1437 (Huffman-D) Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption
Prohibits selling shelled eggs for human consumption in California which are produced by egg-laying hens on farms not in compliance with animal care standards.
Chapter 51, Statutes of 2010

AB 1587* (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Fairs
Repeals various provisions in the Business and Professions Code regarding agricultural associations and their locations, county fairs and their locations, and citrus fairs and their locations, and funding for these entities. Revises and recasts these provisions as new provisions in the Food and Agricultural Code, and makes additional conforming changes.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 1709 (Conway-R) Biologics: animal blood and blood component products
Deletes and recasts the existing state biologics licensure law to cover animal blood and blood components and products. Makes biologics production and biologics products subject to federal authority and permitting, in lieu of the state. Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to assist producers of California biological products to become registered and licensed with the United States Department of Agriculture, Center for Veterinary Biologics.
Chapter 235, Statutes of 2010

AB 1790* (Solorio-D) Orange County Fair: sale of state property
Repeals the provision creating District 32a out of the Orange County Fair property and repeals the provision authorizing its sale by the Department of General Services. Repeals the creation of the District 32a Disposition Fund in the State Treasury.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1795 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Agricultural commissions and committees
Eliminates term limits for members of the California Apple Commission. Permits the California Salmon Council to present facts to and negotiate with state, federal, and foreign agencies on matters that affect the California Salmon Marketing and Development Act. Requires an annual assessment to be imposed by the California Blueberry Commission. Makes other changes to provisions of law relating to the California Citrus Advisory Committee.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2010

AB 1891 (Assembly Higher Education Committee) Sustainable agriculture research and education
Restores, in statute, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program operated by the University of California. (This program was inadvertently deleted from statute in 2009, as part of an overall higher education technical cleanup measure.)
Chapter 200, Statutes of 2010

AB 1910 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Repasteurized milk: Milk Producers Security Trust Fund
Makes changes to existing law concerning repasteurized milk, the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund, future shipment coverage, and handler default.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2010

AB 1912 (Evans-D) California Apiary Research Commission
Creates the California Apiary Research Commission in state government with a prescribed membership, and specifies the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to conduct research and education programs relating to honeybees, and the beekeeping industry. Authorizes the Commission to levy an assessment, on bee producers, and authorizes the expenditure of those funds for purposes of implementing and administering the bill's provisions.
Chapter 585, Statutes of 2010

AB 1960 (Ma-D) Agriculture: fruits, nuts, and vegetables: California grown
Encourages the State of California and its agencies to purchase California-produced, or produced and processed, fruit, nuts and vegetables if the price is equal to or less than, imported fruits, nuts and vegetables.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1965 (Yamada-D) Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot line adjustments
Extends the automatic termination date in the state law that permits local officials to rescind a Williamson Act contract to facilitate a lot line adjustment from 1/1/11 to 1/1/13.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 2010

AB 2137 (Chesbro-D) Fertilizing material: labels
Provides, until 1/1/14, that label and labeling do not include a certified laboratory analysis, showing the nutrient contents of compost, cocompost, or mulch, if the laboratory analysis documentation contains a specified statement and other information.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2240 (Ma-D) Processors of farm products: dealers: licensing: fees
Increases certain fees, and deletes the outdated fee structure and reporting provisions, of the Department of Food and Agricultures (DFA's) Market Enforcement Branch. Authorizes the Secretary of DFA to appoint an advisory committee of producers and licensees to provide guidance in establishing those fees or to rely on input from any similar advisory committee already assembled by the Secretary.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2010

AB 2270 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Horses shows
Requires event managers of a horse event to complete an assessment report for the registered event to the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), requires managers to keep registered event records for two years, making those records available to DFA upon request. Provides that an event held over multiple consecutive days with the same manager and at the same site will be considered one event for the purposes of fee assessment, and adds additional civil penalties for managers for violations.
Chapter 137, Statutes of 2010

AB 2530 (Nielsen-R) Williamson Act: local government: contracts
Authorizes a county, until 1/1/15, in any fiscal year in which payments authorized for reimbursement to a county for lost revenue from Williamson Act contracts is less than one-half of the county's actual foregone general fund property tax revenue, to revise the terms for new contracts.
Chapter 391, Statutes of 2010

AB 2595 (Huffman-D) Irrigated agriculture: pesticide use
Prohibits county agricultural commissioners from issuing an operator identification number for the use of agricultural pesticides if the operator is in violation of specified water quality regulations.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2612 (Assembly Agriculture Committee) Food and agriculture: omnibus bill
Makes clarifying changes and updates provisions of existing law governing animal rendering and the State Organic Program.
Chapter 393, Statutes of 2010

AB 2686 (Tom Berryhill-R) Organic products: county agricultural commissioners
Allows county agricultural commissioners to file a certified copy of a final decision with the court that directs the payment of a civil penalty pursuant to violations of the California Organic Products Act of 2003, and, if applicable, a copy of any order that denies a petition for a writ of administrative mandamus. Requires the court to enter judgment immediately upon that filing and no fees shall be charged by the clerk of the superior court for the performance of any official service required in connection with the entry of judgment.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2010

AB 2695 (Hernandez-D) California Nursery Producers Commission
Creates, subject to approval by an industry referendum, a 16-member California Nursery Producers Commission, within the Department of Food and Agriculture, to serve the marketing and research interests of the nursery industry in the state.
Chapter 605, Statutes of 2010

AB 2720 (John Perez-D) Healthy food initiative
Creates the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative. Requires, by 7/1/11, the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the Department of Social Services, to prepare recommendations to be presented upon request to the Legislature, regarding actions that need to be taken to promote food access in the state. Requires DFA, to the extent that federal and private funds are made available, to coordinate efforts to implement the Initiative and maximize the funding opportunities provided by the federal 2010 Healthy Food Financing Initiative.
Vetoed

