| Topic | Supporters | Opponents | Bill number | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air pollution: South Coast Air Quality Management District: emissions of air contaminants: locomotives and rail yards. | 5 | 9 | SB 1397 (2003-2004) | Escutia | |
| This bill authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District to implement a rail yard source emission reduction program and a locomotive emission impact mitigation program. | |||||
| Air quality: emissions: stationary sources: agricultural operations. | 3 | 8 | SB 700 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill requires each Air Quality Management District or Air Pollution Control District to adopt and implement best available control measures for agricultural stationary sources of air pollution. | |||||
| Gaming. | 4 | 6 | SB 288 (2003-2004) | Sher | |
| This bill prohibits an air district from amending or revising its new source review rules to be less stringent than those that existed on December 30, 2002. | |||||
| Air pollution: Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program: eligibility criteria. | 10 | 2 | AB 2953 (2003-2004) | Canciamilla | |
| This bill authorizes spending certain funds for grants to a source of air pollution up until the compliance date of any local, state, or federal statute, rule or regulation related to reduction in air emissions from that source. | |||||
| Air pollution: importation of electrical energy: mitigation fee. | 6 | 2 | AB 151 (2003-2004) | Vargas | |
| This bill imposes an Air Pollution Mitigation Fee for importing electrical energy from a specified plant in Mexico. | |||||
| Air pollution: smog check. | 4 | 3 | AB 2683 (2003-2004) | Lieber | |
| This bill applies the Smog Check and Smog Check II requirements to vehicles manufactured after 1976. | |||||
| Vehicles: registration: fees: increase. | 4 | 2 | AB 2880 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |
| This bill increases by $2 the maximum surcharge an air district may place on vehicle registrations for programs to fight the air pollution caused by motor vehicles. | |||||
| Air quality element: San Joaquin Valley. | 5 | 1 | AB 170 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |
| This bill requires cities and counties within the jurisdiction of the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to amend existing elements of their general plans to include goals, policies and strategies for improving air quality. | |||||
| Solid waste: management: Los Angeles County sanitation districts. | 1 | 4 | SB 537 (2003-2004) | Romero | |
| This bill requires each sanitation district in the County of Los Angeles to establish a reserve fund for air pollution mitigation and prohibits the site of a new materials recovery facility designed to receive greater than 4,000 tons per day. | |||||
| San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District: district board. | 2 | 2 | SB 709 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill authorizes the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (Air District) board to adopt regulations requiring the use of best available control technology for new and modified sources of pollution, promote the use of cleaner burning alternative fuels, and encourage and facilitate ride sharing commuters. | |||||
| Air pollution: clean-burning solid fuel appliances. | 2 | 2 | AB 720 (2003-2004) | Matthews | |
| This bill prohibits any air district from adopting a rule or regulation that restricts or prohibits the installation of a clean-burning solid fuel appliance. | |||||
| Air pollution: consumer products. | 4 | 1 | AB 788 (2003-2004) | Chavez | |
| This bill extends, until January 1, 2005, a prohibition on the State Air Resources Board from adopting regulations pertaining to disinfectants. | |||||
| Air pollution: vehicles: global warming gases. | 2 | 2 | AB 2906 (2003-2004) | Nation | |
| This bill would require vehicle smog index labels to display specified information about global warming gases and to compare a vehicle's exhaust emissions and global warming gas emissions with those from other vehicles of the same model year. | |||||
| State motor vehicle fleets. | 1 | 1 | SB 552 (2003-2004) | Burton | |
| This bill requires state agencies to adopt specified procurement and use policies to increase the fuel efficiency and reduce the petroleum usage of the vehicles leased or owned by the state. | |||||
| Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments. | 1 | 1 | SB 849 (2003-2004) | Torlakson | |
| This bill requires that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) include the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) in the joint policy committee of the ABAG-MTC Task Force, by June 30, 2005. | |||||
| California Clean Air Bond Act. | 5 | 0 | SB 403 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill creates a $5.15 billion general obligation bond, which will fund air quality improvement projects. | |||||
| Air quality: particulate matter. | 2 | 0 | SB 656 (2003-2004) | Sher | |
| This bill establishes a process by which the Air Resources Board (ARB) and individual local air districts identify and implement measures to reduce emissions of particulate matter (PM) into the ambient air and to reduce the public's exposure to PM. | |||||
| California Clean Air Bond Act of 2004. | 1 | 0 | SB 701 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill enacts the California Clean Air Bond Act of 2004, defines terms used in the bond act, and places on the March 2004 election ballot a $4.5 billion general obligation bond for approval by the voters of the state. | |||||
| Air pollution: motor vehicles. | 2 | 0 | SB 708 (2003-2004) | Florez | |
| This bill increases the base fine for violation of the Vehicle Code prohibitions against operating a motor vehicle that exceeds smog standards, or operating a light-duty motor vehicle that emits excessive smoke or other discharge. | |||||
| Air quality: major source. | 0 | 2 | SB 807 (2003-2004) | Denham | |
| This bill amends the provision of law which exempts agriculture sources of air pollution from state permitting requirements to exclude equipment at a major source of air pollution, thereby making such equipment subject to a permit. | |||||
| Air pollution: stationary sources: prosecution of violations. | 1 | 0 | SB 1211 (2003-2004) | Ortiz | |
| Establishes air pollution control districts and air quality management districts and generally requires them to enforce standards for stationary sources of air pollution. | |||||
