Stephen,

When I read through SB20 & SB50 a while back, I came
away with the same conclusion as you, that the
legislation referred to devices with video displays
larger than 4 inches.

A couple of questions to the list:
1) Has anyone heard of any different interpretations?
2) Is there any known reason why California is
singling out the electronics with displays greater
than 4"?  Do they have a serious problem with old CRT
monitors, or handheld DVD players, or???

-Camille Good
Portland, Oregon

--- Stephen Pence <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> John, Dave,
>
> Following the links so graciously provided by John
> and muddling through
> the words of our great state legislature I took the
> following away from
> SB20 and 50 along with their implementation in the
> Health codes and
> Public Resources Code.
>
> Health and Safety Code
> 25214.10.  (a) For purposes of this section,
> "electronic device" has
> the same meaning as a "covered electronic device,"
> as defined in
> Section 42463 of the Public Resources Code.
>    (b) The department shall adopt regulations, in
> accordance with
> this section, that prohibit an electronic device
> from being sold or
> offered for sale in this state if the electronic
> device is prohibited
> from being sold or offered for sale in the European
> Union on and
> after its date of manufacture, to the extent that
> Directive
> 2002/95/EC, adopted by the European Parliament and
> the Council of the
> European Union on January 27, 2003, and as amended
> thereafter by the
> Commission of European Communities, prohibits that
> sale due to the
> presence of certain heavy metals.
>
>
> The preceding section mimics the RoHS but we have to
> go to the Public
> Resources Code for the definition of a covered
> electronics device.
>
> Public Resources Code
> (f) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2),
> "covered electronic
> device" means a video display device containing a
> screen greater than
> four inches, measured diagonally, that is identified
> in the
> regulations adopted by the department pursuant to
> subdivision (b) of
> Section 25214.10.1 of the Health and Safety Code.
>    (2) "Covered electronic device" does not include
> any of the
> following:
>
>
> Section 2 covers the various types of displays not
> covered by the
> legislation.  The interpretation I took away from
> this is California is
> banning only video display devices larger than 4
> inches diagonal which
> are also banned by the RoHS.  This is my take on it,
> but wading through
> all this I could easily be in error.
>
> Steve Pence
> Unit Design, Inc.
> Brea, CA
>
>
> John Barnes wrote:
>
> >MA/NY DDave,
> >See California's Senate Bill 20 (SB20) and Senate
> Bill 50 (SB50).  I
> >have links to these bills, as well as to the actual
> resulting
> >regulations, as references [12] through [18] in my
> (now) 218-page
> >Bibliography for Designing Lead-Free,
> RoHS-Compliant, and WEEE-Compliant
> >Electronics, at
> >   http://www.dbicorporation.com/rohsbib.htm
> >
> >The earliest reference to January 1, 2007 that I've
> found is in SB20, at
> >
>
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/
> >   sb_20_bill_20030925_chaptered.pdf
> >on the very first page, last paragraph, line 11.
> >
> >                John Barnes KS4GL, PE, NCE, ESDC
> Eng, PSE, SM IEEE
> >                dBi Corporation
> >                http://www.dbicorporation.com/
> >
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