California 2017-2018 Regular Session Status: To Executive

AB 2050 — Small System Water Authority Act of 2018.

Last action — Vetoed by Governor.

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    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

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Summary

Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act authorizes the state board to order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, as defined, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water. The act, if consolidation is either not appropriate or not technically and economically feasible, authorizes the state board to contract with an administrator to provide administrative and managerial services to designated public water systems and to order the designated public water system to accept administrative and managerial services, as specified. Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. This bill would create the Small System Water Authority Act of 2018 and state legislative findings and declarations relating to authorizing the creation of small system water authorities that will have powers to absorb, improve, and competently operate noncompliant public water systems. The bill, no later than March 1, 2019, would require the state board to provide written notice to cure to all public agencies, private water companies, or mutual water companies that operate a public water system that has either less than 3,000 service connections or that serves less than 10,000 people, and are not in compliance, for 4 consecutive quarters, with one or more state or federal primary drinking water standard maximum contaminant levels as of December 31, 2018, as specified. The bill would require the state board to provide a copy of the notice, in the case of a water corporation, to the Public Utilities Commission and would require the Public Utilities Commission to be responsible with the state board for ensuring compliance with the provisions of the bill. The bill would require an entity receiving the notice to respond to the state board, and, if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission, as to whether the violations of drinking water standards are remedied and the basis for that conclusion, as specified. The bill would require an entity reporting a continuing violation of drinking water standards to have 180 days from the date of a specified response filed with the state board to prepare and submit a plan to the state board to permanently remedy a violation of drinking water standards within a reasonable time that is not later than January 1, 2024. The bill would require the state board to review the plan and accept, accept with reasonable conditions, or reject the plan, as prescribed. The bill would require an entity with an accepted plan to provide quarterly reports to the state board on progress towards a permanent remedy for violations of drinking water standards and would require the state board to annually hold a public hearing to consider whether the progress is satisfactory. The bill would require the state board, if it rejects the plan and after a certain period to allow for a petition for reconsideration, to cause the formation of an authority by the applicable local agency formation commission to serve the customers of the public water system that submitted the plan the state board rejects, if certain findings are made by the state board. The bill would require the state board, no later than January 1, 2021, to provide written notice to each county, city, water district, private water company, or mutual water company located within a county where an entity receiving a notice to cure from the state board is located stating that the state board may consider the formation of an authority within that county and inviting other public water suppliers to consider a voluntary dissolution and subsequent inclusion into the authority that may be formed. The bill would require an agency wishing to consolidate into a proposed authority to provide a written statement opting into an authority to the administrator of the authority on or before July 1, 2021. The bill would authorize an agency wishing to join an authority after the formation of an authority to do so by a proposal or petition to the local agency formation commission. The bill would require any county or city receiving a notice to cure from the state board to determine, not later than June 1, 2021, whether any county service areas, county waterworks districts, or other dependent special districts providing water service or water and sewer service located within the county that provide water service or water and sewer service only in the proposed area of the authority should be included within the proposed authority, as prescribed. The bill would authorize an authority to include areas that are not contiguous. The bill would require the state board, no later than 30 days after the rejection of an entity's plan to permanently remedy a violation of drinking water standards, to notify a local agency formation commission of a county where the public water system that submitted the plan is located, and if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission, that it has determined that the public water system shall be consolidated into an authority. The bill would require the state board, no later than 60 days after the rejection, to notify the local agency formation commission, and if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission of the public water systems that will be consolidated into an authority and to appoint an administrator for each proposed authority. The bill would require an administrator to be responsible for the interim administration and management of the authority and would require the state board to bear the cost of the administrator, as specified. The bill would require the administrator, after consultation with the executive officer of the local agency formation commission, to submit to the state board a conceptual formation plan, with specified components. The bill would require the state board to provide comments on the conceptual formation plan to the administrator and applicable local agency formation commission within 60 days of its receipt. The bill would require the administrator, within 180 days after the state board provides comments on the draft conceptual formation plan, to submit an application for formation and proposed plan for service to the local agency formation commission for review and would require the commission to hold a hearing on the plan and approve or deny it, as prescribed. The bill would require an authority to file a statement, under penalty of perjury, with the executive office of the local agency formation commission certifying that the authority will take the appropriate actions to comply with an approved plan. By expanding the application of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the executive officer of the commission, within 30 days of the filing of a statement, to issue a notice of completion to the authority and send a copy of that notice to the state board. The bill