BILL NUMBER: SB 1395	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2008

   An act to add Section 116877 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to lead plumbing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1395, as introduced, Corbett. Lead plumbing: compliance
program.
   Existing law provides for various restrictions and prohibitions
relating to the use of any pipe, pipe or plumbing fitting or fixture,
solder, or flux that is not lead free, as defined, in regard to
public water systems and plumbing used to provide water for human
consumption.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to
adopt building standards to implement the above prohibitions.
Appropriate state and local building and health officials are
required to enforce these standards.
   This bill would require the department to establish, no later than
January 1, 2010, a program to monitor for compliance with the
above-described provisions, and would require the program to include,
but not be limited to, the random testing of plumbing materials that
are subject to these provisions.
   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 116877 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   116877.  (a) No later than January 1, 2010, the State Department
of Public Health shall establish a plumbing material monitoring
program to survey compliance with the requirements set forth in
Section 116875. The program shall include, but need not be limited
to, the random testing of materials subject to the restrictions set
forth in Section 116875.
   (b) The department may adopt regulations as necessary to implement
this section.