California 2011-2012 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 1900 — Renewable energy resources: biomethane.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2012.

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 22, 2012. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 80% · moderate confidence

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Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 7 sponsors

    1 primary, 6 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 11 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to specify the maximum amount of vinyl chloride that may be found in landfill gas. Existing law prohibits a gas producer from knowingly selling, supplying, or transporting to a gas corporation, and a gas corporation from knowingly purchasing, landfill gas containing vinyl chloride in a concentration exceeding the maximum amount determined by the PUC. Existing law requires a person who produces, sells, supplies, or releases landfill gas for sale offsite to a gas corporation to sample and test, bimonthly, the gas at the point of distribution for chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Existing law requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to evaluate the environmental and health risks posed by various hazardous substances. This bill would require OEHHA, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to compile a list of constituents of concern that could pose risks to human health and that are found in biogas, as defined, at concentrations that significantly exceed the concentrations of those constituents in natural gas. The bill would require OEHHA to determine the health protective levels for that list, as specified, and would require the state board to identify realistic exposure scenarios and the health risks associated with those scenarios, as specified. The bill would require the state board to determine the appropriate concentrations of those constituents, as specified. The bill would also provide that actions taken pursuant to the above-described requirements do not constitute regulations and are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would further require the PUC to adopt, by rule or order, (1) standards for biomethane that specify the concentrations of constituents of concern that are reasonably necessary to protect public health and ensure pipeline integrity and safety, as specified, and (2) requirements for monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping, as specified. The bill would require a gas corporation, as defined, to comply with those standards and requirements. The bill would require the PUC to require gas corporation tariffs to condition access to common carrier pipelines on the applicable customer meeting those standards and requirements. The bill would also prohibit a person and a gas corporation from knowingly engaging in specified transactions involving common carrier pipelines and biogas collected from a hazardous waste landfill, as defined. (2) The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and requires it to prepare an integrated energy policy report on or before November 1, 2003, and every 2 years thereafter. The act requires the report to contain an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, including, but not limited to, supply, demand, pricing, reliability, efficiency, and impacts on public health and safety, the economy, resources, and the environment. This bill would require the Energy Commission to hold public hearings to identify impediments that limit procurement of biomethane in California, including, but not limited to, impediments to interconnection. The bill would require the Energy Commission to offer solutions to those impediments as part of the above-mentioned report. (3) This bill would require the PUC to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane. (4) Existing law allows the PUC to set heating and purity requirements for biomethane injected into a gas pipeline. Existing law allows gas corporations to impose tariffs on biomethane injected into their pipelines. This bill would require the PUC to adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas. (5) This bill would become operative only if this bill and AB 2196 of the 2011–12 Regular Session are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2013. (6) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime. Because this bill would require action by the PUC to implement certain of its requirements, a violation of which would be a crime, these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2012.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 6801.).

  5. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6801.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 5091.).

  8. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 5077.)

  9. Ordered to third reading.

  10. Withdrawn from committee.

  11. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  12. Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)

  13. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)

  14. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  15. Ordered to third reading.

  16. From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 28).

  17. From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.Q. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

  18. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10.

  19. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  20. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  21. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  22. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  23. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  24. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16).

  25. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  26. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  27. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2).

  28. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

  29. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C.

  30. Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q.

  31. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  32. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 5187.)

  33. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  34. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  35. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25).

  36. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  37. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  38. Read second time and amended.

  39. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 26).

  40. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  41. Read second time and amended.

  42. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 16).

  43. Re-referred to Com. on U. & C.

  44. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended.

  45. Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES.

  46. From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  47. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Cannella · Cosponsor
  • Chesbro · Cosponsor
  • Gordon · Cosponsor
  • Roger Hernández · Cosponsor
  • Gatto · Primary
  • Liu · Cosponsor
  • Skinner · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 115 not signed on · 1 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Gatto

Co-sponsors (6)

Not signed on (115)

115 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

3rd Reading AB1900 Gatto By Wright

Passed 31 Yea · 0 Nay · 9 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 28009
Republican 1000
Democratic 2000
Total 31009
% of votes cast 78%0%0%23%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Evans — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
De León — Yea
Negrete McLeod — Yea
Runner — Not Voting
Rubio — Not Voting
Hancock — Not Voting
Harman — Not Voting
Anderson — Not Voting
Blakeslee — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leno — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Pavley — Not Voting
Price — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Vargas — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Liu — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Corbett — Not Voting
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
La Malfa — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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AB 1900 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 77 Yea · 2 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 1100
Unaffiliated 75101
Democratic 1000
Total 77201
% of votes cast 96%3%0%1%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Hagman — Yea
Butler — Yea
Garrick — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Hill — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Huber — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Knight — Yea
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Campos — Yea
Cedillo — Yea
Achadjian — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Cook — Yea
Davis — Yea
Eng — Yea
Halderman — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Valadao — Yea
Williams — Yea
Allen — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Fong — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Furutani — Not Voting
Galgiani — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Beall — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Norby — Yea
Torres — Yea
Block — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Lara — Yea
Ma — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Miller — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Carter — Yea
Conway — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bonnie Lowenthal — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Kehoe — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Yea
Price — Yea

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Placed on Appropriations Suspense file.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Lieu — Yea
Dutton — Yea
Walters — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Price — Yea
Steinberg — Yea

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Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality.

