Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to adopt regulations and implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. A city or local agency that meets specified requirements is authorized to apply to the secretary to implement the unified program, and every county is required to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program as a Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) . Existing law establishes the Rural CUPA Reimbursement Account in the General Fund, and requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to allocate funds to counties with populations of less than 150,000 persons for which a CUPA has not been certified on or before January 1, 2000, and in which the unified program has been implemented by a CUPA designated by the secretary, as specified, in amounts not to exceed designated percentages of budgeted costs.
California AB 993 (20252026) — Hazardous materials management: Rural CUPA Reimbursement Account.
Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to adopt regulations and implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. A city or local agency that meets specified requirements is authorized to apply to the secretary to implement the unified program, and every county is required to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program as a Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) . Existing law establishes the Rural CUPA Reimbursement Account in the General Fund, and requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to allocate funds to counties with populations of less than 150,000 persons for which a CUPA has not been certified on or before January 1, 2000, and in which the unified program has been implemented by a CUPA designated by the secretary, as specified, in amounts not to exceed designated percentages of budgeted costs.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
AB 993 Hadwick Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Hadwick — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M. referral-committee
2025-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S & T.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M. referral-committee
2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2068.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2522.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-04 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2025-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 176, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae1d78df-768c-4f0f-bc2f-b8de74457da9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).