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Bill	Environment: hazardous substances and materials: hazardous waste transportation: paint recycling.	(1) Existing law provides that the expense of a public agency's emergency response to the release, escape, or burning of hazardous substances is a charge against the person whose negligence caused the incident if the incident necessitated an evacuation beyond the property of origin or results in the spread of hazardous substances or fire beyond the property of origin. Existing law defines "hazardous substance" for purposes of these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 408	California AB 408 (20112012)	bill	Environment: hazardous substances and materials: hazardous waste transportation: paint recycling.	enacted	Wieckowski	8	30	6	2011-02-14	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a8ef8d6e-84bd-4f9e-b149-6a2b2d1d0123	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB408	4441c2069006a99f09e8056559b018da073bac170adee5c1e29bc5bc4bf9d035	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 408 (20112012) — Environment: hazardous substances and materials: hazardous waste transportation: paint recycling.

(1) Existing law provides that the expense of a public agency's emergency response to the release, escape, or burning of hazardous substances is a charge against the person whose negligence caused the incident if the incident necessitated an evacuation beyond the property of origin or results in the spread of hazardous substances or fire beyond the property of origin. Existing law defines "hazardous substance" for purposes of these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/13/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB408 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB408 Wieckowski By Lowenthal Urgency Clause — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 408 WIECKOWSKI Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 408 WIECKOWSKI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)
• Logue — author (person)
• Miller — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1450.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-26 Measure version as amended on July 13 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-08-15 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-29 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2198.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2011-09-06 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 2940.)
• 2011-09-06 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 6). committee-passage
• 2011-09-07 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2964.)
• 2011-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2974.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 603, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8ef8d6e-84bd-4f9e-b149-6a2b2d1d0123. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).