Passed 11 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 10001
Republican 0001
Democratic 1000
Total 11002
% of votes cast 85%0%0%15%
How each member voted (13)
Member Party Vote
Rubio — Yea
De León — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Simitian — Not Voting
Wright — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Not Voting

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AB 1900 GATTO Assembly Third Reading

Passed 72 Yea · 1 Nay · 7 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 70106
Republican 2000
Democratic 0001
Total 72107
% of votes cast 90%1%0%9%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Gordon — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Halderman — Yea
Butler — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Carter — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Hill — Yea
Fong — Yea
Allen — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Williams — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Campos — Yea
Portantino — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Cedillo — Not Voting
Hagman — Nay
Bonilla — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hall — Yea
Fletcher — Not Voting
Harkey — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Davis — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Donnelly — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Knight — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Not Voting
Miller — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Norby — Not Voting
Perea — Yea
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Huber — Yea
Logue — Yea
Ma — Yea
Mansoor — Not Voting
Nestande — Yea
Pan — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Valadao — Not Voting
Eng — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bonnie Lowenthal — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 17 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 16000
Democratic 1000
Total 17000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Gatto — Yea
Hill — Yea
Davis — Yea
Norby — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Campos — Yea
Donnelly — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

Passed 11 Yea · 1 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 11103
Total 11103
% of votes cast 73%7%0%20%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Fong — Yea
Fletcher — Not Voting
Gorell — Yea
Huffman — Nay
Nestande — Yea
Skinner — Not Voting
Bradford — Yea
Buchanan — Not Voting
Knight — Yea
Ma — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Valadao — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 1900 do?
(1) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to specify the maximum amount of vinyl chloride that may be found in landfill gas. Existing law prohibits a gas producer from knowingly selling, supplying, or transporting to a gas corporation, and a gas corporation from knowingly purchasing, landfill gas containing vinyl chloride in a concentration exceeding the maximum amount determined by the PUC. Existing law requires a person who produces, sells, supplies, or releases landfill gas for sale offsite to a gas corporation to sample and test, bimonthly, the gas at the point of distribution for chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. Existing law requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to evaluate the environmental and health risks posed by various hazardous substances. This bill would require OEHHA, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the California Environmental Protection Agency, to compile a list of constituents of concern that could pose risks to human health and that are found in biogas, as defined, at concentrations that significantly exceed the concentrations of those constituents in natural gas. The bill would require OEHHA to determine the health protective levels for that list, as specified, and would require the state board to identify realistic exposure scenarios and the health risks associated with those scenarios, as specified. The bill would require the state board to determine the appropriate concentrations of those constituents, as specified. The bill would also provide that actions taken pursuant to the above-described requirements do not constitute regulations and are exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would further require the PUC to adopt, by rule or order, (1) standards for biomethane that specify the concentrations of constituents of concern that are reasonably necessary to protect public health and ensure pipeline integrity and safety, as specified, and (2) requirements for monitoring, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping, as specified. The bill would require a gas corporation, as defined, to comply with those standards and requirements. The bill would require the PUC to require gas corporation tariffs to condition access to common carrier pipelines on the applicable customer meeting those standards and requirements. The bill would also prohibit a person and a gas corporation from knowingly engaging in specified transactions involving common carrier pipelines and biogas collected from a hazardous waste landfill, as defined. (2) The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and requires it to prepare an integrated energy policy report on or before November 1, 2003, and every 2 years thereafter. The act requires the report to contain an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, including, but not limited to, supply, demand, pricing, reliability, efficiency, and impacts on public health and safety, the economy, resources, and the environment. This bill would require the Energy Commission to hold public hearings to identify impediments that limit procurement of biomethane in California, including, but not limited to, impediments to interconnection. The bill would require the Energy Commission to offer solutions to those impediments as part of the above-mentioned report. (3) This bill would require the PUC to adopt policies and programs that promote the in-state production and distribution of biomethane. (4) Existing law allows the PUC to set heating and purity requirements for biomethane injected into a gas pipeline. Existing law allows gas corporations to impose tariffs on biomethane injected into their pipelines. This bill would require the PUC to adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas. (5) This bill would become operative only if this bill and AB 2196 of the 2011–12 Regular Session are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2013. (6) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC is a crime. Because this bill would require action by the PUC to implement certain of its requirements, a violation of which would be a crime, these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors AB 1900?
AB 1900 is sponsored by Cannella, Chesbro, Gordon, Roger Hernández, Gatto, Liu, and Skinner.
What is the current status of AB 1900?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 22, 2012. Enacted.
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