ACR 170 (Nielsen-R) Williamson Act
Recognizes the 45th Anniversary of the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and recognizes the value to the state of agricultural land conservation contracts.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AJR 21 (Gilmore-R) Dairy industry
Encourages the President and the Congress of the United States, and the Secretary of the United States, the Department of Agriculture to acknowledge the importance of the dairy industry nationwide as well as the unique aspects of the dairy industry region by region by enacting legislation or regulations that update the federal dairy product price support program to reflect today's cost of production, implement fair tariffs on unregulated imported dairy solids, mandate greater market transparency, and support a milk supply management program.
(Died being unassigned to a committee)

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Water Resources

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SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban
Makes it an infraction for an individual to smoke on a state beach or a state park, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 21 (Simitian-D) Fishing gear
Directs the Department of Fish and Game to publicize telephone numbers and Internet Web addresses to which derelict fishing gear can be reported.
Vetoed

SB 42 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: once-through cooling system
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.
(Died 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.
Chapter 303, Statutes of 2010

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 233* (Aanestad-R) Vacuum or suction dredge equipment: permits: refund
Requires the Department of Fish and Game, upon request, to refund the amount of the permit fee paid in 2009 by a person issued a vacuum or suction dredge equipment permit and subject to the latter prohibition.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 261 (Dutton-R) Water use: 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 301 (Florez-D) Salmon fisheries
Requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to conduct a prescribed five-year study to assess interactions between "wild and naturally spawned salmon", as defined, and to develop hatchery and stream management practices to ensure the viability of fish populations and to sustainably support fisheries. Requires DFG, on or before 1/1/15, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the study. Requires DFG to establish a study team of not fewer than 12 members, with membership as prescribed.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

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.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 456 (Wolk-D), SB 735 (Steinberg-D), and AB 752 (Caballero-D) all of which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R), SB 735 (Steinberg-D), and AB 752 (Caballero-D) all of which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which died 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 to adopt, no 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, 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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

SB 458 (Steinberg-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy: Delta Protection
Modifies the Delta Protection Commission and creates the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 466 (Oropeza-D) Hazardous wastewater
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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SB 518 (Lowenthal-D) Building standards: graywater
Requires the California Building Standards Commission to adopt, as specified, non-residential building standards for graywater systems for indoor and outdoor use
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2010

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 565 (Pavley-D) Water recycling
Provides increased consequences for failing to report water diversions and uses and provides the State Water Resources Control Board with new authorities and resources to investigate and prosecute unauthorized diversions and uses.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 613 (Harman-R) Irvine Ranch and Santa Margarita Water District
Authorizes the Irvine Ranch Water District and the Santa Margarita Water District to provide credit enhancement, liquidity support, or both, by pledging and applying all or any part of the districts' revenues to the payment or security of the 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.
Chapter 624, Statutes of 2010

SB 672 (Cox-R) Water meters: South Lake Tahoe Public Utilities District
Delays deadlines regarding water meters for the South Tahoe Public Utilities District, by 10 years, as follows: The date to begin charging customers that have an installed water meter based on the actual volume of deliveries, as measured by the water meter, will be delayed from 1/1/10 to 1/1/20. The date for the installation of water meters on all municipal and industrial service connections would be delayed from 1/1/25 to 1/1/35.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R), SB 456 (Wolk-D), and AB 752 (Caballero-D) all of which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee; and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

SB 808* (Wolk-D) Delta levee maintenance
Extends the inoperative date on the current Delta levee maintenance subvention program from 7/1/10 to 7/1/13.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2010

SB 855* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Water issues: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill
Among other provisions, requires the Governor to submit a zero-based budget for fiscal year 2011-12 for all state agency programs that implement water and eco-system restoration activities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including those related to the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, establishes the Wastewater Operator Certification Fund as a respository for revenue from fees (authorized under current law) charged to certified operators for various services associated with certification. Clarifies and conforms existing solid waste landfill fee provisions to related provisions in the Clean Water Act. Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by 7/1/13, a report on the effectiveness of a pilot program to directly contract with environmental consultants to prepare required California Environmental Quality Act documents for water rights applicants and petitioners.
Chapter 718, Statutes of 2010
A similar bill was AB 1615 (Assembly Budget Committee) which died on Assembly Third Reading File.

SB 894 (Senate Local Government Committee) Water issues: Local Government Omnibus Bill
Among other provisions, allows a county board of supervisors, acting as a county waterworks district's governing board, to delegate to the district manager other district official the authority to approve change orders on construction contracts as specified. Allows the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to delegate to the Los Angeles County Flood Control District's chief engineer or other District officer the authority to approve change orders on construction contracts, as specified. Allows California water districts to publish summaries of the changes to their water rules and regulations. Allows, rather than requires, a reclamation district to adopt and alter a seal. Requires reclamation districts' documents that need the board of trustee's approval to be signed by either a district trustee or the board's secretary, instead of requiring the district's seal. Clarifies that the North Delta Water Agency's board members are elected by divisions, elected only by the voters of each division and not at-large.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2010

SB 918 (Pavley-D) Water recycling
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish standards for various types of water recycling.
Chapter 700, Statutes 2010

SB 991 (Wolk-D) Flood control
Appropriates $30 million in bond funds from Proposition 1E for flood control projects that improve the sustainability of the Delta.
Vetoed

SB 1093 (Wiggins-D) Dungeness crab: pilot program
Extends the sunset on the Dungeness crab task force, and authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to institute a pilot program for Dungeness crab trap limits.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1107 (Kehoe-D) Water quality: interceptor and trap grease
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), on or before 1/1/12, to develop, adopt, and implement regulations to include specified requirements, for a manifest system to track the transportation of interceptor and trap grease, as specified. Requires SWRCB to impose a fee sufficient to cover the costs of implementing the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Act (Act), and requires SWRCB to deposit all revenues from the fee in the Interceptor and Trap Grease Manifest Fund, which the bill establishes. Authorizes SWRCB to expend monies in the fund to implement the Act, subject to appropriation for that purpose.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)

SB 1169 (Lowenthal-D) Water
Makes numerous technical amendments to update and clarify the Water Code.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2010

SB 1173 (Wolk-D) Recycled water
Prohibits, conditionally, the use of raw water for nonpotable use if recycled water is available.
Vetoed

