California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: To Executive

SB 124 — Air pollution: schoolbus idling and idling at schools.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 561, Statutes of 2009.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2009-2010 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards. Existing law also designates the state board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the ambient air of the state, and requires the state board to establish toxic control measures for toxic air contaminants. Existing regulations adopted by the state board establish toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools. Those existing regulations require drivers of schoolbuses, transit buses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses, general public paratransit vehicles, as those terms are defined in the regulations, and specified transit buses and commercial motor vehicles to, among other things, turn off the bus or vehicle engine upon stopping at or within 100 feet of a school, prohibits those drivers from turning the bus or vehicle engine on more than 30 seconds before beginning to depart from a school or within 100 feet of a school, and prohibits those drivers from causing the bus or vehicle to idle for more than 5 consecutive minutes or 5 aggregate minutes in any one hour at any location greater than 100 feet from a school. Those existing regulations provide that any violation of those requirements subjects the driver or the motor carrier to a minimum civil penalty of $100 and to criminal penalties. Those existing regulations authorize the state board, peace officers and the authorized representatives of their law enforcement agencies, and air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, to enforce those provisions. This bill would increase the minimum civil penalty for a violation to $300 and authorize additional civil penalties.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 561, Statutes of 2009.

  2. Approved by Governor.

  3. Enrolled. To Governor at 9 p.m.

  4. Senate concurs in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 24. Noes 13. Page 2219.) To enrollment.

  5. In Senate. To unfinished business.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 28. Page 2817.) To Senate.

  7. Read third time. Amended. (Page 2756.) To third reading.

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. (Heard in committee on June 29.)

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.)

  11. To Com. on TRANS.

  12. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  13. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 1007.) To Assembly.

  14. Read second time. To third reading.

  15. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4. Page 875.)

  16. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.

  17. Set for hearing May 12.

  18. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H.

  19. Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  20. Set for hearing April 14.

  21. Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  22. Set for hearing March 31.

  23. To Com. on T. & H.

  24. From print. May be acted upon on or after March 7.

  25. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Blumenfield · Cosponsor
  • Oropeza · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 120 not signed on · 4 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Oropeza

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Blumenfield

Not signed on (120)

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB124 Oropeza

Passed 25 Yea · 13 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 231203
Democratic 2000
Republican 0100
Total 251303
% of votes cast 61%32%0%7%
How each member voted (41)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Harman — Nay
Hollingsworth — Nay
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Dutton — Nay
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Runner — Nay
Ashburn — Nay
Benoit — Nay
Pavley — Yea
Romero — Yea
Cogdill — Not Voting
Ducheny — Not Voting
Simitian — Not Voting
Steinberg — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
Aanestad — Nay
Alquist — Yea
Huff — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Oropeza — Yea
Price — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wyland — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Correa — Yea
Cox — Nay
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Nay
Florez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

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SB 124 Oropeza Senate Third Reading By BLUMENFIELD

Passed 57 Yea · 31 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 532903
Democratic 3000
Republican 1200
Total 573103
% of votes cast 63%34%0%3%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Hagman — Nay
Hall — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Eng — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Coto — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Charles — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huber — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Fong — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Beall — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Conway — Nay
Cook — Nay
Bill — Nay
Tom — Nay
Fletcher — Nay
Audra — Nay
Duvall — Nay
Portantino — Not Voting
Garrick — Nay
Gilmore — Nay
Harkey — Nay
Anderson — Nay
Bass — Yea
Knight — Nay
Lieu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Nay
Monning — Yea
Nestande — Nay
Silva — Nay
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torres — Not Voting
Torrico — Yea
Villines — Nay
Adams — Not Voting
Blakeslee — Nay
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Jeffries — Nay
Krekorian — Yea
Logue — Nay
Ma — Yea
Nava — Yea
Nielsen — Nay
Ruskin — Yea
Smyth — Nay
Torlakson — Yea
Tran — Nay
Emmerson — Nay
Evans — Yea
Davis — Yea
DeVore — Nay
Yamada — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Beth Gaines — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Bill Berryhill — Nay
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

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Do pass.

Passed 12 Yea · 5 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 12400
Republican 0100
Total 12500
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Eng — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Garrick — Nay
Conway — Nay
Jeffries — Nay
Blumenfield — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Miller — Nay
Solorio — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Nay

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Senate 3rd Reading SB124 Oropeza

Passed 27 Yea · 13 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 241200
Democratic 3000
Republican 0100
Total 271300
% of votes cast 68%33%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Negrete — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Florez — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Hollingsworth — Nay
Runner — Nay
Huff — Nay
Cogdill — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Oropeza — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Benoit — Nay
Dutton — Nay
Romero — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wiggins — Yea
Wright — Yea
Aanestad — Nay
Alquist — Yea
Harman — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Maldonado — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Walters — Nay
Wolk — Yea
Correa — Yea
Cox — Nay
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Nay

Official roll call →

Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 4 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6400
Democratic 1000
Total 7400
% of votes cast 64%36%0%0%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Harman — Nay
Hollingsworth — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Oropeza — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Simitian — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Huff — Nay
DeSaulnier — Yea
Lowenthal, Josh Democratic Yea

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Subjects

public-safety environment
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 124 do?
Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards. Existing law also designates the state board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to identify toxic air contaminants that are emitted into the ambient air of the state, and requires the state board to establish toxic control measures for toxic air contaminants. Existing regulations adopted by the state board establish toxic control measures to limit schoolbus idling and idling at schools. Those existing regulations require drivers of schoolbuses, transit buses, school pupil activity buses, youth buses, general public paratransit vehicles, as those terms are defined in the regulations, and specified transit buses and commercial motor vehicles to, among other things, turn off the bus or vehicle engine upon stopping at or within 100 feet of a school, prohibits those drivers from turning the bus or vehicle engine on more than 30 seconds before beginning to depart from a school or within 100 feet of a school, and prohibits those drivers from causing the bus or vehicle to idle for more than 5 consecutive minutes or 5 aggregate minutes in any one hour at any location greater than 100 feet from a school. Those existing regulations provide that any violation of those requirements subjects the driver or the motor carrier to a minimum civil penalty of $100 and to criminal penalties. Those existing regulations authorize the state board, peace officers and the authorized representatives of their law enforcement agencies, and air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, to enforce those provisions. This bill would increase the minimum civil penalty for a violation to $300 and authorize additional civil penalties.
Who sponsors SB 124?
SB 124 is sponsored by Blumenfield and Oropeza.
What is the current status of SB 124?
This bill died with 2009-2010 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 124?
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