Bill Text: CA SB211 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Senate Bill 211 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: tire

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2012-02-28 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. Veto sustained. [SB211 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB211-Enrolled.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 211	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 18, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 16, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 10, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 14, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Emmerson and Harman
   (Coauthor: Senator Dutton)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Jeffries, Olsen, and Portantino)

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 38568 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 211, Emmerson. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006:
tire inflation regulation.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions. A violation of a regulation adopted by the state board
pursuant to the act is subject to specified civil and criminal
penalties. Pursuant to the act, the state board adopted a regulation
requiring automobile service providers, by September 1, 2010, among
other things, to check and inflate vehicle tires to the recommended
pressure rating when performing automobile maintenance or repair
services.
   This bill, until January 1, 2017, would require a tire pressure
gauge used to meet the requirements of this regulation to be accurate
within a range of plus or minus 2 pounds per square inch of pressure
(2 psi). The bill, until January 1, 2017, would authorize automotive
service providers to meet the requirements of the regulation without
checking and inflating a vehicle's tire if that tire is determined
to be an unsafe tire, as defined.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 38568 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38568.  (a) Tire pressure gauges used to meet the requirements of
Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations shall
be accurate within a range of plus or minus two pounds per square
inch of pressure (2 psi).
   (b) For purposes of Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California
Code of Regulations, automotive service providers are not required to
check and inflate a vehicle's tire if that tire is determined to be
an unsafe tire. As used in this subdivision, "unsafe tire" means any
tire considered unsafe in accordance with standard industry practices
due to tire tread wear, tread irregularity, or damage. Examples
include any tire with exposed ply or cord, a sidewall crack, a bulge,
a knot, or ply separation.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.