SB 1234 (Kehoe-D) Water: unreasonable use
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, by 1/1/12, to adopt regulations to identify unreasonable uses of water during various periods of water shortage, as specified, and sets forth related legislative findings and declarations.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1284 (Ducheny-D) Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Exempts certain Water Code violations of waste discharge reporting requirements from existing mandatory minimum penalties. Extends the time limit under which dischargers must come into compliance with a permit requirement from five years to 10 years.
Chapter 645, Statutes of 2010

SB 1412 (Calderon-D) Water replenishment districts
Requires information in a specified engineering survey and report, and those related determinations, to pertain to the groundwater in each basin within a water replenishment district. The board of directors of a water replenishment district, upon determining to impose a water replenishment assessment on the production of groundwater from each groundwater basin, will be required, except as otherwise provided, to impose the assessment in an amount that is calculated to pay for costs that include the actual costs of replenishing the groundwater basin, removing contaminants from the groundwater basin, and the administrative costs of the district.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

SB 1413 (Leno-D) Tap water: schools: pupil nutrition
Requires a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in school food service areas by 7/1/11.
Chapter 558, Statutes of 2010

SB 1443 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Multi-Hazard Coordination
Extends the expiration date of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Multi-Hazard Coordination Task Force to the date it submits its report to the Legislature.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2010

SB 1450* (Simitian-D) Water: Delta Stewardship Council: contracts
Allows the Delta Stewardship Council to use expedited contracting processes for development of a long-term management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, which is due 1/1/12.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2010

SB 1469 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: California Water Plan
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to identify all parties that benefit from the waters originating in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta watershed, whose activities impact the Delta. Requires the Board to develop a process for determining how to attribute responsibility for impacts to the Delta environment to those parties. Requires the Department of Water Resources to include additional, quantitative information about the state's future water infrastructure needs and environmental mitigation responsibilities in the California Water Plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1478 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Water conservation: urban water management
Grants urban wholesale water suppliers a six-month extension to adopt urban water management plans that was granted to retail water suppliers.
Chapter 295, Statutes of 2010

SB 1488 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Tidelands and submerged lands
Addresses two distinct issues of concern to the State Lands Commission related to tidelands and submerged lands.
Chapter 159, Statutes of 2010

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.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)

SJR 18 (Simitian-D) Marine aquaculture
Requests the Congress of the United States to develop a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for marine aquaculture that undergoes complete environmental review and is at least as protective as that codified in California's Sustainable Oceans Act to address environmental and economic concerns.
Resolution Chapter 30, Statutes of 2010

AB 13 (Salas-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Creates a new conservancy for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 28 (Jeffries-R) Water movement: natural gas engines
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.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 40 (Smyth-R) Water: reasonable use: electrical generation facilities
Declares that the use of potable domestic water for cooling towers that are part of a generating system that is an eligible renewable energy resource is a reasonable use of water if certain requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 80 (Blakeslee-R) Reservoirs: recreational use
Amends water storage and treatment requirements for the Nacimiento and Lake Lopez Reservoirs to allow body-contact recreation.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 153* (Ma-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Amends the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, to expand the eligible uses of the $100 for groundwater cleanup projects (Water Code Section 79770 (d)) so that funds would be available for "costs associated with projects, programs, or activities" rather than being limited to project costs.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2010

AB 234 (Huffman-D) Water resources: offshore oil drilling
Requires the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response administrator to adopt regulations that would require booms to be deployed before all oil transfer operations unless this pre-booming is determined not to be safe and effective. Requires the State Lands Commission to report to the Legislature on regulatory actions and statutory recommendations to ensure maximum safety and prevention of harm during offshore drilling.
Vetoed

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.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 291 (Saldana-D) Commercial fishing: lobster management
Revises the prescribed dimensions of wire lobster traps, and adds provisions relating to the use of wire to hold the escape gap in place.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2010

AB 300 (Caballero-D) Water supply: subdivisions
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.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 301 (Fuentes-D) Vended water
Requires applicants for a license as a water-bottling plant or as a private water source to provide information on the volume and source of the water to the Department of Public Health (DPH) and requires DPH to annually make this information available to the public.
Vetoed

AB 408 (Saldana-D) Commercial fishing: lobster management enhancement
Requires the payment of a $300 Lobster Management Enhancement Supplement fee as a condition of taking lobster for commercial purposes, to be used to fund projects to improve the long-term sustainability and management of the California spiny lobster fishery. Creates an advisory committee to advise the Department of Fish and Game on project expenditures and to develop a plan for prioritizing expenditures.
Vetoed

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.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 450 (De La Torre-D) Recycled water: oil refineries
Declares that the use of potable domestic water in oil refineries is a waste or unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 629 (Krekorian-D) Water: school facilities
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).
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

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.
(Died 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 $12.25 million 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 to the voters at the 11/2/10 statewide general election.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R), and SB 456 (Wolk-D), which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, and AB 1187 (Huffman-D), which died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

AB 846 (Torrico-D) Water resources: civil and administrative penalties
Enacts the "California Civil Penalties Inflation Supplement and Enforcement Act of 2010" which requires among other entities, the State Water Resources Control Board, that administer environmental, health, and workplace safety violations to update minimum and maximum civil and administrative penalties to account for annual inflation.
(Died in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

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.
(Died 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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

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

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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
Similar bills were SB 371 (Cogdill-R), SB 735 (Steinberg-D), SB 456 (Wolk-D), and AB 752 (Caballero-D) all of which died in Senate Natural Resources and Water 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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1253* (Harkey-R) Coastal resources: California Coastal Act: fireworks
Provides that "development," as described in the California Coastal Act of 1976, does not include a fireworks display conducted by a public entity.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1260 (Huffman-D) California Water Commission: terms of office
Extends the term of any member of the California Water Commission, whose appointment has been confirmed by the Senate and who is serving a term that is unexpired as of 1/1/11 to 5/14/14.
Chapter 125, Statutes of 2010

