California 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly

AB 134 — Safe Drinking Water Restoration.

Last action — In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

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

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” 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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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. The act authorizes the board to order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, 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 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 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. Assembly Bill 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session of the Legislature, if enacted, would require the board to adopt an assessment of funding need that identifies systems and populations potentially in need of assistance and an analysis of anticipated funding needed based on the amount available in the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. This bill would require the board, upon adoption of an assessment of funding need, to convey to each regional engineer a list of at-risk water systems in that region and additional information. The bill would require the board by December 31 of each year to review the assessment of funding need and to prioritize the public water systems, community water systems, state small water systems, and domestic wells with the most urgent need for state financial assistance. The bill would require each regional engineer to arrange for a prescribed comprehensive analysis of each at-risk water system in the region of the drinking water regional office to be completed within 2 years of the board identifying the at-risk water system in the assessment of funding need. The bill would require a regional engineer to review a comprehensive analysis and develop and submit a recommendation to the board as to the preferred options or plan presented by the comprehensive analysis within 60 days of the submission of the comprehensive analysis. The bill would require the board to consider the comprehensive analysis and recommendation at a public hearing within 90 days of receiving a recommendation from a regional engineer, to request recommendations from all divisions of the board to ensure coordination with other related water quality and water resource programs, and to review a recommendation of a regional engineer in light of the recommendation's likelihood of success in creating a stable and sustainable supply of safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. The bill would require the board to adopt and provide for a sustainable plan for restoring safe drinking water based on the recommendation of the regional engineer. This bill would require the board to report to the Legislature by July 1, 2025, on its progress in restoring safe drinking water to all California communities and to create an internet website that provides data transparency for all of the board's activities described in this measure. The bill would require the board to develop metrics to measure the efficacy of the fund in ensuring safe and affordable drinking water for all Californians. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office, at least every 5 years, to provide an assessment of the effectiveness of expenditures from the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund proposed by AB 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session. This bill would require, by January 1, 2021, the board, in consultation with local health officers and other relevant stakeholders, to make available a map of aquifers that are used or likely to be used as a source of drinking water that are at high risk of containing contaminants. The bill would require the board to make available to each regional engineer a map of high-risk areas in that region. For purposes of the map, the bill would require local health officers and other relevant local agencies to provide all results of, and data associated with, water quality testing performed by certified laboratories to the board, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local health officers and local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (3) This bill would make its operation contingent on the enactment of AB 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session of the Legislature.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  2. Referred to Coms. on EQ. and N.R. & W.

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

  4. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 0. Page 2126.)

  5. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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

  7. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (May 16).

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

  9. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

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

  14. Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.

  15. (pending referral to Com. on E.S. & T.M.)

  16. Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 779.)

  17. Read first time.

  18. From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.

  19. Introduced. To print.

Sponsors

  • Bloom · Primary
  • Rendon · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 120 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Bloom

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Rendon

Not signed on (120)

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Votes

AB 134 Bloom Assembly Third Reading

Passed 59 Yea · 0 Nay · 21 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 360016
Democratic 21001
Republican 2004
Total 590021
% of votes cast 74%0%0%26%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Salas — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Chau — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Gray — Yea
Holden — Yea
Daly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Ting — Yea
Kamlager-Dove — Yea
Levine — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Low — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Burke — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Wood — Yea
Medina — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Chu — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Weber — Yea
Fong — Not Voting
Brough — Not Voting
Kiley — Not Voting
Mayes — Not Voting
Mathis — Not Voting
Frazier — Not Voting
Bigelow — Not Voting
Smith — Not Voting
Cooley — Not Voting
Diep — Not Voting
Voepel — Not Voting
Maienschein — Not Voting
Melendez — Not Voting
Waldron — Not Voting
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Not Voting
Jim Patterson — Not Voting
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia 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
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Not Voting
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea
Choi, Steven S. Republican Not Voting
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting
Flora, Heath Republican Not Voting
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 14 Yea · 1 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 6001
Unaffiliated 8102
Total 14103
% of votes cast 78%6%0%17%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Brough — Nay
Diep — Not Voting
Bigelow — Not Voting
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Carrillo, Juan Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Not Voting
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

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

Passed 6 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 2000
Unaffiliated 4002
Republican 0001
Total 6003
% of votes cast 67%0%0%33%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Holden — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Mathis — Not Voting
Melendez — Not Voting
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 134 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. The act authorizes the board to order consolidation with a receiving water system where a public water system or a state small water system, serving a disadvantaged community, 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 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 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. Assembly Bill 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session of the Legislature, if enacted, would require the board to adopt an assessment of funding need that identifies systems and populations potentially in need of assistance and an analysis of anticipated funding needed based on the amount available in the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. This bill would require the board, upon adoption of an assessment of funding need, to convey to each regional engineer a list of at-risk water systems in that region and additional information. The bill would require the board by December 31 of each year to review the assessment of funding need and to prioritize the public water systems, community water systems, state small water systems, and domestic wells with the most urgent need for state financial assistance. The bill would require each regional engineer to arrange for a prescribed comprehensive analysis of each at-risk water system in the region of the drinking water regional office to be completed within 2 years of the board identifying the at-risk water system in the assessment of funding need. The bill would require a regional engineer to review a comprehensive analysis and develop and submit a recommendation to the board as to the preferred options or plan presented by the comprehensive analysis within 60 days of the submission of the comprehensive analysis. The bill would require the board to consider the comprehensive analysis and recommendation at a public hearing within 90 days of receiving a recommendation from a regional engineer, to request recommendations from all divisions of the board to ensure coordination with other related water quality and water resource programs, and to review a recommendation of a regional engineer in light of the recommendation's likelihood of success in creating a stable and sustainable supply of safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. The bill would require the board to adopt and provide for a sustainable plan for restoring safe drinking water based on the recommendation of the regional engineer. This bill would require the board to report to the Legislature by July 1, 2025, on its progress in restoring safe drinking water to all California communities and to create an internet website that provides data transparency for all of the board's activities described in this measure. The bill would require the board to develop metrics to measure the efficacy of the fund in ensuring safe and affordable drinking water for all Californians. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office, at least every 5 years, to provide an assessment of the effectiveness of expenditures from the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund proposed by AB 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session. This bill would require, by January 1, 2021, the board, in consultation with local health officers and other relevant stakeholders, to make available a map of aquifers that are used or likely to be used as a source of drinking water that are at high risk of containing contaminants. The bill would require the board to make available to each regional engineer a map of high-risk areas in that region. For purposes of the map, the bill would require local health officers and other relevant local agencies to provide all results of, and data associated with, water quality testing performed by certified laboratories to the board, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local health officers and local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (3) This bill would make its operation contingent on the enactment of AB 217 of the 2019–20 Regular Session of the Legislature.
Who sponsors AB 134?
AB 134 is sponsored by Bloom and Rendon.
What is the current status of AB 134?
This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” 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.
Where can I track AB 134?
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