BILL NUMBER: AB 849	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to 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 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
  Department of Housing and Community Development 
and published in the California Building Standards Code.
   This bill would repeal the authority of a city, county, or other
local agency to adopt building standards that prohibit entirely the
use of graywater  and instead authorize the adoption, under
specified requirements, of standards that   differ from the
standards adopted by the department  . The bill would require
that an ordinance enacted pursuant to this authority  must
 include the local climatic, geological,  or 
topographical  , or any other  conditions requiring
 the more restrictive   different  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   Subject to subdivision
(b), a  city, county, or other local agency may adopt, after a
public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or resolution, building
standards that  are more restrictive than  
differ from  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
  shall  include the local climatic, geological,
 or  topographical , or any other 
conditions that  require more restrictive  
necessitate  building standards  than  
different from  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.
  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 
in as many structures as possible throughout the state by requiring
adherence to a uniform code, and to clarify that   divergent
standards not meeting the requirements of Section 1 of this act
should not be applied to graywater systems  .