Bill Text: CA SB751 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Hazardous waste: research programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB751 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB751-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 751	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator De Le�n

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 25131 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hazardous waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 751, as introduced, De Le�n. Hazardous waste: research
programs.
   Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control
to establish the Hazardous Waste Resource and Research Coordination
Program, which requires the department, among other things, to
assemble and annually update a bibliographic cross-referenced
database containing certain information on known hazardous waste
research programs, including the specific problems that the research
is designed to address.
   This bill would require the department to make this information on
research programs available in at least 3 languages, including
English, Spanish, and Chinese.
   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 25131 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   25131.  (a) The department shall assemble a bibliographic
cross-referenced data base containing all of the following
information on known hazardous waste research programs which are
ongoing within the state:
   (1) The institution or organization sponsoring the research
program.
   (2) The principal investigators conducting the research.
   (3) A brief description of the research, including anticipated
applications of the resulting information.
   (4) The specific problems facing hazardous waste generators that
the research is designed to address, including, but not limited to,
specific hazardous waste streams or specific production processes.
   (5) A summary of results already achieved by the research program.

   (6) The date on which the program began, and its expected
completion date.
   (b) The department shall update the data base annually, and the
department shall make the information in the data base available to
the public at a cost not greater than the department's printing and
mailing costs. 
   (c) The department shall make the information specified in
subdivision (a) available in at least three languages, including
English, Spanish, and Chinese.