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Bill	Hazardous waste: underground storage tanks.	(1) Existing law requires facilities that generate, treat, or store hazardous waste to obtain a permit or other authorization from the Department of Toxic Substances Control or a unified program agency.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1459	California AB 1459 (20252026)	bill	Hazardouswaste undergroundstoragetanks	enacted	Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials	5	20	6	2025-02-21	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/32ef9c06-78fc-4312-8c88-601ad1b771c9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1459	ffc729bf7480c226460aabac4549a03f450102b6fd05556ae6119f17356d7b43	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1459 (20252026) — Hazardous waste: underground storage tanks.

(1) Existing law requires facilities that generate, treat, or store hazardous waste to obtain a permit or other authorization from the Department of Toxic Substances Control or a unified program agency.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/09/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1459 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/18/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1459 Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1459 E.S. & T.M. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1459 Environmental Safety and Concurrence in Senate Amendments By CONNOLLY — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1933.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-07-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2594.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 89, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/32ef9c06-78fc-4312-8c88-601ad1b771c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).