BILL NUMBER: AB 1928	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Gordon   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend Section 25401.9 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 irrigation  controllers and moisture sensors
  equipment  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,  2018,   2019,  and would 
prohibit, on and after January 1, 2020,   prohibit 
the sale  or the offer for sale  of that equipment 
manufactured on or after the effective date of the performance
standards and labeling requirements  unless  it
  the equipment  meets the performance standards
and labeling  requirements.   requirements and
is certified by the manufacturer as meeting the performance
standards.  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 1.  Section 25401.9 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   25401.9.  (a)  To   Pursuant   t
  o subdivision (c) of Section 25402, to  the extent
that funds are available, the commission, in consultation with the
Department of Water Resources and in consideration of developments in
landscape irrigation efficiency occurring on  and 
 or  after January 1, 2010, shall adopt by regulation,
 after holding one or more public hearings, 
performance standards and labeling requirements for landscape
irrigation equipment, including, but not limited to, irrigation
controllers, moisture sensors, emission devices, and  valves,
for the purpose of reducing the wasteful, uneconomic, inefficient,
or unnecessary consumption of energy or water.   valves.

   (b) For the purposes of complying with subdivision (a), the
commission shall do both of the following:
   (1) Adopt performance standards and labeling requirements for
landscape irrigation  controllers and moisture sensors
  equipment  on or before January 1,  2018.
  2019. 
   (2) Consider the Irrigation Association's Smart Water Application
Technology Program testing protocols when adopting performance
standards for landscape irrigation equipment, including, but not
limited to, irrigation controllers, moisture sensors, emission
devices, and valves.
   (c)  On and after January 1, 2020, an irrigation
controller or moisture sensor   No new irrigation 
 equipment  for landscape irrigation uses  may not
  that is manufactured on or after the effective date of
the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall  be
sold or  installed   offered for sale  in
the state unless the  controller or sensor  
irrigation equipment  meets the performance standards and
labeling requirements established pursuant to this  section.
  section and is certified by the manufacturer as in
compliance with those standards.