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Air Pollution
SB 31 (Pavley-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Specifies that revenues generated pursuant to AB 32 (Nunez-D and Pavley-D), Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006, are to be available for the purposes of carrying out the requirements of AB 32, including, but not limited to AB 32 administration, renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, investments in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and green jobs development and training that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(On Senate Inactive File)
SB 104 (Oropeza-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Adds nitrogen trifluoride to the list of greenhouse gases regulated by the Air Resources Board pursuant to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
Chapter 331, Statutes of 2009
SB 124 (Oropeza-D) Air pollution: schoolbus idling and idling at schools
Acknowledges the existing state regulation that limits school bus idling and idling near schools, and conforms the minimum penalty for a violation of this rule to the minimum penalty ($300) for a violation of the rule to limit the idling of commercial motor vehicles.
Chapter 561, Statutes of 2009
SB 128 (Padilla-D) California Climate Change Institute
Establishes the California Climate Change Institute and requires the Institute to support research and education programs relating to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 225* (Florez-D) Emission reduction credits
Authorizes an air quality management districts or an air pollution control districts to create an emission reduction credit from marine vessel or locomotive emission reduction project that is funded from both public and private monies if specified requirements are met.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 295* (Dutton-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Requires the Air Resources Board to complete an additional peer-reviewed study to reevaluate the evaluations made regarding the potential economic and noneconomic benefits of the plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, considering any peer-reviewed comments on the original evaluations. The additional study must include certain matters (e.g., estimated annual actual costs of recommendations and not averaged costs, estimates of overall costs and savings and the cost-effectiveness of identified reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, estimates of capital investment timing, sensitivity of results to changes in key inputs, small business impact, current state of California economy).
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
SB 333 (Hancock-D) Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund
Establishes a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset program in the Natural Resources Agency. Funds given to the state on a voluntary basis are available for projects to offset the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 382 (Florez-D) Agricultural burning: consistency with no burn days
Provides that a permit to burn agricultural waste within the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is not valid for any day the district prohibits operation of a wood burning fireplace or heater.
Vetoed
SB 388 (Calderon-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District
Requires the Executive Officer of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to transfer emission reduction credits from its internal emission credit accounts to eligible electrical generating facilities, and establishes eligibility criteria so that the powerplant must have a purchase agreement and be under the jurisdiction of SCAQMD and within the City of Industry.
(On Senate Unfinished Business File)
A similar bill is AB 1318 (V. Manuel Perez-D), Chapter 285, Statutes of 2009.
SB 435 (Pavley-D) Smog check program: motorcycles
Requires the Bureau of Automotive Repair, beginning 1/1/12, to incorporate specified motorcycles into the smog check program.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 462* (Strickland-R) Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters
Authorizes a $10,000 credit for a manufacturer of Verified Diesel Emission Control Strategies (VDECS), defined as emissions control strategies designed primarily for the reduction of diesel particulate emission, and are either approved or pending approval by the Air Resources Board (ARB). The taxpaying manufacturer must obtain a certification from ARB that it makes approved VDECS, and provides the certification to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The credit may be carried over to subsequent taxable years.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 464* (Strickland-R) Diesel particulate matter reduction
Enacts a tax credit equal to five percent of the amount paid or incurred to purchase qualified property used to meet the Air Resources Board (ARB) off-road diesel equipment regulations, not to exceed $10,000. The taxpayer must obtain and retain a letter from ARB certifying that the qualified property assists in meeting the regulations, and provide that letter to the Franchise Tax Board upon request. The tax credit may be carried over to subsequent years, but sunsets on 1/1/19.
(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 507* (Cox-R) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that does not meet certain requirements from undergoing an Enhance Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until 4/1/10.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted)
Similar bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 554 (Hollingsworth-R) Residential wood-burning devices
Prohibits an air pollution control district and air quality management districts from adopting or implementing any rule or regulation restricting or prohibiting the installation or operation of any wood-burning fireplace, wood-burning heater, or wood-burning stove in any new or existing residential structure.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 632 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: air pollution mitigation
Requires the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland, by 7/1/10, to assess their infrastructure and air quality improvement needs.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 721 (Steinberg-D) Energy: greenhouse gas emissions
Establishes in statute the Climate Action Team, with specified membership, and requires the Team to coordinate state policy with respect to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Requires the Team to develop specified reports and plans, and requires that certain research and development funds administered by the Department of Transportation be spent consistent with those plans.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 722 (Steinberg-D) Greenhouse gas credits
Establishes advertising and documentation requirements for sales of greenhouse gas credits or emission reductions and provides for civil penalties for violations of those requirements.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 728 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: parking cash-out program
Authorizes local entities to enforce the provisions of the parking cash-out program.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2009
SB 827 (Wright-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District: CEQA: permits
Authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), notwithstanding a superior court decision, to issue emission reduction credits to "essential public services" and exempt facilities or equipment, except for an electrical generation facility, consistent with SCAQMD rules, and sunsets on 5/1/12.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2009
Similar bills are SB 450 (Lowenthal-D) which is on Assembly Third Reading File, and SB 579 (Lowenthal-D) and SB 696 (Wright-D) which are at the Assembly Desk.
SB 3XX (Florez-D) Air pollution: grants: farm equipment
Requires that when applying for the Carl Moyer Program, off-road emission reduction projects that include farm equipment shall be granted a minimum project life of at least 10 years, and allows an off-road project that includes farm equipment to receive an emissions reduction grant from the Carl Moyer Program regardless of whether the improvements funded by the grant will be for compliance with any future local, state or federal statute, regulation, rule, or other legal restriction.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
SCR 38 (Wright-D) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Requests a delay in enforcement of the Air Resources Board's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II requirements until October 2010.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Related bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SJR 17 (Leno-D) Climate change: ocean acidification: Arctic
Reaffirms the Legislatures commitment to reducing greenhouse gases in California to 1990 levels by 2020, and urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases and the federal government to persevere in its commitment to leading the world in efforts to address global climate change and ocean acidification, and reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million.
(Held at Assembly Desk)
AB 19 (Ruskin-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: consumer product labeling
Directs the Air Resources Board to develop a program for the voluntary labeling of consumer goods with information on the emissions of greenhouse gasses associated with the product.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 28 (Jeffries-R) Natural gas engines: water movement
Prohibits air pollution control districts and air quality management districts from imposing specified emissions, testing, and reporting requirements for natural gas engines.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 96* (Ruskin-D) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Provides $8 million for grants and loans to assist gas station operators in meeting the Enhanced Vapor Recovery regulations adopted by the Air Resources Board.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009
Related bills are SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; AB 453 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; AB 1188 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 118 (Logue-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Repeals the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 231 (Huffman-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt fees on sources of greenhouse gas emissions by 3/30/10, and establishes the Climate Protection Trust Fund for deposit of fee revenues, as well as all other compliance or penalty revenues, in place of the Air Pollution Control Fund.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 376 (Nava-D) Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets
Requires, as of 1/1/10, a person who sells a voluntary greenhouse gas emission offset in California to include in any marketing materials specified information, such as the geographic location of the offset project, the duration of the effect of the offset, the name of the certification body or governmental protocol under which the offset was certified, and the name of the registry with which the offset is registered. Prohibits, as of 1/1/11, any protocol, certification body, or registry from being used to support a voluntary offset marketing claim unless the protocol, certification body, or registry has first been validated by the Air Resources Board, with certain exception.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 397 (Jeffries-R) South Coast Air Quality Management District
Requires the members of the South Coast Air Quality Management District's governing board to be elected by divisions commencing with the 2012 general election.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 414 (Galgiani-D) Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop and implement a trade-down program that provides assistance to owners of high-use, newer model, heavy-duty fleet vehicles to convert those vehicles for lower use, commercial operations in a manner that reduces emissions of oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 478 (Chesbro-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the State Water Resources Control Board, to adopt rules and regulations relating to recycling and solid waste management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and will subject violators of these rules and regulations to civil and criminal penalties.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 658 (Hayashi-D) Air quality: dry cleaning: grants
Requires the Air Resources Board in increase the amount of grants made to any eligible dry cleaning operation for the purchase of a professional dry cleaning system that uses a nontoxic and nonsmog-forming process, as specified, from $10,000 to $20,000.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 782 (Jeffries-R) Regional transportation plans
Prohibits judicial review of specified Air Resources Board and local government decisions related to greenhouse gas emissions and land use. Expands specified California Environmental Quality Act exemptions which are currently available only to a residential project to any project.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 823 (Hill-D) Smog check: vehicle repair assistance
Revises the income eligibility level for vehicle owners requesting assistance from the Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau of Automotive Repair.
Vetoed
AB 835 (Monning-D) Pesticides: volatile organic compound emissions
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding fumigants and pesticides, their impacts, costs and damages, Department of Pesticide Regulation failure, and the independence of Air Resources Board (ARB). Establishes a public hearing process for ARB dealing with emission data, changes the pesticide disclosure requirements and emission inventory baseline, and requires removal of reclassified products from the baseline.
(Failed passage in Assembly Agriculture Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 859 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Requires vehicles 15 years and older to undergo annual smog check inspections, and changes the amounts of financial assistant available for vehicle repair and the eligibility for that assistance.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 881 (Huffman-D) Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority
Creates the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Agency to assist local agencies in Sonoma County to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Chapter 375, Statutes of 2009
AB 892 (Furutani-D) Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program
Provides that returned or unspent funds from an obligated contract received by a local agency under the Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program may either be awarded to fund other equipment projects included on the same competitively ranked list approved by the Air Resources Board (ARB) pursuant to the grant agreement, or be returned to ARB for reallocation to other projects in the same source category in the same trade corridor.
Chapter 483, Statutes of 2009
AB 956 (Skinner-D) State Air Resources Board: pavement coatings
Requires the Department of Transportation (Caltrans), no later than 1/1/11, to establish standards for the solar reflectance of paved surfaces consistent with the specified criteria. Provides that, on and after 1/1/12, Caltrans, other state or local agency, and every other person, when paving or repaving any surface, shall comply with the requirements established by Caltrans, and provides that, if a building permit from a local agency is required for the paving of any surface that is subject to this requirement, that permit shall not be issued unless the paving will be constructed in compliance with this requirement.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1033 (Nielsen-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Requires a state or local agency, before adopting or amending a regulation after 1/1/10, to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of any regulations adopted by the state or local agency on or before 1/1/10, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and obtain an independent third-party economic impact analysis of any proposed regulation that the state or local agency determines will impose aggregate costs of $1 million or more on greenhouse gas emission sources subject to the proposed regulation, irrespective of the economic or noneconomic benefits of the regulation.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1085 (Mendoza-D) State Air Resources Board: regulations
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to make available to the public all technical data used in the development of a proposed regulation before ARB's comment period for the proposed regulation.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2009
AB 1188* (Ruskin-D) Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program
Revises the definition of "project tank" in the regulations for underground petroleum storage tanks to include one or more tanks that are upgraded to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations, and requires a grant application to include a detailed description of the costs incurred to perform the work and complete the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade, if applicable. If the State Water Resources Control Board received an applicant's grant application on or before 4/1/09, authorizes grant funds to be used to reimburse up to 100% of the costs that the applicant incurred after the board received the grant application to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009
Related bills are SB 507 (Cox-R) which failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; reconsideration granted; SCR 38 (Wright-D) which is in Senate Environmental Quality Committee; AB 96 (Ruskin-D), Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009; AB 483 (Garrick-R) which is in Assembly Appropriations Committee; and AB 1384 (Miller-R) which is in Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
AB 1212 (Ruskin-D) Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program
Authorizes the Air Resources Board to adopt and implement a clean vehicle incentive, or feebate, program consisting of one-time rebates and one-time surcharges on the sale of new passenger motor vehicles.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1292 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program
Requires that priority for funds under the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 be given to projects that secure other supplemental funding in an amount that is above a percentage requirement required by existing law, as provided.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1305 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee
Imposes an import fee of $0.001 per kilowatt hour on electricity from new power plants in Mexico to fund air pollution control in adjacent California air districts.
