Bill Text: CA SB597 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Building standards: rainwater catchment systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - September 1 hearing postponed by committee. [SB597 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB597-Amended.html
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SECTION 1.
Bill Title: Building standards: rainwater catchment systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - September 1 hearing postponed by committee. [SB597 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB597-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 21, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 597
| Introduced by Senator Glazer |
February 15, 2023 |
An act to add Section 17921.8 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to rainwater capture catchment systems.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 597, as amended, Glazer.
Rainwater capture Building standards: rainwater catchment systems.
The California Building Standards Law requires a state agency that adopts or proposes adoption of a building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law makes the commission responsible for the publication of an updated edition of the California Building Standards Code every 3 years.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to propose to the commission the adoption, amendment, or repeal of building standards for, among other things, the installation of recycled water systems for newly constructed single-family residential and multifamily residential buildings, as specified.
This bill would require the
department to conduct research, as specified, to assist in the development of mandatory building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems in newly constructed residential dwellings. The bill would require the department to submit those mandatory building standards to the commission for adoption and for consideration during the next regularly scheduled triennial code adoption cycle. The bill would also authorize the department to propose an amendment or repeal of these mandatory standards as necessary in subsequent code adoption cycles. The bill would authorize the department to expend moneys from the Building Standards Administration Special Revolving Fund for the above-described purposes, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified.
Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the state board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water, upon an application to appropriate water. Chapter 537 of 2012, among other provisions related to rainwater capture, enacted the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012, which exempts the use of rainwater collected from rooftops from the requirement to obtain a water right permit from the state board.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the use of rainwater capture systems installed in new residences.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 17921.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:17921.8.
(a) (1) The department shall conduct research to assist in the development of mandatory building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems in newly constructed residential dwellings. In conducting the research, the department shall actively consult with the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Water Resources, the State Department of Public Health, local water agencies and districts, and other interested parties, including, but not limited to, public water system representatives, product manufacturers, local building officials, California-licensed contractors, the building industry, and interested members of the public.(2) In researching, developing, and proposing mandatory building standards under this section, the department may expend funds from the
Building Standards Administration Special Revolving Fund, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 18931.7.
(3) Research conducted to propose building standards under this section shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(A) The costs, benefits, and feasibility of including some or all of the provisions of the California Plumbing Code regulating nonpotable rainwater catchment systems.
(B) Rainwater catchment system mandates in other states or local jurisdictions.
(C) The cost and feasibility of installation and the overall benefit to be gained.
(b) The department shall submit for adoption mandatory building standards for the installation of rainwater catchment systems for newly constructed residential dwellings. The department shall submit the proposed mandatory building standards to the California Building Standards Commission for consideration during
the next regularly scheduled triennial code adoption cycle that commences on or after January 1, 2025, and may propose an amendment or repeal of these mandatory standards as necessary in subsequent code adoption cycles.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to expand the use of rainwater capture systems installed in new residences.
