California 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

SB 776 — Safe drinking water and water quality.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 187, Statutes of 2021.

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    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
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    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2021. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 72% · moderate confidence

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 10 recorded votes so far.

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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. Existing law provides that the California Safe Drinking Water Act does not apply to small state water systems, except as specified. This bill would expand the application of the act to small state water systems, as specified. (2) Existing law requires any person operating a public water system to obtain and provide at that person's expense an analysis of the water to the state board, in the form, covering those matters, and at intervals as the state board by regulation may prescribe. This bill would authorize the state board to adopt regulations pursuant to the above provision as emergency regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act and would require the state board to hold a hearing before adopting those emergency regulations. The bill would exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act specified orders and other actions by the state board relating to drinking water. (3) Existing law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Existing law authorizes the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of certain moneys and continuously appropriates the moneys in the fund to the state board for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible recipients. This bill would authorize the state board to award moneys from the fund of $10,000 or less without a written agreement to address a drinking water emergency and would exempt contracts entered into pursuant to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund provisions from specified existing law. (4) Under existing law, the state board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law establishes various programs authorizing the state board to provide financial assistance for water quality and drinking water purposes, including, among other programs, the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund program, pursuant to which state and federal funds are continuously appropriated from the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the state board for loans and other financial assistance for purposes related to the federal Clean Water Act. Existing law generally authorizes the state board to enforce the financial assistance programs. This bill would consolidate the enforcement authority available to the state board to enforce the terms, conditions, and requirements of its financial assistance programs, as specified. As part of that consolidation, the bill would explicitly authorize the state board to recover any costs incurred in the enforcement of an agreement, to recover any amount of financial assistance provided to a recipient not expended for the authorized purposes, and to impose civil penalties in specified amounts on any person who violates any term of a financial assistance agreement. The bill would require information related to funds disbursed or costs claimed for reimbursement pursuant to a financial assistance agreement to be furnished and attested to under penalty of law, and would provide that a person who knowingly makes a false statement, material misrepresentation, or false certification in any submittal to the state board relating to a financial assistance agreement, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a specified criminal fine or imprisonment, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require all moneys collected pursuant to the above provisions to be deposited into the fund from which the financial assistance agreement that is the subject of the action originated, unless the state board determines that deposit in another fund would be more effective for providing financial assistance for the same or substantially similar purpose, and if the fund is continuously appropriated and the moneys are derived from the imposition of penalties, the moneys would be required to be separately accounted for and available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes for which expenditures from that fund are authorized. 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 187, Statutes of 2021.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2379.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 2721.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26).

  10. August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

  11. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 13).

  13. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  14. Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD.

  15. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  16. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 1335.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  18. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 1204.) (May 20).

  19. Set for hearing May 20.

  20. May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.

  21. Set for hearing May 17.

  22. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  23. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 937.) (April 27).

  24. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  25. Set for hearing April 27.

  26. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 757.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  27. Referral to Com. on PUB. S. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.

  28. Set for hearing April 12.

  29. Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q., JUD., and PUB. S.

  30. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  31. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  32. Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)

  33. (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)

  34. Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.

  35. Read first time.

  36. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

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

Sponsors

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 14 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB776 Gonzalez Concurrence

Passed 29 Yea · 8 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 18500
Democratic 11002
Republican 0301
Total 29803
% of votes cast 73%20%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Min — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Pan — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Newman — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Roth — Yea
Wilk — Nay
Bates — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Borgeas — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Not Voting
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Not Voting
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Nay

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SB 776 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Eduardo Garcia

