BILL NUMBER: SB 1076 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 19, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 29, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 19, 2012
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 amended, 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 would, until January 1, 2018, specify certain
requirements that apply to a regulation that requires, as does the
regulation described above, an automotive service provider to check
and inflate a vehicle's tires while performing automotive maintenance
or repair service. This bill would impose an accuracy standard on a
tire pressure gauge used by a provider pursuant to that regulation.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to establish
the exclusive and exhaustive set of tire safety related exemptions to
that regulation. This bill would list those exemptions, as
specified.
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).
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 For the purposes of a
regulation that requires an automotive service provider to check and
inflate a vehicle's tires while performing automotive maintenance or
repair service, a tire pressure gauges used to meet
the requirements of Section 95550 of Title 17 of the California Code
of Regulations gauge used by the provider to inflate a
tire pursuant to that regulation shall be accurate within a
range of plus or minus two pounds per square inch of pressure (2
psi).
(b) (1) For the purposes of a tire safety related exemption to a
regulation as described in subdivision (a), it is the intent of the
Legislature that the exemptions provided in paragraph (2) shall be
exclusive and exhaustive.
(2) An automotive service provider shall not be required to check
and inflate a vehicle's tire if the tire shows any of the following:
(A) Damage penetrating or exposing the reinforcing plies,
including cuts, cracks, punctures, or excessive wear.
(B) Tread depth worn to 2/32 of an inch or less on any area of the
tread.
(C) Indication of internal separation, such as a bulge, a local
area of irregular tread wear indicating possible tread or belt
separation, or damage of reinforcing plies.
(D) Defacement or removal of a U.S. Department of Transportation
tire identification number, as required by Part 574 of the Title 49
of the Code of Federal Regulations, which is located on the tire
sidewall.
(b)
(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.