Bill Text: CA AB1265 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Transportation fuels: gasoline specifications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-01-03 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a). [AB1265 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1265-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 09, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Gallagher (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Chen, Megan Dahle, Essayli, |
February 16, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
This bill would repeal the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38562.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38562.1.
Transportation fuels are not subject to regulations implementing a market-based compliance mechanism adopted pursuant to Section 38562 and Part 5 (commencing with Section 38570).SEC. 2.
Section 43013.2 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:43013.2.
(a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that variances from the state board’s gasoline specifications may be needed if gasoline producers cannot meet the specifications as required due to circumstances beyond their reasonable control, or to prevent sudden increases in gasoline prices for California consumers and businesses, and that the state board’s process for granting variances from fuel specifications should be clarified.(i)
SEC. 3.
Section 43830.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43830.5.
The state board shall waive the Reid vapor pressure requirement on summer-blend gasoline specified in Section 2262.4 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations and shall allow for the early transition to winter-blend gasoline to lower gasoline prices for California consumers and businesses if the state board determines that the gasoline market is experiencing a sudden and unusual increase in gasoline prices.(a)For purposes of this section, “Low Carbon Fuel Standard” means the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4 of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations).
(b)The Low Carbon Fuel Standard is hereby repealed.