Passed 59 Yea · 18 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 25001
Unaffiliated 34901
Republican 0900
Total 591802
% of votes cast 75%23%0%3%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Holden — Yea
Villapudua — Yea
Salas — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Wood — Yea
Ting — Yea
Low — Yea
Frazier — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Levine — Yea
Daly — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Medina — Yea
Gray — Yea
Burke — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Chau — Yea
Smith — Nay
Voepel — Nay
Waldron — Nay
Cunningham — Nay
Kiley — Nay
Mathis — Nay
Bigelow — Nay
Rendon — Not Voting
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Nay
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Vince Fong — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Bennett, Steve Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. 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
Lee, Alex Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Not Voting
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Yea
Ward, Christopher M. Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Nay
Choi, Steven S. Republican Nay
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay
Flora, Heath Republican Nay
Gallagher, James Republican Nay
Lackey, Tom Republican Nay
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Nay
Valladares, Suzette Martinez Republican Nay

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 12 Yea · 4 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6200
Democratic 6000
Republican 0200
Total 12400
% of votes cast 75%25%0%0%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Levine — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Vince Fong — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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

Passed 8 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6001
Democratic 2000
Republican 0101
Total 8102
% of votes cast 73%9%0%18%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Holden — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Chau — Yea
Kiley — Not Voting
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting

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3rd Reading

Passed 32 Yea · 8 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 13000
Unaffiliated 18500
Republican 1300
Total 32800
% of votes cast 80%20%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Glazer — Yea
Roth — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Min — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Newman — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Pan — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Borgeas — Nay
Bates — Nay
Nielsen — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Melendez — Nay
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Yea

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Do pass

Passed 6 Yea · 1 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5000
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 6100
% of votes cast 86%14%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5000
Republican 1000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 9 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 3100
Democratic 6000
Republican 0100
Total 9200
% of votes cast 82%18%0%0%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Gonzalez — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Borgeas — Nay
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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What does SB 776 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 provides that the California Safe Drinking Water Act does not apply to small state water systems, except as specified. This bill would expand the application of the act to small state water systems, as specified. (2) Existing law requires any person operating a public water system to obtain and provide at that person's expense an analysis of the water to the state board, in the form, covering those matters, and at intervals as the state board by regulation may prescribe. This bill would authorize the state board to adopt regulations pursuant to the above provision as emergency regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act and would require the state board to hold a hearing before adopting those emergency regulations. The bill would exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act specified orders and other actions by the state board relating to drinking water. (3) Existing law establishes the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and long terms. Existing law authorizes the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of certain moneys and continuously appropriates the moneys in the fund to the state board for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible recipients. This bill would authorize the state board to award moneys from the fund of $10,000 or less without a written agreement to address a drinking water emergency and would exempt contracts entered into pursuant to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund provisions from specified existing law. (4) Under existing law, the state board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act. Existing law establishes various programs authorizing the state board to provide financial assistance for water quality and drinking water purposes, including, among other programs, the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund program, pursuant to which state and federal funds are continuously appropriated from the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the state board for loans and other financial assistance for purposes related to the federal Clean Water Act. Existing law generally authorizes the state board to enforce the financial assistance programs. This bill would consolidate the enforcement authority available to the state board to enforce the terms, conditions, and requirements of its financial assistance programs, as specified. As part of that consolidation, the bill would explicitly authorize the state board to recover any costs incurred in the enforcement of an agreement, to recover any amount of financial assistance provided to a recipient not expended for the authorized purposes, and to impose civil penalties in specified amounts on any person who violates any term of a financial assistance agreement. The bill would require information related to funds disbursed or costs claimed for reimbursement pursuant to a financial assistance agreement to be furnished and attested to under penalty of law, and would provide that a person who knowingly makes a false statement, material misrepresentation, or false certification in any submittal to the state board relating to a financial assistance agreement, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a specified criminal fine or imprisonment, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require all moneys collected pursuant to the above provisions to be deposited into the fund from which the financial assistance agreement that is the subject of the action originated, unless the state board determines that deposit in another fund would be more effective for providing financial assistance for the same or substantially similar purpose, and if the fund is continuously appropriated and the moneys are derived from the imposition of penalties, the moneys would be required to be separately accounted for and available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes for which expenditures from that fund are authorized. 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors SB 776?
SB 776 is sponsored by Gonzalez, Lena A. (Democratic).
What is the current status of SB 776?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2021. Enacted.
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