Bill Text: CA AB746 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public health: potable water systems: lead testing: schoolsites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 746, Statutes of 2017. [AB746 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB746-Amended.html
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Assembly Bill | No. 746 |
Introduced by Assembly Members Gonzalez Fletcher, McCarty, and Rubio |
February 15, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 116277 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:116277.
(a) (1) At least once a year, a local educational agency shall test for lead in the potable water system at every schoolsite with a building constructed before January 1, 1993, including preschool locations, within the jurisdiction of the local educational agency.(b)(1)At least once a year, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the Trustees of the California State University shall test for lead in the potable water system at every campus with a building constructed before January 1, 1993, within their respective jurisdictions.
(2)At least once every three years, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the Trustees of the California State University shall test for lead in the potable water system at every campus with a building constructed on or after January
1, 1993, within their respective jurisdictions.
(3)If a test reveals that a campus lead level is greater than the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s drinking water standards for lead, as those standards existed on January 1, 2017, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges or the Trustees of the California State University shall notify, within seven days of receiving test results, students who attend the campus where the elevated lead level was found of the elevated level and provide information
on lead developed by an agency with expertise on lead, such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department of Public Health, the State Water Resources Control Board, or another agency.
(4)The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the Trustees of the California State University shall make inoperable and shut down from use any part of a campus potable water system that has an elevated lead level.
(5)If a test reveals that a campus lead level is greater than 5 parts per billion, every potable water system at the campus shall be tested that year.
(c)The Regents of the University of California are
encouraged to adopt an appropriate resolution to implement subdivision (b) for the University of California.
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