republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-470.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 470"
citation: "California AB 470 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Air pollution districts: fees: schoolbus retrofits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Halderman"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-15"
last_action: "2011-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf235699-2332-45c8-9344-f5c7ffdfb8c8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470"
source_hash: "fe7d747a3665ef8653c2efee3d69aed48ce8f568c361a8b23d81ab12e489fd9e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# 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.

1. **02/15/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47099INT)
2. **03/21/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47098AMD)
3. **04/26/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47097AMD)
4. **06/07/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47096AMD)
5. **06/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47095AMD)
6. **08/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47093CHP)
7. **AB470** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470)
8. **07/15/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB470&version=20110AB47094ENR)

## Votes

- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf235699-2332-45c8-9344-f5c7ffdfb8c8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).