BILL NUMBER: AB 1041	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Audra Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 116281 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1041, as introduced, Audra Strickland. Drinking water: private
wells: county regulation.
   Existing law, known as the California Safe Drinking Water Act,
requires the State Department of Public Health to administer
provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect
public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research,
studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a
dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act, adoption of enforcement regulations, and
conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water
in domestic water supplies.
   This bill would prohibit a city, county, or city and county from
regulating a private water system with 4 or fewer service
connections.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 116281 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   116281.  A city, county, or city and county shall not regulate
private water systems with four or fewer service connections.