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Bill	Renewable energy resources: biomethane.	(1) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to specify the maximum amount of vinyl chloride that may be found in landfill gas. Existing law prohibits a gas producer from knowingly selling, supplying, or transporting to a gas corporation, and a gas corporation from knowingly purchasing, landfill gas containing vinyl chloride in a concentration exceeding the maximum amount determined by the PUC. Existing law requires a person who produces, sells, supplies, or releases landfill gas for sale offsite to a gas corporation to sample and test, bimonthly, the gas at the point of distribution for chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1900	California AB 1900 (20112012)	bill	Renewable energy resources: biomethane.	enacted	Gatto	13	47	11	2012-02-22	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/bef39187-cbeb-47e3-8f9d-7562445247da	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1900	e12ea1f8c6eb5d033d7cf475f9acfa7b7e634e729303b16fe50b9d3da6588f12	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1900 (20112012) — Renewable energy resources: biomethane.

(1) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to specify the maximum amount of vinyl chloride that may be found in landfill gas. Existing law prohibits a gas producer from knowingly selling, supplying, or transporting to a gas corporation, and a gas corporation from knowingly purchasing, landfill gas containing vinyl chloride in a concentration exceeding the maximum amount determined by the PUC. Existing law requires a person who produces, sells, supplies, or releases landfill gas for sale offsite to a gas corporation to sample and test, bimonthly, the gas at the point of distribution for chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB1900 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• From Committee: That the measure be returned to the Senate floor for consideration. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1900 Gatto By Wright — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1900 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1900 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 72–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)
• Cannella — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — author (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)
• Liu — coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — author (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-19 Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. referral-committee
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 5187.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Coms. on E., U. & C. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. referral-committee
• 2012-08-27 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on E.Q. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-08-28 From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2012-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
• 2012-08-31 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5066.)
• 2012-08-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2012-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-31 (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 5077.)
• 2012-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 5091.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6801.)
• 2012-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 2. Page 6801.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 602, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bef39187-cbeb-47e3-8f9d-7562445247da. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).