| Air pollution: Large Emission Reduction Program. | 3 | 0 | SB 1247 (2003-2004) | Soto | |
| This bill would establish the Large Emission Reduction Program to reduce unhealthful air emissions. | |||||
| Air pollution: smog check: out-of-state vehicles. | 1 | 0 | SB 1615 (2003-2004) | Denham | |
| This bill exempts out-of-state vehicles that are more than 30 or more model years old from the smog check requirement upon initial registration. | |||||
| Air pollution: gasoline. | 0 | 2 | SB 1814 (2003-2004) | Aanestad | |
| This bill makes a number of changes regarding air quality and fuels. | |||||
| Air pollution: heavy-duty vehicles: emissions. | 4 | 0 | AB 1009 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |
| Requires foreign trucks to meet federal emissions standards. | |||||
| Air pollution: Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program: particulate matter. | 1 | 0 | AB 1394 (2003-2004) | Levine | |
| This bill expands the Carl Moyer Air Quality Program to include projects providing reductions in particulate matter (PM), making these projects eligible for funding grants. | |||||
| Air pollution: smog check: voluntary vehicle retirement incentives. | 2 | 0 | AB 2128 (2003-2004) | Jackson | |
| Redirects a portion of the $6 annual smog abatement fee (of which newer vehicles are exempted) into a fund to provide incentive to voluntarily purchase electric or zero-emission vehicles. | |||||
| Boating safety. | 4 | 0 | AB 2222 (2003-2004) | Koretz | |
| Establishes operational restrictions and notice requirements aimed at preventing or reducing the risk of exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) emissions from boating vessels. | |||||
| School facilities: indoor air quality. | 3 | 0 | AB 2863 (2003-2004) | Pavley | |
| Requires the inclusion of an indoor air auality managment plan for school districts applying for State school facilities funds to renovate or build new facilities and gives a priority use of certain funds to prevent indoor air problems in school facilities. | |||||
| Biodiesel. | 1 | 0 | AB 2899 (2003-2004) | Shirley Horton | |
| This bill establishes standards for the sale of fuel comprised of biodiesel and biodiesel blends and a process that will ultimately allow consumers of these fuels to generate carbon dioxide (CO2) credits for air emission banking and credit programs. | |||||
| Air quality: gasoline vapor emission control systems. | SB 207 (2003-2004) | Ackerman | |||
| This bill prohibits local air quality districts from issuing a citation to an owner or operator of a gasoline vapor control system, device, or component as the result of certain defects or malfunctions. | |||||
| Greenhouse gases. | SB 444 (2003-2004) | Vasconcellos | |||
| This bill makes additional legislative findings relating to the effects of greenhouse gases and global warming, and declares the intent of the Legislature to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the state to the extent practicable pursuant to provisions of the Kyoto Accord. | |||||
| South Coast Air Quality Management District. | SB 480 (2003-2004) | Kuehl | |||
| This bill deletes an obsolete provision of law relating to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board. | |||||
| Air quality: Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program: medium-weight farm equipment. | SB 702 (2003-2004) | Florez | |||
| This bill exempts from that cost-effectiveness criteria in the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, any project involving medium-weight farm equipment, as determined by the state board. | |||||
| San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District: district board membership. | SB 999 (2003-2004) | Machado | |||
| This bill adds four additional members to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, who would be appointed by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Committee on Rules. | |||||
| Permits. | SB 1389 (2003-2004) | McPherson | |||
| Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to air pollution law. | |||||
| Air quality: emission reductions: workshops and hearings. | SB 1883 (2003-2004) | ||||
| This bill deletes an obsolete requirement that the State Air Resources Board adopt a workshop and hearing schedule for purposes of considering the adoption of standards and regulations for mobile sources of air pollution by November 15, 1989. | |||||
| Air quality. | AB 219 (2003-2004) | Reyes | |||
| This bill deletes the exemption for diesel-powered vehicles from the Smog Check and Smog Check II requirements. | |||||
| Imperial County Air Pollution Control District: water transfers. | AB 404 (2003-2004) | Garcia | |||
| This bill states that a transferee of water must attempt to mitigate the air quality impacts associated with the water transfer and pay a fee for the air quality impact of the transfer. | |||||
| Air quality: district permits systems. | AB 469 (2003-2004) | Samuelian | |||
| This bill makes minor changes to the issuance of air pollution permits. | |||||
| Bay Area Air Quality Management District. | AB 729 (2003-2004) | Lieber | |||
| This bill establishes that the Bay Area may take additional measures to limit air pollution. | |||||
| Environmental quality: settlement terms. | AB 1194 (2003-2004) | Dutra | |||
| This bill would limit the settlement terms of an action brought pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act as specified. | |||||
| Smog check II: coastal districts: study. | AB 1316 (2003-2004) | Parra | |||
| Requires the State Air Resources Board to conduct a study evaluating the benefit to air quality in the state that would result from requiring all air quality management districts and air pollution control districts located along most of the state's coastline to participate in Smog Check II. | |||||
| Air pollution: smog check. | AB 1624 (2003-2004) | Benoit | |||
| This bill prohibits the Department of Consumer Affairs from imposing smog check requirement on more than an unspecified percentage of those overall vehicles in enhanced areas of the state. | |||||
| Air pollution: penalties | AB 1637 (2003-2004) | La Suer | |||
| This bill deletes the alternative administrative penalty provisions for air pollution. | |||||
| Air pollution: hydrogen refueling stations. | AB 1966 (2003-2004) | Campbell | |||
| Requires the Air Resources Board to adopt statewide guidelines for the production and licensing of hydrogen fuel cell consumer refueling stations. | |||||
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