(In Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)
AB 1318 (V. Manuel Perez-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District
Establishes special air pollution permitting procedures for one power plan and essential public service facilities in the South Coast Quality Management District in order to circumvent an unfavorable court ruling.
Chapter 285, Statutes of 2009
A similar bill is SB 388 (Calderon-D) which is on Senate Unfinished Business File.
AB 1373 (Skinner-D) Global warming potential: refrigerants
Requires the California Energy Commission, on or before 12/1/11, to assess, in consultation with the Air Resources Board, the potential to reduce the use and emissions of high-global warming potential compounds in stationary refrigeration and air-conditioning industry in California.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1404 (De Leon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets
Limits the use of compliance offsets to 10% of the greenhouse gas emission reductions expected from market mechanisms used to meet the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32 [Nunez-D and Pavley-D], Chapter 488, Statutes of 2006).
Vetoed
AB 1405 (De Leon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Establishes the Community Benefits Fund, and requires a minimum of 30% of revenues generated pursuant to the California Global Warming Solution Act, including the fee discussed above, to be deposited into that Fund. The monies in the Fund will be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the most impacted and disadvantaged communities in California to accelerate greenhouse gas emission reductions or mitigate direct health impacts of climate change in those communities.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1416 (Galgiani-D) Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling
Prohibits the Air Resources Board from imposing specified emission control requirements on portable engines, off-road vehicles, or on-road vehicles used by a person holding a C-57 or C-61 (D-21 subcategory) license issued by the Contractors' State License Board for water well drilling, reconstruction, or maintenance, or water pump installation, repair, or maintenance, until five years after the emergency declared by the Governor on 2/27/09, relating to a statewide water drought, has been proclaimed terminated.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1431 (Hill-D) Air quality: Port of Oakland
Requires the Port of Oakland and entities involved in goods movement at the Port of Oakland to establish emission reduction strategies that are no less stringent than emission reduction strategies employed at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach (San Pedro Ports). Defines "no less stringent" to mean achieving a comparable quantity of emissions reductions as achieved by the separate clean air action plans of the San Pedro Ports. Requires the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to determine, after consultation with the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Air Resources Board, whether the Port of Oakland and the entities involved in goods movement at the Port of Oakland have established emission reduction strategies that are no less stringent than those employed by the San Pedro Ports.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1452 (Skinner-D) Air Resources Board: cement
Requires the Air Resources Board, on or before 1/1/11, to develop and adopt limitations on greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the production of cement sold in the state, regardless of the cement's origin and including greenhouse gas emission resulting from transportation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1527 (Lieu-D) Motor vehicle emission reduction projects
Requires the Air Resources Board to revise project guidelines for specified emission reduction programs by 1/1/11 to allow certain federal and state funds to be used on a project without being factored into criteria emission reduction cost-effectiveness calculations.
Vetoed
AB 1530 (Skinner-D) Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt protocols for the evaluation, measurement, and verification of any greenhouse gas reduction measure that relies on energy efficiency, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, and energy efficiency experts.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
ACR 14 (Niello-R) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Calls upon the Air Resources Board, prior to any regulatory action being taken consistent with the scoping plan for the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, to perform an economic analysis that will give the State of California a more complete and accurate picture of the costs and benefits of the act's implementation. Calls upon the Governor to use his authority under the Act to adjust deadlines for adoption of regulations.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
ACR 77 (Swanson-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Urges the Air Resources Board to meet the statutory requirements of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 by ensuring that its analysis of specified emission reduction measures include prescribed components.
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2009
AJR 24 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: marine pollution
Requests that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the proposed North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
(In Assembly Environmental, Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
Coastal Resources
SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban
Makes it a crime for an individual to smoke on a state beach or in a state park.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 42 (Corbett-D) Coastal resources: once-through cooling
Requires that the location, design, construction, and capacity of cooling water intake structures reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact.
(In Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 139 (Kehoe-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: ports
Provides that the master plan for the San Diego Unified Port District's jurisdiction shall not be subject to municipal, county, or district initiatives or referendums, but shall be subject to the California Coastal Act of 1976.
(In Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 428 (Kehoe-D) Tide and submerged lands: San Diego
Amends a 1931 legislative grant of tidelands and submerged lands to the City of San Diego by adding an allowable use of these lands: marine mammal park for the enjoyment and educational benefit of children.
Chapter 19, Statutes of 2009
SB 459 (Wolk-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: removal of vessels
Streamlines the authority of the State Lands Commission to remove and dispose of abandoned vessels, eliminates a requirement that the Commission dispose of a vessel through court action, and exempts these actions from the California Environmental Quality Act or any law or regulation governing the disposal of property by a state agency.
Vetoed
SB 539 (Wiggins-D) Salmon and steelhead trout
Expands the eligible uses of the Ocean Protection Trust Fund to include grants and loans to public agencies or private entities that assist in the restoration of the native population of salmon and steelhead trout and the restoration of the state's salmon fishery.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 614 (Simitian-D) Vessels
Clarifies that a vessel is engaged in innocent passage when operating in marine waters of the state rather than state waters. Revises the California Clean Coast Act, including the extension of sunset dates from 1/1/10 to 1/1/14, relating to the prohibition of release of sewage, sewage sludge and oily bilgewater from large passenger vessels and oceangoing ships, as specified.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2009
SB 790 (Pavley-D) Resources: water quality: stormwater resource plans
Establishes grant criteria for stormwater funding through the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) and develops a local stormwater planning process for grants to public agencies and non-profit organizations for low-impact development projects for stormwater runoff.
Chapter 620, Statutes of 2009
SB 792 (Leno-D) Tidelands & submerged lands: City & County of San Francisco
Repeals and readopts, with certain revisions, the Hunters Point Shipyard Conversion Act of 2002 (AB 2964 [Shelley-D], Chapter 464, Statutes of 2002), the Hunters Point Shipyard Public Trust Exchange Act (AB 768 [Leno-D], Chapter 435, Statutes of 2003), and Section 5006.8 of the Public Resources Code (relating to land exchanges at Candlestick Point).
Chapter 203, Statutes of 2009
SCR 56 (Oropeza-D) Coastal development and Marina del Rey
Requests the County of Los Angeles to undertake a comprehensive update of the Marina del Rey local coastal program prior to any further approvals of coastal development permits or amendments to the local coastal program for Marina del Rey, in order to ensure that any redevelopment proposals reflect the statewide goals and objectives of the California Coastal Act of 1975 and the California Environmental Quality Act.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 226 (Ruskin-D) Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976
Imposes a minimum penalty and increases the maximum penalty for violations of the Coastal Act, and allows the California Coastal Commission to impose administrative civil penalties for violations of the Coastal Act.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 248 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Ballast water management
Requires the person in charge of a vessel to maintain and submit to the State Lands Commission specified information relating to the vessel's ballast water treatment system.
Chapter 317, Statutes of 2009
AB 262 (Bass-D) Energy: activities, programs, and projects
Provides direction and authorization to the California Energy Commission regarding the use of money received pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for energy-related activities.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2009
AB 291 (Saldana-D) Coastal resources: coastal development permits: penalties
Prohibits, with a specified exception, the California Coastal Commission from acting on a coastal development permit application for development on any property subject to a violation of the Coastal Act.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 694 (Saldana-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of San Diego
Repeals Chapter 642, Statutes of 1929 which removed the tidelands designation on all land shoreward of the bulkhead in the City of San Diego and declared them to be free from all public trusts and restrictions.
Vetoed
AB 1217 (Monning-D) Ocean Protection Council: sustainable seafood
Requires the Ocean Protection Council to develop and implement a voluntary sustainable seafood promotion program that includes (1) a protocol to guide entities in how to be independently certified to internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood, (2) a marketing assistance program, (3) a competitive grant and loan program to assist California fisheries in qualifying for certification, and (4) the design of a label that may be used exclusively to identify seafood caught in California that is certified to internationally accepted standards for sustainable seafood.
Chapter 279, Statutes of 2009
AB 1570* (Salas-D) Coastal development: desalination facility
Extends the expiration date of a coastal development permit for a seawater desalination facility that was approved after 1/1/07, as specified, by 12 months and requires that such a permit for a seawater desalination facility will not expire less than three years from the date on which the California Coastal Commission or the local government approved the project if development has not begun.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AJR 3 (Nava-D) Offshore oil drilling
Requests that the Congress of the United States reinstate the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for the 2009 fiscal year and beyond, and memorializes the Legislature's opposition to the proposed expansion of oil and gas drilling off the Pacific Coast and any federal energy policies and legislation that weakens California's role in energy siting decisions by those policies.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
Environmental Quality
SB 233 (Aanestad-R) State Water Resources Control Board
Subjects a person to the current prohibition of being a member of the State Water Resources Control Board if he/she receives, or has received during the previous two years, 25% or more of his/her income directly or indirectly from any person subject to specified waste discharge requirements or applicants for specified waste discharge requirements.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 310 (Ducheny-D) Water quality: stormwater and other runoff
Allows local government agencies that have permits for stormwater systems to voluntarily create a watershed improvement plan to improve stormwater management. Allows participating agencies to assess fees on activities that generate stormwater pollution to pay for the implementation of plans approved by the regional water board.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2009
SB 371* (Cogdill-R) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.98 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 456 (Wolk-D) and SB 735 (Steinberg-D) which are in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee, and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee.
SB 408 (Padilla-D) California Environmental Quality Act: LEED exemption
Exempts from the California Environmental Quality Act a project that has been certified as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum or higher pursuant to the standards and certifications adopted by the United States Green Building Council.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 413 (Ducheny-D) Waste discharge requirements: fees
Amends the definition of "recoverable costs" for purposes of waste discharge requirement fees, to specify that it includes costs incurred by the Regional Water Quality Control Boards' to prepare basin plans. States that the portion of the fee calculated for recovering the costs for preparing basin plans shall be calculated in a manner than ensures that fee payers are not paying disproportionately more than their impacts or benefits justify.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 456* (Wolk-D) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.805 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-R) and SB 735 (Steinberg-D) which are in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee, and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee.
SB 605 (Ashburn-R) California Environmental Quality Act: biogas pipelines
Provides for a biogas pipeline in Fresno, Kern, Kings, or Tulare County to be added to the exemption currently allowed for natural gas pipelines under the California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2009
SB 670* (Wiggins-D) Vacuum or suction dredge equipment
Imposes a temporary moratorium on the granting of new suction dredging permits until the ongoing environmental review is certified. Provides that the issuance of permits is not a ministerial act, and that, therefore, such permits may not be issued until a valid underlying environmental document is in place.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2009
SB 686 (DeSaulnier-D) Environment: CEQA exemption: addition and deletion
Clarifies that the Office of Planning and Research review of each request to add or delete a class of exempt projects under the California Environmental Quality Act, and submittal of the request to the Secretary of the Natural Resource Agency, must also be in accordance with Sections 21083 and 21084 of the Public Resources Code, and changes references from the "Resources Agency" to the "Natural Resources Agency."
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 735* (Steinberg-D) Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9.785 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a water supply reliability and water source protection program.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-R) and SB 456 (Wolk-D) which are in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee, and AB 1187 (Huffman-D) which is in Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee.
SB 759 (Leno-D) Federal state of emergency: aerial spraying of pesticide
Prohibits the use of pesticides for aerial spraying in emergency circumstances, unless the manufacturer had previously disclosed the pesticide ingredients to the state. Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to disclose ingredient information to local governments and specified health care providers in effected areas.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 808* (Wolk-D) San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to implement its resolution entitled the Strategic Workplan for Actions to Protect Beneficial Uses of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary by commencing an investigation of the reasonableness of the methods of diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta used by the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project, ensuring that the implementation is consistent with its duties to protect the public trust and prevent the waste, unreasonable use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion of water, and taking other action. Requires the SWRCB to prepare related quarterly reports, which the state SWRCB shall be required to make available to the public and to post on the SWRCB's Internet Web site.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 827 (Wright-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District: CEQA: permits
Authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), notwithstanding a superior court decision, to issue emission reduction credits to "essential public services" and exempt facilities or equipment, except for an electrical generation facility, consistent with SCAQMD rules, and sunsets on 5/1/12.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2009
Similar bills are SB 450 (Lowenthal-D) which is on Assembly Third Reading File, and SB 579 (Lowenthal-D) and SB 696 (Wright-D) which are at the Assembly Desk.
