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Bill	Insurance: solid waste facilities.	Existing law regulates solid waste facilities and requires that any person owning or operating a solid waste landfill submit evidence of financial ability to provide for the cost of closure and postclosure maintenance, except as specified. Existing law provides that if the evidence of financial ability for closure, postclosure, or corrective action is demonstrated by use of insurance, either through an independent insurer or where the insurance carrier is established by a solid waste facility operator to meet the financial assurance obligations of that operator, the insurance mechanism may be approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery if the insurance carrier meets specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 480	California AB 480 (20112012)	bill	Insurance: solid waste facilities.	enacted	Solorio	10	27	8	2011-02-15	2012-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ccf4ff11-c528-4e9f-96bd-ecffd7f865f7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB480	43c05a9359dc8a056d98d47a2caa1691e1fe4a2c111e27812edbc20555e19715	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 480 (20112012) — Insurance: solid waste facilities.

Existing law regulates solid waste facilities and requires that any person owning or operating a solid waste landfill submit evidence of financial ability to provide for the cost of closure and postclosure maintenance, except as specified. Existing law provides that if the evidence of financial ability for closure, postclosure, or corrective action is demonstrated by use of insurance, either through an independent insurer or where the insurance carrier is established by a solid waste facility operator to meet the financial assurance obligations of that operator, the insurance mechanism may be approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery if the insurance carrier meets specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/30/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/29/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/23/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB480 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB480 Solorio By Calderon — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 480 SOLORIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 480 SOLORIO Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Solorio — 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.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1351.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Referred to Coms. on INS. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-06-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4744.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6362.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2012-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 713, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccf4ff11-c528-4e9f-96bd-ecffd7f865f7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).