BILL NUMBER:  AB 2272
  VETOED	DATE: 09/30/2016




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 2272 without my signature.

This bill would require the Occupational Safety and Health Standards
Board to adopt a regulation that requires a health facility to remove
plume through the use of plume scavenging systems by July 1, 2019.

I agree with the author and sponsor that the potentially hazardous
effects of plume merits thorough review. By specifically requiring
the adoption of the regulation, however, the bill divests the
Standards Board of its discretion to consider a proposed standard for
adoption and instead mandates it to do so. This Board was created as
an independent body and I believe that independence must be
maintained in order for it to effectively perform its mission and
protect all California workers.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.