Gonzalez
Author
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act authorizes the state board to order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water or where a disadvantaged community is substantially reliant on domestic wells that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water. This bill would revise those consolidation provisions, including, among other revisions, authorizing the state board to also order consolidation where a water system serving a disadvantaged community is an at-risk water system, as defined, or where a disadvantaged community is substantially reliant on at-risk domestic wells, as defined. This bill would require the state board, before ordering consolidation or extension of service, to consult with any groundwater sustainability agency, as defined, that provides groundwater supply to the affected area. The bill would require the state board to conduct outreach to ratepayers and residents served by an at-risk water system, consider any specified petitions submitted by members of a disadvantaged community served by the at-risk water system, and consider any information provided by the potentially subsumed water system in support of its contention that it is not an at-risk water system before ordering the consolidation of the at-risk water system, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the state board to prioritize consolidation of an at-risk water system that has historically been overburdened by pollution and industrial development or faced other environmental justice hurdles. The bill would require a finding that a disadvantaged community, in whole or in part, is substantially reliant on at-risk domestic wells to be based on specified aquifer maps and inspection or testing of the domestic wells, as provided.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 242, Statutes of 2021.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2354.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 2606.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26).
Coauthors revised.
July 14 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 30).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and L. GOV.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 7. Page 1129.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Set for hearing May 10.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 896.) (April 22).
Set for hearing April 22.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 500.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.
Set for hearing March 15.
(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB403 | HTML |
| 02/12/21 - Introduced | |
| 04/27/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/08/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/05/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/07/21 - Enrolled | |
| 09/23/21 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/12/21- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/19/21- Senate Governance and Finance | |
| 05/12/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/11/21- Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials | |
| 06/29/21- Assembly Local Government | |
| 07/12/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/01/21- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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