Air Pollution
Coastal Resources
Environmental Quality
Forestry
Solid Waste Management
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
Oil Spills
Miscellaneous
Air Pollution
SB 19 (Lowenthal-D) Air pollution: trade corridor
Establishes criteria for funding projects from funds available under Proposition 1B to reduce air emissions associated with goods movement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 72 (Florez-D) Schoolbuses: fuel
Requires that, as of 1/1/08, all school districts use a fuel blend containing at least 20% biodiesel fuel in diesel-powered school buses under the district's control, including school buses operated by public or private providers under contract to the district.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 155 (Cox-R) Gasoline: vapor recovery systems
Gives small-volume gasoline service stations in five rural counties two extra years, to April 2011, to install, on their pumps, enhanced vapor recovery systems required by Air Resources Board regulations.
Chapter 702, Statutes of 2008
SB 240 (Florez-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Allows the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to increase, from $6 to $36, the annual fee imposed on a motor vehicle registered within the District's jurisdiction to support programs designed to reduce motor vehicle emissions and to achieve and maintain state and federal air quality standards in the District.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 348 (Simitian-D) Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management
Extends, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/13, the authority of the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County to assess an up-to $4 annual fee on vehicles registered within San Mateo County for programs to manage traffic congestion and storm water pollution.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2008
SB 445 (Torlakson-D) Greenhouse gas mitigation fee
Until 1/1/09, establishes a 14-member Road User Task Force for the purpose of studying alternatives to the current system of taxing road users through per-gallon fuel taxes and reporting its findings to the Legislature by 1/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 494 (Kehoe-D) Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board (ARB), in consultation with certain other state entities, to adopt regulations by 6/30/09, that become operative by 1/1/10, to ensure that commencing 1/1/15, 25% of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California are clean alternative vehicles, and that commencing 1/1/20, 50% are clean alternative vehicles. Requires the ARB, in developing the regulations, to consider technological and economic feasibility of the regulations, develop and enforce compliance options for eligible clean alternative vehicles, and ensure that clean alternative fuel is made available at retail outlets whenever the ARB determines that the sufficient number of vehicles capable of using that fuel has been reached.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 587 (Runner-R) Air quality: permit requirement: exemptions
Exempts printing, coating, adhesive application, or laminating equipment, from existing permit requirements. Limits this exemption to: (1) equipment whose volatile organic compound emissions are no greater than three pounds per day or 66 pounds per calendar month; (2) equipment that employs ultraviolet or electric beam type materials and the total amount of inks, coatings, adhesives, or organic solvents used in this equipment, including in the cleanup, is no more than six gallons per day or 132 gallons per calendar month; and (3) equipment that employs ultraviolet or electric beam type materials that contain no more than 50 grams of volatile organic compounds per liter of material and use cleanup solvents containing no more than 50 grams of volatile organic compounds per liter of material. Also corrects an erroneous cross-reference.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 857 (Correa-D) Air pollution
Allows the San Joaquin Unified Air Pollution Control District and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to prepare a study and report to the Legislature, as specified, on the dollar amount that would be appropriate to authorize a tax credit for the purchase or replacement of qualified property, as defined, that is placed into service for the purpose of reducing air pollution.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 876 (Calderon-D) Air pollution: vehicles: small business
Requires the Air Resources Board to consider the economic impacts on small business owners of vehicle replacement and retrofit requirements when establishing in-use emission standards and regulations for heavy-duty motor vehicles in private fleets.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 895 (Florez-D) Air quality
Increases the reserve amount in the Carl Moyer Air Quality Standards Attainment Program from 10% to 20% of program funds. Requires a scoring system to be used to determine which multidistrict projects to fund, and provides that projects that achieve the lowest cost per ton of emission reductions shall be assigned more points for priority.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 960 (Alquist-D) Zero-emission and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Expands the Mathematics and Reading Professional Development program to include training in science, and renames the program as the California Educators' Professional Development Program.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 974 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: air pollution mitigation
Imposes a fee on container cargo imported and exported through the ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakland in an amount not to exceed $30 per 20-foot equivalent unit. Requires that 50% of fee revenues be used to develop infrastructure projects that reduce congestion and 50% of revenues be used to mitigate the air quality impacts associated with the movement of freight in and out of the three ports. Specifies the processes for determining which congestion relief and mitigation projects shall be funded with fee revenue.
Vetoed
SB 1292* (Dutton-R) Administrative procedure: Air Resources Board
Requires the Office of Administrative Law to analyze any major regulation, as defined, proposed by the Air Resource Board, to determine if the regulation is cost-effective and technologically feasible.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1311 (Simitian-D) California Pollution Control Financing Authority
Modifies an existing provision of law within the California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act, pertaining to the California Capital Access Program, so that the California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act matching loan loss reserve contribution, which is currently required to be equal to the combined total paid by the borrower and the lender, is instead reduced to equal the amount paid by the lender.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2008
SB 1506 (Alquist-D) Zero-emission vehicles
Prohibits the state Air Resources Board from crediting a manufacturer towards meeting any zero-emission vehicle production mandates created under the Zero-Emission Vehicle Program, adopted by the Air Resources Board, for the production of vehicles that are not zero-emission vehicles.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 1548 (Florez-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Creates a local city selection committee to appoint five city members to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District Board.
Chapter 622, Statutes of 2008
SB 1550 (Florez-D) Corporations: climate change disclosure
Requires the State Controller to develop a voluntary, investor-based standard for use by listed corporations doing business in California that address as climate change risks in order to help investors make better informed decisions.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 1573 (Florez-D) Smog check program: emission standards
Specifies that the Air Resources Board, rather than the Bureau of Automotive Repair, shall have primary responsibility for establishing maximum emission standards for the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program.
Vetoed
SB 1646 (Padilla-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District
Deletes the 2010 sunset date on the South Coast Air Quality Management District's authority to impose an additional fee of $1 on motor vehicles registered in that district to fund programs to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.
Chapter 724, Statutes of 2008
SB 1662 (Cox-R) Air districts: emission reduction offsets
Allows one stationary source located in the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District, to be determined by the El Dorado County Air Quality Management District, to offset increases in emissions by emission reductions credited to any stationary source located in the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District if both stationary sources are in the Sacramento Metro federal non-attainment area.
Chapter 725, Statutes of 2008
SB 1720 (Lowenthal-D) Clean Air Sticker: misuse: penalties
Provides that an individual convicted of the creation, use, sale, and trafficking of fraudulent Clean Air Stickers, or fraudulently reselling valid Clean Air Stickers, is guilty of an infraction and is subject to specified monetary penalties.
Chapter 417, Statutes of 2008
SB 1753 (Torlakson-D) Portable classrooms: formaldehyde
Repeals a provision of existing law that provided for the review of environmental health conditions in portable classrooms and the submission of a comprehensive study to the Legislature by 6/30/02. Clarifies that the manufacturer or seller of a portable classroom in this state for use in this state shall comply with the Air Resources Board regulations regarding restrictions on formaldehyde.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
SB 1760 (Perata-D) Energy: greenhouse gas emissions
Creates the Climate Action Team (CAT), consisting of representatives from specified state agencies that shall be responsible for coordinating the states overall climate policy. Requires the CAT, on or before 1/1/10, and annually thereafter, to prepare, adopt, and present to the Legislature, a strategic research, development, and demonstration plan that establishes priorities and identifies key expenditure categories for research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds to be expended by the state agencies represented on the CAT for the following fiscal year. Requires the CAT, on or before 1/1/10, and biennially thereafter, to prepare and adopt a climate change impact adaptation and protection plan that includes specified information. Requires research, development, and demonstration funds that are administered by the Department of Transportation and allocated for clean technology, environmental protection, and public interest energy research to be expended consistent with the plan.
Vetoed
SB 1761* (Perata-D) Water and energy efficiency: greenhouse gas
Requires the Department of Water Resources, upon the next revision of the California Water Plan, to include a chapter that describes the opportunities to promote water and energy efficiency and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in water operations and activities
(Died in Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee)
SB 1762 (Perata-D) Energy: greenhouse gas emissions
Creates the California Climate Change Research and Workforce Development Institute at the University of California funded by a redirection of existing funding from the Public Interest Energy Research Program and an additional fee on electric service provided by investor-owned utilities and publicly-owned utilities. The prime goal of the Institute is to identify and support research and education through grants to California universities and national labs to reduce or mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Vetoed
SCR 131 (Migden-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Urges the Air Resources Board to satisfy the requirement of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 for the best available economic analysis by ensuring that its analysis of the emission reduction measures proposed in the draft scoping plan includes certain elements.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 88* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: air pollution
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, provides $6 million to the Air Resources Board from the Motor Vehicle Account for the continued development of the Hydrogen Highway, including zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and incentives for zero-emission vehicles.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto
AB 99 (Feuer-D) Air pollution control: clean fuels
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to ensure that 50% of new passenger and light-duty trucks, beginning in 2012, sold in California are clean alternative vehicles, and that all such vehicles sold in 2020 be clean alternative vehicles. Defines "clean alternative fuel" as a nonpetroleum fuel, including electricity, hydrogen, natural gas, propane, and any other fuel derived from renewable resources, that on a full fuel-cycle and energy-equivalent basis does not increase the emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic air contaminants, criteria air pollutants, water pollutants, or any other substances known to damage human health or the environment, in comparison to the production and use of a petroleum-derived fuel.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 109 (Nunez-D) Air pollution: alternative fuels and vehicle technologies
Provides clarifying changes to the existing greenhouse gas emission reduction programs authorized by AB 118 (Nunez), Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007, specifically the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and the Air Quality Improvement Program.
Chapter 313, Statutes of 2008
AB 114 (Blakeslee-R) Public resources: carbon dioxide containment program
Requires the California Energy Commission, by 11/1/09, to report to the Legislature on technology to capture and contain carbon dioxide emissions from thermal powerplants and other industrial processes.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 169 (Levine-D) Public resources: ballast water management
Requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel carrying, or capable of carrying, ballast water to maintain on board the vessel, in written or electronic form, records that include the manufacturer and product name of the ballast water treatment system on board the vessel, the name of the organization that has approved the system and the approval or certification number of the system, and the number of tanks and the volume of each tank that is managed using the system. Requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of the vessel to provide that information to the State Lands Commission in electronic or written form using a form developed by the Commission upon the vessel's departure from a California port or place of call.
Vetoed
AB 255 (De Leon-D) Smog abatement fee
Increases, from $12 to $16, the annual Smog Abatement Fee imposed on newer motor vehicles exempt from biennial inspection under the state Smog Check program, and earmarks the additional revenue to provide subsidies for the development and use of alternative fuels.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 391 (Lieu-D) South Coast Air Quality Management District
Adds an additional seat on the Board of Directors of the South Coast Air Quality Management District for the City of Los Angeles, and makes clarifying provisions regarding which cities are represented by which geographical city selection committee.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 493 (Ruskin-D) Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions: incentive program
Establishes the Clean Vehicle Incentive Program, to be administered by the Air Resources Board.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 575 (Arambula-D) Emission reductions
Requires the Air Resources Board to develop guidelines for the allocation of $1 billion worth of the proceeds of state general obligation bonds, authorized by Proposition 1B, earmarked for air pollutant emissions reductions from activities related to the movement of freight along the state's trade corridors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 616 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Expands the vehicle inspection and maintenance smog check program to include vehicles that are 15 years or older by 7/1/08.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 630 (Price-D) Air emissions standards: EPA waiver
Requires the Air Resources Board, if the South Coast Air Quality Management District proposes an emission standard for mobile sources requiring a federal Clean Air Act waiver or authorization from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to expeditiously adopt the standard and, unless the Board makes certain findings, submit it for the federal waiver or authorization.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 631 (Horton-R) Gasoline fueling stations: ethanol pumps
Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require, on and after 1/1/10, that all new fueling stations constructed in this state be able to provide E85 fuel to vehicles that use that fuel.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 700 (Lieu-D) Air pollution: Santa Monica Airport
Requires the City of Santa Monica to establish a technical advisory committee to evaluate all available studies and data regarding the airport, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 712 (De Leon-D) Off-road solid waste
Creates the Off-Road Solid Waste and Recycling Vehicle Clean Air Program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 786 (Lieu-D) Greenhouse gas emissions
States that banks providing financial incentives to assist other entities in reducing greenhouse gasses prior to 1/1/12 may receive an appropriate credit under the greenhouse gas emissions reduction program adopted by the Air Resources Board.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 846* (Blakeslee-R) Clean Marine Fuels Tax Incentive Act
Exempts from the sales and use tax the sale or use of low-sulfur fuel when sold to water common carriers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 934 (Duvall-R) Air pollution: mobile nonvehicular regulation
Reestablishes and limits the authority of the Air Resources Board and the local air pollution control districts to prevent overlap. Clarifies that districts retain their current authority to regulate stationary non-vehicular sources.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1077 (Lieber-D) Air Resources Board: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
Enacts the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Leadership Act of 2007, and establishes a coordinating council to develop and carry out a strategy of coordination between various entities engaged in activities relating to these vehicles.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1119 (Fuller-R) Air pollution: diesel emission control devices
Requires the Air Resources Board, in developing eligibility criteria for emission control devices funded under emission reduction grant programs, to take all reasonable steps to consider the number of manufacturers capable of providing verified devices in order to ensure adequate competition among manufacturers and lower prices for the devices.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1138 (Brownley-D) Air districts: boundary disputes
Requires the Air Resources Board to resolve all questions relating to the boundaries of a district.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1209 (Karnette-D) Vehicles: HOV lanes: clean air stickers
Allows the owners of Clean Air-stickered hybrid vehicles that are nonrepairable or total loss salvage vehicles to be issued new Clean Air stickers for any qualifying replacement hybrid vehicle they may purchase.
Chapter 429, Statutes of 2008
AB 1225 (DeSaulnier-D) Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund
Authorizes the use of California Ocean Protection Trust Fund monies to fund adaptive management, planning, coordination, monitoring, research, and other necessary activities to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change on California's ocean ecosystem. Requires, as appropriate, that the information or activities developed under these projects be used to provide guidance to the Air Resources Board on the adoption of early action measures related to greenhouse gas emissions.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2008
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Resources Budget Trailer bill: Air Resources Board
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, establishes for one year only, a program at the Air Resources Board to provide grants and loans from the Air Quality Improvement Fund to short-haul truck owners for early compliance with on-road heavy-duty diesel regulations. Allows the Board to provide grant funds for zero-emission vehicle and zero-emission vehicles infrastructure purchases, in addition to the current loan program.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1440 (Wolk-D) Hybrid trucks: grants
Requires the Air Resources Board, until 1/1/11, to provide grants to medium- and heavy-duty truck manufacturers to demonstrate the commercial performance of hydraulic-assist and hybrid electric propulsion systems that reduce reliance on petroleum-derived fuel and reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1455 (Arambula-D) California Air Quality Zones
Establishes the California Air Quality Zones Program to provide incentives for owners of mobile and stationary sources of air pollution to invest in air pollution control equipment that produces surplus and quantifiable emission reductions exceeding applicable federal, state, and regional air standards and regulations. Authorizes the Air Resources Board to designate California Air Quality Zones in the state, based on specified air quality and other criteria, on or before 1/1/17.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1506 (Arambula-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: U.C. Study
Requires the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to conduct a study of the most effective ways for the state to provide incentives to businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase California's energy independence, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before 1/1/09. Makes legislative findings relative to increased energy costs, the threats of climate change to California businesses, and the role of using business incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1651* (Arambula-D) Greenhouse gases: tax credits
Provides that for taxable years beginning on or after 1/1/08, and ending before 1/1/13, there shall be allowed as a credit against the net tax of a "qualified taxpayer" an amount, as specified, for "qualified costs" paid or incurred for "qualified capital equipment" placed in service in California, certified by the California Climate Action Registry or the Air Resources Board, to result in measurable reductions in greenhouse gases.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1851 (Nava-D) Greenhouse gas credits
Enacts the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Representations Law to prohibit any person from representing that the sale of a greenhouse gas credit or emission reduction reduces greenhouse gas emissions unless certain conditions are met.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 2003* (Saldana-D) Air quality: climate protection
Authorizes, subject to voter approval at the 11/4/08 statewide election, $2 billion worth of state general obligation bonds to fund alternative energy development projects, energy conservation and efficiency projects in low-income communities, and energy efficiency projects for facilities of the state and public schools.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2063 (Parra-D) Smog check program: biennial inspection
Subjects all vehicles registered within the state to biennial inspection, except as specifically exempted, regardless of where in the state the vehicle is registered. Expands the scope of a crime and, therefore, creates a state-mandated local program, by requiring additional owners of vehicles to be subject to smog tests.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2093 (Jones-D) Climate change: general plan policies
Requires city and county general plans to consider climate policies to achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2179 (Furutani-D) Air quality: diesel fuel
Requires all diesel vehicles owned or leased by the state on or after 1/1/10, and until 1/1/12, to use renewable biomass-based diesel fuel. Requires the Air Resources Board to develop sustainability criteria for the use of renewable biomass-based diesel fuel, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2216 (Gaines-R) Air pollution: diesel generators: health facilities
Extends, until 1/1/11, a requirement that health care facilities meet the most recent standards set by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations for testing of backup diesel generators, and deletes a requirement that health facility diesel backup generators be started during weeks when the generator is not being tested.
