Bill Summary Latest Action CA AB 21 Lowenthal B Medium Watch Pesticides: Methyl Bromide: Study and Report Requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to conduct a review of the study undertaken pursuant to the 8th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the 20th meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer by the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel regarding methyl bromide, and comment on the findings of the panel. 04/29/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA AB 49 Feuer Hot Watch Agricultural Water Management Planning 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 specified reduction in urban per capita water use in the state by a specified date. Requires incremental progress towards this goal by specified dates. Requires agricultural water suppliers to implement water use efficiency best management practices. Imposes related reporting requirements on such users. 04/29/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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 Plans Relates to hazardous material business plans and inventories. 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 one of those business plans if the only hazardous materials that the farm has onsite are specified amounts of lubricating oils, fertilizers or other hazardous materials that are onsite for a specified time. 04/28/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Not heard. CA AB 410 De La Torre Hot Watch Recycled Water Relates to the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 that provides funds to certain hydrologic regions for preparation of salt and nutrient management plans consistent with the recycled water policy of the State Water Resource Control Board. Sets a target to recycle a total of a specified amount of acre feet of water per year by the year 2020, and by another total amount of acre feet by the year 2030. 04/29/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA AB 474 Blumenfield Medium Watch Water Efficiency Improvements Authorizes the legislative body of any public agency 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. Requires that notice be provided of a hearing to any entity providing water or energy within the boundaries of the proposed area. 05/21/2009 : In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE. CA AB 622 Swanson Medium Watch Pesticides: Aerial Application Amends existing law that requires use of any pesticide to be in such a manner as to prevent substantial drift to nontarget areas, and requires pesticide applications on public property which take place on school grounds, parks, or other public rights-of-way where public exposure is foreseeable to be posted with warning signs. Requires, with respect to aerial pesticide application, the observance of a safety zone of a specified distance from the application for residential areas and sensitive sites. 03/23/2009 : From ASSEMBLY Committee on AGRICULTURE with author's amendments. In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on AGRICULTURE. CA AB 642 Huber Medium Watch Conservancies: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to undertake activities related to the Delta and Suisun Marsh, including measures identified in the Delta sustainability program to restore and manage habitat in the Delta and Suisun Marsh. Prescribes the management, powers and duties of the conservancy. Provides that expenses of the conservancy may be paid from funds appropriated by the Legislature or from gifts, donations,bequests or other public and private sources. 04/27/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Failed passage. In ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Reconsideration granted. CA AB 900 De Leon Hot Watch Statements of Water Diversion and Use Relates to a requirement that each person who diverts water file with the State Water Resources Control Board a prescribed statement of diversion and use. Deletes an exception to the statement requirement included in the consumptive use data for the delta lowlands. Adds an exception to the statement requirement for surface water diversion from the Sacrament-San Joaquin Delta. Imposes record requirements on any surface water diversion within the Delta but, not on certain diversions outside the Delta. 05/06/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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. 03/26/2009 : To ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE. CA AB 1101 Duvall Hot Watch Department of Fish and Game: Lake and Streambeds Provides that for the issuance of a lake or streambed alteration agreement for a term longer than 5 years, and the extension of the term of such agreement for more than 5 years, by mutual agreement. 04/28/2009 : In ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE: Not heard. CA AB 1202 Anderson Hot Watch Department Of Water Resources: Water Usage Study Amends existing law that requires the Department of Water Resources to prepare and update, every 5 years, the State Water Plan, which is the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the State. Requires the department to study whether the Legislature should establish a statewide water usage and water efficiency measuring system. 04/13/2009 : To ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE. From ASSEMBLY Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE with author's amendments. In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Committee on WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE. CA AB 1242 Ruskin Hot Watch State Water Policy Declares that it is the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to clean, affordable,and accessible water on an equitable basis, that is adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family. Requires relevant state agencies, including the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the State Department of Public Health to revise, adopt, or establish policies, regulations, and grant criteria to further this policy. 