SB 1239: State vehicle fleet: zero-emission vehicles: raw materials: child labor.

Existing law requires the Department of General Services, beginning no later than the 202425 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.

This bill would require the department to require a supplier of zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to certify that any raw materials used in the manufacturing of the zero-emission vehicles, including, but not limited to, cobalt and lithium, come from mining operations that are free of child labor. The bill would require a supplier of zero-emission vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet to provide to the department the locations where the raw materials used in the production of the zero-emission 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 zero-emission 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.