Bill Text: CA AB1529 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Drinking water: cross-connection or backflow prevention device inspectors: certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-09-19 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1529 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1529-Amended.html
Bill Title: Drinking water: cross-connection or backflow prevention device inspectors: certification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-09-19 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1529 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1529-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 1529 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Thurmond |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add Section 116812 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1529, as amended, Thurmond.
Cross-connection or backflow prevention device inspectors: certification.
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration projects relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adopting regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of private domestic water wells.
Existing law requires any person who owns a public water system to ensure that the system does certain things, including, but not limited to, that it will not be subject to backflow under normal operating conditions. Existing law, to ensure that testing and maintenance of backflow prevention devices are
performed by persons qualified to do testing and maintenance, authorizes local health officers to maintain programs for certification of backflow prevention device testers and requires the certification program to be consistent with backflow protection regulations adopted by the state board. A violation of these provisions, or of an order by a local health officer pursuant to these provisions, is a misdemeanor.
This bill would require valid and current certifications for cross-connection inspection and testing or backflow prevention device inspection, testing, and maintenance that were determined by the State Department of Public Health to demonstrate competency before January 1, 2016, to be approved California-specific certifications either until the state board promulgates regulations for cross-connection inspection and testing and backflow prevention device inspection, testing, and maintenance, or until January 1, 2020, whichever comes
first. The bill would, under certain conditions, prohibit a water supplier from refusing to recognize statewide certifications that meet standards set by regulations of the state board.
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 116812 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:116812.
(a) Valid and current certifications for cross-connection inspection and testing or backflow prevention device inspection, testing, and maintenance that were determined by the State Department of Public Health to demonstrate competency in cross-connection inspection and testing or backflow prevention device inspection, testing, and maintenance before January 1, 2016, shall be approved California-specific certifications either until the State Water Resources Control Board promulgates regulations for cross-connection inspection and testing and backflow prevention device inspection, testing, and maintenance, or until January 1, 2020, whichever comes first.(b) If
contractors, building operators, building owners, or property owners are required to employ, contract with, or subcontract with a certified backflow prevention device tester or a certified cross-connection control specialist to receive water service, the water supplier shall not refuse to recognize statewide certifications that meet standards set by regulations of the State Water Resources Control Board. Nothing in this section prohibits an agency agency, water supplier, or regulated public utility from rejecting the adequacy of a specific cross-connection or backflow prevention device inspection, test, or maintenance activity for reasons other than the identity of the certification provider.
