California 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: In Committee 1 D cosponsors

SB 669 — Water quality: Safe Drinking Water Fund.

Last action — Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” 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.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

(1) Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. This bill would establish the Safe Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury and would provide that moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the state board. The bill would require the state board to administer the fund to assist community water systems in disadvantaged communities that are chronically noncompliant relative to the federal and state drinking water standards and do not have the financial capacity to pay for operation and maintenance costs to comply with those standards, as specified. The bill would authorize the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of federal contributions, voluntary contributions, gifts, grants, and bequests, transfers by the Legislature from the General Fund and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, funding from authorized general obligation bond acts, and net revenue from the Safe Drinking Water Trust that this bill would create. The bill would require the state board to expend moneys in the fund for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible applicants. The bill by July 1, 2021, and by July 1 of each year thereafter, would require the state board to adopt, working with a multistakeholder advisory group, after a public workshop and a public hearing, an annual fund implementation plan. The bill would require the state board annually to prepare and make publicly available a report of expenditures of the fund and to adopt annually, after a public hearing, an annual update to a specified needs analysis. By creating a new continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires a trustee to administer a trust with reasonable care, skill, and caution under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity would use, as specified. The existing Uniform Prudent Investor Act requires a trustee to invest and manage trust assets as a prudent investor would, by considering the purposes, terms, distribution requirements, and other circumstances of the trust. This bill would create in the State Treasury the Safe Drinking Water Trust Fund, to hold the trust property of the Safe Drinking Water Trust. The bill would create the Safe Drinking Water Trust Commission, consisting of 3 members, to serve as the trustee of the trust and would require the trustee to abide by the act and have all of the fiduciary duties, responsibilities, and obligations consistent with serving as a trustee of a trust. The bill would require the trustee to transfer the net income from the trust fund to the Safe Drinking Water Fund for expenditure, as prescribed. The bill would authorize funding of the trust principal, subject to transfer by the Legislature. The bill would require the trustee to accept donations that shall be deemed trust property and increase the principal of the trust. The bill would require the trustee to meet, not less than quarterly, to review the investment of the trust principal and administer the trust. The bill would require the trustee to provide the state board annually with an accounting of the investments and a forecast of the projected income to be distributed from the funds in future fiscal years. The bill would require the trust to be deemed a charitable trust subject to the supervision of the Attorney General.

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Action History

  1. Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

  2. May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

  3. Set for hearing May 16.

  4. May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  5. Set for hearing May 13.

  6. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 772.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  7. Set for hearing April 23.

  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 652.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on G.O.

  9. Set for hearing April 10.

  10. April 24 hearing postponed by committee.

  11. Set for hearing April 24.

  12. Referred to Coms. on EQ. and G.O.

  13. Read first time.

  14. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.

  15. Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (121)

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Votes

Placed on suspense file

Passed 6 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 1000
Unaffiliated 5000
Total 6000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (6)
Member Party Vote
Wieckowski — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bates — Yea
Hill — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 15 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 12001
Republican 1000
Democratic 2000
Total 15001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Dodd — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Borgeas — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Hill — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Chang — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Allen — Not Voting
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 669 do?
(1) Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law declares it to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. This bill would establish the Safe Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury and would provide that moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the state board. The bill would require the state board to administer the fund to assist community water systems in disadvantaged communities that are chronically noncompliant relative to the federal and state drinking water standards and do not have the financial capacity to pay for operation and maintenance costs to comply with those standards, as specified. The bill would authorize the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of federal contributions, voluntary contributions, gifts, grants, and bequests, transfers by the Legislature from the General Fund and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, funding from authorized general obligation bond acts, and net revenue from the Safe Drinking Water Trust that this bill would create. The bill would require the state board to expend moneys in the fund for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible applicants. The bill by July 1, 2021, and by July 1 of each year thereafter, would require the state board to adopt, working with a multistakeholder advisory group, after a public workshop and a public hearing, an annual fund implementation plan. The bill would require the state board annually to prepare and make publicly available a report of expenditures of the fund and to adopt annually, after a public hearing, an annual update to a specified needs analysis. By creating a new continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires a trustee to administer a trust with reasonable care, skill, and caution under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity would use, as specified. The existing Uniform Prudent Investor Act requires a trustee to invest and manage trust assets as a prudent investor would, by considering the purposes, terms, distribution requirements, and other circumstances of the trust. This bill would create in the State Treasury the Safe Drinking Water Trust Fund, to hold the trust property of the Safe Drinking Water Trust. The bill would create the Safe Drinking Water Trust Commission, consisting of 3 members, to serve as the trustee of the trust and would require the trustee to abide by the act and have all of the fiduciary duties, responsibilities, and obligations consistent with serving as a trustee of a trust. The bill would require the trustee to transfer the net income from the trust fund to the Safe Drinking Water Fund for expenditure, as prescribed. The bill would authorize funding of the trust principal, subject to transfer by the Legislature. The bill would require the trustee to accept donations that shall be deemed trust property and increase the principal of the trust. The bill would require the trustee to meet, not less than quarterly, to review the investment of the trust principal and administer the trust. The bill would require the trustee to provide the state board annually with an accounting of the investments and a forecast of the projected income to be distributed from the funds in future fiscal years. The bill would require the trust to be deemed a charitable trust subject to the supervision of the Attorney General.
Who sponsors SB 669?
SB 669 is sponsored by Caballero, Anna M. (Democratic).
What is the current status of SB 669?
This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” 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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