The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium.
This bill would appropriate $69,425,000 from the General Fund to the board for the purpose of removing hexavalent chromium from drinking water. The bill would require the board to make specified grants to specified entities to undertake construction or planning and design of facilities to remove hexavalent chromium from drinking water.

Statutes affected:
AB 2016: 17132.9 RTC, 17132.10 RTC
02/17/26 - Introduced: 17132.9 RTC, 17132.10 RTC
04/16/26 - Amended Assembly: 17132.9 RTC, 17132.10 RTC
AB2016: 17132.9 RTC, 17132.10 RTC