Bill Text: CA AB2515 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Public water systems: point-of-use treatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 601, Statutes of 2010. [AB2515 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2515-Introduced.html

---

BILL NUMBER: AB 2515	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member V. Manuel Perez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to local government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2515, as introduced, V. Manuel Perez. Local government:
environmental health departments.
   Existing law authorizes local government agencies, in conjunction
with other public entities, to organize and operate local public
health services within their jurisdictional areas. These services may
include implementing projects and policies pertaining to water
conservation and water quality.
   This bill would make several findings and declarations relating to
the groundwater contamination in the Coachella Valley. The bill
would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that
clarifies the authority of the local environmental health department
in Riverside County with respect to water delivery.
   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.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (1) The arsenic contamination ground water problem in the
southeastern Coachella Valley in Riverside County is largely
naturally occurring and is getting progressively worse.
   (2) There are many limitations to providing the small,
unincorporated communities in the Coachella Valley access to safe
drinking water.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that
clarifies the authority of the local environmental health department
in Riverside County in order to ensure potable water delivery to
residents of community water systems contaminated with arsenic.