05/20/2009 : From ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Do pass. CA AB 1465 Hill Medium Watch Urban Water Management Planning Relates to urban water management planning. Requires an urban water supplier to describe opportunities for development of recycled water supplies, including nonpotable and indirect potable reuse and stormwater recapture and reuse as a long-term water supply. Requires the department to determine that an urban water supplier is eligible for a water management grant or loan, despite a failure to implement all of the water demand management measures if the supplier submits certain documentation. 05/21/2009 : In ASSEMBLY. Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE. 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 ecosystem and creating a more reliable state water supply. Authorizes a water diversion fee. Establishes a Delta Conservancy to implement the ecosystem restoration elements of the plan. Relates to Delta county plans. Provides for a project permit process. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA SB 122 Pavley Hot Watch Groundwater Establishes a groundwater monitoring program pursuant to which specified entities, in accordance with prescribed procedures, may propose to be designated by the Department of Water Resources as groundwater monitoring entities for the purposes of monitoring and reporting with regard to groundwater elevations in all or part of a basin or subbasin. Requires the Department to work cooperatively with each monitoring entity to determine the manner in which information should be reported to the Department. 05/11/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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. 05/13/2009 : In SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Reconsideration granted. CA SB 261 Dutton Hot Watch Water Use Requires an urban water supplier to develop and implement a water use efficiency and efficient water resources management plan to reduce residential potable water use in a specified manner or achieve extraordinary water use efficiency. Requires the supplier or regional water management group to report its related progress. Enacts the Comprehensive Urban Water Efficiency Act. Requires the convening of a task force to develop best management practices for commercial and industrial uses to achieve reductions. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 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 to which the plan applies. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Heard, remains in Committee. CA SB 460 Wolk Hot Watch Water Management Plans Requires, pursuant to the Urban Water Management Planning Act and the Agricultural Water Management Planning Act, respectively, urban water suppliers to include in their reports detailed descriptions and analysis of long-term plans to reduce water use. Requires agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt a water management plan. Creates an unspecified entity to develop a transparent process for collection and analysis of such information and to submit an annual report to the Legislature. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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. 05/13/2009 : In SENATE Committee on REVENUE AND TAXATION: To Suspense File. CA SB 493 Maldonado Hot Watch Water Conservation Declares legislative intent to enact legislation to promote water conservation. 03/12/2009 : To SENATE Committee on RULES. 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. 03/12/2009 : To SENATE Committees on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY and JUDICIARY. 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. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA SB 681 Pavley Hot Watch Water Diversion and Use Relates to the payment of fees for services by the Water Resources Control Board relating to water diversion and use, interim regulatory relief orders by the board and civil penalties for violations thereof, the monitoring of water diversions and uses and permits issued by the board, civil penalties for unauthorized diversions or uses of water, monitoring devices on diversions in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, water diversion and use reporting, a diversion and use database, and cease and desist orders. 05/11/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. 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. 03/19/2009 : To SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER. CA SB 759 Leno Hot Watch Aerial Spraying of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients Prohibits, in the event of an emergency exemption from registration pursuant to federal regulations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the use of a pesticide within or near residential or sensitive sites where humans are likely to become exposed to the pesticide unless the manufacturer of the pesticide has previously and voluntarily made the complete ingredient list, including all inert ingredients, available to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. 05/18/2009 : In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense File. CA SB 807 Benoit Medium Employment: Meal and Rest Periods Provides that the payment to the employee for failure to provide a mandated meal or rest period is a statutory penalty and does not constitute additional wages to the employee. Clarifies that an employer provides a meal or rest period by making one available to the employee without interfering with its use. Provides that a meal period may commence at any time before the start of the 6th hour of work for an employee whose daily work period does not exceed 6 hours. 04/29/2009 : In SENATE Committee on LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Heard, remains in Committee. CA SB 808 Wolk Hot Watch San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to implement its resolution entitled the Strategic Workplan for Actions to Protect Beneficial Uses of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary by commencing an investigation of the reasonableness of the methods of diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta used by the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. 03/19/2009 : To SENATE Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER.