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employed by the same employer, authorizes the employer to only grant both employees a total of 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during the 12-month period. This bill would revise and recast these provisions to make it an unlawful employment practice for any employer to refuse to grant a request by an employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period to bond with a new child of the employee or to care for themselves or a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, or domestic partner, as specified. The bill would require an employer who employees' both parents of a child to grant leave to each employee. The bill would also make it an unlawful employment practice for any employer to refuse to grant a request by an employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12- month period due to a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of an employee's spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. The bill would define employee for these purposes as an individual who has at least 1,250 hours of service with the employer during the previous 12-month period, unless otherwise provided. Recommended Position: Oppose This bill requires any employer, public or private, with only 5 employees to provide 12 weeks of protected leave each year and threatens litigation for any unintentional mistake. This bill is not limited in scope to only address COVID-19 and will place a significant burden on employers. The leave mandated under this bill is enforced through a private right of action that includes compensatory damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, punitive damages, and attorney's fees. Additionally, one bill was identified that addresses water quality notification and response level procedures. AB 2560 (Quirk) Water quality: notification and response levels: procedures. 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. This bill would require that State Water Resources Control Board comply with specified public notice and comment procedures when establishing or revising notification or response levels. There is currently no public noticing or commenting requirements as it relates to setting notification levels (NL) or response levels (RL); rather they are set administratively by the State Division of Drinking Water. This bill would move the responsibility to the State Water Resources Control Board and would require public notice via website and email notification that the state board has initiated the development of NL's or RL's. Thirty days prior to meeting, the board must post on website and make available document(s) which outline the proposed levels along with the complete study or studies. Before the proposed NL or RL is finalized, it must be included as an informational item at a regularly notices meeting of the state board. Recommended Position: Support This bill will provide greater transparency to and clarification of the notification level (NL) and response level (RL) process. The goal is to provide both water agencies and the Page 7 of 11