Bill Text: CA AB742 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Heavy-duty diesel-fueled vehicles: study: filters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB742 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB742-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 742	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallagher

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Section 43018.3 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 742, as amended, Gallagher. Heavy-duty diesel-fueled vehicles:
 safety review:   study:  filters.
   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, including standards for off-road
and nonvehicle engine categories.
   This bill would prohibit the state board from enforcing a certain
regulation that restricts emissions from  in-use, 
 in-use  diesel-fueled vehicles until the state board
 completes a review     receives from
an independent private firm a completed comprehensive study  of
the safety of any particulate-matter filters required to be installed
on affected vehicles.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 43018.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   43018.3.  (a) (1) For a regulation for the reduction of emissions
of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria
pollutants from in-use diesel-fueled  vehicles, 
 vehicles  applicable to any person, business, federal
government agency, school district, or school transportation provider
that owns or operates, leases, or  rents,  
rents  affected vehicles that operate in California and to
persons that sell affected vehicles in California, the state board
shall not enforce that regulation until the state board 
completes a review   receives from an independent
private firm a completed comprehensive study  of the safety of
any particulate-matter filters required to be installed on those
affected vehicles.
   (2) The state board shall notify the Secretary of State of both of
the following:
   (A) The suspension of the enforcement of a regulation pursuant to
paragraph (1).
   (B) The resumed enforcement of a regulation following the
completion of the  safety review   comprehensive
study  required pursuant to paragraph (1).
   (b) As used in this section, "affected vehicles" means vehicles
that operate on diesel fuel, dual fuel, or alternative diesel fuel
that are registered to be driven on public highways, vehicles that
were originally designed to be driven on public highways whether or
not they are registered, yard trucks with on-road engines or yard
trucks with off-road engines used for agricultural operations, both
engines of two-engine sweepers, schoolbuses, and vehicles that have a
manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating greater than 14,000
pounds, except as exempted by the state board.