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                    Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
          
                                                1468 (Pavley)
          
          Hearing Date:  8/28/03               Amended: 7/15/03
          Consultant:     Miriam Barcellona Ingenito    Policy Vote:  
          EQ 5-2        
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          BILL SUMMARY: AB 1468 would require that certain asbestos  
          abatement equipment be tested monthly and repaired, removed  
          or replaced as necessary.  AB 1468 would require the Air  
          Resources Board (ARB) to create a program for the  
          registering and approving of independent training  
          businesses and for those businesses to train independent  
          testing companies to test negative air machines. 

                              Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
           Major Provisions                 2003-04             2004-05               
           2005-06                    Fund  
          Regulations, database,           $0               $200                
                 $175            GF/SF*
            decals, fee establishment 
            and collection
          Mandate                                  Unknown                      
                                               GF
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          *Unspecified account in which fees for the approval program are  
          deposited.
          
          STAFF COMMENTS: Suspense file.
          
          AB 1468 would require ARB to adopt regulations that would  
          (1) create an approval program for the registration of  
          independent training businesses; (2) adopt air cleaning and  
          ventilation standards; (3) establish and manage a trainers  
          and testers database with public access; (4) create a  
          certification form and equipment decals; and (5) impose a  
          fee on training and/or establish an annual fee on each  
          independent testing company, at the discretion of the board  
          in order to cover the costs of the approval program.   
          According to ARB, it would require about two positions  
          ($200,000) to implement these provisions. While AB 1468  
          states that the fees are to cover the costs of the program,  
          first-year costs would have to be covered in arrears.  AB  
          1468 does not specify where the fees would be deposited or  










          how they would be made available to the ARB for  
          expenditure.  STAFF REECOMMENDS clarifying where the fees  
          would be deposited and that the fees would be available to  
          ARB for the purposes of this bill upon appropriation by the  
          Legislature.  STAFF NOTES that other enforcement agencies  
          may be logical alternatives to ARB.  Local air districts,  
          Cal OSHA, and Contractors State License Board all have  
          existing programs that deal with asbestos.

          AB 1468 would require local air districts to enforce the  
          testing and certification requirements.  This would result  
          in a reimbursable state-mandated local program. STAFF NOTES  
          that there are over $1 billion in unpaid mandate claims at  
          the Controller's Office and an additional $400 million of  
          newly identified mandate claims.  Ongoing annual mandate  
          claims are estimated at $500 million.  The recently enacted  
          budget defers or suspends most local government mandates.