BILL NUMBER: AB 403	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

   An act to amend Section 116365.5 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 403, as introduced, Campos. Public drinking water standards:
hexavalent chromium.
   The Calderon-Sher Safe Drinking Water Act of 1996 requires the
State Department of Public Health to, among other things, adopt
regulations relating to primary and secondary drinking water
standards for contaminants in drinking water. Existing law requires
the department to establish a primary drinking water standard for
hexavalent chromium on or before January 1, 2004. Violation of
certain provisions relating to public water systems is a crime.
   This bill would require the department to establish a primary
drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium on or before January
1, 2013, and would, if a standard is not adopted by that date, make
the public health goal set by the Office of Environmental Health
Hazard Assessment as of January 1, 2011, the applicable standard. By
expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 116365.5 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   116365.5.  (a)  The  State  Department of  Public
 Health  Services shall commence the process
for adopting a primary drinking water standard for hexavalent
chromium that complies with the criteria established under Section
116365.
   (b)  The department shall report to the Legislature on its
progress in developing a primary drinking standard for hexavalent
chromium by January 1, 2003.
   (c)  The department shall establish a primary drinking water
standard for hexavalent chromium on or before January 1, 
2004   2013  . 
   (d) If the department does not adopt a primary drinking water
standard for hexavalent chromium as required by subdivision (c)
before January 1, 2013, then the standard shall be the public health
goal set by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as
of January 1, 2011. 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.