AB 1265* (Caballero-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Amends SB 2 X7 (Cogdill-R), Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, 7th Extraordinary Session, to delay the placement of the measure before voters to the 11/6/12 general election, and makes conforming changes throughout the measure.
Chapter 126, Statutes of 2010

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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1408 (Krekorian-D) Water Demand Mitigation Fund
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.
(Died in 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.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

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.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

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

AB 1552 (Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee) Water: coastal powerplants
Provides that for a municipally owned coastal powerplant that is not "new", as defined, the best available technology for a municipally-owned powerplant shall be evaluated on a facility-wide basis using design flow. Provides that considerations regarding the feasibility of installing the best available technology shall rely on a specified definition of "feasibility." Requires the State Water Resources Control Board's statewide water quality control policy on the use of coastal and estuarine waters for powerplant cooling to allow municipally owned coastal powerplants to comply with certain requirements.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1594 (Huber-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: peripheral canal
Prohibits the construction of a peripheral canal unless certain requirements are met.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1664 (Swanson-D) Metropolitan Water District Act
Requires the representative of a member public agency serving on the board of directors of a metropolitan water district to at all times be authorized to represent the member public agency that appointed the representative. Prohibits the governing body of the member public agency or an elected or appointed official or member of a member public agency from directing or instructing a member of the board to vote in a particular manner with respect to any question, order, resolution, or ordinance that comes before the board for a vote.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 1677 (Caballero-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Makes technical corrections to two sections of last year's historic water legislation by correcting a town name and the reference to a federal agency.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2010

AB 1692 (Bill Berryhill-R) Water Resources Control Board: fines
Requires fines and penalties imposed by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Air Resources Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board to be deposited in the General Fund. Exempts these funds from the requirement that the Legislature must authorize their expenditure.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 1728 (Gilmore-R) Discharge: water and quality: civil penalties
Allows publicly-owned treatment works to use an automatic composite water sample in lieu of individual grab samples for monitoring discharge water quality.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 1774 (Saldana-D) Recycled water: state agency landscape irrigation
Makes the use of potable water for landscaping an unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available and allows public agencies to require the use of recycled water for the irrigation of landscaping by a state agency.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 1788 (Yamada-D) Water development projects: state financial assistance
Changes the eligibility criteria under which a flood control project in a disadvantaged community may receive increased state funding and corrects the name of the former Reclamation Board to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.
Chapter 579, Statutes of 2010

AB 1797 (Bill Berryhill-R) State Water Resources Development System: Delta Corridors
Requires the Department of Water Resources to produce a study on the costs and benefits of the "Delta Corridors Plan."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1818 (Blumenfield-D) Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy: Upper Los Angeles River
Creates the Upper Los Angeles River and Watershed Program, administered by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1834 (Solorio-D) Rainwater Capture Act of 2010
Allows a landowner to install a rainwater recapture system to irrigate landscaping or recharge groundwater.
Vetoed

AB 1843 (Gilmore-R) Water supply security: reports
Requires the California Office of Homeland Security to submit confidential reports to the Legislature regarding the current security status of the state's existing drinking water systems and facilities, with a special focus on any vulnerability to terrorist attacks and recommended actions necessary to bring the security status to acceptable levels.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1884 (Galgiani-D) Local water supply projects: inventory
Requires the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to conduct a statewide inventory of local regional water supply projects and post the results of the inventory on DWR's Internet Web site by 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 1886 (Yamada-D) Water use: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed: report
Requires the Department of Water Resources to include in its California Water Plan a report on progress towards the state's statutory goal of reducing reliance on Delta water.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1929 (Hall-D) Invasive aquatic species: mussels
Provides that an operator of water delivery and storage facilities who has prepared and is in compliance with an approved plan to control and eradicate dreissenid mussels in accordance with existing law is immune from civil or criminal liability for introduction of mussels as a result of operation of those facilities, and exempts such operators from prohibitions on possession, importation, shipment or transport of mussels and related requirements.
Chapter 152, Statutes of 2010

AB 1975 (Fong-D) Water charges and meters: building standards
Requires a water purveyor that provides water service to a multiunit residential structure or mixed-use residential and commercial structure that is subject to specified building standards, to either adopt a general policy to require the installation of either a "water meter", as defined, or a "submeter", as defined, to measure water supplied to each individual dwelling unit, or to inform, on an individual basis, an applicant for new water service as to whether a water meter or submeter is required to be installed for each individual dwelling unit.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1978 (Harkey-R) California regional water quality control board
Revises the ex parte communication requirements for the California regional water quality control boards.
(Failed passage in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 2049 (Arambula-IN) Transfers of water: agricultural use to municipal use
Prohibits a transfer or assignment of surface water or water rights from an agricultural use to a municipal use, for a period of twenty years or more, without an economic, social, and environmental analysis of the effect of the transfer upon the service area losing the water supply. Prohibits the substitution of groundwater supplies for such transferred water unless the groundwater is monitored.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AB 2092 (Huffman-D) Delta Plan: financing
Requires the Delta Stewardship Council to develop a long-term finance plan to pay for the costs of implementing a management plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary by 1/1/13.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2103 (Hill-D) San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority
Prescribes the method of how the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority places a proposal to levy a special tax before the voters of the Authority.
Chapter 373, Statutes of 2010

AB 2125 (Ruskin-D) Coastal resources: marine spatial planning
Requires the Ocean Protection Council to support the state's use and sharing of scientific and geospatial information for coastal and ocean-relevant decision-making. Requires the Council to consider marine spatial planning as a tool for achieving comprehensive management of the state's ocean and resources.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2010

AB 2138 (Chesbro-D) Ocean protection: single-use recyclable packaging
Enacts the Plastic Ocean Pollution Reduction, Recycling and Composting Act to prohibit a food provider from distributing disposable food packaging (including take-out bags) unless the packaging is compostable or recyclable.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2168 (Yamada-D) Dixon Regional Watershed Authority
Authorizes the Dixon Regional Watershed Authority, a joint powers agency, to accomplish the purposes and projects necessary to improve and maintain drainage and stormwater management, and to exercise the authority to acquire, maintain, and sell property in the same manner as a reclamation district may acquire, maintain, and sell property
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)

