Bill Text: CA AB805 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Sewer service: disadvantaged communities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-19 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [AB805 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB805-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
May 15, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
January 22, 2024 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 09, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Arambula |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13288 of the Water Code is amended to read:13288.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(p)“Voluntary participant” means the owner of an
onsite sewage treatment system or sewer service provider who has agreed to accept financial assistance for the provision of adequate sewer service.
SEC. 2.
Section 13289.5 is added to the Water Code, immediately following Section 13289, to read:13289.5.
(a) The state board may, by resolution or through the process described in the guidelines authorized pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 13442, make findings that a sewer service provider has an inadequate sewer system, as defined in Section 13288, and that it is in the best interest of the customers of the inadequate sewer system and the State of California that an administrator be appointed to assist a sewer service provider with making improvements necessary to develop an adequate sewer system. When those findings are made, the sewer service provider shall be referred to as a “designated sewer system.”(a)(1) For
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(2)In performing its duties pursuant to paragraph (1), the state board may use criteria from the handbook adopted pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 116686 of the Health and Safety Code.
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(4)Expend available money necessary for an annexation or extension of service, including conducting feasibility or planning studies, or addressing outstanding technical or legal issues.
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(g)A designated sewer system shall be responsible for funding the activities of an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to the designated sewer system. The state board shall not be responsible for providing funding for those activities.
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(o)For purposes of this section, an administrator is authorized to act on behalf of an affected residence to the same extent, and in the same manner, as a designated sewer system with the consent of the affected residence.