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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 990: Public water systems: emergency notification plan.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 990 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Public water systems: emergency notification plan. Primary sponsor: Heather Hadwick (R). Most recent recorded action (June 30, 2025): Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Choi.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adopting enforcement regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of domestic water wells.

Existing law prohibits a person from operating a public water system without an emergency notification plan that has been submitted to and approved by the state board. Existing law requires the emergency notification plan to provide for immediate notice to the customers of the public water system of any significant rise in the bacterial count of water or other failure to comply with any primary drinking water standard that represents an imminent danger to the health of the water users.

This bill would authorize and encourage a public water system to provide notification to water users in their preferred language when updating the emergency notification plan, if resources are available.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Heather HadwickPrimary sponsorRepublicanAssembly1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Choi.
  2. Ordered to third reading.
  3. From Consent Calendar.
  4. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  5. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18).
  6. Referred to Com. on E.Q.
  7. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  8. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.)
  9. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  10. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8).
  11. Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
  12. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page