Chapter 232, Statutes of 2008
AB 2316 (Ruskin-D) Greenhouse gas emission reductions: motor vehicles
Requires the Little Hoover Commission, by 1/1/10, to study and make recommendations to the Legislature on the consolidation, improvement, and greenhouse gas emission reduction contribution of the state's vehicle retirement programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2488* (Houston-R) Greenhouse gas emission: tax deduction
Allows a taxpayer to take an alternative depreciation deduction for the costs of acquiring machines and equipment that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or produce, generate, or store renewable energy from specified sources.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2522 (Arambula-D) San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District
Allows the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to increase the motor vehicle registration surcharges to up to $30 per vehicle per year according to specified conditions, and permits the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to adopt rules and regulations to reduce vehicle trips.
Chapter 677, Statutes of 2008
AB 2538 (Ruskin-D) Greenhouse gas emissions: consumer product labeling: report
Requires the Air Resources Board to report to the Legislature, by 1/1/10, on the feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and potential design of carbon labels that estimate the amount of greenhouse gas emissions associated with individual consumer products.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2546 (De La Torre-D) Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information & Assessment Act of 1987
Amends the Air Toxics Hot Spot Information and Assessment Act of 1987 to include tailpipe emissions and other emissions at a railyard emanating directly from motor vehicles.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2558 (Feuer-D) Regional transportation agencies: climate protection
Authorizes a regional transportation agency, as defined, to impose, subject to voter approval within the jurisdiction of the regional transportation agency, a climate protection and system preservation fee on either motor vehicle fuel or motor vehicle registration within their jurisdictions.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2560 (Lieu-D) Medium- and heavy-duty motor vehicles: air pollution
Requires the Department of General Services to establish criteria to rank the environmental and energy benefits and costs for the potential procurement of "medium-duty" and "heavy-duty" vehicles by state and local governments.
Vetoed
AB 2596 (Jones-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Establishes a process at the Air Resources Board for measuring 2009 gas emissions in many cities and most counties.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2638 (Coto-D) California Air Quality and Environmental Health Act of 2008
Establishes the California Air Quality and Environmental Health Act of 2008, as administered by the California Air Resources Board (ARB). Requires ARB, beginning 1/1/09, to impose an undetermined fee (the amount to be established by ARB), on the sale, or lease for one year or longer, of a new passenger motor vehicle that meets specified requirements. Requires ARB to conduct a study to determine the amount of air pollution, including, but not limited to, greenhouse gas emissions, created by the vehicles that are to be assesses a fee and the cost of mitigation for that air pollution, and adopt a system for assessing those vehicles for their fair share of air pollution a fee sufficient to fund that mitigation.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2645 (Nunez-D) Air pollution: alternative fuels and vehicle technologies
Provides clarifying changes to the existing Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 2655 (DeSaulnier-D) Indoor air pollution: heavy-duty vehicle crankcase emissions
Establishes processes to reduce indoor air pollution in classrooms and to prohibit emissions from the crankcase of a heavy-duty diesel engine.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2760 (Leno-D) Environment: CEQA: pest eradication
Requires the preparation of an environmental impact report for a project involving the application of a pesticide by the Department of Food and Agriculture in an urban area for the eradication of the light brown apple moth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2865 (De Leon-D) Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program
Establishes processes to reduce indoor air pollution in classrooms and to prohibit emissions from the crankcase of a heavy-duty diesel engine.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2869 (De Leon-D) Air resources: Community Empowerment Advisory Committee
Establishes the Community Empowerment Advisory Committee to advise the Air Resources Board regarding distribution of investments directed toward the Warming Solutions Act.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2922 (DeSaulnier-D) Air pollution: penalties: fuel containers
Specifies that violations of rules or regulations that are subject to a $500 penalty include those relating to portable fuel containers, spouts, engines, and other units subject to regulation under the Air Resources Board's authority to control vehicular air pollution. Requires the Board to adopt standards for portable fuel containers and spouts.
Chapter 687, Statutes of 2008
AB 2934 (Charles Calderon-D) California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Amends the California Global Warming Solutions Act to mandate the use of market-based compliance mechanisms, including, for specified purposes.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2991 (Nunez-D) Air pollution: research
Adds two climate change experts to the Air Resources Board nine-member Research Screening Committee, and expands the charge of the Committee to include reviewing climate change-related research.
Chapter 691, Statutes of 2008
AB 3001 (Hancock-D) California Voluntary Carbon Offset Program Fund
Creates a mechanism to fund forestation and other greenhouse gas emission reduction projects undertaken by the California Conservation Corps and local conservation corps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3053 (Jones-D) Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program
Requires the Department of Consumer Affair incorporate the annual inspection of motor vehicles that are models which are 15 years old or greater into the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program by 1/1/10, and requires funds generated through additional inspection fees to be deposited into the High Polluter Repair or Removal Account.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AJR 40 (De Leon-D) Ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure
Memorializes the President of the United States to urge that immediate steps be taken to rectify the existing air quality conditions related to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure in the South Coast Air Basin.
Resolution Chapter 90, Statutes of 2008
AJR 53 (Huffman-D) Air resources: greenhouse gas emissions
Encourages the Congress and the President of the United States to support federal legislation that permits California to implement standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2008
HR 22 (Ruskin-D) Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month
Designates the month of November 2008 as Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month.
Adopted by the Assembly
Coastal Resources
SB 6 (Oropeza-D) Oceans
Requires that the land use element, the conservation element, the safety element, and the open-space element of city and county general plans identify areas which are subject to flooding, based on existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels. Requires cities and counties to deny subdivisions in risky areas. Requires state or local public entities that map and identify flood risk to consider existing climate predictions regarding ocean levels.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 584 (Corbett-D) San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program
Requires the State Coastal Conservancy to establish a program to restore the salt ponds in the south San Francisco Bay and create trails and visitor facilities for public use in that area.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 863 (Yee-D) Coastal Conservancy: Half Moon Bay
Appropriates $10 million to the State Coastal Conservancy from the Housing Urban-Suburban-and Rural Parks Account for grants t the City of Half Moon Bay for acquisition and associated park and trail development of property known as the "Beachwood Property."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 965 (Lowenthal-D) Oil spills: CA Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System
Establishes the California Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System information network, which links existing and proposed information systems in order to improve the efficiency and access to critical environmental information affecting safe navigation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1042 (Oropeza-D) Oil and gas leases: damages
Provides that a public entity is not liable for damages for any lost profits with respect to an oil and gas lease on land located in a coastal zone as specified, beyond the date of the enactment of a valid initiative that invalidates the oil and gas lease. Specifies that this provision applies to contracts entered into before, on, or after its effective date, except that it shall not apply to a case that has been adjudicated to a final judgment.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1108 (Machado-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program
Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program administered by the State Coastal Conservancy, to restore, enhance and protect agricultural, economic, natural, cultural, historical, recreational, public access and urban waterfront resources and opportunities of the Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1295 (Ducheny-D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development permit
Prohibits appeals by two commissioners of the California Coastal Commission unless the commission or its staff had provided written comments on a proposed project to the local governing body when that project was being considered by that body.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1582 (Simitian-D) Ocean resources: ocean rangers
Establishes an "ocean ranger" program, as defined, until 1/1/15, pursuant to which the owner or operator of a large passenger vessel permits specified law enforcement officers, hired or contracted by the Attorney General, to travel on cruise ships.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1618 (Hollingsworth-R) Public resources: defensible space
Allows work associated with creating defensible space to be exempt from the Endangered Species Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, and the Coastal Act, if one of the following conditions is met: (1) the local land use authority is a participant in a Natural Community Conservation Plan, (2) the local land use authority has incidental take authority from a Habitat Conservation Plan, or (3) the defensible space project is located in a county where more than 50% of the land is owned by the federal government.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1781* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Solid waste management
Contains provisions to update, clarify and make non-controversial changes to the various programs relating to solid waste management, tire hauling, tire recycling, and ballast water management codes to increase effective program implementation.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2008
AB 1066 (Laird-D) California coast: sea level rise
Requires guidelines in general plans to advise what cities and counties may use to address the effects of climate change and sea level rise on the California coast and bays. Authorizes the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to develop regional strategies for addressing and adapting to sea level rise. Requires the Ocean Protection Council to provide the best available scientific information on sea level rise impacts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1225 (DeSaulnier-D) Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund
Authorizes the Ocean Protection Council to provide funding for adaptive management, planning, coordination, monitoring, research, and other necessary activities to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change on California's ocean ecosystem.
Chapter 656, Statutes of 2008
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Coastal Commission
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, establishes a new account, Coastal Act Services Fund, into which existing permit fees are deposited and allows the Legislature to appropriate those funds to the Coastal Commission, and provides that the first $500,000 in permit fees is annually transferred to the State Coastal Conservancy.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1459 (Levine-D) California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development
Prohibits the sale or transfer of a unit in an overnight visitor-serving commercial facility located in the coastal zone for individual ownership, or the conversion of such to a private residential facility.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1597 (Solorio-D) Coastline protection: Orange County Sheriff
Provides that the Sheriff of the County of Orange is the sole and exclusive authority to provide security and safety for the coastlines, harbors, and inland waterways located in Orange County.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1832 (Saldana-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of San Diego
Repeals several statutes freeing former tidelands granted to the City of San Diego from public trust restrictions; also repeals local agency authorization to grant tidelands and submerged lands to the United States.
Vetoed
AB 2133 (Hancock-D) Habitat and wetlands: state contracts: agency projects
Allows the State Coastal Conservancy, with the approval of the Department of General Services, to directly carry out a public works project involving habitat or wetlands restoration and certain improvements other than buildings and non access related structures, on specified state-owned lands.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2008
AB 2165* (Karnette-D) Tidelands and submerged land: City of Long Beach
Authorizes the State Lands Commission to negotiate and execute a contract with the City of Long Beach and an oil operating contractor that permits the exploration and development of additional oil reserves beneath tidelands and submerged lands of the Wilmington oil field.
Chapter 446, Statutes of 2008
AB 2324 (DeSaulnier-D) Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg
Modifies the terms of a state grant of tidelands and submerged lands to the City of Pittsburg (Contra Costa County) provided by AB 2324 (Canciamilla), Chapter 275, Statutes of 2006.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2752 (DeVore-R) State lands: oil leases
Prohibits a political subdivision of the state, city or county from authorizing a person to extract oil or gas from tide and submerged land from where the state has a right to extract any other hydrocarbons.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
ACR 153 (Laird-D) California Coastal Trail Day
Declares 10/11/08 as California Trail Day in California.
Resolution Chapter 164, Statutes of 2008
Environmental Quality
SB 24 (Torlakson-D) Tobacco product environmental smoke: fee
Establishes a fee to be paid at retail stores by consumers of cigars and cigarettes based on the amount and impact of environmental smoke, also known as secondhand smoke, released during smoking of cigarettes and cigars. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt regulations to establish specific fees per cigar and cigarette to be assessed.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 375 (Steinberg-D) Transportation planning: travel demand models
Requires metropolitan planning organizations to include sustainable communities strategies, as defined, in their regional transportation plans for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, aligns planning for transportation and housing, and creates specified incentives for the implementation of the strategies.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2008
SB 427 (Harman-R) Environmental impact reports
Authorizes a lead agency to prepare a short form environmental impact report for a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act if the project meets specified criteria, including that the project is a qualified urban use, is within the area designated in a qualified programmatic plan for the type of proposed development, is consistent with the land use designation for the area and applicable standards of population density and building intensity, provides housing or employment near specified areas, and incorporates specified mitigation measures. Requires that a short form environmental impact report include specified information and comply with specified procedural requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act for an environmental impact report.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 429 (Ducheny-D) Environmental quality: land use controls
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the State Water Resources Control Board, each California regional water quality control board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and specified local agencies, as specified, to notify the building, planning, or engineering department in the affected city or county if it takes certain actions with regard to approving a remedial action, removal action, closure, corrective action, or any other type of environmental cleanup action, finds that the property subject to the action is not suitable for unrestricted use, and requires that the property be subject to a land use control, or if it enters into, or imposes, a specified instrument or agreement restricting land uses.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 631 (Ashburn-R) State Water Resources Control Board
Changes the current prohibition for persons seeking membership to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) or a regional water quality control board (RWQCB) to instead prohibit any person from being on either the SWRCB or RWQCB 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.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1558 (Ashburn-R) which died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee.
SB 732 (Steinberg-D) Environment
Establishes the Strategic Growth Council, requires the Council to take certain actions with regard to coordinating specified programs of member state agencies, and requires the Council to manage and award grants and loans to support the planning and development of sustainable communities.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2008
SB 781 (Correa-D) Environmental quality: mitigation measures
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency, on or before 1/1/09, and on or before 7/1 of each year thereafter, to report on the types and effectiveness of a representative sample of mitigation measures adopted by state and local agencies.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 947 (Hollingsworth-R) California Environmental Quality Act: consultation
Improves the early consultation and scoping processes for transportation projects by requiring lead agencies to provide notice of at least one scoping meeting to transportation planning agencies that are consulted, and requires the project's effect of overpasses, on-ramps, and off-ramps to be included in that consultation.
Chapter 707, Statutes of 2008
SB 1165 (Kuehl-D) Environment: environmental impact report
Revises the current procedures for preparing and commenting on a draft environmental impact report or negative declaration, as specified.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
SB 1176 (Perata-D) Water quality
Makes substantive and technical changes to the provisions of state law pertaining to State Water Resources Control Board and the nine regional water quality control boards.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1210 (Dutton-R) Short form environmental impact report
Authorizes a lead agency to prepare a short form environmental impact report for a project that requires an environmental impact report if the project is a qualified urban use located within an area designated by a specified programmatic plan for the type of development proposed by the project and meets specified requirements. Specifies the content of the short form environmental impact report. Provides that a discussion or analysis of alternatives, growth-inducing impacts, and cumulative impacts will not be required in the short form environmental impact report.
(Failed passage in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1500 (Kehoe-D) Environment: CEQA: fire hazards: state responsibility areas
Prohibits a county from approving a proposed project, as defined, in a state responsibility area unless the county certifies that structural fire protection will be provided, as specified. Requires a lead agency to consult, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, with the Board of Forestry on a proposed project in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1520 (Kehoe-D) Water quality: regional boards
Requires regional water quality control boards to submit annual budgets to the legislative budget committees, and requires the State Water Resources Control Board, if the board finds the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board has failed to take certain actions regarding sediment contamination along the eastern shore of San Diego Bay by 1/30/10, to assume jurisdiction and control over San Diego Board staff and other resources necessary to carry out these actions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1558 (Ashburn-R) Regional water quality control boards: membership
Prohibits a person from being a member of a regional quality 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 waste water discharge requirements.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1618 (Hollingsworth-R) Public resources: defensible space
Allows work associated with creating defensible space to be exempt from the Endangered Species Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, and the Coastal Act, if certain conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1631 (Ackerman-R) Public works: environmental complaints: fines and penalty
Provides that, in the case of a public works project that is to be performed on real property owned or leased by the state or a political subdivision, any person that files or threatens to file, or to fund, any environmental complaint or protest regarding any permit, map, or other entitlement related to the use or development of that land, where the purpose or objective is to obtain or extract money or other thing of value from the person seeking such permit, map, or entitlement, is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Governmental Organization Committee)
SB 1781* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Marine Invasive Species Act
Replaces a general reference for ballast water requirements in a State Lands Commission report with a specific implementation schedule; extends the implementation date for ballast water requirements for new vessels with ballast water capacity less than 5000 metric tons from 1/1/09 to 1/1/10; and changes the date for the Commission to submit a review of the ballast water report to the Legislature from/before 1/1/09, to/before 1/1/10.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2008
AB 19 (DeVore-R) Water quality: Santa Ana region
Establishes the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Project and the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board, comprised of specified members, for the purposes of carrying out the act. Authorizes a city or county to allow a discharger within its jurisdiction, upon the request of the discharger, to become subject to regulation by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board in lieu of the regional water quality control board for purposes of the act. Establishes the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Fund and authorizes the developer of a development project, if the developer has become subject to regulation by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board, to agree to pay a fee to the appropriate city or county, based on the acreage and density of the proposed development project, for deposit in the fund. Authorizes the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend funds in the fund for research relating to urban runoff to be conducted by certain educational institutions, as specified, for formulation of mitigation measures for proposed development projects, and for mitigation projects that are approved by that board for the purposes of improving water quality within the region, including projects to mitigate the impacts of urban runoff. Requires the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Improvement Board to prepare and submit to the Legislature, not later than 12/31/10, a report that describes the implementation of these provisions and the extent to which dischargers have become subject to the jurisdiction of that board, and that includes related recommendations. Sunsets on 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 169 (Levine-D) Public resources: ballast water management
Requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of a vessel carrying or capable of carrying ballast water to maintain on board the vessel, in written or electronic form, records that include the manufacturer and product name of the ballast water treatment system on board the vessel, the name of the organization that has approved the system and the approval or certification number of the system, and the number of tanks and the volume of each tank that is managed using the system. Requires the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of the vessel to provide that information to the State Lands Commission in electronic or written form using a form developed by the Commission upon the vessel's departure from a California port or place of call.