AB 2202 (V. Manuel Perez-D) New River development
Requires the Secretary for the Environmental Protection Agency to oversee the expenditure of bond funds that are appropriated for water quality and public health projects on the New River pursuant to the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, should it be approved by the voters at the 11/6/12 statewide general election. Provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that any funds appropriated pursuant to the Act shall be consistent with the strategic plan to guide the implementation of the New River Improvement Project
Vetoed

AB 2277 (Fletcher-R) Water conservation: urban retail water suppliers
Updates requirements for urban water suppliers to consider military base water conservation targets set by Presidential Executive Order.
Chapter 257, Statutes of 2010

AB 2304 (Huffman-D) Groundwater management plans: components
Requires a local agency to include in its groundwater management plan (GMP), commencing 1/1/12, a map identifying areas that substantially contribute to the replenishment of the groundwater basin and explaining how those recharge areas contribute. Requires a local agency proposing to adopt a GMP to provide specific information to the Department of Water Resources and interested persons as well as public notice of the intention to adopt the GMP.
Vetoed

AB 2336 (Fuller-R) Delta Stewardship Council
Requires the Delta Stewardship Council, in the course of developing and adopting the Delta plan, to direct the Delta Independent Science Board to conduct an assessment of stressors on populations of native fish species in the Delta. The assessment will require to include those stressors identified in the Delta Vision Strategic Plan, including the impacts of invasive species and nonnative species, water quality impairments, and predation on native species.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)

AB 2353 (Logue-R) Conservancies: reporting requirements
Requires the state's 10 land conservancies to report to the Legislature every two years on specified budgetary and programmatic information.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2407 (Harkey-R) California regional water quality control boards: boundaries
Modifies the boundaries of the Santa Ana and San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Boards (RWQCB) to move that portion of the San Diego RWQCB area that is in Orange County into the Santa Ana RWQCB jurisdiction.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)

AB 2409 (Nestande-R) Urban water suppliers: water shortage contingency analysis
Requires urban water agencies in preparing water contingency analyses included in urban water management plans to analyze and define water features artificially supplied with water, such as ponds, lakes, waterfalls and fountains, separately from swimming pools and spas.
Chapter 42, Statutes of 2010

AB 2422 (Tom Berryhill-R) Urban water demand management
Prohibits the Department of Water Resources from updating the model water efficient landscape ordinance until any proposed update has undergone an independent peer-reviewed scientific study.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2483 (Coto-D) Santa Clara Valley Water District
Revises and recasts the Santa Clara Valley Water District Act.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2488 (Ruskin-D) City and County of San Francisco regional water system
Makes various clarifying changes to the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Water System Financing Authority Act and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency Act.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2010

AB 2503 (John Perez-D) Ocean resources: marine resources and preservation
Enacts the California Marine Resources Legacy Act, authorizing partial removal of a decommissioned offshore oil platform as an alternative to full removal if the Ocean Protection Council determines there would be a net benefit to the marine environment and other requirements are met, and creates the California Endowment for Marine Preservation.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 2010

AB 2507 (Audra Strickland-R) Drinking water
Requires the local public health officer to establish standards for, and be the primary enforcement agency over, "local small water systems", as defined. Allows specified properties, after applying to the county and having the county make specified findings, to use hauled water when no other water source is available for a single-family dwelling. Requires the applicant for the use of hauled water to meet various requirements, including filing a covenant and agreement containing specified conditions, to be filed with the county against the property.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AB 2515* (V. Manuel Perez-D) Public water systems: point-of-use treatment
Provides an expedited process for the Department of Public Health (DPH) to establish criteria for the use of point-of-use (POU) water treatment devices and authorizes the DPH to award grants for point-of-entry and POU treatment systems, provided that the water system serves a severely disadvantaged community and that the grant meets other existing requirements.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2010

AB 2554 (Brownley-D) Los Angeles County Flood Control District: fees and charges
Authorizes the Los Angeles County Flood Control District to impose a fee, in Los Angeles County, to pay the cost and expenses of carrying out projects and providing services authorized under existing law.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2010

AB 2575 (Chesbro-D) Resources: watersheds
Imposes conditions on the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Board of Forestry during its implementation of pilot projects to assess the cumulative impacts of timber harvest operations on a watershed.
Vetoed

AB 2583 (Hall-D) Water treatment: hazardous materials
Requires the California Emergency Management Agency to adopt regulations to require water system operators to consider the use of and, under specified circumstance, actually use "safer technologies."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2595 (Huffman-D) Irrigated agriculture: pesticide use
Prohibits county agricultural commissioners from issuing an operator identification number for the use of agricultural pesticides if the operator is in violation of specified water quality regulations.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2598 (Brownley-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: sea level action plan
Requires local government agencies that have been granted public trust lands to develop a sea level action plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2615 (Chesbro-D) Ocean resources: fishing
Encourages the Ocean Protection Council to give priority for assistance from the Council to specified fishing related priorities, and makes legislative findings regarding local sustainable fisheries.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2669 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Public water systems
Adds environmental documentation to the costs of a single project that the Department of Public Health is required to determine by an assessment of affordability under the California Safe Drinking Water Act.
(Died on Senate Floor)

AB 2679 (Eng-D) Water: public buildings: energy: consumption
Requires specified reductions in energy and water use over time in state buildings whose operating costs are funded from the General Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2719 (DeVore-R) State waters: oil and gas leases
Creates an Interim Resources Management Board for the limited purpose of considering an oil and gas lease application. Authorizes the Board chair to execute the lease if approved by the Board. Sunsets the Board on 7/1/11.
(Failed in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)

AB 2775* (Huffman-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Deletes a provision in the Safe, Clean and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act authorizing joint powers authorities to include in their membership governmental and nongovernmental partners that are not located within their respective hydrologic regions in financing surface storage projects.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)

