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AB-2111 Motor vehicles: air pollution.(2021-2022)



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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2111

Introduced by Assembly Member Bigelow

February 14, 2022

An act to amend Section 43000 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2111, as introduced, Bigelow. Motor vehicles: air pollution.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, and makes various legislative findings and declarations regarding the emission of air pollutants from motor vehicles.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the findings and declarations.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 43000 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

43000.
 The Legislature finds and declares as follows: all of the following:
(a)  The emission of air pollutants from motor vehicles is the primary cause of air pollution in many parts of the state.
(b)  The control and elimination of those air pollutants is of prime importance for the protection and preservation of the public health and well-being, and for the prevention of irritation to the senses, interference with visibility, and damage to vegetation and property.
(c)  The state has a responsibility to establish uniform procedures for compliance with standards which that control or eliminate those air pollutants.
(d)   Vehicle emission standards applied to new motor vehicles, and to used motor vehicles equipped with motor vehicle pollution control devices, are standards with which all motor vehicles shall comply.
(e)  Dependence on petroleum based fuels in motor vehicles not only contributes to substantial degradation of air quality and risk to public health, but also impedes the state’s progress toward the petroleum use reduction goal prescribed in Section 25000.5 of the Public Resources Code.