Bill Summary Latest Action CA AB 21 Lowenthal B Medium Watch Economic Poisons: Methyl Bromide: Report Requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to conduct a review of existing and emerging emission control technologies available for reducing methyl bromide emissions and to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report detailing available emission control devices or techniques for reducing industrial methyl bromide emissions, including specified information for each system in the study. 02/18/2009 : From ASSEMBLY Committee on AGRICULTURE with author's amendments. In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE. CA AB 49 Feuer Hot Watch Water Conservation: Urban Water Use Relates to water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. Requires the state to achieve a reduction in urban per capita water use by a specified date. 02/05/2009 : To ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE. CA AB 141 Tran Medium Watch Employment: Working Hours Permits an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, and allows an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation. Requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement of the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce this provision and adopt regulations. 02/26/2009 : To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT. CA AB 256 Berryhill B Medium Watch Hazardous Materials: Farms: Business Plants Relates to hazardous material business plants. Exempts a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity from establishing and implementing on of those business plans if the only hazardous materials that the farm has onsite are small amounts of oils or fertilizers or small amounts of other hazardous materials that are onsite for a specified time. 03/04/2009 : To ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS. CA AB 450 De La Torre Medium Watch Recycled Water Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to a provision of existing law which declares that the environmental benefits of recycled water include a reduced demand for water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 02/24/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA AB 474 Blumenfield Medium Watch Water Efficiency Improvements Authorizes the legislative body of any public agency to determine that it would be in the public interest to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of water efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property. 02/24/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA AB 622 Swanson Medium Watch Pesticides: Aerial Application Requires, with respect to aerial applications of pesticides, the observance of a specified safety zone for residential areas, if the pesticide contains an active or inert ingredient that is known or suspected to be a carcinogen, a mutagen or endocrine disruptor. 02/25/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA AB 642 Huber Medium Watch Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Declares legislative intent to enact legislation to establish a board with specified representatives to review local government decisions that impact the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. 02/25/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA AB 969 Calderon C Hot Watch Recycled Water Changes the statewide goal for recycled water to an unspecified number of acre-feet of water per year by the year 2020. Makes changes to findings and declarations under the act. 02/26/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA AB 1242 Ruskin Hot Watch State Water Policy Declares that it is the established policy of the state that every Californian shall have access to safe, affordable water for basic human needs. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 12 Simitian Hot Watch Clean Drinking Water and Water Supply Security Enacts the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Act of 2009. Establishes a related council to prepare and adopt a Delta Ecosystem and Water Plan to advance the goals of restoring the Delta ecosystem and creating a more reliable water supply in the state. Authorizes the council to impose a water diversion fee. Establishes a Delta Conservancy to implement the ecosystem restoration elements of the plan. 02/26/2009 : From SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER with author's amendments. In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER. CA SB 187 Benoit Medium Watch Employment: Working Hours Permits an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek. Allows an employer to implement this schedule without any obligation to pay overtime compensation. Requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to enforce such provisions and adopt regulations. 03/05/2009 : To SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. CA SB 261 Dutton Hot Watch Water Use States legislative findings and declarations relating to water use. 03/05/2009 : To SENATE Committee on RULES. CA SB 301 Florez Medium Watch Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Recovery Enacts the Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Recovery Restoration Act. Authorizes, for the purpose of financing specified water supply reliability and ecosystem recovery and restoration programs, the issuance of bonds pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Provides for submission of the bond act to the votes. 03/05/2009 : To SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER and ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. CA SB 310 Ducheny Medium Watch Water Quality: Stormwater and Other Runoff Authorizes a County, City or special district that is a permittee or co-permittee under an NPDES permit for a municipal separate storm sewer system to develop a watershed improvement plan that addresses major sources of pollutants in receiving water, stormwater, urban runoff or other surface runoff pollution within the watershed. 03/05/2009 : To SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. CA SB 460 Wolk Hot Watch Water Conservation: Urban Water Use States the intention of the Legislature to enact legislation that would achieve a reduction in urban per capita water use by a specified date. 02/26/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 464 Strickland T Hot Watch Taxes: Credits: Diesel Particulate Matter Reduction Amends the Personal Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporation Tax Law. Allows a credit for the amount paid or incurred or qualified property, that is used to meet diesel particulate matter reduction requirements. 02/26/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 493 Maldonado Hot Watch Water Conservation Declares legislative intent to enact legislation to promote water conservation. 02/26/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 514 Aanestad Medium Watch Water Quality: Discharge Requirements: Penalties Provides that the mandatory minimum penalty for water discharge would not apply if that civil liability, either upon the request of a state board to the Attorney General or by the initiation of administration proceedings, is not imposed within a certain time of the board learning of the violation. 02/26/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 565 Pavley Medium Watch Water Recycling Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to develop a plan to ensure that a percentage of wastewater that is annually discharged in to the ocean is recycled and put to beneficial use. Imposes a fee on each person discharging wastewater in the ocean, to be deposited into the Ocean Discharge Recycling Fund. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 681 Pavley Hot Watch Statutory Adjudication Authorizes the State Water Resources Control Board, on its own motion, to proceed with a determination of the water rights of a stream system. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 736 Pavley Hot Watch Water Consumption Fee Imposes on a person diverting or extracting more than an unspecified amount of water, a water resource consumption fee and deposits the proceeds in the Water Resources Consumption Fund. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 759 Leno Hot Watch Aerial Pesticide Spraying Requires in the case of aerial pesticide spraying near residential or sensitive areas, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to use prescribed information regarding the effects of pesticides, including inert ingredients, to develop educational material for distribution to physicians and surgeons and to the public. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED. CA SB 808 Wolk Hot Watch San Francisco Bay/Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Estuary Relates to the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Estuary strategic work plan. 02/27/2009 : INTRODUCED.