CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2550

Introduced by Assembly Member Arambula

February 17, 2022

An act to amend Section 41504 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2550, as introduced, Arambula. State Air Resources Board: ambient air quality standards: programs, rules, and regulations.
Existing law generally designates local air districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law requires an air district to file with the state board, within 30 days any rule or regulation the air district board adopts, amends, or repeals. Existing law requires the state board, to coordinate air pollution control activities throughout the state and to ensure that the entire state is, or will be, in compliance with state standards, to review the rules, regulations, and programs submitted by an air district to determine whether they are sufficiently effective to achieve and maintain the state ambient air quality standards. Existing law authorizes the state board, if, after a public hearing, it finds that a program or the rules and regulations of an air district will not likely achieve and maintain the state’s ambient air quality standards, to establish a program, or portion thereof, or rules and regulations it deems necessary to enable the air district to achieve and maintain ambient air quality standards.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this latter provision.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 41504 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

41504.
 (a)  If, after a public hearing, the state board finds that the a program or the rules and regulations of a district will not likely achieve and maintain the state’s ambient air quality standards, the state board may establish a program, or portion thereof, or rules and regulations it deems necessary to enable the district to achieve and maintain such the state’s ambient air quality standards.
(b)  Any A program, or portion thereof, or rule or regulation established by the state board for the a district pursuant to subdivision (a) shall have the same force and effect as a program, rule, or regulation adopted by the district and shall be enforced by the district.