BILL NUMBER: AB 849	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act  to repeal Section 18941.7 of the Health and Safety
Code,   relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 849, as amended, Gatto. Water: use  efficiency.
  efficiency: graywater building standards. 
   Existing law provides that resource conservation is of fundamental
importance to the prosperity and welfare of the people of this state
and that the Legislature believes that the state must assume
leadership in formulating and putting into effect a statewide program
of water conservation.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to encourage the installation and implementation of
residential and commercial water use efficiency measures, including,
but not limited to, graywater and storm retention systems, to reduce
or eliminate regulatory barriers for water use and efficiency, and if
feasible, to provide incentives to increase investment in and use of
graywater systems. 
    Existing law authorizes a city, county, or other local agency to
adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or
resolution, building standards that prohibit entirely the use of
graywater, or building standards that are more restrictive than the
graywater building standards adopted by the department and published
in the California Building Standards Code.  
   This bill would repeal this authority. 
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to encourage the installation and implementation of
residential and commercial water use efficiency measures, including,
but not limited to, graywater and storm retention systems, to reduce
or eliminate regulatory barriers for water use and efficiency, and if
feasible, to provide incentives to increase investment in and use of
graywater systems.
   SEC. 2.    Section 18941.7 of the   Health
and Safety Code   is repealed.  
   18941.7.  A city, county, or other local agency may adopt, after a
public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution, building
standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater, or building
standards that are more restrictive than the graywater building
standards adopted by the Department of Housing and Community
Development under Section 17922.12 and published in the California
Building Standards Code.