Article 1 - Preliminary Provisions - California Health and Safety Code

Sections (2)

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 257, Sec. 2. (AB 2293) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, pursuant to Sec. 4 of Stats. 2022, Ch. 257.

(a)This part shall be known and may be cited as the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act.

(b)This part recodifies the provisions of former Chapter 6.8 (commencing with Section 25300) of Division 20. Sections 1 and 2 of the act that added this part, and the entirety of Assembly Bill 2327 of the 2021–22 Regular Session, the act that consists of conforming revisions to reflect the addition of this part, shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous Substance Account Recodification Act.

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Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 257, Sec. 2. (AB 2293) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, pursuant to Sec. 4 of Stats. 2022, Ch. 257.

It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following:

(a)Establish a program to provide for response authority for releases of hazardous substances, including spills and hazardous waste disposal sites that pose a threat to the public health or the environment.

(b)Compensate persons, under certain circumstances, for out-of-pocket medical expenses and lost wages or business income resulting from injuries proximately caused by exposure to releases of hazardous substances.

(c)Make available adequate funds in order to permit the State of California to assure payment of its 10-percent share of the costs mandated pursuant to

Section 104(c)(3) of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9604(c)(3)).