Technical Changes to Energy & Carbon Management Statutes

      Statutory Revision Committee. The bill makes 2 revisions to energy and carbon management statutes. First, the bill amends the terminology used to describe an examination that welders working on oil and gas process lines are required to pass to obtain certification. Current law requires the energy and carbon management commission (commission) to adopt rules to require certification for welders working on oil and gas process lines, including rules that require passing an exam. Current law refers to the exam as "the International Code Council Exam F31, national standard journeyman mechanical, or an analogous successor exam" (F31 exam). The F31 exam is not applicable to welders. The bill changes the reference to instead refer to certain other examinations that are applicable to welders in the oil and gas industry.

Second, in certain instances, the bill changes "oil and gas operations" to "energy and carbon management operations" to ensure uniformity of terminology and to align statutory references to "operations" to those operations that are within the scope of the commission's regulatory authority.

(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)