BILL NUMBER: SB 1258	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 22, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 9, 2008
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 1, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2008

   An act to add Sections 17922.12 and 18941.7 to the Health and
Safety Code, relating to building standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1258, as amended, Lowenthal. Building standards: graywater.
   The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of
building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies
that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit
the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission
for approval and adoption.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of building
standards to the commission relating to hotels, motels, lodging
houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and the buildings and
structures accessory thereto, except as specified.
   Existing law authorizes a city or county to make changes or
modifications in the building standards proposed by the department
and approved by the commission, to provide for local variances
relating to local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions,
upon making certain findings and filing those findings with the
commission.
   This bill would require the department, at the next triennial
building standards rulemaking cycle that commences on or after
January 1, 2009,  in consultation with the State Department
of Public Health,  to adopt and submit to the commission for
approval building standards for the construction, installation, and
alteration of graywater, as defined, systems for indoor use.
   The bill would authorize a city, county, or other local agency to
adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or
resolution, building standards that prohibit entirely the use of
graywater, or building standards that are more restrictive than the
graywater building standards adopted by the department and published
in the California Building Standards Code.
   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 17922.12 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   17922.12.  (a) For the purposes of this section, "graywater" means
untreated wastewater that has not been contaminated by any toilet
discharge, has not been affected by infectious, contaminated, or
unhealthy bodily wastes, and does not present a threat from
contamination by unhealthful processing, manufacturing, or operating
wastes. "Graywater" includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers,
bathroom washbasins, clothes washing machines, and laundry tubs, but
does not include wastewater from kitchen sinks or dishwashers.
   (b) Notwithstanding Chapter 22 (commencing with Section 14875) of
Division 7 of the Water Code, at the next triennial building
standards rulemaking cycle that commences on or after January 1,
2009, the department  , in consultation with the State
Department of Public Health,  shall adopt and submit for
approval pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 18935) of
Part 2.5 building standards for the construction, installation, and
alteration of graywater systems for indoor use.
   (c) In adopting building standards under this section, the
department shall promote graywater systems while ensuring reasonable
protection of water quality in accordance with applicable provisions
of state and federal water quality law.
   (d) The department may revise and update the standards adopted
under this section.
  SEC. 2.  Section 18941.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   18941.7.  A city, county, or other local agency may adopt, after a
public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution, building
standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater, or building
standards that are more restrictive than the graywater building
standards adopted by the department under Section 17922.12 and
published in the California Building Standards Code.