SB 832* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Water pollution control
Among other provisions, defines "severely disadvantaged community" as a community with a median household income of less than 60% of the statewide median household income for purposes of the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2009
SB 4X (Ducheny-D) Environmental quality: surplus state property
Provides a statutory exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for disposition of state surplus lands and clarify timing of CEQA compliance by state agencies.
Vetoed
SB 27XXX* (Negrete McLeod-D) Safe drinking water: funding
Expands authorized uses for clean drinking water and wastewater funding from the federal government pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Chapter 25, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
SB 8XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D) Water diversion and use: reporting: resources: Disaster Prep
Appropriates $546 million from various funds authorized by Proposition 84 to (1) support projects that reduce dependence on the Delta for water supply, (2) reduce the potential for levee failures that would jeopardize water conveyance, (3) provide grants for storm water projects, and (4) provide grants to local agencies to support the development and implementation of natural community conservation plans in or around the Delta. Provisions are contingent upon the enactment SB 1XXXXXXX (Simitian-D and Steinberg-D), SB 6XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D and Pavley-D), and SB 7XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D). Revises the existing requirements mandating that certain diverters of surface waters report their diversions to the State Water Board. Requires diversions in the Delta to be reported to the State Water Board and provides the State Water Resources Control Board with 25 additional positions for water rights enforcement, and makes an appropriation thereof. (These provisions are contained in the 8/17/09 version of AB 900[De Leon-D].)
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session
AB 25 (Gilmore-R) Mandatory minimum civil penalties
Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) from imposing a mandatory minimum penalty for a violation for which an action to impose liability is not requested or imposed by the SWRCB or a RWQCB within one year of the date the SWRCB or RWQCB receives notice of the violation. Authorizes the SWRCB or a RWQCB to impose a mandatory minimum penalty for a serious violation involving the failure to file a certain discharge monitoring report for each complete 30 day period following the deadline for submitting the report only if the SWRCB or RWQCB has provided notification to the violator of the ongoing violation. In the absence of notification, the failure to file that monitoring report constitutes a single violation.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 268 (Gaines-R) Onsite sewage treatment systems
Repeals current requirements for the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulation and standards for the safe operation of on-site waste treatment systems.
(Failed passage in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 471 (Arambula-IN) Safe drinking water, clean water, and watershed protection
Expands the definition of "eligible project" for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act of 2000 (Proposition 13) to mean a project that is either (1) identified in the CALFED EIS/EIR, or (2) within at least one of the 6 prescribed categories of projects. Changes the barrier improvement project category to, instead, include a project that constructs a barrier to protect fish and other barriers in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channels to improve water quality and water level for local diversions. Provides for the submission of its provisions as a proposed amendment of a general obligation bond act to the voters at the next statewide election in accordance with specified law.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 499 (Hill-D) Environment: California Environmental Quality Act
Revises California Environmental Quality Act judicial review procedures to clarify that only the recipients of a project approval identified by the lead agency are the real parties in interest that must be named by the plaintiff in an appeal of the lead agency's decision.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 580 (Huber-D) Onsite sewage treatment systems
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board regulations for onsite water treatment systems to include regulatory tiers based on the demonstrated risk posed to public health and the environment by the system.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 696 (Hagman-R) California Environmental Quality Act: arbitration
Permits an applicant and a lead agency to agree to resolve disputes arising from an environmental impact report through private arbitration, in lieu of seeking judicial review.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 913 (Logue-R) Mandatory minimum civil penalties
Prohibits the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) from imposing a mandatory minimum penalty for a violation for which an action to impose liability is not requested or imposed by the SWRCB or a RWQCB within 12 months of receiving notice of the violation.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 914 (Logue-R) Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Provides that in the case where mandatory minimum penalties for Water Code violations at publicly-owned treatment works are imposed by the State Water Resources Control Board or the regional water quality control board those penalty amounts may be applied to the correction of the Water Code violation if the boards find an economic hardship based on the impact of the penalties on individual ratepayers.
Vetoed
AB 916 (Logue-R) Onsite sewage treatment systems: recommended standards
Provides that the State Water Resources Control Board shall establish recommended standards for onsite waste treatment systems rather than enforceable regulations.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1011 (Jones-D) Insurance: green incentives
Requires the Insurance Commissioner to hold public hearings, collect certain information, and study the effects of environmentally friendly practices on insurance products, as specified. Requires property insurers to offer green replacement coverage, as defined, to an insured after a loss. Requires property insurers to offer coverage for solar and wind distributed generation, as specified. Also authorizes insurers to claim a 20% credit for investments in environmental financial institutions against the amount of gross premiums tax owed by the insurer, as specified.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1079 (V. Manuel Perez-D) Environment: California-Mexico border
Requires the California-Mexico Border Relations Council to develop a strategic plan containing specific elements to guide the implementation of the New River Improvement Project in Imperial County. Creates the New River Improvement Project Account in the California Border Environmental and Public Health Protection Fund and monies in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended for activities related to the New River.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2009
AB 1107 (Blakeslee-R) Environmental protection: CA Environmental Protection Agency
Requires an economic cost-benefit analysis of regulations proposed by the departments, boards and offices of the California Environmental Protection Agency.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1187 (Huffman-D) Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010
Enacts the Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 which, if approved by the voters, authorizes, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and water source protection programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,035,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
Similar bills are SB 371 (Cogdill-R), SB 456 (Wolk-D), and SB 735 (Steinberg-D) which are in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, and AB 752 (Caballero-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee.
AB 1366 (Feuer-D) Residential self-regenerating water softeners
Authorizes local agencies that owns and operates a community sewer system or water recycling facility to control salinity inputs from residential self-regenerating water softeners to protect the quality of the waters of the state, subject to certain conditions.
Chapter 527, Statutes of 2009
AB 8XX (Nestande-R) Environmental quality: transportation exemption
Enacts a series of amendments to current law to relax heavy duty construction equipment standards, expedite permitting of transportation construction projects, and exempts similar construction projects for environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009-10, Second Extraordinary Session
AB 79XXX (Blakeslee-R) Environmental protection
Requires, at or before the time a rule proposed for adoption is made available to the public at a public workshop or for purposes of public comment, the California Environmental Protection Agency, or a board, department, or office within the agency, to complete and place into the rulemaking record an economic analysis of the rule. Requires the agency to solicit public comment on the economic analysis in the same manner as on the proposed rule. Allows any interested person, within 15 calendar days of the date of the public workshop or public hearing, to request the agency to submit the economic analysis to external peer review, and prescribes procedures for conducting the external peer review. States that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on 12/19/09, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 81XXX (Hall-D) CA Environmental Quality Act: exemption: sports stadium
Waives environmental review and land use planning requirements as they apply to a football stadium project in the City of Industry.
Chapter 30, Statutes of 2009-10, Third Extraordinary Session
Forestry
SB 144 (Pavley-D) Forest resources: management
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) to take several actions to further state greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Requires CalFire to develop incentives for the conservation of private forest lands, to establish baseline information about forest lands in the state, and to develop regulations for mitigating the impacts of converting forest lands to other uses.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 178 (Aanestad-R) State property: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Authorizes the Director of the Department of General Service to sell, lease or exchange approximately three acres of state-owned real property located at 875 Cypress Avenue, in the City of Redding, that is specifically not declared surplus to the state's needs and is currently used by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as its Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters, for the purpose of consolidating operations on or near the Redding Airport.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2009
SB 451 (Cogdill-R) Public contracts: preferences: forest products
Requires any state agency that contracts for, or acquires, lumber or other solid wood products, excluding paper and other types of secondary manufactured goods, to give preference, if price, fitness, and quality are equal, to lumber and other solid wood products that are harvested from forests within this state.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 505 (Kehoe-D) Local planning: fire hazard impacts
Expands the required contents of safety elements that cover state responsibility area lands and very high fire hazard severity zones, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 126 (Jeffries-R) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) to conduct a state and federal level criminal offender record information search through the Department of Justice prior to hiring an applicant for a position with CalFire or the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, with exceptions.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 135* (Jeffries-R) State parks: California Citrus State Historic Park
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter into an operating agreement with the City of Riverside for the development, improvement, restoration, care, maintenance, administration, and control of California Citrus State Historic Park.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 149 (Jeffries-R) State government: board of forestry and fire protection
Adds two members to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, both county supervisors (one from a rural county) representing a county that has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire), for CalFire to provide fire preventions and suppression services within that county.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1066 (Mendoza-D) Forest practices: timber harvesting plans
Allows for an extension of a timber harvest plan by amendment for up to a maximum of four additional one-year extensions, if the plan expired in 2008 or 2009 and specified conditions are met.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2009
AB 1252 (Portantino-D) Forestry: timber harvesting plans
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire), by 7/1/10, to establish an online database of all timber harvest plans and nonindustrial timber management plans, and to post, online, comment letters on those timber plans from relevant state agencies or departments no later than seven days after receipt. Requires CalFire, by 1/1/11, to post, online, past timber harvest plans dating back to those approved in 2005 for all regions, searchable by geographical region, affected watershed, and other parameters that CalFire determines useful.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1300 (Fletcher-R) Fire protection: fuels reduction grant program
Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop and implement a fuels reduction grant program.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 1504 (Skinner-D) Forest resources: carbon sequestration
Requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection ensure that its rules and regulations governing the harvesting of commercial forest tree species maximize, to the extent feasible, the capacity of forest resources to sequester carbon dioxide emissions.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 11XXXX* (Evans-D) Forestry management
Allows the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds in the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection forestry management activities.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Solid Waste Management
SB 25 (Padilla-D) Solid waste
Increases the diversion rate mandate on local jurisdictions for solid waste from 50% to 60% by 2015. Makes a variety of changes to existing laws relating to commercial recycling, permit review, solid waste tipping fees, illegal dumping and refuse service providers.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 26 (Simitian-D) Home-generated pharmaceutical waste
Defines home generated pharmaceutical waste and exempts such waste from existing regulatory requirements for the handling of medical waste. Authorizes pharmacies and other facilities to collect home generated pharmaceutical waste, under specified conditions.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 55 (Corbett-D) Recycling: California redemption value containers
Deletes an obsolete requirement that the Department of Conservation (DOC) calculate a redemption rate for beverage containers subject to the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. Retains the requirement that the DOC calculate the recycling rate for beverage containers.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 63 (Strickland-R) Waste management
Abolishes the California Integrated Waste Management Board, transfers its duties and responsibilities, as well as the Bottle Bill recycling program, to the Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery created by the bill.
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2009
A similar bill was SB 44 (Denham-R) which failed passage; reconsideration granted; and AB 39XXX (Denham-R) which is in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 167 (Ducheny-D) Solid waste: waste tires
Makes changes to existing law that requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to adopt a five-year plan establishing goals and priorities for the waste tire program as it relates to waste tires in the California-Mexico border region.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2009
SB 228 (DeSaulnier-D) Plastic bags: compostable plastic bags
Requires, beginning 7/1/10, a manufacturer of a compostable plastic bag meeting the American Society for Testing and Materials D6400 standard to ensure that the compostable plastic bag is readily and easily identifiable from other plastic bags.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 230 (Cogdill-R) Waste tire haulers: registration
Exempts from the waste and used tire hauler registration requirements, a person transporting illegally dumped waste or used tires to an amnesty day event or to an authorized location who has received written authorization, which includes specific conditions and dates and documentation that a police report has been filed for the illegally dumped tires, from the local enforcement agency.