would authorize the state board, in the event that the authority fails to timely file a statement certifying compliance with the plan, to issue an order to the authority requiring the filing of a statement certifying compliance with the plan or other remedial action as may be appropriate. The bill would require, annually for the first 3 years after the date of an authority's formation by a local agency formation commission, an authority to file a certain report with the local agency formation commission. The bill would require a local agency formation commission to hold a public hearing within 90 days of receipt of the report to review the authority's performance during the previous year and would authorize a local agency formation commission to order an authority to remedy any failures to comply with conditions imposed by the commission or the plan for service. The bill would authorize a local agency formation commission to impose a civil penalty on an authority of up to $500 per day for each violation if an authority fails to timely comply with a remedial order by a local agency formation commission, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year for each particular violation. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to order the dissolution of a public water system and the transfer of all assets of a subject water corporation to an authority formed by the local agency formation commission, as prescribed. The bill would require the state board to petition a court for an order dissolving any mutual water company, water corporation, or private corporation that has been operating a public water system and transferring the assets of that company or corporation to the authority formed by the local agency formation commission. The bill would provide for an owner or shareholder of a dissolved public water system to be compensated, as specified, in accordance with a distressed business valuation issued by the state board. The bill would authorize an authority to receive financing from the state to pay all liabilities assumed from a public water system and would require an authority to issue bonds to repay the state with interest. The bill would require the Controller, in consultation with the state board and various associations, no later than January 1, 2025, to contract with an independent consultant to review the startup operations of the authorities and the management of the authorities by the administrators. The bill would require the consultant to prepare a report for the Legislature regarding the fiscal and operational health of the authorities that includes recommendations regarding the need for supplemental state funding, if any, and the potential sources of that funding. The bill would provide for the appointment of an initial board of an authority, and the election of subsequent boards of an authority. The bill would require a director to be a resident of the area served by the authority and, to the extent practicable, to represent a division with equal population being served by the authority. The bill would require a director to receive compensation in an amount not to exceed $250 per day, not to exceed a total of 10 days in any calendar month, together with any expenses incurred in the performance of the director's duties required or authorized by the board. The bill would require the board to hold meetings, exercise and perform all powers, privileges, and duties of an authority, designate a depository to have custody of the funds of the authority, appoint officers, and hire employees, as specified. The bill would require the board to file a certain certificate with the Secretary of State within 180 days of its initial meeting after formation. The bill would require a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of any local ordinance or regulation adopted by an authority to be punished upon a first conviction by a fine not exceeding $50 and for a 2nd conviction within a period of one year by a fine of not exceeding $100 and for a 3rd or any subsequent conviction within a period of one year by a fine of not exceeding $250. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the powers of an authority, including that an authority is authorized to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water, including sewage and stormwater, for the beneficial use of the authority. The bill would authorize the authority to fix a water standby assessment or availability charge, as prescribed. The bill would require a board of supervisors to levy the standby charge in the amounts for the respective parcels fixed by the board of the authority. The bill would require all county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect district standby charges with the regular tax payments to the county and would require the charges to be paid to the authority. The bill would authorize an authority to restrict the use of authority water, as specified, and would provide that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any person to use or apply water received from the authority contrary to or in violation of any restriction or prohibition specified in the authority's ordinance. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize an authority to conduct inspections and would authorize an authority to obtain an inspection warrant. Because the willful refusal of an inspection lawfully authorized by an inspection warrant is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the application of a crime. The bill would require an authority to notify the county or city building inspector, county health inspector, or other affected county or city employee or office, in writing, within a reasonable time if an actual violation of an authority, city, or county ordinance is discovered during the investigation. The bill would require the administrator to prepare and submit a capital improvement plan to the state board no later than one year after the date upon which an authority is formed. The bill would require the plan to bring the authority into full compliance with drinking water standards within 3 years, which time may be extended by the state board for good cause. The bill would require the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the General Fund, or, to the extent funds are available from bond revenues or other sources, including federal, state, academic, or other public or private entities, to provide funding for the administrator and for formation and startup costs for up to 3 fiscal years after formation of the authority, as specified. The bill would provide for the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the General Fund, or, to the extent funds are available from bond revenues or other sources, including federal, state, academic, or other public or private entities, to receive up to $5,400,000 for the preparation of distressed business valuations to determine the net fair market value of the water corporation or company. By imposing new duties or a higher level of service on cities, counties, and local area formation commissions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Vetoed by Governor.

