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type: "Bill"
title: "Hazardous materials."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish programs for and regulate hazardous waste source reduction. Existing law requires the department to prepare, adopt, and revise, when appropriate, a listing of the wastes that are determined to be hazardous, and a listing of the wastes that are determined to be extremely hazardous. Existing law requires the department to develop, and adopt by regulation, criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes and requires that any waste that conforms to the criteria be managed in accordance with permits, orders, and regulations issued by the department. Existing law requires the department to adopt, and revise when appropriate, standards and regulations for the management of hazardous wastes to protect against hazards to the public health, to domestic livestock, to wildlife, or to the environment. Pursuant to this authority, the department has adopted regulations establishing standards for generators of hazardous wastes and establishing standards for owners and operators of hazardous waste transfer, treatment, storage, and disposal facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 612"
citation: "California SB 612 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hazardous materials."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/585fb703-f79e-47a2-a99e-79820215e096"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612"
source_hash: "26f0fdc753337d96c002cfc515fbc8947a537fe8a6b4e46487b3e57157ae720f"
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 SB 612 (20152016) — Hazardous materials.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish programs for and regulate hazardous waste source reduction. Existing law requires the department to prepare, adopt, and revise, when appropriate, a listing of the wastes that are determined to be hazardous, and a listing of the wastes that are determined to be extremely hazardous. Existing law requires the department to develop, and adopt by regulation, criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes and requires that any waste that conforms to the criteria be managed in accordance with permits, orders, and regulations issued by the department. Existing law requires the department to adopt, and revise when appropriate, standards and regulations for the management of hazardous wastes to protect against hazards to the public health, to domestic livestock, to wildlife, or to the environment. Pursuant to this authority, the department has adopted regulations establishing standards for generators of hazardous wastes and establishing standards for owners and operators of hazardous waste transfer, treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61299INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61298AMD)
3. **06/23/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61297AMD)
4. **08/31/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61296AMD)
5. **09/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61295AMD)
6. **10/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61293CHP)
7. **SB612** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612)
8. **09/10/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB612&version=20150SB61294ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB612 Jackson Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **161** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **370** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · lower
- SB 612 Jackson Senate Third Reading By ALEJO — **722** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jackson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-17** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 650.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-17** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2015-04-27** April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-05-23** Set for hearing May 28.
- **2015-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1157.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1208.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** July 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-09-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 2967.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-08** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2684.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 a.m.
- **2015-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 452, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/585fb703-f79e-47a2-a99e-79820215e096`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).