116590. (a) Funds received by the state board pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Safe Drinking Water Account, which is hereby established, and shall be available for use by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing funds necessary to administer this chapter. Funds in the Safe Drinking Water Account shall not be expended for any purpose other than as set forth in this chapter.
(b) A public water system may collect a fee from its customers to recover the fees paid by the public water system pursuant to this chapter.
(c) The total amount of funds received for state operations program costs to administer this chapter for fiscal year 2016–17 shall not exceed thirty-eight million nine hundred seven thousand dollars ($38,907,000) and the total amount of funds received for administering this chapter for each fiscal year thereafter shall not increase by more than 5 percent of the amount received in the previous fiscal year plus any changes to salary, benefit, and retirement adjustments contained in each annual Budget Act.
(d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.
(Amended (as added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 24, Sec. 26) by Stats. 2016, Ch. 340, Sec. 29. (SB 839) Effective September 13, 2016.)