Chapter 41, Statutes of 2009
SB 317 (Simitian-D) Fire Alarm Device Collection Act of 2009
Requires smoke alarm manufacturers to provide information to consumers regarding where and how to safely dispose of smoke alarms.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 390 (Kehoe-D) Solid waste: recycling market development
Extends the sunset date of an existing program that provides loans to recycling businesses from 2011 to 2021. Creates a two-tiered loan program that allows for larger loans, if sufficient funds are available. The larger loans will be available until 2016.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 524 (Correa-D) Solid waste: auto shredder residue
Requires the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish a working group to consider the current regulation of auto shredder waste and potential changes to that regulation.
(On Assembly Third Reading File)
SB 531 (DeSaulnier-D) Solid waste: at-store recycling program
Requires manufacturers of plastic carryout bags to develop specified educational materials to encourage the reduced use or recycling of those bags. The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) may modify the educational materials and requires CIWMB to approve the educational materials by January 2012.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 624 (Romero-D) Solid waste: anaerobic digestion
Defines the term "anaerobic digestion" for purposes of the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. Defines the term "composting operation" or "composting facility" as an operation or facility that produces compost, including but not limited to, an entity that produces compost either aerobically or nonaerobically, and an operation or facility that utilizes anaerobic digestion, and revises the definition of the term "transformation" to exclude anaerobic digestion.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 723 (DeSaulnier-D) Electronic waste recovery payments
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to update its schedule for payments to recyclers of specified electronic wastes every year, rather than every other year as is currently required.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 803 (DeSaulnier-D) Plastic waste: polyvinyl chloride clamshell packaging
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board, by 1/1/11, to develop regulations, after consultation with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) clamshell packaging manufacturers, product manufacturers, retailers, and the environmental community, that reduces the volume of hard-to-recycle PVC clamshell packaging, as defined, by 50%.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 832* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Resources: solid waste diversion
Among other provisions, makes various technical, non-substantive changes to concerning solid waste diversion.
Chapter 643, Statutes of 2009
SB 57XXX (Corbett-D) Recycling: California redemption value containers
Expands the Beverage Container Recycling Program to cover beverages it currently covers regardless of size or container types with few exceptions. Currently, glass, metal and plastic beverage containers are the only container types in the program. Includes container types in the program, such as paper. Also reforms the market development grant program to help aseptic containers be recycled and create green jobs. Provides assistance to our local conservation corps, recyclers and local government recycling programs.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was AB 983 (Skinner-D) which is in Senate Rules Committee.
AB 68 (Brownley-D) Solid waste: single-use carryout bags
Prohibits, commencing 7/1/10, grocery and convenience stores and pharmacies from providing single-use carryout bags to customers without charging a sales tax-free fee of 25 cents per bag (the Bag Pollution Cleanup Fee). Exempts from the fee customers participating in certain state-run low-income assistance programs. Allows stores charging the fee to retain a portion of the amount generated by the fee to pay for implementation of the bill, including educational programs and donation of reusable bags to community groups, nonprofits, and similar entities. Creates the Bag Pollution Fund, available for annual legislative appropriation to the California Integrated Waste Management Board for grants to cities and counties for litter cleanup and source reduction.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 222 (Adams-R) Energy: biofuels
Allows facilities that convert solid waste into energy or chemicals to count as a renewable electricity generation facility for the purpose of California's Renewable Portfolio Standard. Allows local governments to count solid waste that is converted into electricity or chemicals toward their recycling diversion goals.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 274 (Portantino-D) Solid waste: landfills: closure plans
Creates a fee funded program for the future cleanup of closed solid waste facilities to go into effect provided that more than 50% of the operators of solid waste facilities opt to participate in the program.
Chapter 318, Statutes of 2009
AB 283 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: extended producer responsibility program
Creates the California Product Stewardship Act of 2009, which requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to administer an Extended Producer Responsibility program of product stewardship that encourages producers to be comprehensively responsible for the life cycle of their products.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 473 (Blumenfield-D) Solid waste: recycling: multifamily dwellings
Requires, on and after 7/1/10, an owner of a multifamily dwelling that consists of five or more living units, to arrange for recycling services that are appropriate for the multifamily dwelling.
Vetoed
AB 478 (Chesbro-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management
Requires the Air Resources Board to consult with the California Integrated Waste Management Board when developing regulations related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste reduction and recycling.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 479 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: diversion
Makes a number of changes to the laws governing solid waste disposal and recycling. Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to increase the diversion of solid waste from the currently required level of 50% to 75% by 2020. Requires certain businesses to arrange for recycling services and requires local governments to implement a commercial recycling program. Requires the CIWMB to study whether required business recycling programs are achieving the state's greenhouse gas reduction targets and requires local governments to adopt a commercial recycling ordinance if the targets are not being met. Makes a number of technical and procedural changes to the laws governing solid waste facility regulation.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 496 (Davis-D) Tire age degradation: consumer disclosure
Enacts provisions requiring a tire retailer to disclose a tire's manufacture date upon sale, and requires a consumer to acknowledge receipt of such information by initialing and dating a statement to that effect.
(In Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 737 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: diversion
Requires public water systems, when they are otherwise required to notify or report to users about potential public health risks related to the systems drinking water, to also post those notices and reports on their Internet Web sites. Authorizes the public water system, upon rectifying the problem, to remove or modify the notice or report.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 747 (Emmerson-R) School facilities: recycling programs
Authorizes and encourages school districts and each campus of the University of California, California State University, and the California Community Colleges to establish and maintain a beverage container recycling program in all classrooms, administrative offices, and other areas owned or leased by the school district or college campus where a significant quantity of beverage containers are generated or may be collected.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 903 (Chesbro-D) Solid waste: compostable plastic bags
Requires manufacturers of compostable plastic bags to ensure that bags are readily identifiable by consumers. Requires manufacturers to submit reports to the state showing that their bags meet specified certifications. Gives the California Integrated Waste Management Board the authority to audit manufacturers to ensure compliance with reporting requirements.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 925 (Saldana-D) Recycling: single-use plastic beverage container caps
Prohibits, beginning 1/1/12, a retailer from selling a single-use beverage container with a cap unless the cap is affixed to the container.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 983 (Skinner-D) Recycling: California redemption value containers
Expands the Beverage Container Recycling Program to cover beverages it currently covers, regardless of size or container types with few exceptions. Currently, glass, metal and plastic beverage containers are the only container types in the program. Includes container types in the program, such as paper. Reforms the market development grant program to help aseptic containers be recycled and create green jobs. Provides assistance to our local conservation corps, recyclers and local government recycling programs.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
A similar bill was SB 57XXX (Corbett-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
AB 994 (Fong-D) Integrated Waste Management Board: buildings
Enacts the Smart Building Educational and Career Training Center Act, requiring the California Integrated Waste Management Board to identify policy changes that may accelerate adoption of high performance building practices, as well as create educational training centers in state government and high education facilities.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1141 (Charles Calderon-D) Carryout bags
Expands the single-use plastic carryout bag recycling program, establishes a 50% recycling goal for plastic bags, and establishes a $0.001 manufacturer fee on plastic bags.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1150 (Gaines-R) Solid waste: resource recycling and recovery
Makes changes to certain references to the California Integrated Waste Management Board to the Right of Resources Recycling and Recovery in conformance with the changes made by SB 63 (Strickland-R), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2009. Requires the Right of Resources Recycling and Recovery to assume duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the board, as described, and changes the department's name to the Department of Toxics and Waste Management.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
A similar bill was AB 84XXX (Gaines-R) which died being unassigned to a committee.
AB 1173 (Huffman-D) Hazardous materials: fluorescent lamps: recycling
Enacts the California Fluorescent Lamp Toxics Reduction and Recycling Act, which on and after 1/1/11, prohibits the sale or offering for sale in this state of luminaries and lighting fixtures that are intended for general lighting purposes and contain preheat ballasts for operation of preheat linear fluorescent lamps. Requires manufacturers and retailers of compact fluorescent light bulbs that receive funding from electricity ratepayers to develop and implement recycling programs for those light bulbs.
Vetoed
AB 1329 (Brownley-D) Waste management
Delays the implementation of SB 63 (Strickland-R), Chapter 21 Statutes of 2009, which abolished the California Integrated Waste Management Board and transfers its functions to a new department, until 1/1/11.
(On Senate Third Reading File)
AB 1343 (Huffman-D) Solid waste: architectural paint: recovery program
Requires manufacturers of architectural paint to develop and implement stewardship programs to manage post-consumer paint. Requires the stewardship plans be reviewed and approved by the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), and requires manufacturers to report annually on the performance of the stewardship program. The CIWMB shall evaluate the reports and determine compliance with the requirements of the bill.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1581 (Assembly Natural Resources Committee) Solid waste: recycling market development
Authorizes local governments to use additional funding sources for participation in the Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) program and grants local governments the option to rescind the designation of an RMDZ.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 11XXXX* (Evans-D) CA Integrated Waste Management Board: budget language
Allows the California Integrated Waste Management Board to take into consideration the prior year unencumbered grants when allocating Used Oil Block Grants for 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
SB 22 (Simitian-D) Hazardous materials: toxic substances
Authorizes the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to recommend procedures for expediting the review and identification of hazard traits, including pending and proposed actions by other states, the federal government, and other nations to limit hazardous materials in products.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 143 (Cedillo-D) California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004
Extends the sunset date for the California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act (Act) of 2004 from 1/1/10 to 1/1/17, and makes a corresponding change to a provision that provides for continued immunity after the repeal of the Act.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2009
SB 231 (Lowenthal-D) Hazardous waste: generator fees
Requires each generator of five tons of hazardous waste or more to pay a fee in an unspecified amount per ton of hazardous waste generated during the prior calendar year, subject to the specified exceptions.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 260 (Wiggins-D) Petroleum products: motor oil
Increases the maximum fee paid to the Department of Food and Agriculture's (DFA's) Division of Measurement of Standards from $0.02 to $0.05 for each gallon of motor oil sold or purchased on or after 1/1/10, and provides that a fee of $0.03 for each gallon of motor oil sold or purchased may be applied by the Secretary of DFA prior to the adoption of regulations.
Chapter 573, Statutes of 2009
SB 346 (Kehoe-D) Hazardous materials: motor vehicle brake friction materials
Reduces the use of copper and other heavy metals in automobile brake friction materials starting in 2014. Provides for a fee on brake friction materials sold in the state to fund the activities specified in the bill.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 443 (Pavley-D) Supermarkets: cleaning products: reviews
Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to conduct reviews of cleaning products used in supermarkets, to determine whether there is any potential harm to consumers, employees, or the environment.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 466 (Oropeza-D) Hazardous waste: transportation
Revises the condition for exempting manifest and transporter requirements pertaining to hazardous waste to an increased maximum weight of 10,000 pounds and increases the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons, as specified.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 486 (Simitian-D) Medical waste: sharps waste
Requires a pharmaceutical manufacturer that sells or distributes a medication that is self-injected at home through the use of a hypodermic needle, pen needle, intravenous needle, or any other similar devices to submit to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, or its successor agency, a plan that describes how the manufacturer supports the safe collection and destruction of home-generated sharps waste.
Chapter 591, Statutes of 2009
SB 546 (Lowenthal-D) Used oil
Raises the fee paid by lubricating oil manufacturers from $0.16 to $0.26 per gallon, increases the incentives paid for recycling used oil, increases the testing requirements for used oil transporters, and requires a life cycle analysis of used oil.
Chapter 353, Statutes of 2009
SB 757 (Pavley-D) Lead wheel weights
Prohibits a person from manufacturing, selling, or installing a wheel weight that contains more than 0.1% lead by weight and enacts specified civil and administrative penalties for violations of the prohibition.