Vetoed
AB 274* (Coto-D) Brownfield cleanup: tax credit
Allows certain taxpayers to claim a credit against the net tax equal to the costs paid or incurred during the taxable year to clean up a polluted brownfield property located in California to a satisfactory level. Identifies a taxpayer entitled to the credit as a qualified "brownfield" property owner that operates a small business. Requires the cleanup to be evidenced by a written certification of completion, which is defined as an evaluation by the Department of Toxic Substances Control of the effectiveness of a removal or remedial action conducted by a responsible party to reduce or eliminate actual or potential public health and environmental threats posed by a hazardous substance release site if the action itself is not overseen by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, and permits unlimited carryover of any unused credit.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 862 (Wolk-D) Environmental quality
Requires the State Librarian to establish and maintain a web site that contains any supporting documentation for all environmental projects which receive funding from any state bond measure approved by the voters on or after 11/7/06, and requires that additional documents be filed with the State Clearinghouse for draft environmental impact reports.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 867 (Davis-D) Environmental justice issues: traffic analysis zones
Requires specified regional transportation plans to account for certain environmental justice issues in travel demand forecasting models.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 872 (Davis-D) Urban infill affordable housing
Exempts urban infill affordable housing projects less than 300 units from the California Environmental Quality Act.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1017 (Ma-D) California Environmental Quality Act
Places time limits on when an appeal may be filed against the actions of a nonelected decision making body of a local lead agency with regard to projects subject to the California Environmental Quality Act.
Vetoed
AB 1096 (DeVore-R) California Environmental Quality Act: housing
Requires the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, by 1/1/09, to report to the Legislature on development of affordable housing projects affecting the use of California Environmental Quality Act exemptions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Water quality
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, creates the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account for penalty revenues from failure to file timely waste discharge reports in order to better account for those revenues and requires the Department of Water Resources to use eight specified limited-term positions exclusively for conducting studies on options for conservation and restoration of the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta, consistent with the recommendations of the Delta Blue Ribbon Task Force. These positions will be restricted to advance work on California Environmental Quality Act required studies and documentation for the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1527* (Arambula-D) Cleantech Advantage Act of 2008
Enacts and enhances targeted tax credits to increase investment in cleantech activities and the production of environmentally clean manufacturing equipment, as well as maintain and enhance this state's competitive lead in attracting investment capital, clean industry, and high-paying, skilled jobs.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 1602 (Nunez-D) Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Program
Establishes the Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Grant Program in the Resources Agency, and provides for expenditure of Proposition 84 urban greening funds for this program, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 2153 (Krekorian-D) Water conservation
Amend the California Environmental Quality Act to require every new residential or commercial building subject to the Act to implement all feasible and cost-effective water efficiency measures, then mitigate its annual water consumption, as projected by its water supplier, with specified exceptions.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 2222 (Caballero-D) Groundwater quality: monitoring
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board, on or before 6/1/09, to identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options to extend the comprehensive monitoring program until 1/1/24, and make recommendations to enhance public accessibility of information on groundwater conditions. Requires the Board, on or before 1/1/12, in consultation with specified agencies, to submit to the Legislature a report concerning communities that rely on contaminated groundwater sources, the contamination of that water, and the solutions to provide safe drinking water to these communities.
Chapter 670, Statutes of 2008
AB 2230 (La Malfa-R) California Environmental Quality Act
Exempts from the payment of filing fees to the Department of Fish and Game for California Environmental Quality Act review when the lead agency determines the project has no effect on fish and wildlife or the project is being undertaken by a public agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2270 (Laird-D) Recycled water: water quality
Requires additional reporting on recycled water use and allows local agencies discretion to control salinity inputs (including water softeners) if the appropriate regional water quality control board makes a finding that controlling salinity inputs will contribute to the achievement of a water quality objective.
Vetoed
AB 2356 (Arambula-D) Water quality
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to take specified actions when allocating funds to small, disadvantaged communities for wastewater collection. Creates the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant fund for purposes of this bill.
Chapter 609, Statutes of 2008
AB 2425 (Coto-D) Water quality: pharmaceuticals
Requires Department of Public Health to convene a working group of interested parties and other entities to advance public knowledge about the topic of pharmaceutical drugs in public drinking water supplies.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2512 (Adams-R) California Environmental Quality Act
Requires the Southern California Association of Governments to submit a report to the Legislature on potential legislation to streamline California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Policy Act to expedite public works projects.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2760 (Leno-D) California Environmental Quality Act: pest eradication
Requires the preparation of an environmental impact report or the modification, addendum, or supplement to an existing report for the aerial application of a pesticide by the Department of Food and Agriculture in an urban area for the eradication of the light brown apple moth.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2823 (Eng-D) San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
Amends the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority Act by establishing the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund in the State Treasury for the purposes of addressing groundwater contamination by means of remediation that may include treatment, if other requirements are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2870 (DeSaulnier-D) Land use: environmental quality
Creates the California Blueprint Implementation Council to facilitate implementation of regional blueprint projects.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2900 (La Malfa-R) Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties
Sets a 12-month time limit for the imposition of the mandatory minimum penalty of $3,000 for specified violations of waste discharge requirements.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 2986 (Leno-D) Water quality
Expands the eligible projects under the State Water Resources Control Board's matching grant program funded by $90 million of Proposition 84 bond proceeds that were earmarked for reduction and prevention of stormwater contamination of rivers, lakes, and streams, to include two additional categories. Requires the Board to develop and implement a methodology to assign letter grade sewer systems. Requires certain sewage treatment plants to install and operate flow meters, as specified.
Vetoed
Forestry
SB 466 (Steinberg-D) Forest resources
States the intent of the Legislature that the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection's (BOF's) budget (1) be proposed and accounted for, separate from that of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, (2) requires BOF to convene a working group for specified purposes, (3) authorizes BOF to implement regulations twice a year, (4) gives BOF the authority to oversee "forestland" in addition to timberland conversion, and (5) specifies applicable mitigations for the environmental effects of forestland or timberland conversions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 553 (Aanestad-R) State property: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Authorizes the lease, sale, or exchange of a three-acre parcel currently used by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection as its Shasta-Trinity Unit Headquarters. Requires that the disposition be at not less than fair market value and under terms and conditions the Director determines are in the state's best interests, and requires that the property be first offered to the City of Redding, and if agreement is not reached with the City, to the public through a competitive process.
Vetoed
SB 838 (Cogdill-R) Fire prevention and protection
Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to award grants to the California Fire Safe Council, which is a non-profit organization that engages in fire prevention and education activities in the state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 930 (Cogdill-R) Forest resources
Allows the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to recover its administrative costs associated with managing state demonstration forests, and allows the Forest Resources Improvement Fund to be used for public education, research, and monitoring related to the demonstration forests.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1392 (Wyland-R) Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: personnel
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (department) to have military helicopter managers available for service upon the arrival of firefighting aircraft reporting for fire suppression purposes. Requires the department by 7/1/09, to report to the Legislature on the number of military helicopter managers employed by the department as of 1/1/09, and on the procedure by which these managers are placed in the field when responding to a fire.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1414 (Hollingsworth-R) Forestry: campfire-caused fires: undocumented aliens
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to gather and publish information regarding the number of fires caused by campfires created or used by undocumented aliens.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1500 (Kehoe-D) California Environmental Quality Act: fire hazards
Prohibits a county from approving a proposed project, as defined, in a state responsibility area unless the county certifies that structural fire protection will be provided, as specified. Requires a lead agency to consult, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, with the Board of Forestry on a proposed project in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone.
(Died in Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1595 (Kehoe-D) Public resources: fire protection: fuels management
Clarifies defensible space requirements and recasts them in terms of fuels management instead of vegetation management. Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to map Santa Ana, Mono, and Diablo winds that have been identified as a major cause of wildfire spread.
Chapter 366, Statutes of 2008
SB 1617 (Kehoe-D) State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees
Imposes an annual $50 fire prevention fee on structures located in the State Responsibility Areas. Requires fee revenues to be available to the Board of Forestry and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for fire prevention activities in State Responsibility Areas.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SCR 80 (Cogdill-R) Fire Safe Councils
Recognizes that Fire Safe Councils serve as leading community-based wildfire preparedness organizations and the vital services provided by Fire Safe Councils for the citizens of California.
Resolution Chapter 116, Statutes of 2008
SCR 113 (Wiggins-D) Emanuel Fritz Forest Ecosystem Research Area
Designates a portion of the lower Big River watershed in Mendocino County as the Emanuel Fritz Forest Ecosystem Research Area to be dedicated to basic research in forest ecosystem dynamics. Requests the Department of Parks and Recreation to determine the cost for appropriate signs near the mouth of Laguna Creek showing that special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Resolution Chapter 110, Statutes of 2008
AB 1166 (Berryhill-R) Forestry: staffing fire engines
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to abide by minimum staffing levels for state-owned fire engines.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1883 (Keene-R) Fire: inmate crews: nonprofit organizations
Allows the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to also enter into contracts or cooperative agreements for conservation projects with a qualified nonprofit organization that has demonstrated ability to plan, implement, and complete a conservation project and meets other criteria, as determined by the department.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2008
AB 1912* (Plescia-R) Wildfire risk reduction: tax credit
Allows a tax credit for the costs paid or incurred by a taxpayer for the purchase and installation of any wildfire risk relocation improvement installed on the taxpayer's property.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2045 (De La Torre-D) California Urban Forestry Act of 1978
Incorporates into the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection urban forestry program, the climate change mitigation benefits of urban forests, and also explicitly authorizes projects that create multiple benefits, such as projects that combine tree planting and management with greenhouse gas emission reductions, improvements to air and water quality, and stormwater management, among others.
Chapter 438, Statutes of 2008
AB 2154 (Brownley-D) Emergency services: fire engines
Requires the Director of the Office of Emergency Services to acquire 131 fire engines to augment its existing fleet and to assign them to local fire protection agencies in the state.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2285 (La Malfa-R) Forest resources
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to assess fuel conditions in, or adjacent to, a wildland urban interface community, which is at high risk of wildfire, as defined, and to identify the communities that are of highest priority for fuel reduction, as determined by the department. Requires the department, in consultation with the University of California or California State University, to assess the current utilization of fuel reduction activities and programs authorized under existing state law and regulations and make recommendations to the Legislature. The report is due by 7/1/10.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2725* (La Malfa-R) Federal forest reserve funds: short-term loans
Authorizes the State Controller, in the 2008-09 fiscal year, to issue loans from the General Fund to a county, school district, a county superintendent of schools on behalf of a school district, or a community college district, that has requested a loan in order to provide short-term relief based on a delay in the receipt of federal forest funding. Sunsets this authorization on 7/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2859 (Gaines-R) Forestry: fire prevention and control
Conditionally exempts, from the need to prepare a timber harvest plan, the removal of trees from a firebreak or fuel break, and allows more comprehensive vegetation removal in a declared infestation or infection area.
Chapter 365, Statutes of 2008
AB 2889 (Berryhill-R) Forestry: fire engine staffing
Requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to staff a Department Fire Protection fire engine with a minimum of three personnel, and with a minimum of four personnel during peak fire season.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2926 (Lieber-D) Forest resources: resource conservation
Requires the Board of Forestry to adopt statewide regulations that prohibit clearcutting operations on land adjacent to areas where previous clearcutting operations have taken place until 50% crown cover has been attained for the conifer tree species in the previously clearcut area, and prohibits clearcutting timber harvesting operations on contiguous tracts of land, without regard to ownership, unless the total combined acreage of the area clearcut is no more than 10 acres.
(Failed passage in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2934 (Charles Calderon-D) State forests: global warming
Specifies that the environmental and economic benefits relative of the market-based compliance mechanisms regulations, to be adopted under the state global warming law include maintenance and restoration of state forests and state parks that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
ACR 156 (Berryhill-R) The CDF Firefighter Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 120 from the Mariposa/Tuolumne County line to the Rim of the World Vista as the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Firefighter Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Firefighter Schicke who passed away in the line of duty on 9/12/04, at the age of 23, while battling a fire in the Stanislaus National Forest.
Resolution Chapter 166, Statutes of 2008
Solid Waste Management
SB 300 (Corbett-D) Recycling: beverage containers: San Francisco Bay area
Appropriates $30 million annually from the Beverage Container Recycling Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board to administer grants to local governments and nonprofit agencies to reduce beverage containers and litter entering the San Francisco Bay through wind or stormwater drains.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 842 (Scott-D) Integrated waste management
Revises the criterion relative to gasification under the integrated waste management program by requiring that the technology produces no discharges of air contaminants or emissions exceeding standards set by the Air Resources Board, air pollution control districts, or air quality management districts.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 896 (Negrete McLeod-D) Solid waste
Authorizes certain monies to be expended by the Department of Conservation annually, in the form of grants for beverage container litter reduction and recycling programs, to be issued to the California Conservation Corps.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1016 (Wiggins-D) Diversion: compliance: per capita disposal rate
Requires that on and after 1/1/09, the California Integrated Waste Management Board will determine compliance with the diversion goals established by the California Integrated Waste Management Act by comparing each jurisdiction's "per capita disposal rate" with the jurisdiction's "50% equivalent" per capital disposal rate on 1/1/07. Makes other related changes to existing law.
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2008
SB 1020 (Padilla-D) Solid waste: diversion
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to develop a plan to achieve a 75% statewide rate of solid waste diversion from landfills and other disposal facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1277 (Maldonado-R) Synthetic turf
Requires, on or before 9/1/10, the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and the Department of Public Health, to prepare and provide to the Legislature and post on the CIWMB's Internet web site a study on the effects of synthetic turf and natural turf on the environment and public health.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2008
SB 1321 (Correa-D) School recycling programs
Establishes the School Beverage Container Recycling program to require school districts to consult with the local Community Conservation Corps or another recycler to obtain information in order to establish a program at each school campus and public office of that district. Sunsets this program on 1/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1357 (Padilla-D) Beverage containers: processing payments: grants
Authorizes the Department of Conservation to expend up to $20,000,000 from 7/1/09 to 1/1/12, for either grants for beverage container recycling and litter reduction programs or focused, regional community beverage container recycling and litter reduction programs. Also requires the department, on and after 1/1/10, to use the most recently published, measured actual costs of recycling for a beverage container, as specified.
Chapter 697, Statutes of 2008
SB 1405 (Padilla-D) Solid waste: loans: development projects: construction
Revises the conditions under which the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) is required to issue loans for purposes of the Recycling Market Development Revolving Loan Program to require the CIWMB to expend at least 50% of the amount available annually in the subaccount for loan amounts that are not more than 3/4 of the cost of the project or not more than $2,000,000 for the project, whichever is less. Requires the CIWMB to expend not more than 50% of the amount available annually in the subaccount for loans under which the maximum loan amount is limited to 3/4 of the cost of each project or not more than $5,000,000 for each project, whichever is less, and the project is for the diversion of priority materials from landfill disposal, as determined by the CIWMB. Makes other related changes to existing law.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
SB 1625 (Corbett-D) Recycling: CRV containers
Expands the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act to include all plastic bottles, excluding food, and redefines the term "beverage" to include nut, grain, or soy drinks that contain any percentage of juice, and specifies that vegetable juice be sold in a beverage container 16 ounces or less is subject to the act until 1/1/10, and that vegetable juice in a beverage container of 32 ounces or less shall be subject to the Act after that date. Deletes the exclusion from the term "beverage," for a product that is not sold in specified types of containers and additionally excludes, from the definition of container a beverage in a flexible foil or pouch container and a prescription or over-the-counter human or veterinary drug. Makes conforming changes to other definitions, for purposes of the Act. Makes other related changes to existing law.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
SB 1663 (Denham-R) Used and waste tires: grants
Establishes, until 1/1/13, a program at the California Integrated Waste Management Board by which grants must be awarded to cities, counties, other local governments, and nonprofit organizations to help farm owners buy equipment necessary to facilitate the tracking and reporting of used and waste tires and to remove illegally disposed tires.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1781* (Senate Environmental Quality Committee) Solid waste management
Contains provisions to update, clarify and make non-controversial changes to the various programs relating to solid waste management, tire hauling, tire recycling, and ballast water management codes to increase effective program implementation.
