Amended in Assembly March 20, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2446

Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron

February 21, 2014

An act to amend Section begin delete 13520 end delete begin insert 71631.7 end insert of the Water Code, relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2446, as amended, Waldron. begin delete Recycled water: recycling criteria. end delete begin insert Standby charges: San Luis Rey Municipal Water District. end insert

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Existing law, the Municipal Water District Law of 1911, prohibits a standby assessment or availability charge from exceeding $10 per acre per year for each acre of land on which the charge is levied or $10 per year for a parcel less than one acre. Existing law, operative until January 1, 2015, prohibits a standby assessment or availability charge levied in any improvement district situated within the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District from exceeding $30 per acre per year for land on which the charge is levied or $30 per year for a parcel less than one acre and requires the proceeds in excess of $10 per acre per year or $10 per year for a parcel less than one acre to be used for the purposes of the improvement district.

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This bill would extend the operation of the provision for San Luis Rey Municipal Water District until January 1, 2020.

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Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water if the use involves the protection of public health. The act defines recycling criteria to mean the levels of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled water that is safe for the uses to be made.

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This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that definition.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 71631.7 of the end insert begin insert Water Code end insert begin insert is amended
to read: end insert

71631.7.  

(a) Notwithstanding Section 71631, in any
improvement district situated within the San Luis Rey Municipal
Water District, the standby assessment or availability charge shall
not exceed thirty dollars ($30) per acre per year for land on which
the charge is levied or thirty dollars ($30) per year for a parcel less
than one acre. In the improvement district, the proceeds from any
standby assessment or availability charge in excess of ten dollars
($10) per acre per year or ten dollars ($10) per year for a parcel
less than one acre shall only be used for the purposes of that
improvement district.

(b) This section, applicable only to the San Luis Rey Municipal
Water District, is necessary because of the unique and special
water management problems of those areas included within that
district.

(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, begin delete 2015 end delete
begin insert 2020 end insert , and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
which is enacted before January 1, begin delete 2015 end delete begin insert 2020 end insert , deletes or extends
that date.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 13520 of the Water Code is amended to
read:

13520.  

As used in this article “recycling criteria” are the levels
of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of
reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled
water that is safe from the standpoint of public health, for the uses
to be made of the recycled water.

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