BILL NUMBER: AB 2539	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 116825 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2539, as introduced, Nielsen. Water treatment devices.
   Existing law prohibits a water treatment device that makes product
performance claims or product benefit claims that the device affects
health or the safety of drinking water from being sold or otherwise
distributed if the water treatment device has not been certified by
the State Department of Public Health or by another entity, as
specified. Existing law provides definitions for, among other terms,
"water treatment device" and "department."
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   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 116825 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   116825.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions shall govern construction of this article:
   (a) "Water treatment device" means any point of use or point of
entry instrument or contrivance sold or offered for rental or lease
for residential use, and designed to be added to the plumbing system,
or used without being connected to the plumbing of a water supply
intended for human consumption in order to improve the water supply
by any means, including, but not limited to, filtration,
distillation, adsorption, ion exchange, reverse osmosis, or other
treatment. "Water treatment device" does not include any device that
is regulated pursuant to Article 12 (commencing with Section 111070)
of Chapter 5 of Part 5.
   (b) "Department" means the  State  Department of 
Health Services   Public Health  .
   (c) "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, or
association, or any employee or agent thereof.
   (d) "Contaminants" means any health-related physical, chemical,
biological, or radiological substance or matter in water.