republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-274.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Oversight costs: uncollectible accounts."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to comply with specified procedures when recovering oversight costs for corrective action taken pursuant to the hazardous waste control laws or for certain other actions taken pursuant to the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substances Account Act. The department is required to take specified actions with regard to uncollectible accounts, including reviewing all current outstanding receivables and making an appropriate adjustment for estimated uncollectible amounts. The department is authorized, if warranted, to write off or write down those receivable amounts."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 274"
citation: "California AB 274 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Oversight costs: uncollectible accounts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31405517-945f-4e38-897a-88e2cbf5dc2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274"
source_hash: "7fd35bc81a90bc50c59d44343f298d870af8596210617bd09d2bee1aacea81e9"
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 274 (20152016) — Oversight costs: uncollectible accounts.

Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to comply with specified procedures when recovering oversight costs for corrective action taken pursuant to the hazardous waste control laws or for certain other actions taken pursuant to the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substances Account Act. The department is required to take specified actions with regard to uncollectible accounts, including reviewing all current outstanding receivables and making an appropriate adjustment for estimated uncollectible amounts. The department is authorized, if warranted, to write off or write down those receivable amounts.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27499INT)
2. **05/27/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27498AMD)
3. **06/24/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27497AMD)
4. **08/19/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27496AMD)
5. **10/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27494CHP)
6. **AB274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274)
7. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB274&version=20150AB27495ENR)

## Votes

- AB 274 E.S. & T.M. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB274 Committee On E.S. & T.M. (Alejo) By Jackson — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 274 E.S. & T.M. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By ALEJO — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2015-02-23** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1108.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2297.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2731.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 457, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/31405517-945f-4e38-897a-88e2cbf5dc2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).