California 2023-2024 Regular Session

California Assembly Bill AB1687 Latest Draft

Bill / Amended Version Filed 03/16/2023

                            Amended IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1687Introduced by Assembly Member Megan DahleFebruary 17, 2023 An act to add Section 39618.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to generators. greenhouse gases.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1687, as amended, Megan Dahle. Generators attached to recreational vehicles. Greenhouse gas emissions: fixed-mount generators.Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a uniform statewide system of annual reporting of emissions of criteria pollutants and toxic air contaminants for a stationary source, as defined. Existing law also classifies refrigerated trailers as mobile sources and requires that they be regulated by the state board on a statewide basis to prevent confusion concerning whether the trailers are stationary sources when not being driven and to prevent inconsistent regulation by districts of vehicles that are operated in more than one air pollution control and air quality management district.This bill would require a fixed-mount generator to be classified as a stationary source. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations consistent with that requirement.Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines produced on or after a specified date. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 39618.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1687Introduced by Assembly Member Megan DahleFebruary 17, 2023 An act to add Section 39618.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to generators. greenhouse gases.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1687, as amended, Megan Dahle. Generators attached to recreational vehicles. Greenhouse gas emissions: fixed-mount generators.Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a uniform statewide system of annual reporting of emissions of criteria pollutants and toxic air contaminants for a stationary source, as defined. Existing law also classifies refrigerated trailers as mobile sources and requires that they be regulated by the state board on a statewide basis to prevent confusion concerning whether the trailers are stationary sources when not being driven and to prevent inconsistent regulation by districts of vehicles that are operated in more than one air pollution control and air quality management district.This bill would require a fixed-mount generator to be classified as a stationary source. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations consistent with that requirement.Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines produced on or after a specified date. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: NOYES  Local Program: NO 

 Amended IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023

Amended IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill 

No. 1687

Introduced by Assembly Member Megan DahleFebruary 17, 2023

Introduced by Assembly Member Megan Dahle
February 17, 2023

 An act to add Section 39618.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to generators. greenhouse gases.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1687, as amended, Megan Dahle. Generators attached to recreational vehicles. Greenhouse gas emissions: fixed-mount generators.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a uniform statewide system of annual reporting of emissions of criteria pollutants and toxic air contaminants for a stationary source, as defined. Existing law also classifies refrigerated trailers as mobile sources and requires that they be regulated by the state board on a statewide basis to prevent confusion concerning whether the trailers are stationary sources when not being driven and to prevent inconsistent regulation by districts of vehicles that are operated in more than one air pollution control and air quality management district.This bill would require a fixed-mount generator to be classified as a stationary source. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations consistent with that requirement.Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines produced on or after a specified date. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to establish a uniform statewide system of annual reporting of emissions of criteria pollutants and toxic air contaminants for a stationary source, as defined. Existing law also classifies refrigerated trailers as mobile sources and requires that they be regulated by the state board on a statewide basis to prevent confusion concerning whether the trailers are stationary sources when not being driven and to prevent inconsistent regulation by districts of vehicles that are operated in more than one air pollution control and air quality management district.

This bill would require a fixed-mount generator to be classified as a stationary source. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations consistent with that requirement.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt cost-effective and technologically feasible regulations to prohibit engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small off-road engines produced on or after a specified date. 



This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.



## Digest Key

## Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 39618.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 39618.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.

SECTION 1. Section 39618.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

### SECTION 1.

39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.

39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.

39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.



39618.5. A fixed-mount generator shall be classified as a stationary source. The state board shall adopt regulations consistent with this section.



It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would provide that generators permanently attached to recreational vehicles will be legal in California.