BILL NUMBER: SB 1076	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2012

   An act to add and repeal Section 38568 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1076, as introduced, Emmerson. California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: tire inflation regulation.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions. A violation of a regulation adopted by the state board
pursuant to the act is subject to specified civil and criminal
penalties. Pursuant to the act, the state board adopted a regulation
requiring automobile service providers, by September 1, 2010, among
other things, to check and inflate vehicle tires to the recommended
pressure rating when performing automobile maintenance or repair
services.
   This bill, until January 1, 2018, would require a tire pressure
gauge used to meet the requirements of this regulation to be accurate
within a range of plus or minus 2 pounds per square inch of pressure
(2 psi). The bill, until January 1, 2018, would authorize automotive
service providers to meet the requirements of the regulation without
checking and inflating a vehicle's tire if that tire is determined
to be an unsafe tire, as defined, or that tire has tire age, as
specified. The bill would require the state board to adopt
regulations on tire age if the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration publishes findings establishing a correlation between
tire age and safety.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 38568 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38568.  (a) Tire pressure gauges used to meet the requirements of
Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations shall
be accurate within a range of plus or minus two pounds per square
inch of pressure (2 psi).
   (b) For purposes of Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California
Code of Regulations, automotive service providers are not required to
check and inflate a vehicle's tire if any of the following applies:
   (1) That tire is determined to be an unsafe tire. As used in this
subdivision, "unsafe tire" means any tire considered unsafe in
accordance with standard industry practices due to tire tread wear,
tread irregularity, or damage. Examples include any tire with an
exposed ply or cord, a sidewall crack, a bulge, a knot, or a ply
separation.
   (2) (A) That tire has tire age. As used in this subdivision "tire
age" means any findings published by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration that establish a correlation between tire age
and safety.
   (B) If the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration does
make findings establishing a correlation between tire age and safety,
the state board shall adopt regulations consistent with those
findings for purposes of Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California
Code of Regulations.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends
that date.