BILL NUMBER: AB 849	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to  repeal   amend  Section
18941.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 849, as amended, Gatto. Water: use efficiency: graywater
building standards. 
   Existing law provides that resource conservation is of fundamental
importance to the prosperity and welfare of the people of this state
and that the Legislature believes that the state must assume
leadership in formulating and putting into effect a statewide program
of water conservation.  
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to encourage the installation and implementation of
residential and commercial water use efficiency measures, including,
but not limited to, graywater and storm retention systems, to reduce
or eliminate regulatory barriers for water use and efficiency, and if
feasible, to provide incentives to increase investment in and use of
graywater systems. 
    Existing law authorizes 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.
   This bill would repeal  this authority   the
authority of a city, county, or other local agency to adopt building
standards that prohibit entirely the use of graywater. The bill would
require that an ordinance enacted pursuant to this authority must
include the local climatic, geological, topographical, or any other
cond   itions requiring the more restrictive building
standards  .
   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 18941.7 of the  
Health and Safety Code   is amended to read: 
   18941.7.   (a)    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 of Housing and Community Development under Section
17922.12 and published in the California Building Standards Code.

   (b) An ordinance adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) must include
the local climatic, geological, topographical, or any other
conditions that require more restrictive building standards than the
graywater building standards adopted by Department of Housing and
Community Development under Section 17922.12 and published in the
California Building Standards Code. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   It is the intent
of the Legislature to enact legislation to encourage the installation
and implementation of residential and commercial water use
efficiency measures, including, but not limited to, graywater and
storm retention systems, to reduce or eliminate regulatory barriers
for water use and efficiency, and if feasible, to provide incentives
to increase investment in and use of graywater systems. 
  SEC. 2.    Section 18941.7 of the Health and
Safety Code is repealed.