Ben Allen
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 24
Author
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to convene the Lithium-Ion Car Battery Recycling Advisory Group to review, and advise the Legislature on, policies pertaining to the recovery and recycling of lithium-ion vehicle batteries sold with motor vehicles in the state. Existing law also requires the advisory group to submit policy recommendations to the Legislature aimed at ensuring that as close to 100% as possible of lithium-ion vehicle batteries in the state are reused or recycled at end-of-life in a safe and cost-effective manner. The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would require vehicle traction batteries, as defined, in the state to be recovered, and when possible, reused, repaired, repurposed, or remanufactured and eventually recycled at the end of their useful life, as provided. The bill would also require a battery supplier, as defined, to be responsible for, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of a vehicle traction battery if it is removed from a vehicle that is still in service, as provided, or if the battery is offered or returned to its battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department, as provided. The bill would impose related duties on a secondary user, as defined, and a secondary handler, as defined, including, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management for a battery or returning a vehicle traction battery to the battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department as provided. The bill would also require an auctioneer, as defined, and salvage disposal auction, as defined, to report similar information regarding a vehicle traction battery to the department. This bill would require the battery supplier to pay the department's actual and reasonable regulatory costs to implement and enforce the provisions of the bill. The bill would establish the Vehicle Traction Battery Recovery Fund (the fund) in the State Treasury and would require the department to deposit all moneys received from the battery supplier into the fund, as specified. Moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and enforce the provisions of the bill. The bill would authorize, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Director of Finance to make a loan from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the fund to meet regulatory and startup costs of the department's activities pursuant to the provisions of the bill. The bill would authorize, upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the fund to be expended to reimburse loans made from other funds for those purposes. The bill would require the department to conduct a study to determine whether there is evidence of abandonment of orphaned batteries leading to environmental and health and safety hazards and, on or before January 1, 2030, and every 3 years thereafter, to post the results of its findings on its internet website. The bill would authorize the department to impose civil or administrative penalties for a violation of the requirements of the bill. The bill would exempt a violation of these requirements from the criminal penalties imposed pursuant to the hazardous waste control laws, but would require that all reports and records provided to the department pursuant to these provisions be provided under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would restrict public access to certain information collected for the purpose of administering this program. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. 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.
In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Vetoed by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 1.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
Ordered to third reading.
Withdrawn from committee.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
Ordered to third reading.
Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15).
August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 1).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1303.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1177.) (May 18).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Set for hearing May 18.
May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 903.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Set for hearing April 25.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 572.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Set for hearing March 29.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB615 | HTML |
| 02/15/23 - Introduced | |
| 04/12/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/11/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/03/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/19/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/23/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/27/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/05/24 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/27/23- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/21/23- Senate Transportation | |
| 05/05/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/20/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/21/24- Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials | |
| 06/30/24- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 08/05/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/21/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/27/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 08/31/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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