Bill Text: CA SB1069 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Motor vehicle pollution control devices: aftermarket parts: approval process.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2026-06-01 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. [SB1069 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SB1069-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1069
| Introduced by Senator Grayson (Coauthor: Senator Cortese) |
February 13, 2026 |
An act to add Section 43019.4 to, and to add and repeal Section 43019.5 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1069, as amended, Grayson.
Motor vehicle pollution control devices: aftermarket parts: approval process.
Existing law prohibits the disconnection, modification, or alteration of required motor vehicle pollution control devices, except with respect to devices. Existing law exempts from the prohibition an alteration, modification, or modifying device, apparatus, or mechanism that is covered by a resolution of the State Air Resources Board that makes specified findings. Under existing regulations, the executive officer of the state board is authorized to exempt add-on and modified parts for on-road vehicles or engines from the above prohibition based on an evaluation conducted in accordance with certain procedures.
Existing law requires the state board to undertake a public process to review the existing procedures for exempting parts for on-highway vehicles under those resolutions with the goal of streamlining the process for issuing executive orders. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt a schedule of fees to cover all or a portion of the state board’s reasonable costs for the certification, audit, and compliance of aftermarket parts sold in the state, as specified.
This bill would require the state board, within 30 days of the receipt of an application for the issuance of an executive order to exempt certain aftermarket parts and any associated fees, to determine whether the application is complete and, within 60 days of determining that an application is complete and receiving any additional requested emissions testing data, to approve or deny the application, as
specified. The bill would require the state board to approve or deny an amended application within 30 days of the receipt of the amended application. If the state board does not approve or deny an application within those timelines, the bill would require the state board to refund the applicant 50% of any fee collected for the application. The bill would also require the state board to submit a report to the Legislature on review and issuance timelines for executive orders issued to exempt those aftermarket parts on or before March 1, 2028, and biennially thereafter until March 1, 2034.
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 43019.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43019.4.
(a) (1) (A) Within 30 days of the receipt of an application(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), an application is complete if it includes all of the requested information for the
application, with no missing sections or blanks, and the required signatures.
(2) (A) Within 60 days of determining that an application is complete pursuant to paragraph (1) and receiving any additional requested emissions testing data, the state board shall either approve or deny an application and, if it denies the application, shall submit a response to the applicant detailing the reasons why the application was denied.
(B) If an application is denied pursuant to subparagraph (A), the applicant may submit an amended application that addresses the deficiency identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) within 30 days of the denial of the application. Within 30 days of the receipt of an amended application pursuant to this subparagraph, the state board
shall either approve or deny that application.
(b) If the state board does not comply with paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) for the review of an application within the timelines established in that paragraph, the state board shall refund the applicant 50 percent of any fee collected for the application.
SEC. 2.
Section 43019.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43019.5.
(a) On or before March 1, 2028, and biennially thereafter, until March 1, 2034, the state board shall submit a report to the Legislature on review and issuance timelines for executive orders issued to exempt aftermarket parts described in Section 43019.4.(b) The report shall include, for executive order applications received during the prior two years, all of the following:
(1) The average and median number of calendar days from receipt of an application to issuance of an executive order.
(2) A summary of factors affecting review and issuance timelines
and actions taken to improve timelines.
(c) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to this section shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section shall become inoperative on March 1, 2038, and, as of repealed January 1, 2039, is repealed.
