Plain English Breakdown
The official source confirms the bill is enacted and takes effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Allowing Sale of Gasoline with Higher Ethanol Blends
This law allows gasoline mixed with 10.5% to 15% ethanol to be sold in California until the required state reviews and decisions are completed.
What This Bill Does
- Authorizes the sale of gasoline blends containing between 10.5% and 15% ethanol by volume as transportation fuel.
- Allows this sales authorization to continue until the California Environmental Policy Council finishes its review.
- Requires the State Air Resources Board to either adopt a new regulation for these blends or post an assessment online stating that such regulations cannot meet requirements.
Who It Names or Affects
- Gasoline sellers and fuel distributors in the state
- The State Air Resources Board
- The California Environmental Policy Council
Terms To Know
- Ethanol blends
- Mixtures of gasoline and ethanol, a type of alcohol made from plants that is used as fuel.
- Urgency statute
- A law that becomes effective immediately after being signed instead of waiting for the standard delay period.
Limits and Unknowns
- The authorization ends once the California Environmental Policy Council completes its review and the State Air Resources Board makes a final decision.
- The text does not specify an exact date when this temporary sales permission will end, only the conditions that must be met.