  2. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  3. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 21. Page 6631.).

  4. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5590.).

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 16).

  8. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  9. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  10. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  13. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ.

  14. Referred to Coms. on EQ. and GOV. & F.

  15. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  16. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 5528.)

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  18. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 25).

  20. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5298.)

  21. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  22. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  23. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended.

  24. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  25. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  26. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

  27. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  28. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.

  29. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended.

  30. Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and L. GOV.

  31. From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.

  32. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Caballero · Primary

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Votes

AB 2050 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 58 Yea · 21 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 421501
Democratic 16000
Republican 0600
Total 582101
% of votes cast 73%26%0%1%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Levine — Yea
Mathis — Nay
Obernolte — Nay
Quirk — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Wood — Yea
Baker — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Salas — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Chau — Yea
Holden — Yea
Gray — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Kamlager-Dove — Yea
Rivas — Yea
Low — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Chiu — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Medina — Yea
Chu — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Weber — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Harper — Nay
Kiley — Nay
Maienschein — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Chávez — Nay
Cunningham — Nay
Steinorth — Nay
Voepel — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Eggman — Yea
Daly — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Mark Stone — Yea
Travis Allen — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Nay
Choi, Steven S. Republican Nay
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Nay
Gallagher, James Republican Nay
Lackey, Tom Republican Nay

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3rd Reading AB2050 Caballero By Roth

Passed 34 Yea · 3 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 29303
Democratic 5000
Total 34303
% of votes cast 85%8%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Nay
Hertzberg — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wieckowski — Not Voting
Chang — Not Voting
Delgado — Yea
Bates — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Allen — Yea
De León — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Beall — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pan — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Do pass

Passed 5 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4002
Democratic 1000
Total 5002
% of votes cast 71%0%0%29%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Hill — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Nielsen — Not Voting
Beall — Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Hill — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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AB 2050 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading

Passed 56 Yea · 19 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 411402
Democratic 15000
Republican 0501
Total 561903
% of votes cast 72%24%0%4%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Nay
Baker — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Not Voting
Harper — Nay
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Low — Yea
Mathis — Nay
Obernolte — Nay
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Waldron — Nay
Wood — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Medina — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Salas — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chu — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Weber — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gray — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Holden — Yea
Kamlager-Dove — Yea
Kiley — Nay
Levine — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Maienschein — Nay
McCarty — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Nazarian — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chávez — Nay
Cooley — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Steinorth — Nay
Voepel — Nay
Cooper — Yea
Cunningham — Nay
Daly — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Mark Stone — Yea
Travis Allen — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Nay
Choi, Steven S. Republican Not Voting
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Nay
Gallagher, James Republican Nay
Lackey, Tom Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 12 Yea · 1 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 9004
Democratic 3000
Republican 0100
Total 12104
% of votes cast 71%6%0%24%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Not Voting
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Not Voting
Eggman — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Nazarian — Yea
Obernolte — Not Voting
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Nay

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 6 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 3000
Unaffiliated 3101
Republican 0001
Total 6102
% of votes cast 67%11%0%22%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Voepel — Not Voting
Waldron — Nay
Cooley — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Not Voting