Chapter 614, Statutes of 2009
SCR 60 (Negrete McLeod-D) Inherently Safer Technology
Urges the state, county, and local governments, the owners and operators of water utility facilities, and the chemical companies that supply these utilities, to mitigate the potential harm involved in the release of hazardous substances by substituting Inherently Safer Technology.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 96* (Ruskin-D) Gasoline: underground storage tanks
Transfers $8 million from an administrative sub-account to the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing Account and appropriates those funds for grants and loans to support compliance with an existing regulatory requirement on gas station owners. Also extends the sunset date of the grant and loan program from 2011 to 2016.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2009
AB 147 (Saldana-D) Hazardous waste: electronic waste
Requires manufacturers and producers of electronic devices to submit information about the hazardous characteristics of the device to the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
Vetoed
AB 256 (Bill Berryhill-R) Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories
Exempts a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity from establishing and implementing a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of a hazardous material, as prescribed, if the only hazardous materials that the farm has onsite are specified amounts of lubricating oils, fertilizers, or other hazardous materials that are onsite for less than 10 days at a time.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 305 (Nava-D) Hazardous materials: statute of limitations: penalties
Extends the statute of limitations for violations of Hazardous Material Release Response Plans and authorizes the imposition of a jail sentence for the violation of oil spill prevention reporting requirements.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2009
AB 463 (Tran-R) Vehicles: hazardous materials
Allows the California Highway Patrol to issue a license to a transporter of hazardous materials after the licensee has failed an inspection, provided that the licensee has corrected the reason for the failure.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2009
AB 536 (Arambula-IN) Hazardous waste: financial assurances
Includes a financial test as a financial assurance mechanism. Specifically provides that a local government owner of a hazardous waste facility is eligible to meet its post-closure financial obligations by utilizing financial assurance mechanisms authorized by the federal act.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 738 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Brownfield cleanup: loan or grant program
Allows the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to administer a loan and grant program initially funded by federal funds received under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2001, should DTSC receive such funds.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 907 (Chesbro-D) California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act
Makes a variety of changes to the statutes regulating used lubricating oil. Reduces the number of used oil collectors that can apply for recycling incentives. Creates a new incentive for re-refined oil. Allows additional funding for local government oil recycling efforts, providing sufficient revenues are available.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1112 (Blakeslee-R) Hazardous waste: management
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to the extent it does not violate federal law, to classify as non-hazardous waste petroleum contact water and petroleum tank bottoms and sludge.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1131 (Feuer-D) Hazardous materials: green chemistry and accidental releases
Expands the Department of Toxic Substances Control's (DTSC) pollution prevention program. Transfers the state's hazardous materials emergency programs-the business and area plan program and the accidental release prevention program from the California Emergency Management Agency to DTSC.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1147 (Arambula-IN) Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage
Allows the Department of Public Health to approve alternatives to existing medical waste requirements for storage of medical waste.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1173 (Huffman-D) Hazardous materials: fluorescent lamps: recycling
Enacts the California Fluorescent Lamp Toxics Reduction and Recycling Act, which on and after 1/1/11, prohibits the sale or offering for sale, in this state, of luminaries and lighting fixtures that are intended for general lighting purposes and contain preheat ballasts for operation of preheat linear fluorescent lamps. Requires manufacturers and retailers of compact fluorescent light bulbs that receive funding from electricity ratepayers to develop and implement recycling programs for those light bulbs.
Vetoed
AB 1188* (Ruskin-D) Hazardous materials: underground storage tanks
Makes various changes to the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Act of 1989 (Act), including the temporary increase of a petroleum storage fee, the priority of allocations made from the School District Account, reimbursement to claimants to cover "carry over costs," and other changes to the Act.
Chapter 649, Statutes of 2009
AB 1467 (Bass-D) Natural resources: oil and gas operations
Requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to require an operator to implement a monitoring program, designed to detect releases to the soil and water, including both groundwater and surface water, for aboveground oil production tanks and facilities.
(In Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1489 (Smyth-R) Hazardous materials: methamphetamine laboratories
Updates the cleanup standard used to determine if a methamphetamine contaminated property is safe for human occupancy.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2009
AB 1507 (Block-D) Hazardous materials: metal plating facilities
Modifies the existing Metal Plating Facility Loan Guarantee program from a loan program to a grant program for metal plating companies and renames it the Grant Program. Requires the Department of Toxic Substance Control to operate the Grant Program. Removes the existing 1/1/12, sunset date from the renamed Grant Program.
(In Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 11XXXX* (Evans-D) Hazardous waste clean-up budget language
Allows the transfer of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funds into the Orphan Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund and allows those ARRA funds to be used in lieu of state funds for orphan site clean-up. Provides technical clarifications to the Toxic Substances Control Account and Hazardous Waste Control Account funding for pollution prevention programs.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
AB 12XXXX* (Evans-D) Chrome plating
Among other provisions, transfers all unencumbered funds and proceeds from future loan repayments from the Chrome Plating Pollution Prevention Fund to the General Fund. This transfer will provide $3.5 million to the General Fund in 2009-10.
Chapter 12, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
Miscellaneous
SB 12 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Council
Provides for a comprehensive plan for taking care of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including the establishment of a Delta Stewardship Council and the Delta Independent Science Board. Expands the State Water Resources Control Board's collection and reporting of data concerning the delta and establishment of a Delta Watermaster. Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority. Becomes operative if the other bills of the comprehensive water planning package are enacted -- SB 229 (Pavley-D), SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D), AB 39 (Huffman-D), and AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D).
Conference Completed
SB 21 (Simitian-D) Fishing gear
Requires the Department of Fish and Game and the Ocean Protection Council to reduce the impact of derelict fishing gear in state and coastal waters, by collecting information on the location of lost gear. Requires the department and the Council to recommend a funding source for future protection and recovery activities. Requires the Council to prioritize existing derelict fishing gear for future recovery.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 51 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Council
Establishes the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a state agency in the Natural Resources Agency to implement the agency's Salton Sea Ecosystem Restoration Program to develop and implement, or finance, additional pilot or demonstration projects to improve the water quality of the Salton Sea, to restore the Salton Sea ecosystem, and to take other actions to enhance the sea. Requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide staff services that the Council requires to carry out its activities and to enter into interagency agreements with the Department of Water Resources and other state agencies to provide staff services.
(In Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 207 (Florez-D) Delta smelt
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to develop, by 1/1/11, the Delta Smelt Hatchery Program that will be designed to preserve and restore the delta smelt, and serve as a mitigation bank.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 211 (Simitian-D) Park district formation: Santa Cruz County
Authorizes the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to initiate the formation of a regional park and open-space district with boundaries that are coterminous with Santa Cruz County, except for specified territory, and prescribes specific requirements for said district.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 281 (Runner-R) Endangered species: incidental take
Creates a new mitigation provision in the California Endangered Species Act for renewable energy projects that are permitted after 1/1/08, but prior to the adoption of the final Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan required in Governor Schwarzenegger's Executive Order S-14-08 requiring that 33% of the state's electricity come from renewable energy sources by 2020. Provides that the mitigation standard requires compliance with the federal Bureau of Land Management 2006 Record of Decision, West Mojave Plan, Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 286 (Aanestad-R) Fish and game: scientific collector's permits
Allows the Department of Fish and Game to issue an organization-based permit for the scientific collection of plants an animals, rather than issuing individual permits to each person working under an organization on a specific project.
Chapter 346, Statutes of 2009
SB 301* (Florez-D) Water
Enacts the Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Recovery and Restoration Act of 2009, which, if approved by the voters, will authorize, for the purposes of financing specified water supply reliability and ecosystem recovery and restoration programs, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $15 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the next statewide election.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 309 (Ducheny-D) Conservation corps.
Contains findings about the work of the California Conservation Corps (CCC) and it establishes a preference for emancipated foster youth and at-risk youth for membership to the CCC.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 372 (Kehoe-D) State parks system
Prohibits a significant modification or adjustment in the boundaries or uses of a state park unit that is incompatible with state park purposes, or the removal of a state park unit from the state park system, unless the State Park and Recreation Commission recommends the changes and the change is approved by the Legislature.
Vetoed
SB 402 (Wolk-D) Beverages containers: recycling program
Addresses the insolvency in the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (Bottle Bill) by expanding the California Beverage Container Recycling Program, closing the loophole for large juice containers, moving the threshold for the 10-cent California Redemption Value (CRV) from 24-ounces to 20-ounces, accelerating the CRV payment to the Department of Conservation from 90 to 60 days. Authorizes the Department of Conservation to reduce the number of unserved supermarket-based recycling centers.
Vetoed
SB 448 (Pavley-D) California State Safe Harbor Agreement Program Act
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to enter into a safe harbor agreement with a landowner for the protection of species that are listed as threatened or endangered under the California Endangered Species Act. Such an agreement will allow "taking" (killing) of these species that is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, provided certain conditions are met that provide for the protection of those species.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2009
SB 457 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Revises and recasts the provisions of the Johnston-Baker-Andal-Boatwright Delta Protection Act of 1992 to, among other things, reduce the number of members on the Delta Protection Commission to 15 members. Requires the Commission to conduct its meetings in compliance with the Ralph M. Brown Act. Requires the Commission to appoint at least one advisory committee consisting of representatives from specified entities to provide input regarding the diverse interests within the delta. Requires the Commission to adopt, not later than 7/1/11, a comprehensive resources management plan containing specified elements and requires the Commission to update the plan every five years. Requires the Delta Stewardship Council, when developing a delta plan, to take into consideration recommendations made by the Commission. Requires all general plans of cities and counties within the delta to be consistent with the resources management plan that will be created and adopted by the Commission, and the delta plan created and adopted by the Delta Stewardship Council. Revises and recasts the process by which local government is to submit proposed general plan amendments and land use elements to ensure that the general plan is consistent with the resource management plan. Requires the Commission to submit to the Legislature, by 1/1/12, recommendations on the potential expansion of the primary zone. Requires the Commission to develop a regional economic development plan for the delta region that is consistent with the delta plan. Establishes the Delta Investment Fund within the State Treasury. Provides that monies in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, must be used by the Commission for the purposes of enhancing delta communities.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 458 (Steinberg-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
Revises and recasts the Delta Protection Act of 1992 by expanding the role of the Delta Protection Commission in Delta Management Planning. Establishes, within the Natural Resources Agency, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, to advance environmental protection and the economic well being of the Delta residents. Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy fund where monies are to be deposited upon appropriation to finance projects. Becomes operative only if the other bills in the comprehensive water package are enacted -- AB 39 (Huffman-D), AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), and SB 229 (Pavley-D).
Conference completed
SB 481 (Cox-R) Airports: wildlife
Provides that a taking of birds by a federally certified airport in compliance with a federal depredation permit for public safety purposes does not violate state fish and game law if certain conditions are met.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2009
SB 536 (Hollingsworth-R) Commercial hunting clubs
Repeals the entire contents of Article 2, beginning with Section 3240.5, of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 4 of the Fish and Game Code. Repeals the provisions governing commercial hunting clubs, thereby removing all requirements to obtain commercial hunting club licenses.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 539 (Wiggins-D) Salmon and steelhead trout
Expands the eligible uses of the Ocean Protection Trust Fund to include grants and loans to public agencies or private entities that assist in the restoration of the native population of salmon and steelhead trout and the restoration of the state's salmon fishery.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 555 (Kehoe-D) Eminent domain: conservation easement
Revises the Eminent Domain Law by establishing requirements for acquisition of property subject to a conservation easement.
Vetoed
SB 589 (Harman-R) Game hunting
Establishes a new, consolidated "big game management account" in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, where proceeds of specialized tags to authorize the hunting of antelope, elk, deer, wild pig, bear, and bighorn sheep will be deposited. Provides that the funds will be available upon appropriation for projects that will benefit from these species and expand public hunting opportunities as well as land acquisition, enforcement, and the Department of Fish and Game's reasonable costs. Provides that an advisory committee be appointed to review expenditures. Grants to nonprofits that are consistent with the purposes of this account will be authorized. Provides that the continuous appropriation for deer tags be eliminated.
Vetoed
SB 609 (Hollingsworth-R) Importation of crocodile and alligator parts
Allows for the importation and sale of crocodile and alligator products in California, and extends the current sunset date for an additional five years.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2009
SB 615 (Ashburn-R) Off-highway vehicles
Authorizes a local jurisdiction to close its streets to regular vehicular traffic and, instead, allow off-highway motor vehicles to use those streets.
