Bill Separating Pools, Spas from ‘Water Feature’ Definition Advances
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. EDT
 A bill sponsored by the California Spa and Pool Industry Education Council (SPEC) that directs local public agencies to analyze and define “water feature” separately from swimming pools and spas cleared its first legislative test. Assembly Bill 2409, co-authored by assemblyman Brian Nestande, (R-Riverside) and assemblyman Jerry Hill, (D-San Mateo), unanimously passed the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee at its hearing Tuesday, April 13.
As newly amended, the act revises the Urban Water Management Planning Act to direct cities and counties in urban water management to analyze and define “water feature,” including fountains, ponds, lakes, streams and waterfalls, separately from swimming pools, spas and hot tubs.
This approach addresses the concern that agencies not simply lump these all together, when pools and spas might warrant different considerations. It does not prohibit a local agency from requiring appropriate water conservation measures related to either water features or pools and spas.
With this compromise language in place, the bill now goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee where it will likely get a hearing in May. It then goes for a vote on the Assembly Floor.
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