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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1922
Author: Lara (D)
Amended: 8/6/12 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM. : 9-0, 06/19/12
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Rubio, Simitian, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/29/12 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Heavy-duty vehicles: smoke emissions
SOURCE : California Trucking Association
DIGEST : This bill requires heavy-duty diesel truck
fleets, as defined, to comply with Air Resources Board
regulations and standards on or before December 31 for each
calendar year.
ANALYSIS : The Air Resources Board regulations require
owners or operators of heavy-duty diesel motor vehicles to
perform regular self-inspections (smoke opacity tests) of
their vehicles to control excessive smoke emissions from
heavy-duty diesel trucks and buses. Specifically, the
regulations require owners of most California-based fleets
to test each heavy-duty diesel-powered vehicle annually
with a smoke opacity meter and to meet applicable standards
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based on the age of the vehicle's engine. Further, owners
must promptly repair any vehicle the test determines to be
in noncompliance and bring it into compliance. For each
vehicle, owners must repeat this test and conduct any
potential repairs within 12 months of the prior test.
Finally, owners must maintain records involving each
vehicle of the initial opacity test, repair information,
post-repair opacity results, and meter calibration for at
least two years.
Existing law confers authority to the Air Resources Board
to audit the inspection records of all heavy-duty
diesel-powered vehicles at the owner/operator designated
fleet location and to test vehicles for compliance with the
smoke opacity regulations.
This bill:
1.Requires heavy-duty diesel truck fleets to comply with
Air Resources Board regulations and standards on or
before December 31 for each calendar year.
2.Defines fleet as any group of two of more heavy-duty
diesel-fueled vehicles that are owned and operated by the
same person.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/6/12)
California Trucking Association (source)
California Construction Trucking Association
California Tow Truck Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 5/29/12
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Beth
Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Gorell, Grove,
Hagman, Halderman, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger Hern�ndez,
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Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight,
Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza,
Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen,
Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino,
Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao,
Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cedillo, Fletcher, Hall
JJA:n 8/8/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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