Bill Text: CA AB1674 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vended water.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-22 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1674 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1674-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1674	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow
    (   Principal coauthor:   Senator 
 Berryhill   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2014

   An act  to amend Section 111070 of the Health and Safety Code,
  relating to  drinking  water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1674, as amended, Bigelow.  Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012.   Vended water. 

   Existing law prescribes various quality and labeling standards for
bottled water and vended water, including mineral water, and limits
the levels of certain contaminants that may be contained in those
water products. Violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing
law requires water-vending machines to be designed to reduce or
remove turbidity, off-tastes, and odors, to provide disinfection
treatment, and to use processes for dissolved solids reduction or
removal. Existing law defines "water-vending machine" for those
purposes.  
   This bill would exempt a water-vending machine from the
requirements described above if the drinking water vended by the
machine derives from a groundwater basin that does not exceed the
maximum contaminant levels.  
   Existing law, the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply
Act of 2012, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance
of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State
General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and
water supply reliability program. Existing law provides for the
submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014,
statewide general election.  
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would amend the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking
Water Supply Act of 2012. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 111070 of the   Health
and Safety Code   is amended to read: 
   111070.  (a) "Bottled water," means any water that is placed in a
sealed container at a water-bottling plant to be used for drinking,
culinary, or other purposes involving a likelihood of the water being
ingested by humans. Bottled water shall not include water packaged
with the approval of the department for use in a public emergency.
   (b) "Vended water" means any water that is dispensed by a
water-vending machine, retail water facility, or water from a private
water source, or other water as defined in Section 111170 that is
not placed by a bottler in sealed containers, and that is dispensed
by a water-vending machine, retail water facility, water hauler, or
any other person or facility for drinking, culinary, or other
purposes involving a likelihood of the water being ingested by
humans. "Vended  water,   water  " does not
include water from a public water system that has not undergone
additional treatment. Water sold without further treatment is not
"vended water" and shall be labeled in accordance with Section
111170.
   (c) "Water-bottling plant" means any facility in which bottled
water is produced.
   (d) A "water-vending machine" means a water-connected vending
machine designed to dispense drinking water, or purified or other
water products.  The   Unless the  
drinking water vended by the machine derives from a groundwater basin
that does not exceed the maximum contaminant levels, the 
machines shall be designed to reduce or remove turbidity, off-tastes,
and  odors and   odors,  to provide
disinfection  treatment. Processes for  
treatment, and to use processes to reduce or remove  dissolved
 solids reduction or removal shall also be used. 
 solids. 
   (e)  (1)    "Water  hauler, 
 hauler  " means any person who hauls water in bulk by any
means of transportation if the water is to be used for drinking,
culinary, or other purposes involving a likelihood of the water being
ingested by humans. 
   "In 
    (2)     "In  bulk," as used in this
subdivision, means containers having capacities of 250 gallons or
greater.
   (f) "Retail water facility" means any commercial establishment
where vended water is sold, and placed in customer's containers, or
placed in containers sold or given to customers who come to the
establishment to obtain water.
   (g) "Private water  source,   source  "
means a privately owned source of water, other than a public water
system, that is used for bottled or vended water and meets the
requirements of an approved source for bottled water as defined in
Section 129.3 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
   (h) "Bottled water distributor" means any person, other than an
employee or representative of a bottled water plant, who delivers
bottled water directly to customers. 
       
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would amend the Safe, Clean, and Reliable
Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012.