BILL NUMBER: AB 841	CHAPTERED  10/06/05

	CHAPTER  569
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 6, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Arambula
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Koretz)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2005

   An act to add Section 40607 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 841, Arambula  Air quality: San Joaquin Valley Unified Air
Pollution Control District: particulate monitoring.
   (1) Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to develop
and conduct an expanded and revised program of particulate
monitoring. Existing law requires that the program be designed to
accomplish specified conditions, including, among others, that the
monitoring network used in the program site monitors so as to
characterize population exposure, background conditions, and
transport influence, and attain any other objective identified by the
state board as necessary to understand conditions and provide
information for the development of control strategies. Existing law
establishes the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control
District, formed by the Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera,
Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare, and consisting of the
Counties of Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus,
and Tulare, and that portion of the County of Kern that is within the
San Joaquin Valley Air Basin.
   This bill would require the district to install one or more
monitors for monitoring airborne fine particles smaller than 2.5
microns in diameter in the western region of the County of Fresno in
areas that are primarily low-income and underserved. Because this
bill would require the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution
Control District to perform a specified function, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also make
legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a
special statute.
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 40607 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   40607.  The district shall install one or more monitors for
monitoring airborne fine particles smaller than 2.5 microns in
diameter (PM 2.5) in primarily low-income and underserved areas in
the western region of the County of Fresno.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of unique air quality issues faced by the County of Fresno.
  SEC. 3.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a
local agency or school district has the authority to levy service
charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or
level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section
17556 of the Government Code.