Bill Text: CA AB755 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Water: public entity: water usage demand analysis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 542, Statutes of 2023. [AB755 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB755-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
July 13, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
July 03, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 18, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 16, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Papan |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 3.8 (commencing with Section 390) is added to Division 1 of the Water Code, to read:CHAPTER 3.8. Cost-of-Service Analysis
390.
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:(a)“Cost-of-service analysis” means the analysis conducted to determine water usage patterns and demands placed on the system by various customer classes.
(b)“Incremental costs” means the costs of water service, including capital costs and operation and maintenance costs, that the public entity incurs directly, or by contract, as a result of the use of water by the systems’ major water users and may include any of the following:
(1)Conservation best management practices, conservation education, irrigation controls and other conservation devices, and other demand management measures.
(2)Water system retrofitting, dual plumbing and facilities for production, distribution, and all uses of recycled water and other alternative water supplies.
(3)Projects and programs for the prevention, control, or treatment of the runoff of water from irrigation and other outdoor water uses. Incremental costs does not include the costs of stormwater management systems and programs.
(4)Securing dry year water supply arrangements.
(5)Procuring water supplies, including supply or capacity contracts for water supply rights or entitlements.
(6)Energy costs for water delivery.
(c)“Low volume water user” means the bottom 10 percent of water users in a given customer class since the last cost-of-service analysis.
(d)“Major water user” means the top 10 percent of water users in a given customer class since the last
cost-of-service analysis.
(e)
(a)Whenever a public entity conducts a cost-of-service analysis, that entity shall identify the total incremental costs incurred by all the major water users and the total incremental costs incurred by all the low volume water users in the single-family residential class.
390.1.
(a) A public entity should conduct a water usage demand analysis prior to completing, or as a part of, a cost-of-service analysis conducted to set fees and charges for water service that are consistent with Section 6 of Article XIII D of the California Constitution and other applicable law. Within the water usage demand analysis, a public entity shall identify both of the following: