BILL NUMBER: AB 1200	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 13529.1 to the Water Code, relating to water
conservation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1200, as introduced, Levine. Recycled water: landscaping.
   Existing law declares that the use of potable domestic water for
the irrigation of residential landscaping is a waste or unreasonable
use of water if recycled water is available for that use and certain
requirements are met. Existing law authorizes any public agency to
require the use of recycled water for irrigation of residential
landscaping if recycled water is available and certain other
requirements are met.
   Existing law, the Water Conservation in Landscaping Act, to the
extent funds are appropriated, requires, on or before January 1,
2010, a city, county, or city and county, to either adopt a model
local water efficient landscape ordinance drafted and updated by the
Department of Water Resources or to adopt a water efficient landscape
ordinance that is at least as effective as the model local water
efficient landscape ordinance in conserving water, as prescribed.
   This bill would require the department to require 1,000,000
acre-feet of the water used for landscaping each year to be supplied
by recycled water by 2020.
   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 13529.1 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   13529.1.  The department shall require 1,000,000 acre-feet of the
water used for landscaping each year to be supplied by recycled water
by 2020.