BILL NUMBER: SB 1050	CHAPTERED  07/27/07

	CHAPTER  157
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 27, 2007
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 27, 2007
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 24, 2007
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 12, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Natural Resources and Water (Senators
Steinberg (Chair), Cogdill, Hollingsworth, Kehoe, Kuehl, Machado,
Margett, and Migden)

                        MARCH 22, 2007

   An act to add Section 529.7 to the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1050, Committee on Natural Resources and Water. Water meters.
   Existing law generally requires the installation of a water meter
as a condition of water service provided pursuant to a new water
service connection installed on or after January 1, 1992. Existing
law requires an urban water supplier, as defined, on or before
January 1, 2025, to install water meters on all municipal and
industrial water service connections that are located in its service
area. Existing law also requires an urban water supplier to,
beginning on or before January 1, 2010, but subject to certain
exceptions, charge each customer that has a service connection for
which a water meter has been installed, based on the actual volume of
deliveries, as measured by the water meter.
   This bill would prohibit those provisions from limiting the
authority of a water purveyor, including, but not limited to, an
urban water supplier that promotes conservation through volumetric
water pricing, to determine and impose a rate, fee, or charge in
addition to the charge for the actual volume of metered water
delivered.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 529.7 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   529.7.  This article does not limit the authority of a water
purveyor, including, but not limited to, an urban water supplier that
promotes conservation through volumetric water pricing, to determine
and impose a rate, fee, or charge in addition to the charge for the
actual volume of metered water delivered.