Chapter 696, Statutes of 2008
AB 712 (De Leon-D) Off-road solid waste: clean air
Creates, until 1/1/16, the Off-Road Solid Waste Composting and Recycling Vehicle Clean Air Program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 729 (Mullin-D) Recycling: e-waste
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to adopt regulations for the proper and legal donation of covered electronic devices intended for reuse by a nonprofit organization.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 820 (Karnette-D) Recycling polystyrene
Prohibits a state facility, as defined, from selling, possessing, or distributing an expanded polystyrene food container.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 822 (Levine-D) Solid waste: multifamily dwellings
Requires, on and after 7/1/09, an owner of a multifamily dwelling to provide recycling services that are (1) appropriate for the multifamily dwelling, and (2) consistent with relevant state and local laws, including ordinances and agreements.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 904 (Feuer-D) Recycling: food containers
Enacts the Plastic and Marine Debris Reduction, Recycling, and Composting Act which prohibits a takeout food provider, on and after 7/1/12, from distributing single-use food service packaging to a consumer, unless the single-use food service packaging is either compostable packaging or recyclable packaging. Requires a person who produces single-use food service packaging and distributes that single-use food service packaging in this state, on and after 7/1/11, to maintain and provide, upon request to any person, a list of the single-use food service packaging distributed by that person that is recyclable or compostable. Provides for the imposition of a civil penalty, of not more than $100 per day upon a person violating these requirements, and provides that the total penalties assessed annually upon a person violating these requirements shall not exceed $10,000. Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to publish annually a list setting forth any penalties that have been levied against a violator of this act. Requires the CIWMB to deposit all penalties paid pursuant to the act into the Marine Debris Reduction Account, which the bill creates in the Integrated Waste Management Fund in the State Treasury. Authorizes the CIWMB to expend the moneys deposited in the account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to provide public education and assist local governmental agencies in efforts to reduce plastic waste and marine debris, and for the board's costs of implementing the Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1075 (Cook-R) Solid waste diversion
Defines the term "anaerobic digestion" for purposes of the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. Additionally 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 non-aerobically and an operation or facility that utilizes anaerobic digestion. Revises the definition of the term "transformation" to exclude anaerobic digestion.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1195 (Torrico-D) Recycling: used oil: incentive payments
Makes changes to the California Integrated Waste Management Board used oil recycling program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1207 (Smyth-R) Solid waste: biosolids
Requires the minimum standards for solid waste facilities to include standards for the land application of biosolids.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1237 (Hancock-D) Solid waste: solid waste facilities
Clarifies the allowable time period for the California Integrated Waste Management Board to concur or object to matters relating to a solid waste facility permit and clarifies that failure to do so will mean the board has objected. Provides for specified inspections to be conducted unannounced. Eliminates the need for a public hearing prior to specified enforcement actions by the board.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 1390 (Huffman-D) Solid waste: diversion: illegal dumping: fees
Requires a city or county, on and after 1/1/15, to divert 60% of all solid waste through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities. Establishes specified waste reduction targets for the state. Defines "illegal dumping" for purposes of the act as meaning the act of disposing of solid waste at a location that is not a permitted solid waste facility or is not otherwise authorized for the disposal of solid waste pursuant to the act or regulations adopted by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. Requires the owner or operator of a business that contracts for solid waste services and generates more than four cubic yards of total solid waste and recyclable materials per week to arrange for recycling service, consistent with state and local laws and requirements, to the extent that these services are offered and reasonably available from a local service provider. Requires specified local agencies, by 1/1/11, to adopt commercial recycling ordinances that include certain minimum requirements.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1535 (Huffman-D) Electronic waste: fee payment
Changes the point of collection for the Electronic Waste Recycling Fee to the manufacturer from the consumer and makes other conforming changes to existing law.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1719* (Hancock-D) Recycling: beverage containers: plastic bags
Makes various changes concerning expenditures made by the Department of Conservation under the Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. Suspends, for two years, enforcement of the recycled content requirements for plastic trash bags, as well as various other changes dealing with recycling programs.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 1972 (DeSaulnier-D) Solid waste: plastic bags: food and beverage containers
Makes technical and clarifying changes to the requirements for compostable plastic bags.
Chapter 436, Statutes of 2008
AB 2058 (Levine-D) Recycling: plastic carryout bags
Prohibits, on and after 7/1/11, a store from providing plastic carryout bags to customers unless the store demonstrates an increased diversion rate, as defined, of 70% in the number of plastic carryout bags provided by the store during a specified period. Requires a store that is not complying with the diversion rate requirements to provide a plastic carryout bag to a customer only if the store charges the customer not less than $0.25 per bag. Requires a store charging customers for plastic carryout bags to demonstrate that any revenue collected, excluding the cost of the bags and a reasonable financial return, is used by the store to implement specified plastic carryout bag recycling, plastic carryout bag cleanup, and plastic carryout bag waste reduction programs. Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to administer and enforce the plastic carryout bag provisions. Requires a store that imposes a charge for a plastic carryout bag to pay a specified fee to the CIWMB for deposit in the Integrated Waste Management Account and authorizes the CIWMB, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to expend those moneys for purposes of administering and enforcing the plastic carryout bag provisions. Extends these provisions indefinitely.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2071 (Karnette-D) Plastic bags: plastic food/beverage containers: enforcement
Permits a city, county, or the state to impose civil liability in the amount of $500 for the first violation, $1,000 for the second violation, and $2,000 for the third and any subsequent violation of the Public Resources law that prohibits the sale of a plastic bag that is labeled compostable, biodegradable, degradable, or implies that the bag will break down, as specified, unless at the time of the sale the bag meets specified standards for those terms. Permits a city, county, or the state to impose civil liability in the amount of $500 for the first violation, $1,000 for the second violation, and $2,000 for the third and any subsequent violation of the Public Resources law that prohibits the sale of a plastic food or beverage container that is labeled compostable, biodegradable, degradable, or implies that the container will break down, as specified, unless at the time of the sale the container meets specified standards for those terms. Authorizes civil penalties collected under the provisions of this bill to be paid to the office of the city attorney, city prosecutor, district attorney, or Attorney General, whichever office brought the action and permits the expenditure of those funds, as specified.
Chapter 570, Statutes of 2008
AB 2415* (Fuentes-D) Solid waste: permit
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board to obtain the approval of all local enforcement agencies affected by a solid waste facilities permit application for a facility located in multiple jurisdictions.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2640 (Huffman-D) Solid waste: compostable organics management
Requires, commencing 1/1/10, green waste used at a solid waste facility for alternative daily cover at the landfill, to be subject to a quarterly fee equal to the existing state tipping fee. Requires that the revenue generated by this proposed fee be used to create a new Integrated Waste Management Board grant program for the purposes of encouraging compostable organic waste diversion projects.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2679 (Ruskin-D) Solid waste: enforcement: local agencies
Makes numerous changes to strengthen and streamline enforcement provisions of the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989.
Chapter 500, Statutes of 2008
AB 2695 (Niello-R) Solid waste: enforcement: illegal dumping
Makes changes to the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 by (1) making additional definitions, (2) providing that the act does not limit the power of a city, county or district to impose and enforce any conditions or restrictions on, or abate the effects of, illegal dumping or any other disposal or abandonment of solid waste at a location that violates a local ordinance or regulation, as specified, (3) expanding what can be included in inspection programs for illegal dumping to include public awareness activities and abatement, (4) authorizing the application of administrative and civil penalties to injunctive relief to enforce, and civil penalties imposed for violations of, specified provisions relating to garbage and refuse disposal, (5) establishing an illegal dumping grant and loan program, and (6) requiring the California Integrated Waste Management Board to identify model programs that have been effected in reducing illegal dumping, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2730 (Leno-D) Beverage containers: nonprofit convenience zone recyclers
Clarifies eligibility for handling fees for nonprofit recycling centers where the center's existence allows for the exemption of supermarket recycling center mandate.
Chapter 251, Statutes of 2008
AB 2829 (Davis-D) Recycling: plastic carryout bags
Requires stores to charge a fee of 25 cents per plastic carryout bag distributed to customers and creates the California Plastic Carryout Bag Impact Fund. Also requires that all plastic bags include an environmental awareness message in addition to the words "PLEASE RETURN TO A PARTICIPATING STORE FOR RECYCLING."
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 2866 (De Leon-D) Solid waste: solid waste disposal fees: postclosure
Increases the tipping fee from $1.40 per ton to $2 per ton starting 7/1/09. The increased fee will be available for expenditure by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in accordance with a schedule specified in the bill.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3025 (Lieber-D) Solid waste: polystyrene loosefill packaging.
Prohibits a wholesaler from selling expanded polystyrene loosefill packaging material beginning 1/1/12.
Chapter 471, Statutes of 2008
Toxics/Hazardous Waste
SB 55 (Florez-D) Water quality: sewage sludge
Requires a publicly owned treatment works to submit a certification to the regional water quality control board that any sewage sludge transferred from the facility for disposal or further processing meets the requirements and standards for any pollutants listed in the waste discharge requirements for the publicly owned treatment works issued by the regional board.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 329 (Dutton-R) Hazardous materials: business plans
Requires the Governor's Office of Emergency Services to adopt regulations that authorize an administering agency to allow a business to submit a Spill Prevention Control, and Countermeasure Plan, in lieu of a business plan, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 456 (Simitian-D) Diacetyl
Prohibits, on and after 7/1/08, a person from manufacturing, processing, or distributing in commerce a product containing diacetyl. Authorizes the Director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, to grant a temporary waiver from the prohibition of two years with a renewal period of two additional years. States that a waiver may be granted if the manufacturer submits a petition requesting a deferral of the prohibition and the Director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazards Assessment makes a written finding that: (1) the prohibition will cause substantial economic hardship to users of diacetyl; (2) there is no feasible alternative to diacetyl; and (3) that there will be appropriate mitigation to the greatest extent practical.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 509 (Simitian-D) Hazardous materials: toxic substances
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish a Toxics Information Clearinghouse, as specified, and defines terms relating to a Green Chemistry program to be administered by the department.
Chapter 560, Statutes of 2008
SB 817 (Ducheny-D) Hazardous waste: silver
Exempts from hazardous waste facilities permit requirements a hazardous waste treatment activity in which the generator treats spent photoimaging solutions that are hazardous solely due to their silver content, if specified conditions are met.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
SB 1161 (Lowenthal-D) Petroleum underground storage tanks: cleanup
Extends the authorization of the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund from 1/1/11 to 1/1/16, and establishes the Underground Storage Tank Petroleum Contamination Orphan Site Cleanup Fund in the State Treasury and transfers $10 million for each of the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 fiscal years from the underground storage Tank Cleanup fund to the newly established fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of remediating harm caused by petroleum contamination of a "Brownfield Site" as specified. Makes other related changes.
Chapter 616, Statutes of 2008
SB 1230 (Maldonado-R) Detergents: phosphorus
Prohibits, commencing 7/1/10, the use, sale, manufacture, or distribution for sale of any cleaning agent, if that product contains more than .5% phosphorous by weight, except as specified.
Vetoed
SB 1313 (Corbett-D) Product safety: perfluorinated compounds
Prohibits, on or after 1/1/10, the manufacture, sale, or distribution of any food contact substance that contains perfluorinated compounds, as defined, in any concentration exceeding ten parts per billion.
Vetoed
SB 1334 (Calderon-D) Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content
Requires all plumbing products, as defined, to be certified by an independent American National Standards Institute accredited third-party for compliance with existing lead standards.
Chapter 580, Statutes of 2008
SB 1346 (Calderon-D) Fireworks
Makes changes to SB 839 (Calderon), Chapter 563, Statutes of 2007, relating to the disposition of fine and penalties and the seizure of illegal fireworks under the state fireworks law.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1395 (Corbett-D) Lead plumbing: monitoring and compliance testing
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances to monitor and test lead plumbing for compliance with existing lead standards.
Chapter 581, Statutes of 2008
SB 1574* (Florez-D) Underground storage tanks: biodiesel
Sets interim standards for underground storage tanks that contain biodiesel blends, as specified, until 7/1/11, or until regulations are adopted that set standards for underground storage tanks that contain biodiesel blends, whichever is sooner.
Vetoed
SB 1575 (Florez-D) Department of Toxic Substances Control: product recall
Establishes the Consumer Product Recall Protection and Enforcement Act to be overseen by the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1713 (Migden-D) Children's products: bisphenol A
Enacts the Toxin-Free Toddlers and Babies Act which prohibits the sale, manufacture or distribution in commerce of food containers for children that contain bisphenol A above a specified level.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
SCR 126 (Simitian-D) No Drugs Down the Drain Week
Proclaims the week of October 4 to October 11, 2008, inclusive, as No Drugs Down the Drain Week to raise awareness among the public about the environmental problems caused by flushing unwanted drugs down the drain.
Resolution Chapter 119, Statutes of 2008
AB 218 (Saldana-D) Hazardous waste: electronic waste
Expands the prohibition on the sale of all electronic devices in California to all those that are prohibited from sale in the European Union by the Reduction of Hazardous Substances Directive.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 513 (Lieber-D) Chemicals: PBDE: prohibition
Bans the manufacture, process, or distribution in commerce of a product, as defined, containing more than 0.1% of decabromodiphenyl ether, on and after 1/1/11.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
AB 656 (Plescia-R) Hazardous waste: alkaline batteries
Requires the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the State Water Resources Control Board, by 7/1/08, to jointly undertake a study and submit a report to the Legislature regarding whether there are any environmental impacts caused by the random disposal of used alkaline batteries in a permitted solid waste landfill facility, to the extent of those impacts caused by the permitted disposal, and proposed solutions to mitigate those identified impacts.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 706 (Leno-D) Fire retardants
Requires, commencing 7/1/10, all seating furniture, mattresses, box springs, mattress sets, futons, and other bedding products to comply with certain requirements, including that they not contain a chemical or component not in compliance with the alternatives assessment requirements, as described, or that has been prohibited or restricted from use in the product. Exempts from the requirement that bedding products be resistant to open-flame ignition those products for which the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation (Bureau) finds that resistance to open-flame ignition cannot be achieved without using those prohibited chemicals or components. Requires seating furniture and retail polyurethane foam to comply with Bureau regulations specifying the degree of fire or flame retardance. Requires, commencing 7/1/09, residential upholstered furniture offered for sale in this state to meet or exceed a specified cigarette ignition resistance standards instead of a flame retardance test of the filling materials, unless exempted by the Bureau. Requires all seating furniture, mattress sets, futons, and other bedding products to be labeled with a permanent label attachment, as specified, commencing 7/1/09. Requires, commencing 7/1/10, the Department of Toxic Substances control (DTSC) to develop and adopt a methodology, and to utilize that methodology in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and any other designated agency, for the coordination and conduct of an alternatives assessment to review the life cycle impacts of components, chemicals, or classes of chemicals used to adopt regulations in consultation with the chief of the Bureau that prohibit or limit the use of a component, chemical, or class of chemicals in the products under the jurisdiction of the Bureau, if it determines through the alternatives assessment that the component, chemical, or class of chemicals is of high concern for human, animal, or environmental health. Requires, commencing 1/1/15, any component or chemical used to meet the fire retardancy standards set by the Bureau to first be certified by the Director of DTSC to be in compliance with the alternatives assessment requirements. Requires DTSC to maintain a list of certified components and chemicals and to provide that list to the Bureau, and requires the Bureau to post the list on its Internet web site. Requires, beginning 7/1/10, the DTSC, in consultation with the OEHHA and any other designated agency, to commence an alternatives assessment of brominated fire retardants and chlorinated fire retardants used to meet the fire retardancy standards of the Bureau. Provides that monies in the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation Fund shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to DTSC to implement these provisions.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 909 (Wolk-D) Mercury monitoring and remediation
Establishes the Mercury Characterization and Control Program within the State Water Resources Control Board to provide grants and to fund development of a mercury control and remediation program for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1127 (Carter-D) Percholorate: drinking water standards: City of Rialto
Authorizes the Department of Public Health to make a loan or a grant with monies from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund or the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for use by the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority for assessing, testing, and treating drinking water for percholorate contamination in and around the cities of Colton, Fontana, and Rialto.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1193 (Ruskin-D) Mercury-added thermostats: collection program
Establishes a process for manufacturer-administered collection and recycling of old mercury-added thermostats that are removed from homes and other structures and that are no longer allowed to be disposed of in a solid waste landfill.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1195 (Torrico-D) Recycling: used oil: incentive payments
Makes various changes to the California Integrated Waste Management Board's used oil recycling program.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1257 (Caballero-D) Rural CUPA reimbursement
Expands eligibility for specified rural Certified Unified Program Agency funds to include specified counties, and clarifies allocation of such funds.
(Died in Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee)
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) Brownfields and biomonitoring
Enacts the 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, creates a Revolving Loan Fund in the State Treasury and continuously appropriates the monies in that fund to the Department of Toxic Substances Control for use in Brownfield remediation programs, and allows the use of the Toxic Substances Control Account for the biomonitoring programs at the Department of Public Health and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
Chapter 780, Statutes of 2008
AB 1391 (Brownley-D) Electronic waste
Requires a retailer that sells a covered electronic device to provide the California Integrated Waste Management Board's Internet web site address to a customer at the point of sale of that device. Requires that the Internet web site describe where and how to return, recycle, and dispose of a covered electronic device and opportunities and locations for the collection or return of the device. Requires a retailer to provide this information to a customer at the point of sale of the device through a sign or written material, or on the sales receipt. This provision becomes operative on 7/1/09.
Vetoed
AB 1556 (Horton-R) Hazardous waste: crimes
Increases the punishment by an additional term of one to five years for a person convicted of a felony involving or resulting in a hazardous waste byproduct, and provides for reimbursement to all governmental entities involved in the cleanup, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1879 (Feuer-D) Hazardous materials: toxic substances
Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations, as specified, to establish processes for identifying, prioritizing, and evaluating chemicals of concern and their potential alternatives. Requires the department, in adopting regulations, to prepare a multimedia life cycle evaluation, as defined. Requires the department to establish and appoint members to a Green Ribbon Science Panel, which will take specified actions and advises the department on science, technical and policy matters. Establishes procedures to exempt the public release of information that is claimed to be a trade secret, as specified.
Chapter 559, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was AB 558 (Feuer-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 1946 (Nava-D) Hazardous materials: water quality: enforcement
Extends the statute of limitations from one year to five years for specified violations of hazardous material release response plans and allows district attorneys, upon request of the State Water Resources Control Board or a regional water quality control board, to petition the superior court to recover civil penalties for violations of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Vetoed
AB 2286 (Feuer-D) Unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials
Sets a deadline of 1/1/10, for the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to establish a statewide information management system for the Certified Unified Program Agency program. Requires the Secretary of California Environmental Protection Agency to increase the annual surcharge on regulated businesses by no more than $25 for three years in order to fund the system.