(In Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 650* (Yee-D) Parks: City of Half Moon Bay
Directs the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) to loan $10 million to the City of Half Moon Bay to assist in the purchase of the Beachwood property. Requires the I-Bank to use its existing criteria to qualify the loan. Provides that the loan will assist the City in a settlement in the case of Yamigawa v. City of Half Moon Bay (N.D. Cal. 2007) 523 F. Supp.2d 1036, involving the Beachwood property in the City.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 679 (Wolk-D) State parks
Requires the State Parks and Recreation Commission to certify disposal of parkland for uses other than park uses as long as the parkland is substituted with specified land.
Vetoed
SB 717 (Runner-R) Department of Boating and Waterways
Makes numerous changes to the Harbors and Navigation Code relating to the Department of Boating and Waterways loans from the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund, modifies the penalties for misdemeanor and felony convictions of boating violations, modifies the age requirement for use of personal flotation devices, and makes other related changes.
Chapter 610, Statutes of 2009
SB 778 (Wiggins-D) Commercial fishing: salmon stamp
Increases, from $260 to $350, the price of a commercial salmon fishing permit.
(On Assembly Inactive File)
SB 833 (Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee) Natural resources: mining: conservation lands
Provides technical cleanup and clarification to previous legislation regarding mining, conservation, protection of Native American remains, Treasure Island, fire protection, and certified port master plans.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2009
SB 1XXXXXXX (Simitian-D) Public resources: water
Provides for a comprehensive plan for taking care of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta including the establishment of a Delta Stewardship Council and the Delta Independent Science Board. Expands the State Water Resources Control Board's collection and reporting of data concerning the Delta and establishment of a Delta Watermaster. Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority. Appropriates $28,000,000 from 2006 bond funds for the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Program, managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session
SB 2XXXXXXX* (Cogdill-R) Water Bond Act
Enacts the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11.14 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the 11/2/10, statewide general election.
Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session
SB 6XXXXXXX (Steinberg-D) Groundwater monitoring program
Establishes a statewide groundwater monitoring program. Requires the Department of Water Resources to work cooperatively to determine who will conduct the groundwater monitoring. If no entity volunteers to do the monitoring, the county will be required to conduct the monitoring.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2009-10, Seventh Extraordinary Session
SCR 13 (Steinberg-D) Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe
Creates the Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe, until 11/30/10.
Resolution Chapter 118, Statutes of 2009
SCR 15 (Wiggins-D) Earth Hour
Endorses efforts to raise awareness of global climate change and energy efficiency and declares the hours of 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on the last Saturday of March to be Earth Hour throughout the state.
Resolution Chapter 6, Statutes of 2009
SJR 5 (Wiggins-D) Protection Act
Calls upon the Congress of the United States to quickly pass the federal Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act and the President of the United States to expeditiously sign it into law.
Resolution Chapter 96, Statutes of 2009
SJR 18 (Simitian-D) Marine aquaculture
Requests the Congress of the United States to develop a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for marine aquaculture that is at least as protective as that codified in California's Sustainable Oceans Act to address environmental and economic concerns.
(In Senate Rules Committee)
AB 39 (Huffman-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta Plan
Requires the Delta Stewardship Council, created pursuant to SB 12 (Simitian-D), 2009-10 Regular Session, on or before 1/1/12, to develop, adopt, and commence implementation of a comprehensive management plan for the Delta, meeting specified requirements. The provisions of this bill only become operative if AB 49 (Feuer-D and Huffman-D), SB 12 (Simitian-D), SB 229 (Pavley-D), and SB 458 (Steinberg-D and Simitian-D) of the 2009-10 Regular Session of the Legislature, relating to water use and resource management, are enacted and become effective on or before 1/1/10.
Conference Completed
AB 74 (Chesbro-D) Flood control: Middle Creek and Hamilton City
Authorizes state funding for the Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Lake County pursuant to specified federal studies and legal authority.
Chapter 216, Statutes of 2009
AB 94 (Evans-D) Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000
Reauthorizes the awarding of tax credits under the Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000 through fiscal year 2014-15.
Chapter 220, Statutes of 2009
AB 102 (Smyth-R) Santa Susana State Park
Requires the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation to establish the Santa Susana State Park Advisory Committee no later than 2/1/12.
(In Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 110 (Smyth-R) Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor
Expands the geographic scope within which the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy may revise the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor.
Chapter 407, Statutes of 2009
AB 166 (Lieu-D) Vessels: abandonment: abatement
Establishes a pilot program that authorizes the sale of surrendered vessels prior to their potential or eventual abandonment, and authorizes local agencies to accept title of vessels from willing owners for the purpose of disposal.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2009
AB 240 (Monning-D) Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park
Revises the terms of a previously authorized exchange of DeLaveaga Park parcels, currently owned by the State of California and the City of Santa Cruz, respectively, in accordance with the current needs of the State and City.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2009
AB 368 (Skinner-D) State lands: oil, gas and mineral leases
Makes various modifications to an existing provision of law relating to quitclaim or relinquishment of rights under oil and gas and mineral leases.
Vetoed
AB 444 (Caballero-D) Natural resources: transfer of long-term management funds
Clarifies that funds set aside for long-term management of mitigation lands conveyed to a nonprofit organization may also be conveyed to the nonprofit, and authorizes the nonprofit to hold, manage, invest, and disburse the funds for management and stewardship of the land or easement for which funds were set aside.
Vetoed
AB 455 (Huffman-D) California Conservation Corps
Requires that a minimum of 5% of selected participants in the California Conservation Corps represent young adults at risk of gang involvement, current gang members, and former gang members.
(In Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 489 (Huffman-D) Commercial fishing
Replaces the existing system of species-specific landing taxes for commercial fish with an ad valorem landing fee.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 571 (Saldana-D) Commercial fishing: lobster management
Creates a new supplemental fee to be paid by commercial spiny lobster fishermen. Provides that proceeds from the fee will be expended by the Department of Fish and Game on projects to improve the sustainability of the spiny lobster fishery. Creates an advisory committee to provide input to the department on expenditure of the fee revenues.
Vetoed
AB 608 (Evans-D) River to Ridge Trail: Napa County
Authorizes the Department of General Services to execute an agreement in the best interests of the state to modify boundary lines dividing private and state property along the area known as the River to Ridge Trail, from Kennedy Park to Skyline Park, in Napa County.
Vetoed
AB 617 (Blumenfield-D) Environmental practices
Requires the Office of the Chief Information Officer to establish and enforce a state information technology strategic plan to protect the environment and reduce energy use.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 634 (Harkey-R) Hazardous recreational activities
Includes, for liability purposes, any form of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) diving among hazardous recreational activities already in existing law. Provides that the exception to this provision allowing liability where a specific fee is charged does not include a fee or surcharge levied, charged, or collected for SCUBA diving access to an artificial reef created or placed in cooperation with the state or any political subdivision thereof, and operated by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation. Provides that any person participating in those SCUBA diving activities does so at their own risk.
(In Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 642 (Huber-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
Creates the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy within the Natural Resources Agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee; reconsideration granted)
AB 687 (Salas-D) Tijuana River Valley Conservancy
Enacts the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy Act. Establishes, in the Natural Resources Agency, the Tijuana River Valley Conservancy. Specifies the composition of the Board of the Conservancy (BOC). Requires the BOC to oversee the implementation of a comprehensive Tijuana River Valley cleanup and restoration program.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 708 (Huffman-D) Fish and wildlife: poaching
Establishes minimum fines and increases maximum fines for the illegal or excessive taking of wildlife or torture of wildlife.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2009
AB 727 (Nielsen-R) Resource conservation districts
Includes resource conservation districts within the list of entities entitled to late payment penalties when a state entity fails to make payment for goods and services to a resource conservation district pursuant to a contract.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 804 (Hall-D) Invasive aquatic species: mussels
Removes an operator of water delivery and storage facilities from civil and criminal liability for the introduction of dreissenid mussels as a result of their operations if that operator has prepared, initiated, and is in compliance with all elements of their approved plan.
Vetoed
AB 825 (Blakeslee-R) Crab traps
Allows the incidental take of rock crab with Dungeness crab traps, and vice versa, provided that the crab taken incidentally is taken in season and in compliance with all other applicable law and regulations, and repeals the prohibition on possession of both species aboard the same vessel at the same time.
Chapter 478, Statutes of 2009
AB 883 (Huffman-D) Fish and wildlife resources
Requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to convene an advisory stakeholder committee to study and make recommendations to the Legislature and Governor with regard to actions to improve the state's management of fish and wildlife resources. Specifies that the committee will be required to seek input from elected officials, governmental agencies, including the Department of Fish and Game, certain private entities, and other interested parties. Requires the committee to review, among other matters, options for securing stable, dedicated funding to support the state's changing fish and wildlife conservation needs.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 889* (Jones-D) Bushy Lake and Urban American River Parkway
Codifies the latest revision of the American River Parkway Plan.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2009
AB 979 (Tom Berryhill-R) Hunting and fishing: local regulation
Provides that the state fully occupies the field of hunting and fishing. Prohibits a city or county from adopting an ordinance or regulation that affects the taking of fish and game, unless the ordinance or regulation is both necessary for public health and safety and has only an incidental impact on the field of hunting and fishing preempted by state law. Provides that unless otherwise authorized by the Fish and Game Code or other state or federal law, the Fish and Game Commission and the Department of Fish and Game are the only entities that may adopt or promulgate regulations regarding the taking of fish and game on any lands or waters within the state, except as specified. Exempts from its provisions local ordinances and regulations that regulate trapping.
(On Senate Inactive File)
AB 1052 (Caballero-D) Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp
Repeals the requirement to obtain a Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp or validation. Continues, indefinitely, the Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Advisory Committee, and requires the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to implement various provisions related to expenditures from the Sport Fish Enhancement Stamp Account. Requires DFG, in consultation with the advisory committee, to develop a grant program, as prescribed. Requires DFG to post on its Internet Web site projects undertaken with funds from the account.
Chapter 381, Statutes of 2009
AB 1091 (Ruskin-D) Climate change
Allows, but does not require, the Natural Resources Agency to develop a climate change adaptation strategy to assess the state's vulnerability to climate change.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1098 (Hagman-R) Chino Agricultural Preserve
Authorizes the County of San Bernardino to exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with the same bond funds under the same conditions. Revises one of those conditions to alternatively require the property received in an exchange and all the proceeds from a sale to be used for the improvement, operation, and maintenance of existing or replacement land within the Chino Agricultural Preserve.
(In Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1101 (Duvall-R) Streambed alteration agreements
Allows streambed alteration agreements to be extended for more than five years by mutual agreement, without having to meet the conditions otherwise required for an extension.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1114 (Gilmore-R) Parks & recreation: grant funding: liquidating encumbrances
Extends the period to liquidate encumbrances contained in the 2004 Budget Act relative to reapportioned money to 6/30/11, rather than 6/30/10, for two specified grants totaling $3,039,000 and received by the Community Action Partnership of Kern County.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1115 (Fuentes-D) Outdoor recreation
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to create a new competitive grant program among certain state agencies for the state portion of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund to replace the existing mandatory apportionment of the funds.
Vetoed
AB 1165 (Yamada-D) Flood protection
Makes clarifying amendments to a variety of flood management bills passed two years ago. Authorizes the Central Valley Flood Control Board (Board) to find that the local flood management agency is making adequate progress in working toward the completion of the flood protection system, as specified. Clarifies when issuance of a permit requires an evidentiary hearing by the Board. Changes Board ex parte communications requirements. Authorizes the issuance of cease and desist orders by the Board and civil liability for a person or public agency that undertakes an encroachment or violates other specified requirements relating to encroachments. Clarifies state liability for Central Valley flood control facilities.
Chapter 275, Statutes of 2009
AB 1189 (Skinner-D) Fish passages
Requires the Department of Transportation to assess and remediate fish barriers associated with any state or federally funded transportation project, including repairs, retrofits, alterations, maintenance and construction, if the project affects a stream crossing on a stream where anadromous fish are or historically were found.
