Bill Text: CA AB1012 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State Air Resources Board: mobile source regulations: lifecycle analysis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1012 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1012-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1012
Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk-Silva |
February 15, 2023 |
An act to add Section 39601.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1012, as amended, Quirk-Silva.
State Air Resources Board: mobile source regulations: lifecycle analysis.
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants.
This bill would require the state board, if it proposes a regulation to regulate a an on-road mobile source, to prepare a lifecycle analysis, as defined,
of any technology required by the regulation. regulation, and in its discretion, any incumbent technology.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 39601.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39601.3.
(a) If the state board proposes a regulation to regulate(b) For purposes of this section, “lifecycle analysis” means an analysis that involves a thorough inventory of the energy and materials that are required across the industry value chain to produce the product and that calculates the corresponding emissions to the environment. The scope of environmental impacts in the analysis shall include, but is not limited to, the assessment from raw material extraction and processing, through the product’s manufacture, distribution, and use, to the recycling or final disposal of the materials composing it. The assessments shall include, but are not limited to, consideration of carbon dioxide emissions.