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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Drinking water: point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment."
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description: "Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to providing a dependable, safe supply of drinking water. The act prohibits the state board from issuing a permit to a public water system or amending a valid existing permit to allow the use of point-of-use treatment unless the state board determines that there is no community opposition to the installation of the treatment device."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 434"
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citation: "California AB 434 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Drinking water: point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2015-02-19"
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last_action: "2015-10-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50b84818-a594-495f-8df7-6591367ccb93"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434"
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source_hash: "5f444898ec93b9f773d1b188fb6fe005bc9cac8f7498945ff51a2e0145028e5f"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 434 (20152016) — Drinking water: point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment.
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Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to providing a dependable, safe supply of drinking water. The act prohibits the state board from issuing a permit to a public water system or amending a valid existing permit to allow the use of point-of-use treatment unless the state board determines that there is no community opposition to the installation of the treatment device.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43499INT)
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2. **03/19/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43498AMD)
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3. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43497AMD)
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4. **06/25/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43496AMD)
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5. **08/18/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43495AMD)
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6. **10/09/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43493CHP)
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7. **AB434** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434)
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8. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB434&version=20150AB43494ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 434 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB434 Eduardo Garcia By Hueso Urgency Clause — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 434 GARCIA, E. Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1223.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-08-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2294.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
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- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2735.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 663, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50b84818-a594-495f-8df7-6591367ccb93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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