BILL NUMBER: AB 1173	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 116805 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1173, as introduced, Williams. Water equipment: backflow
protection programs.
   Existing law authorizes local health officials to maintain
programs, in cooperation with water suppliers, to protect against
backflow through service connections into the public water supply
system, and, with the consent of the water supplier, to collect fees
from the water supplier to offset the costs of implementing these
programs. Existing law requires that these programs be conducted in
accordance with backflow protection regulations adopted by the State
Water Resources Control Board.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change by updating a
reference from the State Department of Public Health to the State
Water Resources Control Board.
   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 116805 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   116805.  (a)  Local health officers may maintain programs, in
cooperation with water suppliers, to protect against backflow through
service connections into the public water supply, and, with the
consent of the water supplier, may collect fees from the water
supplier to offset the costs of implementing these programs.
   (b)  The fees authorized under this section and under Section
116800 shall be limited to the costs of administering these programs.
At the discretion of the water supplier, the fees collected from the
water supplier by the local health officer may be passed through to
water users.
   (c)  Programs authorized under this section and Section 116800
shall be conducted in accordance with backflow protection regulations
adopted by the  department   State Water
Resources Control Board  .
   (d)  Nothing in this article shall prevent a water supplier from
directly charging those water users required to install backflow
prevention devices for the costs of the programs authorized in this
section and Section 116800.