AB 2776 (Huffman-D) Transfers of water: agricultural use to municipal use
Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board or the Department of Water Resources from approving a transfer of water lasting more than 20 years from agricultural to urban use, unless the proponents of the transfer prepare an analysis of the economic, social, and environmental impacts of the transfer on the service area from which the water is to be transferred.
(Failed passage in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 7X8* (Assembly Budget Committee) Water resources: environmental pollution: program funding
Enables California to access an estimated $145 million in federal funds by authorizing the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to issue grants, forgive loan principal and provide other types of assistance from specified federal SWRCB funds, in conformance with federal law.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Eighth 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 2/3 vote of the membership of each house.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 3 (Nava-D) Offshore oil drilling
Memorializes the Legislature's support of legislation currently pending in the Congress of the United States that would protect the Pacific Coast from new offshore oil drilling. Also memorializes the Legislature's opposition to the proposed expansion of oil and gas drilling off the Pacific Coast and any federal energy policies and legislation that would weaken California's role in energy siting decisions due to those policies.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AJR 35 (Fuller-R) Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project
Requests the United States Department of the Interior to reconsider its decision to abandon implementation of theTwo-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project and to restart the series of meetings designed to result in completion of the necessary environmental review and engineering design to construct the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project in 2010, and requests United States Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and all other members of the California congressional delegation to request the United States Department of the Interior to restart its involvement in the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project with the goal of completing the necessary environmental review and engineering design to construct the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project in 2010.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)

AJR 38 (Caballero-D) Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project
Requests the United States Department of the Interior to complete its study of the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.
Resolution Chapter 121, Statutes of 2010