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2008
AB 2347 (Ruskin-D) Mercury-added thermostats: collection program
Enacts the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008 and requires a manufacturer that owns or owned a name brand of mercury-added thermostats sold in this state before 1/1/06, to establish and maintain a collections and recycling program for out-of-service mercury-added thermostats, as specified.
Chapter 572, Statutes of 2008
AB 2505 (Brownley-D) Hazardous waste: polyvinyl chloride packaging container
Bands both rigid and flexible polyvinyl chloride packaging containers in the State of California, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2536 (Nunez-D) Hazardous materials: metal plating facility
Authorizes the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to offer rebates of 10% of the loan guarantee amount, not to exceed $10,000, to loan guarantee recipients that complete pollution improvements and meet the metal plating facility loan guarantee program requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2720 (Levine-D) Hazardous sites: school facilities
Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to the California Environmental Quality Act regarding the siting of school facilities near or on hazardous waste sites or near facilities emitting hazardous emissions.
Chapter 148, Statutes of 2008
AB 2729 (Ruskin-D) Hazardous substances: underground storage tanks
Makes changes to the Barry Keene Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Trust Fund of 1989 by creating the School District Account in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund and transfers a sum of $10 million annually if fiscal years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 from the fund into the account. Provides that money in the account shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature to the State Water Resources Control Board to pay claims filed by school districts that have a fourth (or "D") rank on the ranking list. Sunsets the account on 7/1/14 and specifies that the account and monies due to the account reverts to, and accrues to, the fund. Requires the Board, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control to include in its annual report, information on the expenditure of monies transferred to this account. Increases, from $1 to $2 million, the threshold for applicants to qualify for a streamlined process when proposing remedial action for hazardous material sites.
Chapter 644, Statutes of 2008
AB 2901 (Brownley-D) Toxics: enforcement: lead jewelry: packaging
Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to take specified measures to enforce compliance with existing prohibition on lead in jewelry and on packaging containing regulated metals, as specified.
Chapter 575, Statutes of 2008
AB 2990 (Laird-D) Underground storage tanks: petroleum
Requires the State Water Resources Control Board to convene a task force to develop recommendations on the process for the closure of all single-walled underground storage tanks by certain date, and the financial assistance needed to achieve this goal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3031 (Lieber-D) Toxics: chemical uses
Requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to develop an inventory of data identifying chemical uses by type, industry sector, and toxicity to show hazardous waste flows, changes, and endpoints.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3077 (Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee) Hazardous materials: Brownfield cleanup
Authorizes the Department of Toxic Substances Control to administer a loan or grant program consistent with federal regulations implementing the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act, using only federal grant funds if available for that purpose.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
Oil Spills
SB 578 (Simitian-D) Oil spill contingency plan
Revises the existing oil spill contingency plan requirements, with respect to a marine facility, to instead require the plan to include provisions for training and drills on all elements of the plan at least annually and provisions for subjecting all elements of the plan to tests, as specified by the administrator for oil spill response, at least once every three years.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 965 (Lowenthal-D) Oil spills
Establishes the California Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System information network, which links existing and proposed information systems in order to improve the efficiency and access to critical environmental information affecting safe navigation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1056 (Migden-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Requires the Office of Emergency Services to notify San Francisco Bay Area counties in the event of an oil spill in the jurisdiction of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and requires the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response to promulgate a regulation establishing a minimum two hour oil spill response time in San Francisco Bay. Double-jointed with AB 38 (Nava), and AB 2547 (Leno).
Vetoed
SB 1217 (Yee-D) Board of Pilot Commissioners: fitness for duty
Requires that the Board of Pilot Commissioners by 2/15/10, to submit an annual report to the Legislature that provides information on each pilot, inland pilot, trainee, vessel movements and investigations of reported incidents.
Chapter 568, Statutes of 2008
SB 1627 (Wiggins-D) Board of Pilot Commissioners
Requires the independent audits for the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisan.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2008
SB 1739 (Simitian-D) Oil spill contingency plan
Clarifies the marine facility oil spill contingency plan training, drills, and testing requirements, and revises oil spill response organization drill requirements. Authorizes the Administrator of the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response, if the Administrator and the United States Coast Guard or other qualified public agency is unable to attend an out-of-state drill of an oil spill contingency plan, to require an owner or operator of a vessel to provide for an independent drill monitor to evaluate the drill. Requires the Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response Administrator to adopt regulations to implement the independent drill monitor requirement on or before 1/1/10. Double-jointed with AB 2547 (Leno).
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2008
AB 1960 (Nava-D) Public resources: oil production facilities and oil spills
Adds requirements pertaining to the operation and regulation of oil and gas production facilities and changes the fines for certain violations. Also adds new fines under the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act.
Chapter 562, Statutes of 2008
AB 2031 (Hancock-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Makes various changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act regarding coordinating local resources, training of local emergency responders and volunteers, grants to local governments, and local government notification of oil spills.
Chapter 563, Statutes of 2008
AB 2032 (Hancock-D) Oil spill prevention and response: fees
Increases the maximum Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund fee from $0.05 to $0.08. Contingent upon enactment of AB 2911 (Wolk).
Vetoed
AB 2441 (Lieber-D) Oil spill prevention and response: regulations
Amends the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by requiring the administrator of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response to require tugboat escorts for vessels carrying hazardous materials as cargo in bulk quantities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2547 (Leno-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Makes changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by revising definitions and amending provisions pertaining to an oil spill response organization (OSRO), including requiring the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Administrator to require an owner or operator of a vessel or marine facility or rated OSRO to submit price lists periodically for the utilization of response resources that the administrator may contract, director, or call to action in response to an oil spill. Establishes a new grant program for the development of improved processes and technologies for oil spill prevention, containment, and cleanup, as specified. Requires the Administrator to provide to the Legislature by 1/1/10, and every five years thereafter, an evaluation of emerging technologies, as specified. Requires the administrator to adopt and implement regulations, as specified. Requires the administrator to use Oil Spill Response Trust Fund monies to cover the uncompensated response and cleanup costs resulting from providing resources through OSRO agreements, as specified, and to pay for technology grants. Double -jointed with SB 1056 (Migden), SB 1739 (Simitian), and AB 2911 (Wolk).
Vetoed
AB 2911 (Wolk-D) Oil spill prevention and response: inland spills
Makes changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by giving the Administrator of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response authority to serve as a State Incident Commander and direct the removal, abatement, response, containment, and cleanup efforts with regard to all aspects of any placement of petroleum or petroleum product in the waters of the state, not just marine waters, except as specified.
Chapter 565, Statutes of 2008
AB 2912 (Wolk-D) Oil spill prevention and response: nonmarine waters
Expands, to inland oil spills that may flow into inland waters or groundwater, the Office of Spill Prevention and Response Administrator's authority governing response to marine oil spills, and extends the penalties that may be imposed in connection with a marine oil spills to these inland spills.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2935 (Huffman-D) Oil spill prevention and response
Makes changes to the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act by establishing a procedure for the closure of fisheries that might be affected after an oil spill has occurred, and expanding requirements on oil spill contingency plans for protecting environmentally and ecologically sensitive areas.
Chapter 564, Statutes of 2008
Miscellaneous
SB 4 (Oropeza-D) Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban
Prohibits smoking on any state coastal beach or state park unit except in adjacent parking lots. A violation of this section is an infraction and punishable by a $250 fine. Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, or another state agency, to develop and post signs to provide notice of the smoking prohibition. New signs could only be posted when existing signs are being replaced.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 27 (Simitian-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
States the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to begin implementing a program for sustainable management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Enacts the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Act of 2008. The Act is almost entirely comprised of legislative findings, declarations, and intent language. Requires the Resources Agency, on or before 1/1/08, to develop and begin implementing specified actions on behalf of the Delta.
Chapter 608, Statutes of 2008
SB 59 (Cogdill-R) Reliable Water Supply Bond Act of 2008
Authorizes $3.95 billion in general obligation bonds for water storage projects, delta sustainability, water use efficiency, resource stewardship, and environmental restoration programs.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 68 (Kuehl-D) Environmental quality: determination: dispute
Revises the California Environmental Quality Act judicial review procedures to clarify that 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.
Vetoed
SB 187 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Fund: restoration project
Provides that any bond funds made available by the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) and deposited in the Salton Sea Restoration Fund, shall be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, for a restoration project that is consistent with legislative intent regarding a preferred alternative, as specified in existing law, and that expenditures shall be limited to activities identified as "Period 1" activities in the Resources Agency's report on a preferred alternative for the Salton Sea.
Chapter 374, Statutes of 2008
SB 207 (Padilla-D) Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreation Program
Establishes the Outdoor Education and Recreation Program in the Department of Parks and Recreation. The program awards grants to formal school programs and informal public education programs that increase access to outdoor activities and educational experiences for at-risk and underserved populations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 378 (Steinberg-D) Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006
Provides statutory direction and places additional requirements on the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board with regard to the implementation and awarding of specified grants made available by the Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Fund Act of 2006 (Proposition 1E).
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
SB 404 (Kehoe-D) Parks: conveyances
Specifies that the parcel containing the former Department of Transportation District 11 headquarters in San Diego be used in perpetuity for park purposes.
Vetoed
SB 562* (Wiggins-D) Public resources: salmon and steelhead: protection
Appropriates $5.293 million out of $45 million made available in the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) to the Department of Fish and Game for the purposes of coastal salmon and steelhead fishery restoration projects.
Chapter 4, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 5XX (Wiggins-D) which died at the Assembly Desk.
SB 732 (Steinberg-D) Environment
Requires the Department of Health Care Services, the Department of Fish and Game, and the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy, when implementing the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84), among other things, to develop and adopt guidelines and regulations, consult with other entities, conduct studies, and follow certain procedures for establishing a project, grant, loan or other financial assistance program implementing the initiative. Establishes the Strategic Growth Council (Council), requires the Council to take certain actions with regard to coordinating specified programs of member state agencies, and requires the Council to manage and award grants and loans to support the planning and development of sustainable communities.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2008
SB 794* (Maldonado-R) Environmental buildings: tax credit
Allows an income tax credit equal to 5% of the cost of environmental building expenses paid or incurred to construct, repair, maintain, rehabilitate, or improve a commercial or residential structure.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 899 (Simitian-D) Fishing gear
Requires the establishment of a program to reduce and recover derelict fishing gear.
Vetoed
SB 908 (Simitian-D) Environmental education
Adds climate change to the list of environmental education topics that shall be included in the revision of the science framework.
Vetoed
SB 917 (Migden-D) Watershed conservation
Enacts the Watershed Conservation Protection Program to fund regional cooperative conservation partnership accounts, natural resource protection and restoration programs, regional watershed protection and recovery programs, and watershed improvement programs in counties or water basins that are the sources of water that is bottled or vended in the state.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 931 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Parks and nature education facilities
Establishes a competitive grant program to award $100 million made available to the Department of Parks and Recreation under the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84).
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 994 (Florez-D) Delta smelt
Creates a Delta Smelt Hatchery Program to preserve and restore the Delta smelt.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1011* (Hollingsworth-R) Department of Fish and Game: endowment funds
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to negotiate terms for a public or non-profit entity to manage, administer, invest, and spend money collected as "mitigation."
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1018* (Aanestad-R) Salmon fishing: economic aid
Establishes a revolving loan program within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to finance all or some portion of the costs of economic losses experienced by eligible businesses. Establishes the Salmon Fishing Aid Revolving Loan Program Account in the California Small Business Expansion Fund and continuously appropriates from the General Fund an unspecified amount of money for programs to mitigate the economic losses resulting from restrictions on, and closures of, salmon fishing in the state.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1102 (Machado-D) California Bay-Delta Authority Act
Repeals the California Bay-Delta Authority Act and transfers the California Bay-Delta Authority's rights and duties to the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
Vetoed
SB 1108 (Machado-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program
Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program, administered by the State Coastal Conservancy, to restore, enhance and protect agricultural, economic, natural, cultural, historical, recreational, public access and urban waterfront resources and opportunities of the Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1127 (Dutton-R) State parks: cooperating associations
Expands the type of nonprofit that can enter into concession agreements with the Department of Parks and Recreation and allows the nonprofit to charge a fee for educational and interpretive materials and services at a state park.
Chapter 141, Statutes of 2008
SB 1166 (Cox-R) Game refuges
Exempts law enforcement officers from the ban against armed persons entering state game refuges, and requires the Department of Fish and Game to provide more information on the location and boundaries of game refuges and their potential closure.
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2008
SB 1172 (Dutton-R) Wildlife: hunting: revenues
Restructures the process by which the Department of Fish and Game deposits and spends the revenue generated by the sale of various hunting tags, stamps, and validations, and requires the Department of Fish and Game to propose adequate funding for implementing a new specified program in the 2009-10 Governor's budget.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1180 (Runner-R) Parks and open space: Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor
Authorizes the owner of property located in Elsmere Canyon to seek inclusion of that property within the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor, and authorizes amending the boundary of the trail corridor to include Elsmere Canyon.
Vetoed
SB 1238 (Machado-D) Wildlife resources
Includes "invertebrates" within the definition of "wildlife" in existing law.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1256 (Ducheny-D) Salton Sea Restoration Council
Creates the Salton Sea Restoration Council as a separate agency within the Resources Agency and specifies its responsibilities. The Salton Sea Restoration Council will be required to implement the Salton Sea Ecosystem Restoration Program Preferred Alternative, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1262 (Cogdill-R) Sport fishing: fish hatcheries: trout
Excludes fish produced for mitigation purposes from the computation of state restoration goals requiring that 25% of fish produced by state fish hatcheries are used for purpose of initiating and managing naturally indigenous stocks of trout, and makes other modifications to those provisions.
Chapter 350, Statutes of 2008
SB 1285 (Corbett-D) Resource conservation lands: acquisition
Requires the Department of General Services to convene a workgroup to develop and adopt standards subject to the approval of the Resources Agency for appraisal of resource conservation acquisitions.
Chapter 711, Statutes of 2008
SB 1323 (Cogdill-R) Public resources: land conservation acquisition: appraisal
Repeals some of the provisions of AB 2497 (Laird-D), Chapter 462, Statutes of 2006, and, instead, requires that Department of General Services itself conduct or contract for an independent appraisal of any land or interest in land that proposed to be acquired by the Wildlife Conservation Board or the State Coastal Conservancy for resource conservation purposes if it is a major acquisition valued at more than $25 million. The same provision applies to lands that are acquired and under the jurisdiction of the Department of Fish and Game or the Department of Parks and Recreation. Also deletes the provisions of existing law that requires public disclosure of the independent appraisal review.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1360 (Machado-D) Flood protection
Makes various corrections and addresses certain issues arising out of the comprehensive 2007 flood legislation package.
Vetoed
SB 1390 (Hollingsworth-R) Game: nonnative species
Prohibits the taking of more than one individual non-native, game mammal during an ecosystem restoration project except if the individuals are diseased, invasive as determined by the Fish and Game Commission, or a threat to public health as determined by the Fish and Game Commission or the Department of Food and Agriculture.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 1399 (Simitian-D) Public resources: solar shading
Exempts from the Solar Shade Control Act, any tree or shrub planted prior to the installation of a solar collector. Authorizes notification to affected property owners, as specified.
Chapter 176, Statutes of 2008
SB 1418 (Oropeza-D) Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban
Prohibits smoking on any state coastal beach or state park unit, except in adjacent parking lots. A violation of this section would be an infraction and punishable by a $250 fine.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
A similar bill was SB 4 (Oropeza-D) which also died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee.
SB 1424 (Machado-D) Wild animals: permits
Repeals and readopts Fish and Game Code Section 2118 which lists the wild animals that it is unlawful to possess or import without a permit.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1431 (Wiggins-D) Parks and recreation: easements
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to acquire conservation easements and to make grants to a state or local government agency or a nonprofit land trust to purchase and hold a conservation easement.
Chapter 135, Statutes of 2008
SB 1435 (Ducheny-D) Marinas and harbors: funding
Allows the Department of Boating and Waterways, when making loans to private marina owners for recreational marinas, to allow loan funds to be utilized for collateral appraisals, permit fees, planning, engineering, and design expenses directly related to developing a recreational marina.
Chapter 178, Statutes of 2008
SB 1436 (Ducheny-D) Protected species: accidental take: agricultural activities
Extends by two years to 1/1/11, the sunset on provisions that exempt from the California Endangered Species Act, prohibitions against the killing of candidate, threatened or endangered species, the accidental killing of these species that occurs on a farm or ranch in the course of routine and ongoing agricultural activities.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2008
SB 1462 (Maldonado-R) Navigable waters: seaplanes
Mandates the Department of Transportation to establish requirements for the landing, docking, and takeoff of a seaplane on navigable waters.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1464 (Maldonado-R) State agencies: Resources Agency
Renames the Resources Agency the "Natural Resources Agency." Updates the list of departments, boards, and commissions under the Resources Agency. Prohibits the destruction or change of existing supplies, forms, insignias, signs, or logos as a result of the name change and requires those materials to be used until exhausted or unserviceable.
