Bill Text: CA SB541 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Water: school facility water capture practices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 811, Statutes of 2017. [SB541 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB541-Amended.html
17255.5 189.3 is added to the EducationWater Code, to read:
(a) The State Department of Education, the State Water Resources Control Board, board, in consultation with the regional water quality control boards, and the Division of the State Architect within the Department of General services
Services shall consult and recommend best design and use practices that include school facility for storm water and dry weather runoff capture practices that can generally be applied to all new, reconstructed, or altered public schools, including school grounds.
Bill Title: Water: school facility water capture practices.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 811, Statutes of 2017. [SB541 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB541-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 541 |
| Introduced by Senator Allen (Coauthor: Assembly Member Friedman) |
February 16, 2017 |
An act to add Section 17255.5 189.3 to the Education Water Code, relating to school facilities. water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 541, as amended, Allen.
School facilities: Water: school facility water capture practices.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Division of the State Architect and the Office of Public School Construction within the Department of General Services, to recommend best design practices that include energy efficiency measures for all new public schools, and to report the recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2003.
Existing law establishes in the California Environmental Protection Agency, the State Water Resources Control Board, which exercises the adjudicatory and regulatory functions of the state in the field of water resources.
This bill would
require the State Department of Education, the State Water Resources Control Board,
board, in consultation with the regional water quality control boards, and the Division of the State Architect within the Department of General Services, Services to consult and recommend best design and use practices that include school facility for storm water and dry weather runoff capture practices, as defined, that can generally be applied to all new, reconstructed, or altered public schools, including school grounds. The bill would require
the board to submit these recommendations to be reported to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2019. The bill would define “school facility water capture practices” for these purposes. 2019, and would require the board and the State Department of Education to post the recommendations on their respective Internet Web sites.
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.
Section17255.5.189.3.
(a) The(b) These recommendations shall be reported The board shall submit the recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature on or
before January 1, 2019.
(c) The board and the State Department of Education shall post the recommendations on their respective Internet Web sites on or before March 1, 2019.
(c)
(d) For purposes of this section, “school facility storm water and dry weather runoff capture practices” means practices to control water pollutants, pollutant loads, and water runoff volume exiting a site to the maximum extent feasible by minimizing impervious surface area and
controlling runoff from impervious surfaces through infiltration, evapotranspiration, bioretention, treatment, and rainfall harvest.
(d)
(e) (1) The reporting requirement pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be inoperative on January 1, 2023, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(2) A report submitted to the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
