Steve Padilla
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 18
Author
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards regulate water quality and prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal national pollutant discharge elimination system permit program established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. This bill would require the board to, on or before August 1, 2025, establish regulations governing annual reporting by compliance entities, as defined, regarding waste discharges, as provided. The bill would require compliance entities to submit a report to the board by June 1, 2026, and annually thereafter on waste discharges and their locations, as provided. The bill would require, within 3 months of reporting to the board waste discharges that affect the quality of the water of the state within any region, any nonexempt compliance entity to prominently label any product sold in California whose production resulted in waste discharge contaminating California's water quality with a warning label, as specified. The bill would authorize the board to adopt regulations to seek administrative penalties for nonfiling, late filing, or other failures to meet the requirements of these provisions, and would require these penalties to be deposited into the California Water Quality and Public Health Impact Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would require the moneys in the fund to be used exclusively to mitigate the impacts of the contamination on waters of the state caused by the reported waste discharges. The bill would authorize the board to charge compliance entities a reasonable fee necessary to cover the board's reasonable costs of administering and implementing these provisions and to impose noncompliance penalties, not to exceed $1,000,000. The bill would exempt from these provisions certain discharge requirements prescribed by the state board or a regional board and permits issued by a state in accordance with a program approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the federal Clean Water Act.
August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 4086.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3974.) (May 16).
Set for hearing May 16.
May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 13.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3753.) (April 24).
Set for hearing April 24.
April 17 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 17.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and REV. & TAX.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB1178 | HTML |
| 02/14/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/18/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/04/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/29/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/17/24 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/22/24- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 05/10/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/17/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/21/24- Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials | |
| 08/05/24- Assembly Appropriations |
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