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AB-30 State Air Resources Board: gasoline specifications: ethanol blends.(2025-2026)



Current Version: 12/02/24 - Introduced

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 30

Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Flora)

December 02, 2024

An act to add Section 43013.7 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to motor vehicle fuels, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 30, as introduced, Alvarez. State Air Resources Board: gasoline specifications: ethanol blends.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt and implement motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution under specified circumstances.
This bill would require the state board to complete a rulemaking on or before July 1, 2025, to adopt specifications for blends of gasoline containing 10.5% to 15% ethanol by volume for use as a transportation fuel. If the state board does not complete the rulemaking on or before that date, the bill would require that blends of gasoline containing 10.5% to 15% ethanol by volume be treated as approved by the state board and would authorize them to be sold in the state as transportation fuel.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 43013.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

43013.7.
 (a) The state board shall complete a rulemaking on or before July 1, 2025, to adopt specifications for blends of gasoline containing 10.5 percent to 15 percent ethanol by volume for use as a transportation fuel.
(b) If the state board does not complete the rulemaking on or before July 1, 2025, blends of gasoline containing 10.5 percent to 15 percent ethanol by volume shall be treated as approved by the state board and may be sold in the state for use as a transportation fuel.

SEC. 2.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to develop solutions to help reduce the price of gasoline as soon as possible, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.