Bill Text: CA AB1857 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State Air Resources Board: air quality regulation: valleys.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-10 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. [AB1857 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1857-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1857
| Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson |
January 18, 2024 |
An act to add and repeal Section 39601.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1857, as introduced, Jackson.
State Air Resources Board: air quality regulation: valleys.
Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and air pollution control and air quality management districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources.
This bill would require the state board to adopt regulations to improve air quality in population centers located in valleys and would require each local air district to implement those regulations with regard to stationary sources located within its jurisdiction. The bill would make those requirements inoperative on January 1, 2029, and would require the state board, on or
before January 1, 2030, to submit a report to the Legislature and specified committees of the Legislature describing any air quality improvements resulting from those regulations.
By adding to the duties of local air districts, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 39601.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39601.7.
(a) The state board shall adopt regulations to improve air quality in population centers located in valleys.(b) Each district shall implement the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) with regard to stationary sources located within its jurisdiction.
(c) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall become inoperative on January 1, 2029.
(d) (1) The state board shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2030, summarizing the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) and describing any air quality improvements resulting from those regulations.
(2) The report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(3) The state board shall also submit the report required pursuant to paragraph (1) to the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality.
(e) For purposes of this section, “valley” means an elongate depression of the earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains.
(f) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2034, and as of that date is repealed.