Chapter 205, Statutes of 2008
SB 1538 (Steinberg-D) Recovery strategy pilot programs
Extends the sunset, from 1/1/09 to 1/1/14 on the authority of the Department of Fish and Game to develop a recovery strategy for coho salmon, modifies the recovery strategy provisions, and authorizes fish and game endowment accounts to be invested in higher interest earning accounts within the State Treasury.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2008
SB 1557 (Wiggins-D) State Environmental Goals and Policy Report
Declares that one of the purposes for the state's planning priorities is to help meet the state's greenhouse gas emissions limits, adds the reduction of vehicle miles traveled to the list of the means to encourage efficient development patterns, and requires the Department of Finance to update the chapters on statewide planning and capitalized assets in the State Administrative Manual to include the state planning priorities in the State Environmental Goals and Policy Report.
Vetoed
SB 1690 (Wiggins-D) Dungeness crab
Requires the Ocean Protection Council to make a grant, upon appropriation of funding by the Legislature, for a Dungeness crab task force, and specifies the membership and duties of the task force.
Chapter 727, Statutes of 2008
SB 1739 (Simitian-D) Oil spill contingency plan
Clarifies the marine facility oil spill contingency plan training, drills, and testing requirements, and revises oil spill response organization drill requirements.
Chapter 566, Statutes of 2008
SB 1XX (Perata-D) Water quality, flood control, and water storage
Makes changes to the integrated regional water management program statute and appropriates $820,973,000 in funding from currently authorized general obligation bonds for various water-related purposes.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2008, Second Extraordinary Session
SB 2XX* (Perata-D) Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008
Authorizes a $6.835 billion general obligation bond to be placed on the 2/5/08 ballot. The bond provides funds for water supply reliability, delta sustainability, conservation and pollution cleanup, protection against invasive species, groundwater protection and water quality, and water recycling.
(Died on Senate Floor)
SB 3XX (Cogdill-R) Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008
Authorizes a $9.085 billion general obligation bond to be placed on the 11/4/08 ballot, to provide funds for delta sustainability, water supply reliability, water storage projects, resource stewardship, and environmental restoration, and protect against invasive species.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SB 4XX (Cogdill-R) Water resources: bond funds
Appropriates a total of $552.64 million from Propositions 50, 1E, and 84 for a variety of purposes relating to water management.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
SCR 85 (Kuehl-D) Pacific bluefin tuna
Contains several findings about the current international state of Pacific bluefin tuna fisheries and its effects on California's coastal pelagic community, the health of the coastal economy, and the oceanic community as a whole.
Resolution Chapter 106, Statutes of 2008
SCR 118 (Maldonado-R) Sea Otter Awareness Week
Proclaims the last week of September as Sea Otter Awareness Week and urges all Californians to be aware that the imperiled sea otter is an integral part, and a symbol of, California's coastal nearshore ecosystem and serves as an indicator for the overall health of California's marine ecosystems, and thus, there is a need to protect both the sea otter and the coastal waters in which it lives.
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2008
SJR 4 (Wiggins-D) Klamath River salmon: Congressional relief
Expresses support for the effort in the United States Congress to provide assistance to fishing communities, businesses, and individuals to mitigate the economic losses caused by declining Klamath River fall chinook salmon.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 26 (Nakanishi-R) Natural community conservation plan
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to enter into a planning agreement with the Reclamation Board to prepare a natural community conservation plan encompassing the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District for comprehensive management and conservation of multiple wildlife species, and requires the Department of Fish and Game and Board, when developing the natural community conservation plan, to prepare a long-term streambed alteration agreement applicable to all flood control facilities and levees covered in the natural community conservation plan.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 31 (De Leon-D) Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Act
Renames the Urban Park Act of 2006, the Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Act of 2008, and recasts most of its provisions. States that it is the intent of the Legislature, upon appropriation, that the $400 million made available to the Department of Parks and Recreation under Proposition 84 to be used to award competitive grants under this Act. Additionally, this bill specifies that if there is a conflict between this bill and the bond, the bond prevails.
Chapter 623, Statutes 2008
AB 75 (Blakeslee-R) Parks and recreation: easements
Allows the Department of Parks and Recreation to acquire, and provide grants to other state or local agencies for the purchase of conservation easements if the department determines the easement is needed to accomplish either protecting a state park unit from an incompatible use or preserving and enhancing the natural resource, cultural, or historic value of the state park unit.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 838 (Blakeslee-R) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.
AB 88* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: environment
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, provides $3 million from the Emergency Response Account to the Department of Parks and Recreation for fire prevention activities in high risk fire zones, and includes reappropriations for two parks grant projects--the Otay Valley Regional Park and the City of San Jose for the development of Japantown.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto
AB 224 (Wolk-D) Climate changes: water planning
Enacts the Climate Change and Water Resource Protection Act of 2008. Requires the Department of Water Resources, as part of its statewide water resource management responsibilities, to include an analysis of the potential effects of climate change, as specified, in reports it is required to prepare.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 350 (Blakeslee-R) Vegetation mapping
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to develop a fine-scale, multiple-attribute, statewide, vegetation, layer map to help identify habitat and wildlife corridors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 451 (Garcia-R) Public resources: Global Positioning System Pilot Program
Requires the Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Parks and Recreation, to establish a Global Position System Pilot Program to enhance the ability of search and rescue personnel to locate and rescue persons who are lost in the Mount San Jacinto State Wilderness by offering, for rental, personal locator beacons or equivalent devices to visitors of the wilderness.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 454* (Berryhill-R) Conservation easements: taxation
Provides conformity to federal law, including an increase in the specified percentage limitations (50% and 100% in the case of farmers) and extending the allowance carryover period to the 15 succeeding taxable years until used, as provided.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 492 (Garcia-R) Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund: grants
Authorizes the issuance of specified grants to park units that are not classified as State Vehicular Recreation Areas but where off-highway recreational vehicle use is permitted.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 576 (Carter-D) Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park: animal feeding
Prohibits an animal feeding operation or concentrated animal feeding operation within 2.5 miles of Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park in Tulare County.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 653 (Maze-R) Open-space conservation
Allows Tulare County, and any city within the county, to establish a local agricultural and open-space conservation plan.
(Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee)
AB 727 (Maze-R) Resource agencies: property acquisition
Removes the Department of Water Resources and the Wildlife Conservation Board's ability to acquire real property on their own without working through the State Public Works Board.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 772 (Portantino-D) Parks and nature education centers
Creates the Parks and Nature Education Centers Grant Program, to be advertised by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 792* (Garcia-R) Environmental housing program
Establishes the Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program, the Green Building, Energy Efficiency, and Building Design Program, and the Construction Liability Reform Pilot Program.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 815 (Berryhill-R) Hunting or fishing
States that the state has fully occupied the fields of hunting and fishing, that all local ordinances and regulations are subject to this section, and that unless otherwise expressly authorized by other state or federal law, the Fish and Game Commission and Department of Fish and Game are the only entities authorized to adopt regulations regarding the taking of fish and game on any lands or waters within the state.
Vetoed
AB 838 (Blakeslee-R) Parks: conservation easements
Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to (1) acquire conservation easements, as defined and as specified; and (2) make grants to a state or local government agency or a nonprofit land trust organization to purchase and hold a conservation easement, using any funding allocation appropriated to the Department of Parks and Recreation for land acquisition for the state park system.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 847 (Berg-D) Joint powers agreements: Yurok Tribe
Allows the Yurok Tribal Council to enter into a joint powers agreement with public agencies for the purpose of the preservation and restoration of fish stocks on the Klamath River Basin and related projects and activities.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 877 (Parra-D) San Joaquin Valley: water supply
Requires the Department of Water Resources to study the economic impacts of water supply reductions in the San Joaquin Valley.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 912 (Parra-D) Mentored hunting program
Requires the Fish and Game Commission to create a mentored hunting program that allows apprentices to hunt for up to one year without first completing a hunting safety course if they are under the supervision of a hunting mentor.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 923 (Wolk-D) Wildlife action program
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to implement the California Comprehensive Wildlife Action Plan.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 985 (Saldana-D) Environment: judicial review
Authorizes the courts of appeal to have jurisdiction over writ of mandate petitions seeking review of specified decisions by the Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 990 (Berg-D) Spud Point Marina
Modifies statutes pertaining to the Spud Point Marina state loan, and codifies changes to the Sonoma County's authority to operate the Spud Point Marina, reflective of a settlement agreement between the County of Sonoma and the Department of Boating and Waterways.
Chapter 298, Statutes of 2008
AB 995 (Krekorian-D) Parks and nature education facilities
Allows excess disaster loss deductions for personal and corporate income taxes, state reimbursement of local property tax losses resulting from disaster reassessments, and homeowner's property tax exemption, and is intended to provide disaster relief assistance to the affected areas and victims of the recent Gap Fire in Santa Barbara County, which the Governor officially proclaimed a state of emergency.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1000 (Smyth-R) Vessels: operation and equipment: regulation
Adds "immediate threats to public safety" to the permitted ordinances, laws, regulations, or rules that may be adopted related to vessels.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1074 (Houston-R) California State Conservation Permit
Requires establishment of the California State Conservation Permit system to assist landowners who wish to do conservation projects on their private land.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 1114 (Eng-D) San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
Creates the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund into which money, upon appropriation by the Legislature to the California Environmental Protection Agency, is deposited for allocation to the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority to fund projects that address groundwater contamination in the basin.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1143 (Maze-R) Land: acquisition: warning signage: mountain lion habitat
Requires the Department of Fish and Game and the Department of Parks and Recreation to post warning signs, as specified, at public access points to alert persons entering certain properties that there is a significant potential threat to public health or safety due to mountain lions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1180 (Blakeslee-R) Agricultural resources
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Conservation to issue grants for specified agricultural conservation easements, and prohibits the use of funds from the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund for the new easements authorized by these provisions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1227 (Gaines-R) Lake Tahoe Water Trail
Designates the Lake Tahoe Water Trail in California. Requires that the California Tahoe Conservancy and California State Parks, in cooperation with Nevada and the U.S. Forest Service, develop a Lake Tahoe Water Trail Plan in a collaborative public process. Requires that the trail plan be submitted to the Legislature on or before 1/1/09.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1270 (Mullin-D) Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Account
Earmarks 25% of unspent funds in the Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Account for the replenishment of bay striped bass and sturgeon.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1303 (Smyth-R) Urban greening
Establishes a competitive grant program in the Department of Parks and Recreation to provide financial assistance to local or regional agencies for urban greening projects, using the $90 million earmark of bonds authorized by Proposition 84.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1338* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Resources Budget Trailer Bill
Enacts the Resources Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions: (1) Requires the Proposition 84 bond funds for the Department of Fish and Game coastal salmon and steelhead restoration projects be distributed according to existing grant guidelines, except for those funds appropriated by the Legislature specifically for salmon monitoring activities. (2) Allows the Harbors and Watercraft Fund to be used for Quagga Mussel eradication and containment activities. (3) Increases, for three years, the amount that the Department of Conservation can annually spend on orphan well elimination from $1 million to $2 million. Beginning 2012-13, increases the amount that the department can annually spend on orphan well elimination from $500,000 to $1 million. (4) Allows the use of bond funds instead of General Fund for the completion of the All-American Canal lining. (5) Appropriates $5.87 million from the Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Reimbursement Account to the General Fund and requires the State Controller to transfer all future revenue it receives in the fund to the General Fund within 60 days of receipt of the funds. (6) Moves the CALFED Watershed Coordinator Program from the Secretary of Resources office to the Department of Conservation.
Chapter 760, Statutes of 2008
AB 1387 (Sharon Runner-R) State Park pass: National Guard
Provides hunting and fishing license discounts and free parking privileges at state parks to members of the California National Guard.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1457 (Huffman-D) Parks and recreation: state parks: roads
Prohibits a state or local agency from funding or authorizing construction of a road that will physically encroach upon, traverse, bisect, or impair a state park, unless the Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation makes a specific determination.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1458 (Duvall-R) Boating: vessel operator certificates and funding
Establishes a process, until 1/1/21, in the Department of Boating and Waterways by which most operators of motorboats must obtain and possess a lifetime vessel operator certificate in order to legally operate a motorboat, and deletes a provision that makes money in the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund available to the Department of Parks and Recreation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1536 (Smyth-R) Parks
Designates the Department of Parks and Recreation as the primary agency authorized to administer the housing-related park grants approved in Proposition 1C.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1620 (Arambula-D) California Clean Technology Services Unit
Establishes the California Clean Technology Services Unit within the Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency to promote the development of environmentally-friendly technologies, to help businesses bring clean technology to California, and to work in coordination with other state agencies to maximize the state's efforts to maintain an innovative and entrepreneurial environment that supports the achievement of the state's environmental goals and standards. Sunsets on 1/1/13.
(Died in Senate Environmental Quality Committee)
AB 1806 (Wolk-D) Fishery resources: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to prepare and implement protocols for fish rescue and relocation plans and actions for Delta fishery resources.
Vetoed
AB 1842 (Smyth-R) Santa Susana State Park
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to take specific actions related to the possible conversion of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory hazardous waste and radioactive waste site (Ventura County) into a unit of the state park system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1903* (Hernandez-D) Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities
Reenacts and extends a sunset date for recently expired immunity provisions related to certain flood control and water conservation activities.
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2008
AB 1950 (Lieu-D) Vessels: abandonment: abatement
Authorizes, until 1/1/12, the sale of surrendered vessels, increases the current minimum fines from $500 to $1,000 for vessel abandonment, and requires the Department of Boating and Waterways to track the number of surrendered vessels accepted by a public agency for a two-year period.
Vetoed
AB 1970 (Emmerson-R) Habitat mitigation
Requires any state or local government or nonprofit entity that agrees to accept management responsibility for mitigation lands to meet certain requirements.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 1992 (DeVore-R) Public resources: unauthorized use
Prohibits an organization or association that represents local agencies and that is funded in part by payments made by local agencies from using the organization's or association's resources, whether derived from public funds or not, for a campaign activity, or a personal or other purpose not authorized by law.
(Failed passage in Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee)
AB 2005 (Jeffries-R) State parks: transfer: local governments
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to respond within 30 days to a request from a city, county, district, or other public agency to enter into negotiations regarding operation of a state park that is scheduled for closure due to budget constraints. Also requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to provide any information requested by the city, county, district or other agency within 30 days of the request.
(Failed passage in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2065 (Hancock-D) Invasive aquatic species: dreissenid mussels
Requires any person, or federal, state or local agency, district or authority that owns or manages a reservoir where recreational, boating or fishing activities are permitted to assess the vulnerability of the reservoir to nonnative mussels and develop and implement a program designed to prevent the introduction of nonnative mussels.
Chapter 667, Statutes of 2008
AB 2094 (DeSaulnier-D) San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Adds the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission to the joint policy committee coordinating the development and drafting of major planning documents for the San Francisco Bay region.
Chapter 442, Statutes of 2008
AB 2121 (Aghazarian-R) State parks: disabled passes
Requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to issue, to any disabled Californian who applies for one, a pass that entitles the bearer to use of all state park unit facilities free-of-charge.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2132 (Houston-R) Wildlife: hunting
Makes it unlawful to remove the collar of a hunting dog with the intent of preventing or hindering the owner from locating the dog, and modifies requirements for posting of "no trespassing" signs to prevent entrance for purposes of hunting on private lands.
Vetoed
AB 2162 (Mullin-D) Bay-Delta Sport Fishing
Extends the effective date of existing law providing for the Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp to 1/1/10.
Chapter 637, Statutes of 2008
AB 2255 (Aghazarian-R) Resource land acquisition and conservation easement registry
Requires the Resources Agency, by 1/1/11, to expand the conservation easement registry to include all resource land acquisitions (not just easements) that are acquired or transferred by the agency or its departments, boards, and commissions. Defines "resource land acquisition" as an acquisition that is made for cultural, natural, or recreational value.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2330 (Gaines-R) Wildlife: hunting licenses
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to allow a purchaser of an annual hunting or fishing license or other entitlement to purchase such license through the internet and to print a valid license that is valid for 30 days at which point it is replaced by the license that is mailed to the purchaser by the department.
Chapter 98, Statutes of 2008
AB 2455 (Laird-D) State lands: resource land transactions
Removes the Public Works Board as the entity designated to acquire property for the Department of Parks and Recreation and, instead, creates the State Parks Preservation Board, and requires the Board to review the Department of Parks and Recreation's recommendations, and, subject to authorization by the Board, authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to acquire real property or rights in real property, subject to certain additional requirements.
Vetoed
AB 2472 (Laird-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 the City of Santa Cruz.
Vetoed
AB 2494 (Caballero-D) Housing-Related Parks Program
Establishes the Housing-Related Parks Program under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement a portion of Proposition IC (Housing and Emergency Trust Fund Act of 2006) funding.
Chapter 641, Statutes of 2008
AB 2502 (Wolk-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Ecological Restoration
Establishes a process in the Department of Parks and Recreation to ecological restore and manage, and provide outdoor recreation on, certain properties in the northern region of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2503 (Wolk-D) Delta Protection Commission
Authorizes specified members of the Delta Protection Commission to select a designee. Permits the Governor to appoint three alternates who will be authorized to serve in the absence of a member appointed by the Governor.
Chapter 100, Statutes of 2008
AB 2504 (DeSaulnier-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: tourism and marketing plan
Requires the Delta Protection Commission to adopt a tourism and marketing plan for the Delta consistent with the Delta Protection Act and the policies of the Delta Protection Commission Management Plan.
Vetoed
AB 2532 (Laird-D) Marine fisheries: fishery management plans
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to prepare management frameworks for any state fishery for the purpose of developing fishery management measures, as specified.