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Bill Author and Bill Title Reference Links
Index (in bill order)
SB 4 Oropeza-D
Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban
Water Resources
SB 21 Simitian-D
Fishing gear
Water Resources
SB 42 Corbett-D
Coastal resources: once-through cooling system
Water Resources
SB 51 Ducheny-D
Salton Sea Restoration Council
Water Resources
SB 122 Pavley-D
Groundwater
Water Resources
SB 170 Florez-D
Agricultural lands: cancellation of Williamson Act contracts
General Agriculture
SB 207 Florez-D
Delta smelt
Water Resources
SB 233* Aanestad-R
Vacuum or suction dredge equipment: permits: refund
Water Resources
SB 261 Dutton-R
Water use: water management plans
Water Resources
SB 301 Florez-D
Salmon fisheries
Water Resources
SB 362 Florez-D
Agriculture: victory garden growers
General Agriculture
SB 371* Cogdill-R
Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009
Water Resources
SB 413 Ducheny-D
Waste discharge requirements: fees
Water Resources
SB 416 Florez-D
Poultry products: antibiotics
General Agriculture
SB 456* Wolk-D
Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Water Resources
SB 457 Wolk-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Water Resources
SB 458 Steinberg-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy: Delta Protection
Water Resources
SB 466 Oropeza-D
Hazardous wastewater
Water Resources
SB 477 Florez-D
Farm labor employment: heat illness prevention
Farm Labor
SB 514 Aanestad-R
Water quality: discharge
Water Resources
SB 518 Lowenthal-D
Building standards: graywater
Water Resources
SB 539 Wiggins-D
Salmon and steelhead trout: trust fund
Water Resources
SB 562 Florez-D
Human food product: nontherapeutic antibiotics
General Agriculture
SB 565 Pavley-D
Water recycling
Water Resources
SB 613 Harman-R
Irvine Ranch and Santa Margarita Water District
Water Resources
SB 664 Cogdill-R
Local government: Williamson Act
General Agriculture
SB 672 Cox-R
Water meters: South Lake Tahoe Public Utilities District
Water Resources
SB 681 Pavley-D
Water diversion and use
Water Resources
SB 715 Wolk-D
Agricultural land: Williamson Act
General Agriculture
SB 735* Steinberg-D
Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Water Resources
SB 759 Leno-D
Pesticides: aerial spraying: federal state of emergency
Pests and Pesticides
SB 808* Wolk-D
Delta levee maintenance
Water Resources
SB 855* Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee
Water issues: 2010 Budget Trailer Bill
Water Resources
SB 863* Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee
Williamson Act: funding
General Agriculture
SB 894 Senate Local Government Committee
Water issues: Local Government Omnibus Bill
Water Resources
SB 918 Pavley-D
Water recycling
Water Resources
SB 991 Wolk-D
Flood control
Water Resources
SB 1085 Runner-R
50th District Agricultural Association
General Agriculture
SB 1093 Wiggins-D
Dungeness crab: pilot program
Water Resources
SB 1107 Kehoe-D
Water quality: interceptor and trap grease
Water Resources
SB 1121 Florez-D
Agricultural workers: overtime wages
Farm Labor
SB 1138 Cedillo-D
Rendering and pet food: Rendering Industry Advisory Board
General Agriculture
SB 1142 Wiggins-D
Agricultural resources: grants
General Agriculture
SB 1157 DeSaulnier-D
Pesticides: integrated management: schools
Pests and Pesticides
SB 1169 Lowenthal-D
Water
Water Resources
SB 1173 Wolk-D
Recycled water
Water Resources
SB 1176 Aanestad-R
Estrays: animals at large
General Agriculture
SB 1177 Kehoe-D
22nd District Agricultural Association: greenway zone
General Agriculture
SB 1229 Denham-R
Agricultural vehicles
General Agriculture
SB 1234 Kehoe-D
Water: unreasonable use
Water Resources
SB 1241 Wolk-D
Agriculture: greenhouse gas emissions reduction
General Agriculture
SB 1284 Ducheny-D
Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Water Resources
SB 1303 Wolk-D
Agricultural activities: protected species: accidental take
General Agriculture
SB 1308 Maldonado-R
Farm product prices: grocery display
General Agriculture
SB 1325 Harman-R
Agricultural commodities and equipment: crimes: theft
General Agriculture
SB 1336 Wiggins-D
Alcoholic beverages: winegrowers: certified farmers' market
General Agriculture
SB 1338 Harman-R
Farm crops: grand theft
General Agriculture
SB 1412 Calderon-D
Water replenishment districts
Water Resources
SB 1413 Leno-D
Tap water: schools: pupil nutrition
Water Resources
SB 1443 Simitian-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Multi-Hazard Coordination
Water Resources
SB 1450* Simitian-D
Water: Delta Stewardship Council: contracts
Water Resources
SB 1464 Simitian-D
Land use planning
General Agriculture
SB 1469 Simitian-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: California Water Plan
Water Resources
SB 1474 Steinberg-D
Farm labor representatives: elections
Farm Labor
SB 1478 Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee
Water conservation: urban water management
Water Resources
SB 1488 Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee
Tidelands and submerged lands
Water Resources
SCA 23 Florez-D
Food safety: antibiotics
General Agriculture
SCR 60 Negrete McLeod-D
Water utility and chemical facilities
Water Resources
SJR 18 Simitian-D
Marine aquaculture
Water Resources
SJR 22 Florez-D
Horses
General Agriculture
SJR 36 Cedillo-D
Cuba: removal of agricultural restrictions
General Agriculture
SR 30 Florez-D
Horses: slaughter
General Agriculture
SR 35 Leno-D
Pesticides
Pests and Pesticides
AB 13 Salas-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Water Resources
AB 28 Jeffries-R
Water movement: natural gas engines
Water Resources
AB 40 Smyth-R
Water: reasonable use: electrical generation facilities
Water Resources
AB 49* Feuer-D
Agricultural water plans
General Agriculture
AB 55 Jeffries-R
Water supply planning
Water Resources
AB 80 Blakeslee-R
Reservoirs: recreational use
Water Resources
AB 153* Ma-D
Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Water Resources
AB 219 Ruskin-D
Agricultural commodity: shipment: inspection: violation
General Agriculture
AB 234 Huffman-D
Water resources: offshore oil drilling
Water Resources
AB 256 Bill Berryhill-R
Farms: hazardous materials: business plans and inventories
General Agriculture
AB 268 Gaines-R
On-site sewage treatment systems
Water Resources
AB 291 Saldana-D
Commercial fishing: lobster management
Water Resources
AB 300 Caballero-D
Water supply: subdivisions
Water Resources
AB 301 Fuentes-D
Vended water
Water Resources
AB 408 Saldana-D
Commercial fishing: lobster management enhancement
Water Resources
AB 410 De La Torre-D
Recycled water
Water Resources
AB 450 De La Torre-D
Recycled water: oil refineries
Water Resources
AB 512 Yamada-D
Agricultural land: Williamson Act: compatible uses
General Agriculture
AB 537 Arambula-IN
Farmers' markets: electronic benefit transfers
General Agriculture
AB 604* De Leon-D
Pest control: citrus disease prevention
Pests and Pesticides
General Agriculture
AB 622 Swanson-D
Pesticides: aerial application
Pests and Pesticides
AB 629 Krekorian-D
Water: school facilities
Water Resources
AB 642 Huber-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
Water Resources
AB 687 Salas-D
Tijuana River Valley Conservancy
Water Resources
AB 702* Salas-D
Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program
Farm Labor
AB 715 Caballero-D
Williamson Act: subventions to local government: funding
General Agriculture
AB 752* Caballero-D
Safe Drinking Water and Water Supply Reliability Act of 2010
Water Resources
AB 835 Monning-D
Pesticides: volatile organic compound emissions
Pests and Pesticides
AB 846 Torrico-D
Water resources: civil and administrative penalties
Water Resources
AB 913 Logue-R
Water: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Water Resources
AB 916 Logue-R
Onsite sewage treatment systems
Water Resources
AB 929 Blakeslee-R
Agricultural resources: grants
General Agriculture
AB 934 Gilmore-R
San Joaquin Valley water supply
Water Resources
AB 1014 Galgiani-D
