Bill Text: CA AB2844 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public contracts: discrimination.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-6)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-24 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 581, Statutes of 2016. [AB2844 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2844-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2844	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 17, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section  108115   116385
 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to environmental
health.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2844, as amended, Bloom. Environmental  health.
  health: drinking water.  
   The California Safe Drinking Water Act requires a person operating
a public water system to obtain and provide an analysis of the water
to the State Water Resources Control Board (state board), as
provided.  
   This bill would require the person to include in the analysis
samples from schools, day care facilities, and health care
facilities, to the extent those locations are within the public water
system. The bill would require the person to report to the state
board other information regarding the samples taken. The bill would
require the state board to post this information on its Internet Web
site, as provided.  
   The State Department of Public Health regulates various issues
with respect to environmental health, including, but not limited to,
the consumer product safety program.  
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a
provision relating to consumer product safety. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 116385 of the   Health
and Safety Code   is amended to read: 
   116385.   (a)    Any person operating a public
water system shall obtain and  provide at that person's
expense   provide to the state board, at the person's
expense,  an analysis of the  water to the department,
  water,  in the form, covering those matters, and
at intervals as the  department by regulation may prescribe.
  state board prescribes by regulation.  The
analysis shall be performed by a laboratory duly certified by the
 department.   state board.  
   (b) (1) An analysis provided pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
include, but need not be limited to, samples from schools, day care
facilities, and health care facilities, to the extent that these
locations are within the public water system.  
   (2) This subdivision does not require an increase in the number of
samples a person collects.  
   (c) (1) The person shall report to the state board the date and
results of any sampling at a school, day care facility, and health
care facility, and where relevant, the contents of any notice issued
to the school or day care facility, students, or parents, and any
notices to the health care facility, and any followup action taken to
mitigate contamination.  
   (2) The state board shall post the information contained in
paragraph (1) to its Internet Web site in a manner that is searchable
by schools and school districts. The state board's Internet Web site
shall also include a link to the public water system's most recent
consumer confidence report.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 108115 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   108115.  "Department" means the State Department of Public Health.