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2050 do?
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties. The act authorizes the state board to order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, as defined, consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water. The act, if consolidation is either not appropriate or not technically and economically feasible, authorizes the state board to contract with an administrator to provide administrative and managerial services to designated public water systems and to order the designated public water system to accept administrative and managerial services, as specified. Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. This bill would create the Small System Water Authority Act of 2018 and state legislative findings and declarations relating to authorizing the creation of small system water authorities that will have powers to absorb, improve, and competently operate noncompliant public water systems. The bill, no later than March 1, 2019, would require the state board to provide written notice to cure to all public agencies, private water companies, or mutual water companies that operate a public water system that has either less than 3,000 service connections or that serves less than 10,000 people, and are not in compliance, for 4 consecutive quarters, with one or more state or federal primary drinking water standard maximum contaminant levels as of December 31, 2018, as specified. The bill would require the state board to provide a copy of the notice, in the case of a water corporation, to the Public Utilities Commission and would require the Public Utilities Commission to be responsible with the state board for ensuring compliance with the provisions of the bill. The bill would require an entity receiving the notice to respond to the state board, and, if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission, as to whether the violations of drinking water standards are remedied and the basis for that conclusion, as specified. The bill would require an entity reporting a continuing violation of drinking water standards to have 180 days from the date of a specified response filed with the state board to prepare and submit a plan to the state board to permanently remedy a violation of drinking water standards within a reasonable time that is not later than January 1, 2024. The bill would require the state board to review the plan and accept, accept with reasonable conditions, or reject the plan, as prescribed. The bill would require an entity with an accepted plan to provide quarterly reports to the state board on progress towards a permanent remedy for violations of drinking water standards and would require the state board to annually hold a public hearing to consider whether the progress is satisfactory. The bill would require the state board, if it rejects the plan and after a certain period to allow for a petition for reconsideration, to cause the formation of an authority by the applicable local agency formation commission to serve the customers of the public water system that submitted the plan the state board rejects, if certain findings are made by the state board. The bill would require the state board, no later than January 1, 2021, to provide written notice to each county, city, water district, private water company, or mutual water company located within a county where an entity receiving a notice to cure from the state board is located stating that the state board may consider the formation of an authority within that county and inviting other public water suppliers to consider a voluntary dissolution and subsequent inclusion into the authority that may be formed. The bill would require an agency wishing to consolidate into a proposed authority to provide a written statement opting into an authority to the administrator of the authority on or before July 1, 2021. The bill would authorize an agency wishing to join an authority after the formation of an authority to do so by a proposal or petition to the local agency formation commission. The bill would require any county or city receiving a notice to cure from the state board to determine, not later than June 1, 2021, whether any county service areas, county waterworks districts, or other dependent special districts providing water service or water and sewer service located within the county that provide water service or water and sewer service only in the proposed area of the authority should be included within the proposed authority, as prescribed. The bill would authorize an authority to include areas that are not contiguous. The bill would require the state board, no later than 30 days after the rejection of an entity's plan to permanently remedy a violation of drinking water standards, to notify a local agency formation commission of a county where the public water system that submitted the plan is located, and if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission, that it has determined that the public water system shall be consolidated into an authority. The bill would require the state board, no later than 60 days after the rejection, to notify the local agency formation commission, and if appropriate, the Public Utilities Commission of the public water systems that will be consolidated into an authority and to appoint an administrator for each proposed authority. The bill would require an administrator to be responsible for the interim administration and management of the authority and would require the state board to bear the cost of the administrator, as specified. The bill would require the administrator, after consultation with the executive officer of the local agency formation commission, to submit to the state board a conceptual formation plan, with specified components. The bill would require the state board to provide comments on the conceptual formation plan to the administrator and applicable local agency formation commission within 60 days of its receipt. The bill would require the administrator, within 180 days after the state board provides comments on the draft conceptual formation plan, to submit an application for formation and proposed plan for service to the local agency formation commission for review and would require the commission to hold a hearing on the plan and approve or deny it, as prescribed. The bill would require an authority to file a statement, under penalty of perjury, with the executive office of the local agency formation commission certifying that the authority will take the appropriate actions to comply with an approved plan. By expanding the application of the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the executive officer of the commission, within 30 days of the filing of a statement, to issue a notice of completion to the authority and send a copy of that notice to the state board. The bill would authorize the state board, in the event that the authority fails to timely file a statement certifying compliance with the plan, to issue an order to the authority requiring the filing of a statement certifying compliance with the plan or other remedial action as may be