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          Date of Hearing:   May 13, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

                AB 1395 (Torrico) - As Introduced:  February 27, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              Natural  
          ResourcesVote:9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the Air Resources Board (ARB) to make  
          available to the public all changes to draft regulations.   
          Specifically, this bill: 


          1)Requires ARB to make available to the public all changes to  
            draft regulations by, at a minimum, placing the changes on  
            ARB's Web site and distributing the information through list  
            serve.

          2)Specifies that ARB indicate changes from previous versions of  
            the regulation or draft regulation using strikeout and  
            underline text formatting.


          3)Further states that ARB ensure all public workshops undertaken  
            pursuant to a regulatory development and implementation  
            process are recorded by an "appropriate" method, and made  
            available for public review.


           FISCAL EFFECT 

          Minor, absorbable costs, less than $150,000 annually, to ARB.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  These disclosure requirements are consistent with  
            requirements recently imposed on the Public Utilities  
            Commission.  The Legislature, as well as other public  








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            entities, follows similar procedures to indicate and publish  
            amendments to bills and broadcast committee hearings.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081