Plain English Breakdown
The official text states the bill passed both chambers but does not list an effective date or final governor signature status beyond enrollment.
Cost Limits on Air Quality Rules
This law stops state and local air agencies from making new rules that raise the price of gasoline or building costs above specific amounts.
What This Bill Does
- Prohibits the State Air Resources Board from creating rules that add more than $0.02 to a gallon of gas.
- Stops the state board from adopting regulations that increase home-building costs by $2,000 or more.
- Bars the South Coast Air Quality Management District from adding over $5,000 to nonresidential building costs.
- Requires both agencies to send data to legislative committees showing their rules meet these cost limits.
Who It Names or Affects
- The State Air Resources Board
- The South Coast Air Quality Management District in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties
Terms To Know
- State-mandated local program
- A new duty required by the state that a local agency must perform.
- Reimbursement
- Money paid back to an agency for costs it had to spend because of a state rule, if determined necessary by officials.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill does not say when these rules will officially start.
- Reimbursement only happens if the Commission on State Mandates determines that this law creates costs mandated by the state.