republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-3138.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hazardous materials: management: civil liability."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 3138"
citation: "California AB 3138 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hazardous materials: management: civil liability."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e7d2d4f-6ccb-4bc4-983d-6025b4ab75f2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138"
source_hash: "a47238f928742073574912a66e4dd2cacf3431b44b298cd400b7ea859bdae598"
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 3138 (20172018) — Hazardous materials: management: civil liability.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138&version=20170AB313899INT)
2. **05/02/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138&version=20170AB313898AMD)
3. **05/25/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138&version=20170AB313897AMD)
4. **09/07/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138&version=20170AB313895CHP)
5. **AB3138** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138)
6. **08/23/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB3138&version=20170AB313896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 3138 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — **52–22** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB3138 Muratsuchi By Skinner — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Muratsuchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2018-03-12** Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-05-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-25** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5299.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 22. Page 5385.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 5560.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 308, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e7d2d4f-6ccb-4bc4-983d-6025b4ab75f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).