Farmers: vehicles: driver's licenses
General Agriculture
AB 1041 Audra Strickland-R
Drinking water: private wells
Water Resources
AB 1065* Gilmore-R
Farmworker housing tax credits
Farm Labor
AB 1098 Hagman-R
Chino Agricultural Preserve: resource conservation
General Agriculture
AB 1100 Duvall-R
Potable reuse demonstration water
Water Resources
AB 1187 Huffman-D
Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Water Resources
AB 1202 Anderson-R
Water usage and efficiency study
Water Resources
AB 1253* Harkey-R
Coastal resources: California Coastal Act: fireworks
Water Resources
AB 1260 Huffman-D
California Water Commission: terms of office
Water Resources
AB 1265* Caballero-D
Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012
Water Resources
AB 1365 Tom Berryhill-R
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Water Resources
AB 1371 Smyth-R
Reasonable use of water: generating facilities
Water Resources
AB 1408 Krekorian-D
Water Demand Mitigation Fund
Water Resources
AB 1425 Fuller-R
Water: Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Water Resources
AB 1437 Huffman-D
Shelled eggs: sale for human consumption
General Agriculture
AB 1482 Anderson-R
Water softener systems
Water Resources
AB 1520 Evans-D
Statewide Watershed Program
Water Resources
AB 1552 Assembly Utilities And Commerce Committee
Water: coastal powerplants
Water Resources
AB 1554 Assembly Jobs, Economic Development, And The Economy Committee
Farmworker housing tax credit
Farm Labor
AB 1587* Assembly Agriculture Committee
Fairs
General Agriculture
AB 1594 Huber-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: peripheral canal
Water Resources
AB 1664 Swanson-D
Metropolitan Water District Act
Water Resources
AB 1677 Caballero-D
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Water Resources
AB 1692 Bill Berryhill-R
Water Resources Control Board: fines
Water Resources
AB 1709 Conway-R
Biologics: animal blood and blood component products
General Agriculture
AB 1721 Swanson-D
Pesticides: safe school zones
Pests and Pesticides
AB 1728 Gilmore-R
Discharge: water and quality: civil penalties
Water Resources
AB 1736 Ma-D
Structural Fumigation Enforcement Program
Pests and Pesticides
AB 1774 Saldana-D
Recycled water: state agency landscape irrigation
Water Resources
AB 1788 Yamada-D
Water development projects: state financial assistance
Water Resources
AB 1790* Solorio-D
Orange County Fair: sale of state property
General Agriculture
AB 1795 Assembly Agriculture Committee
Agricultural commissions and committees
General Agriculture
AB 1797 Bill Berryhill-R
State Water Resources Development System: Delta Corridors
Water Resources
AB 1818 Blumenfield-D
Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy: Upper Los Angeles River
Water Resources
AB 1834 Solorio-D
Rainwater Capture Act of 2010
Water Resources
AB 1843 Gilmore-R
Water supply security: reports
Water Resources
AB 1884 Galgiani-D
Local water supply projects: inventory
Water Resources
AB 1886 Yamada-D
Water use: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed: report
Water Resources
AB 1891 Assembly Higher Education Committee
Sustainable agriculture research and education
General Agriculture
AB 1910 Assembly Agriculture Committee
Repasteurized milk: Milk Producers Security Trust Fund
General Agriculture
AB 1912 Evans-D
California Apiary Research Commission
General Agriculture
AB 1929 Hall-D
Invasive aquatic species: mussels
Water Resources
AB 1960 Ma-D
Agriculture: fruits, nuts, and vegetables: California grown
General Agriculture
AB 1963 Nava-D
Pesticide poisoning
Pests and Pesticides
AB 1965 Yamada-D
Agricultural land: Williamson Act: lot line adjustments
General Agriculture
AB 1975 Fong-D
Water charges and meters: building standards
Water Resources
AB 1978 Harkey-R
California regional water quality control board
Water Resources
AB 2010 Fong-D
Migrant farm labor centers
Farm Labor
AB 2049 Arambula-IN
Transfers of water: agricultural use to municipal use
Water Resources
AB 2092 Huffman-D
Delta Plan: financing
Water Resources
AB 2103 Hill-D
San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority
Water Resources
AB 2122 Mendoza-D
Pesticides: regulations: continuing education
Pests and Pesticides
AB 2125 Ruskin-D
Coastal resources: marine spatial planning
Water Resources
AB 2137 Chesbro-D
Fertilizing material: labels
General Agriculture
AB 2138 Chesbro-D
Ocean protection: single-use recyclable packaging
Water Resources
AB 2168 Yamada-D
Dixon Regional Watershed Authority
Water Resources
AB 2202 V. Manuel Perez-D
New River development
Water Resources
AB 2240 Ma-D
Processors of farm products: dealers: licensing: fees
General Agriculture
AB 2270 Assembly Agriculture Committee
Horses shows
General Agriculture
AB 2277 Fletcher-R
Water conservation: urban retail water suppliers
Water Resources
AB 2293* Torres-D
Farm worker housing: construction loans
Farm Labor
AB 2304 Huffman-D
Groundwater management plans: components
Water Resources
AB 2336 Fuller-R
Delta Stewardship Council
Water Resources
AB 2353 Logue-R
Conservancies: reporting requirements
Water Resources
AB 2407 Harkey-R
California regional water quality control boards: boundaries
Water Resources
AB 2409 Nestande-R
Urban water suppliers: water shortage contingency analysis
Water Resources
AB 2422 Tom Berryhill-R
Urban water demand management
Water Resources
AB 2465 Yamada-D
Vector control: state agencies
Pests and Pesticides
AB 2483 Coto-D
Santa Clara Valley Water District
Water Resources
AB 2488 Ruskin-D
City and County of San Francisco regional water system
Water Resources
AB 2503 John Perez-D
Ocean resources: marine resources and preservation
Water Resources
AB 2507 Audra Strickland-R
Drinking water
Water Resources
AB 2515* V. Manuel Perez-D
Public water systems: point-of-use treatment
Water Resources
AB 2530 Nielsen-R
Williamson Act: local government: contracts
General Agriculture
AB 2554 Brownley-D
Los Angeles County Flood Control District: fees and charges
Water Resources
AB 2575 Chesbro-D
Resources: watersheds
Water Resources
AB 2583 Hall-D
Water treatment: hazardous materials
Water Resources
AB 2595 Huffman-D
Pesticide use: operator identification number
Pests and Pesticides
General Agriculture
Water Resources
AB 2598 Brownley-D
Tidelands and submerged lands: sea level action plan
Water Resources
AB 2607 De Leon-D
Pest control: shipments: wood pallets: study
Pests and Pesticides
AB 2612 Assembly Agriculture Committee
Food and agriculture: omnibus bill
General Agriculture
AB 2615 Chesbro-D
Ocean resources: fishing
Water Resources
AB 2669 V. Manuel Perez-D
Public water systems
Water Resources
AB 2679 Eng-D
Water: public buildings: energy: consumption
Water Resources
AB 2686 Tom Berryhill-R
Organic products: county agricultural commissioners
General Agriculture
AB 2695 Hernandez-D
California Nursery Producers Commission
General Agriculture
AB 2719 DeVore-R
State waters: oil and gas leases
Water Resources
AB 2720 John Perez-D
Healthy food initiative
General Agriculture
AB 2775* Huffman-D
Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Water Resources
AB 2776 Huffman-D
Transfers of water: agricultural use to municipal use
Water Resources
ACA 12 Logue-R
Water: area of origin statutes
Water Resources
ACR 135 Smyth-R
West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness
Pests and Pesticides
ACR 142 Solorio-D
Cesar Chavez Day
Farm Labor
ACR 170 Nielsen-R
Williamson Act
General Agriculture
AJR 3 Nava-D
Offshore oil drilling
Water Resources
AJR 21 Gilmore-R
Dairy industry
General Agriculture
AJR 35 Fuller-R
Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project
Water Resources
AJR 38 Caballero-D
Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project
Water Resources
HR 23 Monning-D
Pesticides
Pests and Pesticides
HR 34 Galgiani-D
Invasive Plant Pest and Disease Awareness Month
Pests and Pesticides
AB 7X8* Assembly Budget Committee
Water resources: environmental pollution: program funding
Water Resources

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