Bill Text: CA SB1125 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1125 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Oil and gas: alternative to bond requirement: financial accounts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - April 19 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 6. Page 3439.) Reconsideration granted. [SB1125 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1125

Introduced by Senator Grove

February 16, 2022

An act to amend Section 3152 of the Public Resources Code, relating to oil and gas.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1125, as introduced, Grove. Oil and gas: well stimulation treatment: hydraulic fracturing.

Existing law authorizes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation to regulate the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. Existing law requires an operator proposing to perform a well stimulation treatment, as defined, to apply to the State Oil and Gas Supervisor or a district deputy for a permit to perform the well stimulation treatment and imposes other requirements and conditions on the use of well stimulation treatments.

Existing law also defines “hydraulic fracturing,” commonly known as fracking, to mean a well stimulation treatment that, in whole or in part, includes the pressurized injection of hydraulic fracturing fluid or fluids into an underground geologic formation in order to fracture, or with the intent to fracture, the formation, thereby causing or enhancing, for specified purposes, the production of oil or gas from a well.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that definition.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 3152 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

3152.

“Hydraulic fracturing” means a well stimulation treatment that, in whole or in part, includes the pressurized injection of hydraulic fracturing fluid or fluids into an underground geologic formation in order to ~~fracture~~ fracture, or with the intent to ~~fracture~~ fracture, the formation, thereby causing or enhancing, for ~~the~~ purposes of this division, the production of oil or gas from a well.