Vetoed
AB 2559 (Smyth-R) State parks: concession contracts
Increases the maximum term length to 50 years for concession contracts for the construction, development, and operation of multiple-unit lodging facilities. These facilities must be equipped with full amenities, including plumbing and electricity, and must be projected to have an initial cost over $1.5 million.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2008
AB 2687 (Krekorian-D) Parks and nature education facilities
Directs the Department of Parks and Recreation to establish a competitive program to distribute grants with the $100 million made available for nature education and marine conservation research by Proposition 84.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2712 (Plescia-R) Marine Life Management Act: marine fisheries: forage species
Requires that any changes to existing regulations or fishery management plans related to the level, distribution, or location of forage species catch include the consideration of, and an explicit forage species allocation for, the ecosystem to ensure that the authorized catch is ecologically sustainable.
(Died in Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee)
AB 2733 (Brownley-D) Real property disclosures
Requires expert reports used to fulfill natural hazard disclosure requirements in residential property sales to include a "Notice of Environmental Hazard Site" if the property is within a one-quarter mile radius of specified environmental hazards. Requires a similar disclosure in the application for a public report filed with the Department of Real Estate by any person offering subdivided land for sale or lease.
Vetoed
AB 2770 (La Malfa-R) Department of Fish and Game: scientific collector's permits
Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game to issue a consolidated permit for scientific purposes to a California certified small business, an aquarium certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, or other appropriate institution, as determined by the Department of Fish and Game, in the name of the principal scientific investigator or the company.
Vetoed
AB 2777 (La Malfa-R) Public lands: beekeeping
Enact the Honeybee Conservation Act, which authorizes the Resources Agency to temporarily allow the use of public lands, as defined, by commercial beekeepers for the keeping of honeybee hives.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2785 (Ruskin-D) Wildlife conservation: habitat connectivity
Requires the Department of Fish and Game, contingent upon funding, to investigate, study and identify those areas in the state most essential as wildlife corridors and habitat linkages, including the impacts to those corridors from climate change, and to prioritize vegetative data development in those areas.
Chapter 333, Statutes of 2008
AB 2792 (Blakeslee-R) California Conservation Corps: Green Collar Certification
Requires the Director of the California Conservation Corps to establish a "Green Collar" Certification Program to provide corps members with skills and education related to energy efficiency measures in homes and buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2840 (Berg-D) Humboldt County: South Spit
Designates a portion of South Spit in Humboldt County as the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area, upon his retirement from legislative service.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2008
AB 2913 (Salas-D) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: strategic plan
Makes changes in the scope and focus of the Strategic Plan for a Sustainable San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, and its related financing plan, to be developed by the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
(Died in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 2915 (Nunez-D) Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control
Creates a three-member governing council to coordinate state policies and funding priorities for the bond funds provided by Proposition 84 for urban greening projects and planning grants and incentives. The council's policies and priorities must be consistent with Proposition 84's goals for sustainable communities and climate change. The governing council consists of the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of the Governor's Office of Planning and Research and Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
AB 2923 (Evans-D) State lands: wilderness areas
Requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency and State Lands Commission to review state-owned roadless areas under their respective jurisdictions and report to the Legislature on their suitability for preservation as wilderness.
Vetoed
AB 2930* (Laird-D) Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000
Extends the Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit until 2012-13. Removes the $100 million limit on the total amount of tax credits authorized.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2938 (De Leon-D) Water diversions: fish monitoring
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to design and implement a fish entrainment, water diversion, and water discharge monitoring program to evaluate the potential effects that diversions of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta may have on fish species residing in or migrating through the delta.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2945 (Laird-D) State parks and wilderness areas
Amends the California Wilderness Act to authorize temporary roads and motorized equipment within a wilderness area when necessary in an emergency or if it is the minimum tool necessary to meet minimum management requirements. Authorizes a state agency with jurisdiction over state wilderness areas to authorize measures to address environmental damage or degradation affecting wilderness character and resources if those measures are consistent with minimum management requirements and only the minimum tools are used. Reappropriates bond funds appropriated in prior budget acts for various park projects.
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2008
AB 2954 (Lieber-D) San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority
Establishes the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority as a regional entity to raise and allocate resources for the restoration, enhancement, protection, and enjoyment of wetlands and wildlife habitat in San Francisco Bay and along its shoreline.
Chapter 690, Statutes of 2008
AB 2989 (Fuentes-D) Parks and recreation: Outdoor Environmental Education
Establishes the Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreation Program in the Department of Parks and Recreation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2992 (La Malfa-R) Resource conservation districts
Includes resource conservation districts within provisions of law that require the state to pay penalties for late payments to state contractors.
Vetoed
AB 3029 (Tran-R) Small craft harbors and boating: grants
Expands eligibility for the Department of Boating and Waterways grants for the construction of small craft launching facilities and vessel pump-out or dump stations to include federally recognized Indian tribes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 3081 (Assembly Natural Resources Committee) Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Revises the definition of nonprofit organization for the purposes of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy.
Chapter 512, Statutes of 2008
AB 4XX (Villines-R) Water resources: bond funds
Appropriates $552,640,000 from previously approved water and flood control bonds to fund, among other things, stormwater flood management projects, grants and loans for small community drinking water system infrastructure improvements, acquisition, preservation, protection, and restoration of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands, and planning and feasibility studies associated with surface storage of water under the California Bay-Delta Program.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AJR 41 (Lieu-D) Endangered species
Memorializes the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to advance 10 penguin species to the next stage in the federal Endangered Species Act listing process by formally proposing to list them as threatened or endangered, and also memorializes the United States Department of Interior, which recently listed the polar bear as a threatened species, to extend to the polar bear and its habitat all the protections mandated by the federal Endangered Species Act.
Resolution Chapter 97, Statutes of 2008
AJR 49 (Nava-D) California gray whales: assessment: protected status
Requests the United States President and Congress to call upon the National Marine Fisheries Service to undertake an immediate and comprehensive stock assessment of the California Gray Whale, and requests the National Marine Fisheries Service to change the status of the California Gray Whale to endangered, if warranted.
Resolution Chapter 98, Statutes of 2008
AJR 51 (Nava-D) Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium
Requests that the Congress of the United States continue the federal offshore oil and gas leasing moratorium for the 2009 fiscal year and beyond, and expresses opposition to certain provisions of proposed federal energy policies and legislation.
Resolution Chapter 146, Statutes of 2008
AJR 62 (Leno-D) West Coast sea turtle protection
Requests the National Marine Fisheries Service to delay consideration of, or deny, the swordfish longline exempted fishing permit, and to defer consideration of any efforts to introduce shallow-set longline fishing off the California coast, to protect two endangered and threatened species of sea turtles.
Resolution Chapter 100, Statutes of 2008
AJR 66 (Brownley-D) Fishery management
Expresses the support of the California Legislature for efforts by the National Marine Fishery Service under the reauthorized federal Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to strengthen National Standard one fishery management guidelines under the federal act, and memorialized the Pacific Fishery Management Council to adhere to specified fishery management principles so as to protect and enhance fisheries off of California's special coast.
Resolution Chapter 148, Statutes of 2008
AJR 68 (Brownley-D) Marine mammals: sonar
Urges the President of the United States and the United States Navy to adopt the California Coastal Commission guidelines for naval training operations off the coast of Southern California with respect to sonar usage and marine life.
Resolution Chapter 150, Statutes of 2008
HR 32 (Brownley-D) National Park Service
States legislative findings regarding the historical, cultural, natural and economic values of the National Park System to the State of California, the growing threats to park units from private development within or adjacent to park boundaries, and the trend in reduced federal appropriations for National Park Service land acquisitions. Expresses support of the California State Assembly for full appropriation of monies in the Land and Water Conservation Fund to outdoor resources, specifically to the land acquisition priorities of the National Park Service and matching grants programs with the states.
Adopted by the Assembly
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 4 | Oropeza-D Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban | Miscellaneous |
| SB 6 | Oropeza-D Oceans | Coastal Resources |
| SB 19 | Lowenthal-D Air pollution: trade corridor | Air Pollution |
| SB 24 | Torlakson-D Tobacco product environmental smoke: fee | Environmental Quality |
| SB 27 | Simitian-D Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta | Miscellaneous |
| SB 55 | Florez-D Water quality: sewage sludge | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 59 | Cogdill-R Reliable Water Supply Bond Act of 2008 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 68 | Kuehl-D Environmental quality: determination: dispute | Miscellaneous |
| SB 72 | Florez-D Schoolbuses: fuel | Air Pollution |
| SB 155 | Cox-R Gasoline: vapor recovery systems | Air Pollution |
| SB 187 | Ducheny-D Salton Sea Restoration Fund: restoration project | Miscellaneous |
| SB 207 | Padilla-D Outdoor Environmental Education and Recreation Program | Miscellaneous |
| SB 240 | Florez-D San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District | Air Pollution |
| SB 300 | Corbett-D Recycling: beverage containers: San Francisco Bay area | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 329 | Dutton-R Hazardous materials: business plans | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 348 | Simitian-D Vehicle fee for congestion and stormwater management | Air Pollution |
| SB 375 | Steinberg-D Transportation planning: travel demand models | Environmental Quality |
| SB 378 | Steinberg-D Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 404 | Kehoe-D Parks: conveyances | Miscellaneous |
| SB 427 | Harman-R Environmental impact reports | Environmental Quality |
| SB 429 | Ducheny-D Environmental quality: land use controls | Environmental Quality |
| SB 445 | Torlakson-D Greenhouse gas mitigation fee | Air Pollution |
| SB 456 | Simitian-D Diacetyl | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 466 | Steinberg-D Forest resources | Forestry |
| SB 494 | Kehoe-D Vehicular air pollution control: clean alternative fuels | Air Pollution |
| SB 509 | Simitian-D Hazardous materials: toxic substances | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 553 | Aanestad-R State property: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | Forestry |
| SB 562* | Wiggins-D Public resources: salmon and steelhead: protection | Miscellaneous |
| SB 578 | Simitian-D Oil spill contingency plan | Oil Spills |
| SB 584 | Corbett-D San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program | Coastal Resources |
| SB 587 | Runner-R Air quality: permit requirement: exemptions | Air Pollution |
| SB 631 | Ashburn-R State Water Resources Control Board | Environmental Quality |
| SB 732 | Steinberg-D Environment | Environmental Quality Miscellaneous |
| SB 781 | Correa-D Environmental quality: mitigation measures | Environmental Quality |
| SB 794* | Maldonado-R Environmental buildings: tax credit | Miscellaneous |
| SB 817 | Ducheny-D Hazardous waste: silver | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 838 | Cogdill-R Fire prevention and protection | Forestry |
| SB 842 | Scott-D Integrated waste management | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 857 | Correa-D Air pollution | Air Pollution |
| SB 863 | Yee-D Coastal Conservancy: Half Moon Bay | Coastal Resources |
| SB 876 | Calderon-D Air pollution: vehicles: small business | Air Pollution |
| SB 895 | Florez-D Air quality | Air Pollution |
| SB 896 | Negrete McLeod-D Solid waste | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 899 | Simitian-D Fishing gear | Miscellaneous |
| SB 908 | Simitian-D Environmental education | Miscellaneous |
| SB 917 | Migden-D Watershed conservation | Miscellaneous |
| SB 930 | Cogdill-R Forest resources | Forestry |
| SB 931 | Ridley-Thomas-D Parks and nature education facilities | Miscellaneous |
| SB 947 | Hollingsworth-R California Environmental Quality Act: consultation | Environmental Quality |
| SB 960 | Alquist-D Zero-emission and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles | Air Pollution |
| SB 965 | Lowenthal-D Oil spills: CA Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System | Coastal Resources Oil Spills |
| SB 974 | Lowenthal-D Ports: congestion relief: air pollution mitigation | Air Pollution |
| SB 994 | Florez-D Delta smelt | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1011* | Hollingsworth-R Department of Fish and Game: endowment funds | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1016 | Wiggins-D Diversion: compliance: per capita disposal rate | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1018* | Aanestad-R Salmon fishing: economic aid | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1020 | Padilla-D Solid waste: diversion | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1042 | Oropeza-D Oil and gas leases: damages | Coastal Resources |
| SB 1056 | Migden-D Oil spill prevention and response | Oil Spills |
| SB 1102 | Machado-D California Bay-Delta Authority Act | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1108 | Machado-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Program | Coastal Resources Miscellaneous |
| SB 1127 | Dutton-R State parks: cooperating associations | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1161 | Lowenthal-D Petroleum underground storage tanks: cleanup | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1165 | Kuehl-D Environment: environmental impact report | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1166 | Cox-R Game refuges | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1172 | Dutton-R Wildlife: hunting: revenues | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1176 | Perata-D Water quality | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1180 | Runner-R Parks and open space: Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1210 | Dutton-R Short form environmental impact report | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1217 | Yee-D Board of Pilot Commissioners: fitness for duty | Oil Spills |
| SB 1230 | Maldonado-R Detergents: phosphorus | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1238 | Machado-D Wildlife resources | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1256 | Ducheny-D Salton Sea Restoration Council | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1262 | Cogdill-R Sport fishing: fish hatcheries: trout | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1277 | Maldonado-R Synthetic turf | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1285 | Corbett-D Resource conservation lands: acquisition | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1292* | Dutton-R Administrative procedure: Air Resources Board | Air Pollution |
| SB 1295 | Ducheny-D California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development permit | Coastal Resources |
| SB 1311 | Simitian-D California Pollution Control Financing Authority | Air Pollution |
| SB 1313 | Corbett-D Product safety: perfluorinated compounds | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1321 | Correa-D School recycling programs | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1323 | Cogdill-R Public resources: land conservation acquisition: appraisal | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1334 | Calderon-D Drinking water: pipes and fittings: lead content | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1346 | Calderon-D Fireworks | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1357 | Padilla-D Beverage containers: processing payments: grants | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1360 | Machado-D Flood protection | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1390 | Hollingsworth-R Game: nonnative species | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1392 | Wyland-R Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: personnel | Forestry |
| SB 1395 | Corbett-D Lead plumbing: monitoring and compliance testing | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1399 | Simitian-D Public resources: solar shading | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1405 | Padilla-D Solid waste: loans: development projects: construction | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1414 | Hollingsworth-R Forestry: campfire-caused fires: undocumented aliens | Forestry |
| SB 1418 | Oropeza-D Public resources: state beaches and parks: smoking ban | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1424 | Machado-D Wild animals: permits | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1431 | Wiggins-D Parks and recreation: easements | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1435 | Ducheny-D Marinas and harbors: funding | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1436 | Ducheny-D Protected species: accidental take: agricultural activities | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1462 | Maldonado-R Navigable waters: seaplanes | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1464 | Maldonado-R State agencies: Resources Agency | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1500 | Kehoe-D Environment: CEQA: fire hazards: state responsibility areas | Environmental Quality Forestry |
| SB 1506 | Alquist-D Zero-emission vehicles | Air Pollution |
| SB 1520 | Kehoe-D Water quality: regional boards | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1538 | Steinberg-D Recovery strategy pilot programs | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1548 | Florez-D San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District | Air Pollution |
| SB 1550 | Florez-D Corporations: climate change disclosure | Air Pollution |
| SB 1557 | Wiggins-D State Environmental Goals and Policy Report | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1558 | Ashburn-R Regional water quality control boards: membership | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1573 | Florez-D Smog check program: emission standards | Air Pollution |
| SB 1574* | Florez-D Underground storage tanks: biodiesel | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1575 | Florez-D Department of Toxic Substances Control: product recall | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1582 | Simitian-D Ocean resources: ocean rangers | Coastal Resources |
| SB 1595 | Kehoe-D Public resources: fire protection: fuels management | Forestry |
| SB 1617 | Kehoe-D State responsibility areas: fire prevention fees | Forestry |
| SB 1618 | Hollingsworth-R Public resources: defensible space | Coastal Resources Environmental Quality |
| SB 1625 | Corbett-D Recycling: CRV containers | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1627 | Wiggins-D Board of Pilot Commissioners | Oil Spills |
| SB 1631 | Ackerman-R Public works: environmental complaints: fines and penalty | Environmental Quality |
| SB 1646 | Padilla-D South Coast Air Quality Management District | Air Pollution |
| SB 1662 | Cox-R Air districts: emission reduction offsets | Air Pollution |
| SB 1663 | Denham-R Used and waste tires: grants | Solid Waste Management |
| SB 1690 | Wiggins-D Dungeness crab | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1713 | Migden-D Children's products: bisphenol A | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SB 1720 | Lowenthal-D Clean Air Sticker: misuse: penalties | Air Pollution |
| SB 1739 | Simitian-D Oil spill contingency plan | Oil Spills Miscellaneous |
| SB 1753 | Torlakson-D Portable classrooms: formaldehyde | Air Pollution |
| SB 1760 | Perata-D Energy: greenhouse gas emissions | Air Pollution |
