Bill Text: CA AB1685 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicular air pollution: zero-emission vehicles: civil penalties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 604, Statutes of 2016. [AB1685 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1685-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1685	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        JANUARY 20, 2016

   An act to relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1685, as introduced, Gomez. New motor vehicles: emission
standards: civil penalties.
   Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and
implement standards for the control of emissions from new motor
vehicles that the state board finds to be necessary and
technologically feasible. Existing law prohibits a new motor vehicle
from being sold in the state that does not meet the emissions
standards adopted by the state board. Existing law provides that any
manufacturer who sells, attempts to sell, or causes to be offered for
sale a new motor vehicle that fails to meet the applicable emission
standards shall be subject to a civil penalty of $5,000 for each such
action.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would update civil penalties to ensure state law
provides appropriate penalties, accounting for the intent of the
violator, for introducing into commerce in California vehicles that
do not meet emission standards adopted by the state board.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would update civil penalties to ensure state law
provides appropriate penalties, accounting for the intent of the
violator, for introducing into commerce in California vehicles that
do not meet emission standards adopted by the State Air Resources
Board.
   
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