Bill Text: CA AB1211 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: internet website information: updates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-05-26 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1211 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1211-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1211
| Introduced by Assembly Member Mathis |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 116760.30 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1211, as introduced, Mathis.
Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: internet website information: updates.
Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997, administered by the State Water Resources Control Board, establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to provide grants or revolving fund loans for the design and construction of projects for public water systems that will enable those systems to meet safe drinking water standards. Existing law requires the board, at least once every 2 years, to post information on its internet website regarding implementation of the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law and expenditures from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, as specified.
This bill would require the board to post the information at least annually.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 116760.30 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:116760.30.
(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the purpose of implementing this chapter, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board for expenditure in accordance with this chapter.(b) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the board shall, at least once every two years, annually, post information on its Internet Web site
internet website and send a link of the Internet Web site internet website to the policy and budget committees of the Legislature regarding the implementation of this chapter and expenditures from the fund. The information posted on the board’s Internet Web site internet website shall describe the numbers and types of projects funded, the reduction in risks to public health from contaminants in drinking water provided through the funding of the projects, and the criteria used by the board to determine funding priorities. The Internet Web site
internet website posting shall include the results of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent survey of the infrastructure needs of California’s public water systems, the amount of money available through the fund to finance those needs, the total dollar amount of all funding agreements executed pursuant to this chapter since the date of the previous report or Internet Web site internet website post, the fund utilization rate, the amount of unliquidated obligations, and the total dollar amount paid to funding recipients since the previous report or Internet Web site internet website
post.
(c)This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.
