BILL NUMBER: SB 900	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 9, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2011

INTRODUCED BY    Senator   Steinberg
  Senators   Leno,   Pavley, 
 and Steinberg 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act  to add Section 13388.1 to the Water Code, relating
to water.   relating to mortgages. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 900, as amended,  Steinberg   Leno  .
 California regional water quality control boards: members.
  Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.  
   Existing law generally regulates mortgages and deeds of trust,
including establishing procedures for foreclosure in the case of
default.  
   This bill would express the intent of Legislature to enact
legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement and
make permanent the servicing standards and other provisions of the
National Mortgage Settlement.  
   Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and
the 9 California regional water quality control boards prescribe
waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal national
pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) permit program
established by the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne
Water Quality Control Act (state act).  
   The state act prescribes requirements and qualifications for the
membership of the state board and the regional boards, and prohibits
a person from being a member of the state board or a regional board
if that person receives or has received during the previous 2 years a
significant portion of his or her income directly or indirectly from
any person subject to waste discharge requirements or applicants for
waste discharge requirements that are prescribed pursuant to the
NPDES permit program.  
   This bill, with regard to a regional board, would provide that a
person would not be disqualified from being a member of that board
because that person receives, or has received during the previous 2
years, a significant portion of his or her income directly or
indirectly from a person subject to waste discharge requirements, or
an applicant for waste discharge requirements, that govern discharges
not within the jurisdiction of that regional board. The bill would
provide that this revised eligibility provision relating to members
of a regional board shall be implemented only if certain requirements
are met. 
   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.    It is the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to amend the state's foreclosure laws to implement
and make permanent the servicing standards and other provisions of
the National Mortgage Settlement.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 13388.1 is added to the
Water Code, to read:
   13388.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13388, a person shall not be
disqualified from being a member of a regional board because that
person receives, or has received during the previous two years, a
significant portion of his or her income directly or indirectly from
a person subject to waste discharge requirements, or an applicant for
waste discharge requirements, that govern discharges pursuant to
this chapter not within the jurisdiction of that regional board.
   (b) This section shall be implemented only if the United States
Environmental Protection Agency either determines that no program
approval is necessary, or approves of a change in California's
national pollutant discharge elimination system program, to allow the
state to administer the national pollutant discharge elimination
system permit program consistent with subdivision (a).