CaliforniaState vehicle fleet: light-duty vehicles: raw materials: child labor.
What it does
Existing law requires the Department of General Services, beginning no later than the 2024–25 fiscal year, to ensure that at least 50% of the light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet each fiscal year are zero-emission vehicles, except as provided. If the department determines that it cannot meet the needs of the state while fulfilling that requirement, existing law requires the department to cease implementing that requirement, as specified.
More detail
This bill would require the department to require a supplier of light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to certify that the raw materials used in the manufacturing of the light-duty vehicles, including, but not limited to, aluminum, cobalt and lithium, come from mining operations that are free of child labor, except as specified. The bill would require the supplier of light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to provide to the department the locations where the raw materials used in the production of the light-duty vehicles were mined and the average hourly wage of the workers that mined the raw materials, and would require the department to post on its internet website that information provided by the supplier and a list of the light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet that are certified to be made with raw materials that come from mining operations that are free of child labor.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Feb 2Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.Latest
- 2025
- May 23May 23 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
- May 16Set for hearing May 23.
- Apr 7April 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 28Set for hearing April 7.
- Mar 12Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Mar 11From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 352.) (March 11).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 27Set for hearing March 11.
- Jan 29Referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Jan 16From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 15.
- Jan 15Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced