Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits.
Existing law authorizes specified air pollution control and air quality management districts to adopt a fee applicable to motor vehicles registered in counties within that district, and requires the fee to be collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, authorizes the amount of the fee to be up to $6. Existing law requires the revenues from the first $4 of the fee to be used for specified purposes. Existing law requires that the revenues from the last $2 of the fee to be used for specified programs that the district determines remediate air pollution harms created by motor vehicles, including purchases of new schoolbuses pursuant to the State Air Resources Board's Lower-Emission School Bus Program.
us/states/ca
California Legislature
20112012
AB 470
California AB 470 (20112012)
bill
Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits.
California AB 470 (20112012) — Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits.
Existing law authorizes specified air pollution control and air quality management districts to adopt a fee applicable to motor vehicles registered in counties within that district, and requires the fee to be collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law, until January 1, 2015, authorizes the amount of the fee to be up to $6. Existing law requires the revenues from the first $4 of the fee to be used for specified purposes. Existing law requires that the revenues from the last $2 of the fee to be used for specified programs that the district determines remediate air pollution harms created by motor vehicles, including purchases of new schoolbuses pursuant to the State Air Resources Board's Lower-Emission School Bus Program.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 470 HALDERMAN Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
AB 470 HALDERMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent #6 AB470 Halderman By Rubio — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Halderman — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2011-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2011-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2011-03-17 Referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2011-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2011-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2011-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. referral-committee
2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2011-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1241.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2011-05-19 Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E.Q. referral-committee
2011-06-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on T. & H. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-06-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-07-06 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2011-07-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1788.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-07-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2011-07-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2321.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2011-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
2011-08-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2011-08-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 174, Statutes of 2011.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf235699-2332-45c8-9344-f5c7ffdfb8c8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).