(In Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1253 (Fuller-R) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: fish predation report
Requires the CALFED Science Program to evaluate the effects of predation on native fish species in the Delta. Requires that the evaluation also review mitigation measures being used by the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project and make recommendations for potential changes in those mitigation measures to improve fish survival.
(In Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1254 (Tom Berryhill-R) Hunter education
Requires that existing hunter education courses consist of a minimum of 16 hours of instruction.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1321 (Eng-D) The Advance Infrastructure Mitigation Program Act
Authorizes the Natural Resources Agency to develop a program to mitigate the effect of infrastructure projects regionally or statewide and in advance of those projects.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1345 (Swanson-D) State park system: beaches
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to erect on a state beach, or any other unit of the state park system that encompasses a beach, signs that warn the public of dangerous, unsafe, or contaminated waters or waters that are closed to public access due to safety concerns. Specifies that the signs are to be written in English and other languages that meet certain criteria.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1423 (Tom Berryhill-R) Commercial hunting clubs
Makes several changes to statutes relating to hunting and fishing. Revises several of the components of the Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement Program, which encourages recreational access to private lands, and revises the permitting requirements for commercial hunting clubs, replacing the existing fee with a new fee schedule.
Chapter 394, Statutes of 2009
AB 1426 (Fuller-R) Flood control: bonds
Extends, from 30 to 45 days, the time required before a delinquent sale on specified drainage district land can occur.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1442 (Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee) Fish and game: oil spills
Makes a variety of changes to the Fish and Game Code and the Government Code, relating to wildlife and resource protection. Extends several program sunset dates. Authorize the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) to enter into reciprocal operational agreements with representatives from state law enforcement agencies in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, to promote effective enforcement of fish and game laws in areas adjacent to the borders of these adjoining states. Authorizes DFG to issue collectible commemorative hunting and fishing licenses to support hunting and fishing and resource conservation. Authorizes DFG to sell voluntary warden stamps to support fish and game wardens. Prohibits any license or permit from indicating that a warden stamp has been purchased. Clarifies it is unlawful to violate fish and game regulations adopted by DFG or the Fish and Game Commission. Authorizes DFG, after expiration of the time period for appeal, to apply to a court for a judgment to collect currently authorized civil penalties. Extends the sunset date from 2010 to 2013 for several sections of law relating to Dungeness crab. Extends the sunset date from 2010 to 2015 for an existing program on wetland mitigation banks. Deletes proposed amendments to existing law relating to fishing and hunting derbies.
Chapter 294, Statutes of 2009
AB 1513 (Evans-D) State lands: wilderness areas
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency and the State Lands Commission, by 1/1/10, to review state-owned roadless areas under their respective jurisdictions, and to report to the Legislature their respective recommendations on whether any of these areas should be preserved as wilderness under the California Wilderness Act.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1520 (Evans-D) Statewide Watershed Program
Establishes a Statewide Watershed Program in the Department of Conservation.
(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1526 (Fletcher-R) Wildlife Center
Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture (DFA), upon inspection and approval of the facility, to grant the Wildlife Center a permit to operate for at least five years. Provides that DFA is the sole state licensing agency over the Wildlife Center. Authorizes DFA to charge the Wildlife Center a fee for the initial permit and for any subsequent renewals and inspections to cover DFA's costs for those activities. Requires the Department of Fish and Game, upon request of the Wildlife Center, to release the remains of Cotie, a dog/coyote hybrid, to the Wildlife Center.
(In Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 11XXXX* (Evans-D) Environment: budget trailer bill
Among other provisions, raises the voluntary Environmental License Plate Fund fee by $8 per plate (to $48 for new plates and $38 for renewals). This fee increase will generate approximately $3 million in revenues annually and be used to off-set cuts in resources departments. Allows the Secretary for California Environmental Protection Agency to contract with and provide grants to Certified Unified Program Agencies for information management services, rather than only provide grants.
Chapter 11, Statutes of 2009-10, Fourth Extraordinary Session
ACA 11 (Bill Berryhill-R) Hunting
Establishes the right to hunt and take game in the state.
(In Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
ACR 56 (Huffman-D) Tribal gaming
Calls upon the Governor to refrain from negotiating a Tribal-State Gaming Compact with a federally recognized tribe until the land on which the gaming is to occur has been taken into trust for the tribe, the tribe has jurisdiction over the land, and the local jurisdiction and the local community supports the project, as specified. Provides that in the absence of local support, the Legislature will not ratify a compact that allows Indian gaming on non-Indian lands or on Indian lands not under the jurisdiction of the tribe.
(In Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
AJR 8 (Monning-D) Swordfish importation
Requests the United States government to restrict swordfish imports unless and until there is a process by which a nation seeking to export swordfish or swordfish products to the United States provides reasonable proof of the effects on marine mammals of the commercial fishing technology used to obtain the swordfish or swordfish products, and the National Marine Fisheries Service receives that proof and determines that the proof demonstrates that the swordfish or swordfish products to be imported were not caught with commercial fishing technology that results in the incidental kill or incidental serious injury of marine mammals in excess of United States standards.
Resolution Chapter 94, Statutes of 2009
AJR 26 (Chesbro-D) Climate change
Requests the Congress of the United States to establish a comprehensive framework and funding for natural resources adaptation for the protection and conservation of our nation's wildlife, habitats, coasts, watersheds, rivers, and other natural resources and ecosystems in the face of climate change.
(In Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 4 | Oropeza-D Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban | Coastal Resources |
| SB 12 | Simitian-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Council | Miscellaneous |
| SB 21 | Simitian-D Fishing gear | Miscellaneous |
| SB 22 | Simitian-D Hazardous materials: toxic substances | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 25 | Padilla-D Solid waste | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 26 | Simitian-D Home-generated pharmaceutical waste | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 31 | Pavley-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| SB 42 | Corbett-D Coastal resources: once-through cooling | Coastal Resources |
| SB 51 | Ducheny-D Salton Sea Restoration Council | Miscellaneous |
| SB 55 | Corbett-D Recycling: California redemption value containers | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 63 | Strickland-R Waste management | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 104 | Oropeza-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| SB 124 | Oropeza-D Air pollution: schoolbus idling and idling at schools | Air Pollution |
| SB 128 | Padilla-D California Climate Change Institute | Air Pollution |
| SB 139 | Kehoe-D Tidelands and submerged lands: ports | Coastal Resources |
| SB 143 | Cedillo-D California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act of 2004 | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 144 | Pavley-D Forest resources: management | Forestry |
| SB 167 | Ducheny-D Solid waste: waste tires | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 178 | Aanestad-R State property: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | Forestry |
| SB 207 | Florez-D Delta smelt | Miscellaneous |
| SB 211 | Simitian-D Park district formation: Santa Cruz County | Miscellaneous |
| SB 225* | Florez-D Emission reduction credits | Air Pollution |
| SB 228 | DeSaulnier-D Plastic bags: compostable plastic bags | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 230 | Cogdill-R Waste tire haulers: registration | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 231 | Lowenthal-D Hazardous waste: generator fees | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 233 | Aanestad-R State Water Resources Control Board | Environmental Quality |
| SB 260 | Wiggins-D Petroleum products: motor oil | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 281 | Runner-R Endangered species: incidental take | Miscellaneous |
| SB 286 | Aanestad-R Fish and game: scientific collector's permits | Miscellaneous |
| SB 295* | Dutton-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| SB 301* | Florez-D Water | Miscellaneous |
| SB 309 | Ducheny-D Conservation corps. | Miscellaneous |
| SB 310 | Ducheny-D Water quality: stormwater and other runoff | Environmental Quality |
| SB 317 | Simitian-D Fire Alarm Device Collection Act of 2009 | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 333 | Hancock-D Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Offset Program Fund | Air Pollution |
| SB 346 | Kehoe-D Hazardous materials: motor vehicle brake friction materials | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 371* | Cogdill-R Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2009 | Environmental Quality |
| SB 372 | Kehoe-D State parks system | Miscellaneous |
| SB 382 | Florez-D Agricultural burning: consistency with no burn days | Air Pollution |
| SB 388 | Calderon-D South Coast Air Quality Management District | Air Pollution |
| SB 390 | Kehoe-D Solid waste: recycling market development | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 402 | Wolk-D Beverages containers: recycling program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 408 | Padilla-D California Environmental Quality Act: LEED exemption | Environmental Quality |
| SB 413 | Ducheny-D Waste discharge requirements: fees | Environmental Quality |
| SB 428 | Kehoe-D Tide and submerged lands: San Diego | Coastal Resources |
| SB 435 | Pavley-D Smog check program: motorcycles | Air Pollution |
| SB 443 | Pavley-D Supermarkets: cleaning products: reviews | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 448 | Pavley-D California State Safe Harbor Agreement Program Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 451 | Cogdill-R Public contracts: preferences: forest products | Forestry |
| SB 456* | Wolk-D Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 | Environmental Quality |
| SB 457 | Wolk-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Miscellaneous |
| SB 458 | Steinberg-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy | Miscellaneous |
| SB 459 | Wolk-D Tidelands and submerged lands: removal of vessels | Coastal Resources |
| SB 462* | Strickland-R Manufacturers of diesel exhaust filters | Air Pollution |
| SB 464* | Strickland-R Diesel particulate matter reduction | Air Pollution |
| SB 466 | Oropeza-D Hazardous waste: transportation | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 481 | Cox-R Airports: wildlife | Miscellaneous |
| SB 486 | Simitian-D Medical waste: sharps waste | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 505 | Kehoe-D Local planning: fire hazard impacts | Forestry |
| SB 507* | Cox-R Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Air Pollution |
| SB 524 | Correa-D Solid waste: auto shredder residue | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 531 | DeSaulnier-D Solid waste: at-store recycling program | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 536 | Hollingsworth-R Commercial hunting clubs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 539 | Wiggins-D Salmon and steelhead trout | Coastal Resources Miscellaneous |
| SB 546 | Lowenthal-D Used oil | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 554 | Hollingsworth-R Residential wood-burning devices | Air Pollution |
| SB 555 | Kehoe-D Eminent domain: conservation easement | Miscellaneous |
| SB 589 | Harman-R Game hunting | Miscellaneous |
| SB 605 | Ashburn-R California Environmental Quality Act: biogas pipelines | Environmental Quality |
| SB 609 | Hollingsworth-R Importation of crocodile and alligator parts | Miscellaneous |
| SB 614 | Simitian-D Vessels | Coastal Resources |
| SB 615 | Ashburn-R Off-highway vehicles | Miscellaneous |
| SB 624 | Romero-D Solid waste: anaerobic digestion | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 632 | Lowenthal-D Ports: congestion relief: air pollution mitigation | Air Pollution |
| SB 650* | Yee-D Parks: City of Half Moon Bay | Miscellaneous |
| SB 670* | Wiggins-D Vacuum or suction dredge equipment | Environmental Quality |
| SB 679 | Wolk-D State parks | Miscellaneous |
| SB 686 | DeSaulnier-D Environment: CEQA exemption: addition and deletion | Environmental Quality |
| SB 717 | Runner-R Department of Boating and Waterways | Miscellaneous |
| SB 721 | Steinberg-D Energy: greenhouse gas emissions | Air Pollution |
| SB 722 | Steinberg-D Greenhouse gas credits | Air Pollution |
| SB 723 | DeSaulnier-D Electronic waste recovery payments | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 728 | Lowenthal-D Air pollution: parking cash-out program | Air Pollution |
| SB 735* | Steinberg-D Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 | Environmental Quality |
| SB 757 | Pavley-D Lead wheel weights | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 759 | Leno-D Federal state of emergency: aerial spraying of pesticide | Environmental Quality |
| SB 778 | Wiggins-D Commercial fishing: salmon stamp | Miscellaneous |
| SB 790 | Pavley-D Resources: water quality: stormwater resource plans | Coastal Resources |
| SB 792 | Leno-D Tidelands & submerged lands: City & County of San Francisco | Coastal Resources |
| SB 803 | DeSaulnier-D Plastic waste: polyvinyl chloride clamshell packaging | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 808* | Wolk-D San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary | Environmental Quality |
| SB 827 | Wright-D South Coast Air Quality Management District: CEQA: permits | Air Pollution Environmental Quality |
