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CA SB1507

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/24/2012

Primary Sponsor

Jean Fuller

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Origin

Senate

2011-2012 Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the State Air Resources Board to include an exemption for local-haul tractors in any greenhouse gas emissions regulations applying to heavy-duty tractors pulling 53-foot or longer box-type trailers.

  • Defines local-haul tractors as those traveling within 100 air miles of their base or returning to base within 48 hours of traveling beyond that radius.

  • Addresses concerns that the original regulations' fuel-efficiency projections assumed trucks traveling at 62.5 miles per hour, exceeding California's 55 miles-per-hour truck speed limit and making compliance ineffective for many local-haul operators.

  • Declares the act an urgency statute effective immediately to provide greater flexibility for fleet owners to reduce fuel usage in economically viable ways.

Legislative Description

California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006:

Last Action

Set, second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 5. Page 4261.) Reconsideration granted.

7/2/2012

Committee Referrals

Environmental Quality5/3/2012
Rules2/24/2012

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