State vehicle fleet: light-duty vehicles: raw materials: child labor.

Plain English Breakdown

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State Vehicle Fleet: Raw Materials and Child Labor

This law requires suppliers of zero-emission light-duty vehicles purchased by the state to certify that raw materials used in manufacturing are free from child labor, provide mining locations and worker wages, and post this information online.

What This Bill Does

• Requires suppliers of zero-emission light-duty vehicles purchased for the state fleet to certify that raw materials used in manufacturing come from mines without child labor.
• Requires suppliers to give the Department of General Services details about where raw materials were mined and what workers earn.
• Requires the department to put this information on its website, along with a list of certified zero-emission light-duty vehicles.

Who It Names or Affects

• Suppliers of zero-emission light-duty vehicles for the state fleet
• The Department of General Services

Terms To Know

Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)

Vehicles that do not produce tailpipe emissions, such as electric cars.

Raw Materials

Basic materials used in manufacturing products, like aluminum and lithium.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a supplier fails to meet the requirements.
• It is unclear how this will affect suppliers who cannot provide the required information about their raw materials.

Official Summary Text

SB 77, as amended, Grove.
State vehicle fleet:
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles: raw materials: child labor.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services, beginning no later than the 2024–25 fiscal year, to ensure that at least 50% of the light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet each fiscal year are zero-emission vehicles, except as provided.
If the department determines that it cannot meet the needs of the state while fulfilling that requirement, existing law requires the department to cease implementing that requirement, as specified.
This bill would require the department to require a supplier of
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to certify that the raw materials used in the manufacturing of the
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles, including, but not limited to,
aluminum,
cobalt and lithium, come from mining operations that are free of child
labor.
labor, except as specified.
The bill would require
a
the
supplier of
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to provide to the
department the locations where the raw materials used in the production of the
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles were mined and the average hourly wage of the workers that mined the raw materials, and would require the department to post on its internet website that information provided by the supplier and a list of the
zero-emission
light-duty
vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet that are certified to be made with raw materials that come from mining operations that are free of child labor.

Current Bill Text

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