| SB 832* | Senate Environmental Quality Committee Water pollution control | Environmental Quality Solid Waste Management |
| SB 833 | Senate Natural Resources And Water Committee Natural resources: mining: conservation lands | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 13 | Steinberg-D Joint Committee for the Protection of Lake Tahoe | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 15 | Wiggins-D Earth Hour | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 38 | Wright-D Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Air Pollution |
| SCR 56 | Oropeza-D Coastal development and Marina del Rey | Coastal Resources |
| SCR 60 | Negrete McLeod-D Inherently Safer Technology | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SJR 5 | Wiggins-D Protection Act | Miscellaneous |
| SJR 17 | Leno-D Climate change: ocean acidification: Arctic | Air Pollution |
| SJR 18 | Simitian-D Marine aquaculture | Miscellaneous |
| SB 4X | Ducheny-D Environmental quality: surplus state property | Environmental Quality |
| SB 3XX | Florez-D Air pollution: grants: farm equipment | Air Pollution |
| SB 27XXX* | Negrete McLeod-D Safe drinking water: funding | Environmental Quality |
| SB 57XXX | Corbett-D Recycling: California redemption value containers | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1XXXXXXX | Simitian-D Public resources: water | Miscellaneous |
| SB 2XXXXXXX* | Cogdill-R Water Bond Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 6XXXXXXX | Steinberg-D Groundwater monitoring program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 8XXXXXXX | Steinberg-D Water diversion and use: reporting: resources: Disaster Prep | Environmental Quality |
| AB 19 | Ruskin-D Greenhouse gas emissions: consumer product labeling | Air Pollution |
| AB 25 | Gilmore-R Mandatory minimum civil penalties | Environmental Quality |
| AB 28 | Jeffries-R Natural gas engines: water movement | Air Pollution |
| AB 39 | Huffman-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta Plan | Miscellaneous |
| AB 68 | Brownley-D Solid waste: single-use carryout bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 74 | Chesbro-D Flood control: Middle Creek and Hamilton City | Miscellaneous |
| AB 94 | Evans-D Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000 | Miscellaneous |
| AB 96* | Ruskin-D Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Air Pollution Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 102 | Smyth-R Santa Susana State Park | Miscellaneous |
| AB 110 | Smyth-R Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor | Miscellaneous |
| AB 118 | Logue-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AB 126 | Jeffries-R Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | Forestry |
| AB 135* | Jeffries-R State parks: California Citrus State Historic Park | Forestry |
| AB 147 | Saldana-D Hazardous waste: electronic waste | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 149 | Jeffries-R State government: board of forestry and fire protection | Forestry |
| AB 166 | Lieu-D Vessels: abandonment: abatement | Miscellaneous |
| AB 222 | Adams-R Energy: biofuels | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 226 | Ruskin-D Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976 | Coastal Resources |
| AB 231 | Huffman-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AB 240 | Monning-D Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park | Miscellaneous |
| AB 248 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Ballast water management | Coastal Resources |
| AB 256 | Bill Berryhill-R Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 262 | Bass-D Energy: activities, programs, and projects | Coastal Resources |
| AB 268 | Gaines-R Onsite sewage treatment systems | Environmental Quality |
| AB 274 | Portantino-D Solid waste: landfills: closure plans | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 283 | Chesbro-D Solid waste: extended producer responsibility program | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 291 | Saldana-D Coastal resources: coastal development permits: penalties | Coastal Resources |
| AB 305 | Nava-D Hazardous materials: statute of limitations: penalties | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 368 | Skinner-D State lands: oil, gas and mineral leases | Miscellaneous |
| AB 376 | Nava-D Voluntary greenhouse gas emission offsets | Air Pollution |
| AB 397 | Jeffries-R South Coast Air Quality Management District | Air Pollution |
| AB 414 | Galgiani-D Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program | Air Pollution |
| AB 444 | Caballero-D Natural resources: transfer of long-term management funds | Miscellaneous |
| AB 455 | Huffman-D California Conservation Corps | Miscellaneous |
| AB 463 | Tran-R Vehicles: hazardous materials | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 471 | Arambula-IN Safe drinking water, clean water, and watershed protection | Environmental Quality |
| AB 473 | Blumenfield-D Solid waste: recycling: multifamily dwellings | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 478 | Chesbro-D Greenhouse gas emissions: recycling and waste management | Air Pollution Solid Waste Management |
| AB 479 | Chesbro-D Solid waste: diversion | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 489 | Huffman-D Commercial fishing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 496 | Davis-D Tire age degradation: consumer disclosure | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 499 | Hill-D Environment: California Environmental Quality Act | Environmental Quality |
| AB 536 | Arambula-IN Hazardous waste: financial assurances | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 571 | Saldana-D Commercial fishing: lobster management | Miscellaneous |
| AB 580 | Huber-D Onsite sewage treatment systems | Environmental Quality |
| AB 608 | Evans-D River to Ridge Trail: Napa County | Miscellaneous |
| AB 617 | Blumenfield-D Environmental practices | Miscellaneous |
| AB 634 | Harkey-R Hazardous recreational activities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 642 | Huber-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 658 | Hayashi-D Air quality: dry cleaning: grants | Air Pollution |
| AB 687 | Salas-D Tijuana River Valley Conservancy | Miscellaneous |
| AB 694 | Saldana-D Tidelands and submerged lands: City of San Diego | Coastal Resources |
| AB 696 | Hagman-R California Environmental Quality Act: arbitration | Environmental Quality |
| AB 708 | Huffman-D Fish and wildlife: poaching | Miscellaneous |
| AB 727 | Nielsen-R Resource conservation districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 737 | Chesbro-D Solid waste: diversion | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 738 | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Brownfield cleanup: loan or grant program | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 747 | Emmerson-R School facilities: recycling programs | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 782 | Jeffries-R Regional transportation plans | Air Pollution |
| AB 804 | Hall-D Invasive aquatic species: mussels | Miscellaneous |
| AB 823 | Hill-D Smog check: vehicle repair assistance | Air Pollution |
| AB 825 | Blakeslee-R Crab traps | Miscellaneous |
| AB 835 | Monning-D Pesticides: volatile organic compound emissions | Air Pollution |
| AB 859 | Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program | Air Pollution |
| AB 881 | Huffman-D Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority | Air Pollution |
| AB 883 | Huffman-D Fish and wildlife resources | Miscellaneous |
| AB 889* | Jones-D Bushy Lake and Urban American River Parkway | Miscellaneous |
| AB 892 | Furutani-D Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program | Air Pollution |
| AB 903 | Chesbro-D Solid waste: compostable plastic bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 907 | Chesbro-D California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 913 | Logue-R Mandatory minimum civil penalties | Environmental Quality |
| AB 914 | Logue-R Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties | Environmental Quality |
| AB 916 | Logue-R Onsite sewage treatment systems: recommended standards | Environmental Quality |
| AB 925 | Saldana-D Recycling: single-use plastic beverage container caps | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 956 | Skinner-D State Air Resources Board: pavement coatings | Air Pollution |
| AB 979 | Tom Berryhill-R Hunting and fishing: local regulation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 983 | Skinner-D Recycling: California redemption value containers | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 994 | Fong-D Integrated Waste Management Board: buildings | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1011 | Jones-D Insurance: green incentives | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1033 | Nielsen-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AB 1052 | Caballero-D Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1066 | Mendoza-D Forest practices: timber harvesting plans | Forestry |
| AB 1079 | V. Manuel Perez-D Environment: California-Mexico border | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1085 | Mendoza-D State Air Resources Board: regulations | Air Pollution |
| AB 1091 | Ruskin-D Climate change | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1098 | Hagman-R Chino Agricultural Preserve | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1101 | Duvall-R Streambed alteration agreements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1107 | Blakeslee-R Environmental protection: CA Environmental Protection Agency | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1112 | Blakeslee-R Hazardous waste: management | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1114 | Gilmore-R Parks & recreation: grant funding: liquidating encumbrances | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1115 | Fuentes-D Outdoor recreation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1131 | Feuer-D Hazardous materials: green chemistry and accidental releases | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1141 | Charles Calderon-D Carryout bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1147 | Arambula-IN Medical waste: treatment, containment, and storage | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1150 | Gaines-R Solid waste: resource recycling and recovery | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1165 | Yamada-D Flood protection | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1173 | Huffman-D Hazardous materials: fluorescent lamps: recycling | Solid Waste Management Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1187 | Huffman-D Safe, Clean, Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010 | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1188* | Ruskin-D Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program | Air Pollution Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1189 | Skinner-D Fish passages | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1212 | Ruskin-D Air resources: clean vehicle incentive program | Air Pollution |
| AB 1217 | Monning-D Ocean Protection Council: sustainable seafood | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1252 | Portantino-D Forestry: timber harvesting plans | Forestry |
| AB 1253 | Fuller-R Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: fish predation report | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1254 | Tom Berryhill-R Hunter education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1292 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program | Air Pollution |
| AB 1300 | Fletcher-R Fire protection: fuels reduction grant program | Forestry |
| AB 1305 | V. Manuel Perez-D Air pollution: imported electricity: mitigation fee | Air Pollution |
| AB 1318 | V. Manuel Perez-D South Coast Air Quality Management District | Air Pollution |
| AB 1321 | Eng-D The Advance Infrastructure Mitigation Program Act | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1329 | Brownley-D Waste management | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1343 | Huffman-D Solid waste: architectural paint: recovery program | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1345 | Swanson-D State park system: beaches | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1366 | Feuer-D Residential self-regenerating water softeners | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1373 | Skinner-D Global warming potential: refrigerants | Air Pollution |
| AB 1404 | De Leon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets | Air Pollution |
| AB 1405 | De Leon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AB 1416 | Galgiani-D Emission control regulations: groundwater drilling | Air Pollution |
| AB 1423 | Tom Berryhill-R Commercial hunting clubs | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1426 | Fuller-R Flood control: bonds | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1431 | Hill-D Air quality: Port of Oakland | Air Pollution |
| AB 1442 | Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee Fish and game: oil spills | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1452 | Skinner-D Air Resources Board: cement | Air Pollution |
| AB 1467 | Bass-D Natural resources: oil and gas operations | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1489 | Smyth-R Hazardous materials: methamphetamine laboratories | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1504 | Skinner-D Forest resources: carbon sequestration | Forestry |
| AB 1507 | Block-D Hazardous materials: metal plating facilities | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1513 | Evans-D State lands: wilderness areas | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1520 | Evans-D Statewide Watershed Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1526 | Fletcher-R Wildlife Center | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1527 | Lieu-D Motor vehicle emission reduction projects | Air Pollution |
| AB 1530 | Skinner-D Greenhouse gas emission reduction measures | Air Pollution |
| AB 1570* | Salas-D Coastal development: desalination facility | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1581 | Assembly Natural Resources Committee Solid waste: recycling market development | Solid Waste Management |
| ACA 11 | Bill Berryhill-R Hunting | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 14 | Niello-R California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| ACR 56 | Huffman-D Tribal gaming | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 77 | Swanson-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AJR 3 | Nava-D Offshore oil drilling | Coastal Resources |
| AJR 8 | Monning-D Swordfish importation | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 24 | Bonnie Lowenthal-D Air pollution: marine pollution | Air Pollution |
| AJR 26 | Chesbro-D Climate change | Miscellaneous |
| AB 8XX | Nestande-R Environmental quality: transportation exemption | Environmental Quality |
| AB 79XXX | Blakeslee-R Environmental protection | Environmental Quality |
| AB 81XXX | Hall-D CA Environmental Quality Act: exemption: sports stadium | Environmental Quality |
| AB 11XXXX* | Evans-D Forestry management | Forestry Solid Waste Management Toxics/Hazardous Waste Miscellaneous |
| AB 12XXXX* | Evans-D Chrome plating | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |