Bill Text: CA AB849 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water: use efficiency: graywater building standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 577, Statutes of 2011. [AB849 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB849-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 849	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 18941.7 of the Health and Safety Code, and
to amend Section 14877.3 of the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 849, as amended, Gatto. Water: use efficiency: graywater
building standards.
    Existing law authorizes a city, county, or other local agency to
adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an ordinance or
resolution, building standards that prohibit entirely the use of
graywater, or building standards that are more restrictive than the
graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and
Community Development and published in the California Building
Standards Code.
   This bill would repeal the authority of a city, county, or other
local agency to adopt building standards that prohibit entirely the
use of graywater and instead authorize the adoption, under specified
requirements, of standards that differ from the standards adopted by
the department. The bill would require that an ordinance enacted
pursuant to this authority include the local climatic, geological, or
topographical conditions requiring different building standards.
   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 18941.7 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   18941.7.  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), a city, county, or other
local agency may adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an
ordinance or resolution, building standards that differ from the
graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and
Community Development under Section 17922.12 and published in the
California Building Standards Code.
   (b) An ordinance adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include
the local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions that
necessitate building standards  for a specific area of the
city, county, or local agency where the conditions exist 
different from the graywater building standards adopted by the
Department of Housing and Community Development under Section
17922.12 and published in the California Building Standards Code 
and shall be limited to the specific area of the city, county, or
local agency where the conditions exist  .
  SEC. 2.  Section 14877.3 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   14877.3.  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), a city, county, or other
local agency may adopt, after a public hearing and enactment of an
ordinance or resolution, building standards that differ from the
graywater building standards adopted by the Department of Housing and
Community Development under Section 17922.12 and published in the
California Building Standards Code.
   (b) An ordinance adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include
the local climatic, geological, or topographical conditions that
necessitate building standards  for a specific area of the
city, county, or local agency where the conditions exist 
different from the graywater building standards adopted by the
Department of Housing and Community Development under Section
17922.12 and published in the California Building Standards Code 
and shall be limited to the specific area of the city, county, or
local agency where the conditions exist  .
  SEC. 3.  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the
installation and implementation of residential and commercial
graywater systems in as many structures as possible throughout the
state by requiring adherence to a uniform code, and to clarify that
divergent standards not meeting the requirements of Section 1 of this
act should not be applied to graywater systems.