Bill Text: CA SB638 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Heavy-duty motor vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB638 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB638-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill | No. 638 |
Introduced by Senator Leyva |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 43701 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to vehicular air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 638, as introduced, Leyva.
Heavy-duty motor vehicles.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the Bureau of Automotive Repair and a specified review committee, to adopt regulations requiring owners or operators of heavy-duty diesel motor vehicles to perform regular inspections of their vehicles for excessive emissions of smoke. Existing law requires the state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to adopt regulations requiring heavy-duty diesel motor vehicles to use emission control equipment and alternative fuels.
This bill would delete the references and requirements pertaining to excessive emissions of smoke by heavy-duty diesel vehicles. The bill would instead require the state board, by an unspecified date, to adopt regulations that require owners or operators of heavy duty motor vehicles used for
commercial purposes to perform regular inspections of their vehicles for compliance with emission standards of the state board. The bill would require a fleet, as defined, of these vehicles to comply with the state board’s emission standards in order for any vehicle of the fleet to be registered by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 43701 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:43701.
(a) (1) Not later than(2) (A) On or before December 31 of each year, a A fleet shall comply with the regulations and state board’s emission standards for that calendar year. in order for any vehicle of the fleet to be registered by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
(B) For purposes of this paragraph, “fleet” means any group of two one or more heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicles used for commercial purposes that are owned or operated by the same person.
(b) Not later than December 15, 1993, the state board shall, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and after a public hearing, adopt regulations that require
that heavy-duty diesel motor vehicles subject to subdivision (a) utilize emission control equipment and alternative fuels. The state board shall consider, but not be limited to, the use of cleaner burning diesel fuel, or other methods that will reduce gaseous and smoke emissions to the greatest extent feasible, taking into consideration the cost of compliance. The regulations shall provide that any significant modification of the engine necessary to meet these requirements shall be made during a regularly scheduled major maintenance or overhaul of the vehicle’s engine. If the state board requires the use of alternative fuels, it shall do so only to the extent those fuels are available.
(c) The state board shall adopt emissions standards and procedures for the qualification of any equipment used to meet the requirements of subdivision (b), and only qualified equipment shall be used.
(d) To the extent permissible under federal law, commencing January 1, 2006, the owner or operator of any commercial motor truck, as defined in Section 410 of the Vehicle Code, with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 10,000 pounds that enters the state for the purposes of operating in the state shall maintain, and provide upon demand to enforcement authorities, evidence demonstrating that its engine met the federal emission standards applicable to commercial heavy-duty engines for that engine’s model-year at the time it was manufactured, pursuant to the protocol and regulations developed and implemented pursuant to subdivision (e).
(e) The state board, not later than January 1, 2006, in consultation with the Department of the California Highway Patrol, shall develop, adopt, and implement regulations establishing an inspection protocol for determining whether the engine of a truck subject to the requirements of
subdivision (d) met the federal emission standard applicable to heavy-duty engines for that engine’s model-year at the time it was manufactured.