Hazardous materials: unified program agency: integrated alerting and notification system.
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. Existing law requires every county to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program and allows a city or local agency to implement the unified program as a unified program agency, or UPA. Existing law also requires each certified UPA to institute a single fee system, which is required to include a surcharge on each person regulated by the unified program, the amount of which is determined by the secretary annually, to cover the necessary and reasonable costs of the state agencies in carrying out their responsibilities in the unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program.
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California Legislature
20172018
AB 1646
California AB 1646 (20172018)
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Hazardous materials: unified program agency: integrated alerting and notification system.
California AB 1646 (20172018) — Hazardous materials: unified program agency: integrated alerting and notification system.
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. Existing law requires every county to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program and allows a city or local agency to implement the unified program as a unified program agency, or UPA. Existing law also requires each certified UPA to institute a single fee system, which is required to include a surcharge on each person regulated by the unified program, the amount of which is determined by the secretary annually, to cover the necessary and reasonable costs of the state agencies in carrying out their responsibilities in the unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 1646 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — 69–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
AB 1646 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 55–18 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB1646 Muratsuchi et al. By Skinner — 29–10 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Muratsuchi — primary (person)
Skinner — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
2017-03-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2017-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 2. Page 1901.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-08-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
2017-09-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2529.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 18. Page 3127.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2017-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 588, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1dc8cab2-202f-4900-8c22-ac0b3409d49f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).