BILL NUMBER: AB 2900	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2008

   An act to  amend Section 13385 of   add
Section 13385.4 to  the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2900, as amended, La Malfa. Water quality:  mandatory
minimum  civil penalties.
   Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and
the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste
discharge requirements in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act
and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (act). The act,
with certain exceptions, imposes a mandatory minimum penalty of
$3,000 for each serious waste discharge violation, as defined, or for
certain other described violations if those violations occur 4 or
more times in any period of 6 consecutive months, as prescribed.
   This bill would require  mandatory civil penalties imposed
administratively pursuant to these provisions by the state board or
a regional board to be imposed within 12 months of learning of a
violation, and mandatory civil penalties petitioned to a superior
court by the Attorney General to be requested by a regional board or
the state board within 12 months of learning of a violation 
 the state board or a regional board to expeditiously take
appropriate action to assess any mandatory minimum penalty  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 13385.4 is added to the 
 Water Code   , to read:  
   13385.4.  The state board or a regional board shall expeditiously
take appropriate action to assess any mandatory minimum penalty
pursuant to Section 13385 or 13385.1.  All matter omitted in
this version of the bill appears in the bill as amended in the
Assembly, March 24, 2008 (JR11)