AB 1928, as amended, Campos. Water efficiency: landscape irrigation equipment.
Existing law requires, to the extent that funds are available, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Department of Water Resources, to adopt, by January 1, 2010, performance standards and labeling requirements for landscape irrigationbegin delete controllers and moisture sensorsend deletebegin insert equipmentend insert and, on or after January 1, 2012, prohibits that equipment from being sold unless it meets the performance standards and labeling requirements.
This bill would postpone the date by which the commission is to adopt the performance standards and labeling requirements to January 1,begin delete 2018,end deletebegin insert
2019,end insert and wouldbegin delete prohibit, on and after January 1, 2020,end deletebegin insert prohibitend insert the salebegin insert or the offer for saleend insert of that equipmentbegin insert manufactured on or after the effective date of the performance standards and labeling requirementsend insert unlessbegin delete itend deletebegin insert the equipmentend insert meets the performance standards and labelingbegin delete requirements.end deletebegin insert
requirements and is certified by the manufacturer as meeting the performance standards.end insert The bill would additionally require the commission, in adopting those standards and requirements, to consider developments in landscape irrigation efficiency occurring on or after January 1, 2010.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 25401.9 of the Public Resources Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) begin deleteTo end deletebegin insertPursuantend insertbegin insert to subdivision (c) of Section 25402,
4 to end insertthe extent that funds are available, the commission, in
5consultation with the Department of Water Resources and in
6consideration of developments in landscape irrigation efficiency
7occurring onbegin delete andend deletebegin insert orend insert after January 1, 2010, shall adopt by regulation,
8begin delete after holding one or more public hearings,end delete
performance standards
9and labeling requirements for landscape irrigation equipment,
10including, but not limited to, irrigation controllers, moisture
11sensors, emission devices, andbegin delete valves, for the purpose of reducing begin insert valves.end insert
12the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption
13of energy or water.end delete
14(b) For the purposes of complying with subdivision (a), the
15commission shall do both of the following:
16(1) Adopt performance standards and labeling requirements for
17landscape irrigationbegin delete controllers and moisture sensorsend deletebegin insert
equipmentend insert
18 on or before January 1,begin delete 2018.end deletebegin insert 2019.end insert
19(2) Consider the Irrigation Association’s Smart Water
20Application Technology Program testing protocols when adopting
21performance standards for landscape irrigation equipment,
22including, but not limited to, irrigation controllers, moisture
23sensors, emission devices, and valves.
24(c) begin deleteOn and after January 1, 2020, an irrigation controller or begin insertNo new irrigation
equipment end insertfor landscape
25moisture sensor end delete
26irrigation usesbegin delete may notend deletebegin insert that is manufactured on or after the
27effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision
28(a) shallend insert be sold orbegin delete installedend deletebegin insert offered for saleend insert in the state unless the
29begin delete controller or sensorend deletebegin insert irrigation equipmentend insert meets the performance
30standards and labeling requirements established pursuant to this
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section and is certified by the manufacturer as in
2compliance with those standards.end insert
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