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ASSEMBLY BILL 1630 (CAMPBELL – 1987)

CHAPTER 260, STATUTES OF 1987

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Health and Safety Code section 42404.5, relating to statute of limitations for prosecution of air pollution violations, was added in 1987 with the passage of Assembly Bill 1630.  (See Exhibit #1c)  Assembly member Robert Campbell introduced this single-section measure on March 5, 1987 on behalf of the Bay Area Quality Management District.  (See Exhibits #1a and #10, document SP-3) 

Assembly Bill 1630 was assigned to both the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary where policy issues raised by the bill were considered.  (See Exhibits #3 and #9)  The fiscal ramifications of the bill were considered by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Appropriations.  (See Exhibits #4 and #2)  One amendment was made to Assembly Bill 1630.  (See Exhibits #1b and #2)  Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor George Deukmejian signed the bill on July 24, 1987, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on July 27th as Chapter 260 of the Statutes of 1987.  (See Exhibit #1c)

A summary of Assembly Bill 1630, as last amended on June 17, 1987, was produced by the Office of Senate Floor Analyses in its Third Reading analysis:

This bill provides that the time period for commencing a civil action to enforce nonvehicular air pollution laws start to run when the offense has been discovered or could reasonably have been discovered, instead of when the violation occurred.

(See Exhibit #12, page 1)