appropriate. The bill would require, annually for the first 3 years after the date of an authority's formation by a local agency formation commission, an authority to file a certain report with the local agency formation commission. The bill would require a local agency formation commission to hold a public hearing within 90 days of receipt of the report to review the authority's performance during the previous year and would authorize a local agency formation commission to order an authority to remedy any failures to comply with conditions imposed by the commission or the plan for service. The bill would authorize a local agency formation commission to impose a civil penalty on an authority of up to $500 per day for each violation if an authority fails to timely comply with a remedial order by a local agency formation commission, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year for each particular violation. The bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to order the dissolution of a public water system and the transfer of all assets of a subject water corporation to an authority formed by the local agency formation commission, as prescribed. The bill would require the state board to petition a court for an order dissolving any mutual water company, water corporation, or private corporation that has been operating a public water system and transferring the assets of that company or corporation to the authority formed by the local agency formation commission. The bill would provide for an owner or shareholder of a dissolved public water system to be compensated, as specified, in accordance with a distressed business valuation issued by the state board. The bill would authorize an authority to receive financing from the state to pay all liabilities assumed from a public water system and would require an authority to issue bonds to repay the state with interest. The bill would require the Controller, in consultation with the state board and various associations, no later than January 1, 2025, to contract with an independent consultant to review the startup operations of the authorities and the management of the authorities by the administrators. The bill would require the consultant to prepare a report for the Legislature regarding the fiscal and operational health of the authorities that includes recommendations regarding the need for supplemental state funding, if any, and the potential sources of that funding. The bill would provide for the appointment of an initial board of an authority, and the election of subsequent boards of an authority. The bill would require a director to be a resident of the area served by the authority and, to the extent practicable, to represent a division with equal population being served by the authority. The bill would require a director to receive compensation in an amount not to exceed $250 per day, not to exceed a total of 10 days in any calendar month, together with any expenses incurred in the performance of the director's duties required or authorized by the board. The bill would require the board to hold meetings, exercise and perform all powers, privileges, and duties of an authority, designate a depository to have custody of the funds of the authority, appoint officers, and hire employees, as specified. The bill would require the board to file a certain certificate with the Secretary of State within 180 days of its initial meeting after formation. The bill would require a person convicted of an infraction for a violation of any local ordinance or regulation adopted by an authority to be punished upon a first conviction by a fine not exceeding $50 and for a 2nd conviction within a period of one year by a fine of not exceeding $100 and for a 3rd or any subsequent conviction within a period of one year by a fine of not exceeding $250. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the powers of an authority, including that an authority is authorized to acquire, control, distribute, store, spread, sink, treat, purify, recycle, recapture, and salvage any water, including sewage and stormwater, for the beneficial use of the authority. The bill would authorize the authority to fix a water standby assessment or availability charge, as prescribed. The bill would require a board of supervisors to levy the standby charge in the amounts for the respective parcels fixed by the board of the authority. The bill would require all county officers charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect district standby charges with the regular tax payments to the county and would require the charges to be paid to the authority. The bill would authorize an authority to restrict the use of authority water, as specified, and would provide that it is a misdemeanor, punishable as specified, for any person to use or apply water received from the authority contrary to or in violation of any restriction or prohibition specified in the authority's ordinance. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize an authority to conduct inspections and would authorize an authority to obtain an inspection warrant. Because the willful refusal of an inspection lawfully authorized by an inspection warrant is a misdemeanor, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the application of a crime. The bill would require an authority to notify the county or city building inspector, county health inspector, or other affected county or city employee or office, in writing, within a reasonable time if an actual violation of an authority, city, or county ordinance is discovered during the investigation. The bill would require the administrator to prepare and submit a capital improvement plan to the state board no later than one year after the date upon which an authority is formed. The bill would require the plan to bring the authority into full compliance with drinking water standards within 3 years, which time may be extended by the state board for good cause. The bill would require the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the General Fund, or, to the extent funds are available from bond revenues or other sources, including federal, state, academic, or other public or private entities, to provide funding for the administrator and for formation and startup costs for up to 3 fiscal years after formation of the authority, as specified. The bill would provide for the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature from the General Fund, or, to the extent funds are available from bond revenues or other sources, including federal, state, academic, or other public or private entities, to receive up to $5,400,000 for the preparation of distressed business valuations to determine the net fair market value of the water corporation or company. By imposing new duties or a higher level of service on cities, counties, and local area formation commissions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Who sponsors AB 2050?
AB 2050 is sponsored by Caballero.
What is the current status of AB 2050?
This bill died with 2017-2018 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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