Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act: recodification.

The Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act establishes a program authorizing certain responses to releases of hazardous substances, including spills and hazardous waste disposal sites, that pose a threat to the public health or the environment, and imposes liability for hazardous substance removal or remedial actions. Existing law requires the California Law Revision Commission to study, and limits the commission to studying, topics approved by resolution of the Legislature or by statute. The Legislature has, by resolution, authorized and requested that the commission study, report on, and prepare recommended legislation to revise, among other provisions, the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act to improve the organization and expression of the law. This bill would recodify and reorganize the provisions of the Carpenter-Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act. The bill would include provisions to govern the effect of recodification and state that these provisions are intended to be entirely nonsubstantive in effect. The bill would contain related legislative findings and declarations. The bill would authorize the commission to study and to make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor regarding minor substantive improvements to the act. The bill would become operative on January 1, 2024.