| SB 1761* | Perata-D Water and energy efficiency: greenhouse gas | Air Pollution |
| SB 1762 | Perata-D Energy: greenhouse gas emissions | Air Pollution |
| SB 1781* | Senate Environmental Quality Committee Solid waste management | Coastal Resources Environmental Quality Solid Waste Management |
| SCR 80 | Cogdill-R Fire Safe Councils | Forestry |
| SCR 85 | Kuehl-D Pacific bluefin tuna | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 113 | Wiggins-D Emanuel Fritz Forest Ecosystem Research Area | Forestry |
| SCR 118 | Maldonado-R Sea Otter Awareness Week | Miscellaneous |
| SCR 126 | Simitian-D No Drugs Down the Drain Week | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| SCR 131 | Migden-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| SJR 4 | Wiggins-D Klamath River salmon: Congressional relief | Miscellaneous |
| SB 1XX | Perata-D Water quality, flood control, and water storage | Miscellaneous |
| SB 2XX* | Perata-D Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 3XX | Cogdill-R Water Supply Reliability Bond Act of 2008 | Miscellaneous |
| SB 4XX | Cogdill-R Water resources: bond funds | Miscellaneous |
| AB 19 | DeVore-R Water quality: Santa Ana region | Environmental Quality |
| AB 26 | Nakanishi-R Natural community conservation plan | Miscellaneous |
| AB 31 | De Leon-D Statewide Park Development and Community Revitalization Act | Miscellaneous |
| AB 75 | Blakeslee-R Parks and recreation: easements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 88* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: air pollution | Air Pollution Miscellaneous |
| AB 99 | Feuer-D Air pollution control: clean fuels | Air Pollution |
| AB 109 | Nunez-D Air pollution: alternative fuels and vehicle technologies | Air Pollution |
| AB 114 | Blakeslee-R Public resources: carbon dioxide containment program | Air Pollution |
| AB 169 | Levine-D Public resources: ballast water management | Air Pollution Environmental Quality |
| AB 218 | Saldana-D Hazardous waste: electronic waste | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 224 | Wolk-D Climate changes: water planning | Miscellaneous |
| AB 255 | De Leon-D Smog abatement fee | Air Pollution |
| AB 274* | Coto-D Brownfield cleanup: tax credit | Environmental Quality |
| AB 350 | Blakeslee-R Vegetation mapping | Miscellaneous |
| AB 391 | Lieu-D South Coast Air Quality Management District | Air Pollution |
| AB 451 | Garcia-R Public resources: Global Positioning System Pilot Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 454* | Berryhill-R Conservation easements: taxation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 492 | Garcia-R Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund: grants | Miscellaneous |
| AB 493 | Ruskin-D Motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions: incentive program | Air Pollution |
| AB 513 | Lieber-D Chemicals: PBDE: prohibition | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 575 | Arambula-D Emission reductions | Air Pollution |
| AB 576 | Carter-D Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park: animal feeding | Miscellaneous |
| AB 616 | Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program | Air Pollution |
| AB 630 | Price-D Air emissions standards: EPA waiver | Air Pollution |
| AB 631 | Horton-R Gasoline fueling stations: ethanol pumps | Air Pollution |
| AB 653 | Maze-R Open-space conservation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 656 | Plescia-R Hazardous waste: alkaline batteries | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 700 | Lieu-D Air pollution: Santa Monica Airport | Air Pollution |
| AB 706 | Leno-D Fire retardants | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 712 | De Leon-D Off-road solid waste | Air Pollution Solid Waste Management |
| AB 727 | Maze-R Resource agencies: property acquisition | Miscellaneous |
| AB 729 | Mullin-D Recycling: e-waste | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 772 | Portantino-D Parks and nature education centers | Miscellaneous |
| AB 786 | Lieu-D Greenhouse gas emissions | Air Pollution |
| AB 792* | Garcia-R Environmental housing program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 815 | Berryhill-R Hunting or fishing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 820 | Karnette-D Recycling polystyrene | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 822 | Levine-D Solid waste: multifamily dwellings | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 838 | Blakeslee-R Parks: conservation easements | Miscellaneous |
| AB 846* | Blakeslee-R Clean Marine Fuels Tax Incentive Act | Air Pollution |
| AB 847 | Berg-D Joint powers agreements: Yurok Tribe | Miscellaneous |
| AB 862 | Wolk-D Environmental quality | Environmental Quality |
| AB 867 | Davis-D Environmental justice issues: traffic analysis zones | Environmental Quality |
| AB 872 | Davis-D Urban infill affordable housing | Environmental Quality |
| AB 877 | Parra-D San Joaquin Valley: water supply | Miscellaneous |
| AB 904 | Feuer-D Recycling: food containers | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 909 | Wolk-D Mercury monitoring and remediation | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 912 | Parra-D Mentored hunting program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 923 | Wolk-D Wildlife action program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 934 | Duvall-R Air pollution: mobile nonvehicular regulation | Air Pollution |
| AB 985 | Saldana-D Environment: judicial review | Miscellaneous |
| AB 990 | Berg-D Spud Point Marina | Miscellaneous |
| AB 995 | Krekorian-D Parks and nature education facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1000 | Smyth-R Vessels: operation and equipment: regulation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1017 | Ma-D California Environmental Quality Act | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1066 | Laird-D California coast: sea level rise | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1074 | Houston-R California State Conservation Permit | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1075 | Cook-R Solid waste diversion | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1077 | Lieber-D Air Resources Board: plug-in hybrid electric vehicles | Air Pollution |
| AB 1096 | DeVore-R California Environmental Quality Act: housing | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1114 | Eng-D San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1119 | Fuller-R Air pollution: diesel emission control devices | Air Pollution |
| AB 1127 | Carter-D Percholorate: drinking water standards: City of Rialto | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1138 | Brownley-D Air districts: boundary disputes | Air Pollution |
| AB 1143 | Maze-R Land: acquisition: warning signage: mountain lion habitat | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1166 | Berryhill-R Forestry: staffing fire engines | Forestry |
| AB 1180 | Blakeslee-R Agricultural resources | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1193 | Ruskin-D Mercury-added thermostats: collection program | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1195 | Torrico-D Recycling: used oil: incentive payments | Solid Waste Management Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1207 | Smyth-R Solid waste: biosolids | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1209 | Karnette-D Vehicles: HOV lanes: clean air stickers | Air Pollution |
| AB 1225 | DeSaulnier-D Ocean resources: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund | Air Pollution Coastal Resources |
| AB 1227 | Gaines-R Lake Tahoe Water Trail | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1237 | Hancock-D Solid waste: solid waste facilities | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1257 | Caballero-D Rural CUPA reimbursement | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1270 | Mullin-D Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp Account | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1303 | Smyth-R Urban greening | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1338* | Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Resources Budget Trailer bill: Air Resources Board | Air Pollution Coastal Resources Environmental Quality Toxics/Hazardous Waste Miscellaneous |
| AB 1387 | Sharon Runner-R State Park pass: National Guard | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1390 | Huffman-D Solid waste: diversion: illegal dumping: fees | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1391 | Brownley-D Electronic waste | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1440 | Wolk-D Hybrid trucks: grants | Air Pollution |
| AB 1455 | Arambula-D California Air Quality Zones | Air Pollution |
| AB 1457 | Huffman-D Parks and recreation: state parks: roads | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1458 | Duvall-R Boating: vessel operator certificates and funding | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1459 | Levine-D California Coastal Act of 1976: coastal development | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1506 | Arambula-D Greenhouse gas emissions: U.C. Study | Air Pollution |
| AB 1527* | Arambula-D Cleantech Advantage Act of 2008 | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1535 | Huffman-D Electronic waste: fee payment | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1536 | Smyth-R Parks | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1556 | Horton-R Hazardous waste: crimes | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1597 | Solorio-D Coastline protection: Orange County Sheriff | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1602 | Nunez-D Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Program | Environmental Quality |
| AB 1620 | Arambula-D California Clean Technology Services Unit | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1651* | Arambula-D Greenhouse gases: tax credits | Air Pollution |
| AB 1719* | Hancock-D Recycling: beverage containers: plastic bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1806 | Wolk-D Fishery resources: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1832 | Saldana-D Tidelands and submerged lands: City of San Diego | Coastal Resources |
| AB 1842 | Smyth-R Santa Susana State Park | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1851 | Nava-D Greenhouse gas credits | Air Pollution |
| AB 1879 | Feuer-D Hazardous materials: toxic substances | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1883 | Keene-R Fire: inmate crews: nonprofit organizations | Forestry |
| AB 1903* | Hernandez-D Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1912* | Plescia-R Wildfire risk reduction: tax credit | Forestry |
| AB 1946 | Nava-D Hazardous materials: water quality: enforcement | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 1950 | Lieu-D Vessels: abandonment: abatement | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1960 | Nava-D Public resources: oil production facilities and oil spills | Oil Spills |
| AB 1970 | Emmerson-R Habitat mitigation | Miscellaneous |
| AB 1972 | DeSaulnier-D Solid waste: plastic bags: food and beverage containers | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 1992 | DeVore-R Public resources: unauthorized use | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2003* | Saldana-D Air quality: climate protection | Air Pollution |
| AB 2005 | Jeffries-R State parks: transfer: local governments | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2031 | Hancock-D Oil spill prevention and response | Oil Spills |
| AB 2032 | Hancock-D Oil spill prevention and response: fees | Oil Spills |
| AB 2045 | De La Torre-D California Urban Forestry Act of 1978 | Forestry |
| AB 2058 | Levine-D Recycling: plastic carryout bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2063 | Parra-D Smog check program: biennial inspection | Air Pollution |
| AB 2065 | Hancock-D Invasive aquatic species: dreissenid mussels | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2071 | Karnette-D Plastic bags: plastic food/beverage containers: enforcement | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2093 | Jones-D Climate change: general plan policies | Air Pollution |
| AB 2094 | DeSaulnier-D San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2121 | Aghazarian-R State parks: disabled passes | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2132 | Houston-R Wildlife: hunting | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2133 | Hancock-D Habitat and wetlands: state contracts: agency projects | Coastal Resources |
| AB 2153 | Krekorian-D Water conservation | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2154 | Brownley-D Emergency services: fire engines | Forestry |
| AB 2162 | Mullin-D Bay-Delta Sport Fishing | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2165* | Karnette-D Tidelands and submerged land: City of Long Beach | Coastal Resources |
| AB 2179 | Furutani-D Air quality: diesel fuel | Air Pollution |
| AB 2216 | Gaines-R Air pollution: diesel generators: health facilities | Air Pollution |
| AB 2222 | Caballero-D Groundwater quality: monitoring | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2230 | La Malfa-R California Environmental Quality Act | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2255 | Aghazarian-R Resource land acquisition and conservation easement registry | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2270 | Laird-D Recycled water: water quality | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2285 | La Malfa-R Forest resources | Forestry |
| AB 2286 | Feuer-D Unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2316 | Ruskin-D Greenhouse gas emission reductions: motor vehicles | Air Pollution |
| AB 2324 | DeSaulnier-D Tidelands and submerged lands: City of Pittsburg | Coastal Resources |
| AB 2330 | Gaines-R Wildlife: hunting licenses | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2347 | Ruskin-D Mercury-added thermostats: collection program | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2356 | Arambula-D Water quality | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2415* | Fuentes-D Solid waste: permit | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2425 | Coto-D Water quality: pharmaceuticals | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2441 | Lieber-D Oil spill prevention and response: regulations | Oil Spills |
| AB 2455 | Laird-D State lands: resource land transactions | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2472 | Laird-D Conveyances: DeLaveaga Park | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2488* | Houston-R Greenhouse gas emission: tax deduction | Air Pollution |
| AB 2494 | Caballero-D Housing-Related Parks Program | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2502 | Wolk-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Ecological Restoration | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2503 | Wolk-D Delta Protection Commission | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2504 | DeSaulnier-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: tourism and marketing plan | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2505 | Brownley-D Hazardous waste: polyvinyl chloride packaging container | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2512 | Adams-R California Environmental Quality Act | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2522 | Arambula-D San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District | Air Pollution |
| AB 2532 | Laird-D Marine fisheries: fishery management plans | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2536 | Nunez-D Hazardous materials: metal plating facility | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2538 | Ruskin-D Greenhouse gas emissions: consumer product labeling: report | Air Pollution |
| AB 2546 | De La Torre-D Air Toxics "Hot Spots" Information & Assessment Act of 1987 | Air Pollution |
| AB 2547 | Leno-D Oil spill prevention and response | Oil Spills |
| AB 2558 | Feuer-D Regional transportation agencies: climate protection | Air Pollution |
| AB 2559 | Smyth-R State parks: concession contracts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2560 | Lieu-D Medium- and heavy-duty motor vehicles: air pollution | Air Pollution |
| AB 2596 | Jones-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution |
| AB 2638 | Coto-D California Air Quality and Environmental Health Act of 2008 | Air Pollution |
| AB 2640 | Huffman-D Solid waste: compostable organics management | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2645 | Nunez-D Air pollution: alternative fuels and vehicle technologies | Air Pollution |
| AB 2655 | DeSaulnier-D Indoor air pollution: heavy-duty vehicle crankcase emissions | Air Pollution |
| AB 2679 | Ruskin-D Solid waste: enforcement: local agencies | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2687 | Krekorian-D Parks and nature education facilities | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2695 | Niello-R Solid waste: enforcement: illegal dumping | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2712 | Plescia-R Marine Life Management Act: marine fisheries: forage species | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2720 | Levine-D Hazardous sites: school facilities | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2725* | La Malfa-R Federal forest reserve funds: short-term loans | Forestry |
| AB 2729 | Ruskin-D Hazardous substances: underground storage tanks | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2730 | Leno-D Beverage containers: nonprofit convenience zone recyclers | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2733 | Brownley-D Real property disclosures | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2752 | DeVore-R State lands: oil leases | Coastal Resources |
| AB 2760 | Leno-D Environment: CEQA: pest eradication | Air Pollution Environmental Quality |
| AB 2770 | La Malfa-R Department of Fish and Game: scientific collector's permits | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2777 | La Malfa-R Public lands: beekeeping | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2785 | Ruskin-D Wildlife conservation: habitat connectivity | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2792 | Blakeslee-R California Conservation Corps: Green Collar Certification | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2823 | Eng-D San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2829 | Davis-D Recycling: plastic carryout bags | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2840 | Berg-D Humboldt County: South Spit | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2859 | Gaines-R Forestry: fire prevention and control | Forestry |
| AB 2865 | De Leon-D Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program | Air Pollution |
| AB 2866 | De Leon-D Solid waste: solid waste disposal fees: postclosure | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 2869 | De Leon-D Air resources: Community Empowerment Advisory Committee | Air Pollution |
| AB 2870 | DeSaulnier-D Land use: environmental quality | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2889 | Berryhill-R Forestry: fire engine staffing | Forestry |
| AB 2900 | La Malfa-R Water quality: mandatory minimum civil penalties | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2901 | Brownley-D Toxics: enforcement: lead jewelry: packaging | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2911 | Wolk-D Oil spill prevention and response: inland spills | Oil Spills |
| AB 2912 | Wolk-D Oil spill prevention and response: nonmarine waters | Oil Spills |
| AB 2913 | Salas-D Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: strategic plan | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2915 | Nunez-D Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2922 | DeSaulnier-D Air pollution: penalties: fuel containers | Air Pollution |
| AB 2923 | Evans-D State lands: wilderness areas | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2926 | Lieber-D Forest resources: resource conservation | Forestry |
| AB 2930* | Laird-D Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit Act of 2000 | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2934 | Charles Calderon-D California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 | Air Pollution Forestry |
| AB 2935 | Huffman-D Oil spill prevention and response | Oil Spills |
| AB 2938 | De Leon-D Water diversions: fish monitoring | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2945 | Laird-D State parks and wilderness areas | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2954 | Lieber-D San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2986 | Leno-D Water quality | Environmental Quality |
| AB 2989 | Fuentes-D Parks and recreation: Outdoor Environmental Education | Miscellaneous |
| AB 2990 | Laird-D Underground storage tanks: petroleum | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 2991 | Nunez-D Air pollution: research | Air Pollution |
| AB 2992 | La Malfa-R Resource conservation districts | Miscellaneous |
| AB 3001 | Hancock-D California Voluntary Carbon Offset Program Fund | Air Pollution |
| AB 3025 | Lieber-D Solid waste: polystyrene loosefill packaging. | Solid Waste Management |
| AB 3029 | Tran-R Small craft harbors and boating: grants | Miscellaneous |
| AB 3031 | Lieber-D Toxics: chemical uses | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 3053 | Jones-D Smog check: annual inspection: repair assistance program | Air Pollution |
| AB 3077 | Assembly Environmental Safety And Toxic Materials Committee Hazardous materials: Brownfield cleanup | Toxics/Hazardous Waste |
| AB 3081 | Assembly Natural Resources Committee Sierra Nevada Conservancy | Miscellaneous |
| ACR 153 | Laird-D California Coastal Trail Day | Coastal Resources |
| ACR 156 | Berryhill-R The CDF Firefighter Eva Marie Schicke Memorial Highway | Forestry |
| AJR 40 | De Leon-D Ozone and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposure | Air Pollution |
| AJR 41 | Lieu-D Endangered species | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 49 | Nava-D California gray whales: assessment: protected status | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 51 | Nava-D Oil and gas: offshore drilling: leases: moratorium | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 53 | Huffman-D Air resources: greenhouse gas emissions | Air Pollution |
| AJR 62 | Leno-D West Coast sea turtle protection | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 66 | Brownley-D Fishery management | Miscellaneous |
| AJR 68 | Brownley-D Marine mammals: sonar | Miscellaneous |
| HR 22 | Ruskin-D Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month | Air Pollution |
| HR 32 | Brownley-D National Park Service | Miscellaneous |
| AB 4XX | Villines-R Water resources: bond funds | Miscellaneous |