Bill Text: CA AB1184 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: City and County of San Francisco: local tax: transportation network companies: autonomous vehicles.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-09-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 644, Statutes of 2018. [AB1184 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1184-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 26, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 30, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 30, 2017 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1184 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Ting |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), the State Air Resources Board (state board), electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate policies to develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any barriers to the widespread deployment and use of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles and, by July 1, 2011, to adopt rules that address specified related issues. Existing law requires the PUC, in cooperation with the Energy Commission, the state board, air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, electrical and gas corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate and implement policies to promote the
development of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate the use of electric power and natural gas to fuel low-emission vehicles. Existing law, enacted as part of the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act of 2015, requires the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the state board, to direct electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification to reduce dependence on petroleum, meet air quality standards, achieve the goals set forth in the Charge Ahead California Initiative, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The PUC is required to approve, or modify and approve, programs and investments in transportation electrification, including those that deploy charging infrastructure, through a reasonable cost recovery mechanism, if they are consistent with the above-described purposes, do not unfairly compete with nonutility enterprises,
include performance accountability measures, and are in the interests of ratepayers.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, to be achieved by 2020, equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990. The state board is additionally required to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The state board is authorized to include market-based compliance mechanisms in its regulations in furtherance of achieving a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as specified. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the
Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
The bill would require the PUC to establish the California Electric Vehicle Initiative, to be administered by electrical corporations, subject to the PUC’s supervision, and funded by credits earned by the electrical corporations pursuant to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. The bill would require that the program incentivize the purchase of electric vehicles in the state.
The Public Utilities Act makes any public utility that violates the act, or that fails to comply with any part of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the PUC, guilty of a crime.
Because the provisions of this bill
would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the commission implementing its requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 44215) is added to Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:CHAPTER 6.5. California Electric Vehicle Initiative
44215.
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:44215.2.
The California Electric Vehicle Initiative is hereby established to be administered by the state board, in coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission. To meet the objectives of the initiative, the state board shall do all of the following:44215.4.
On or before September 1, 2018, the state board, in coordination with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the Public Utilities Commission, shall do all of the following:44215.6.
(a) No later than February 1, 2018, as part of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program, established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program, established pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 44274) of Chapter 8.9, the state board shall begin a review to adopt revisions to all other vehicle electrification programs authorized pursuant to this division to ensure those programs consider funding benefits for disadvantaged individuals, low-income individuals, or both for all eligible vehicle types. The state board shall annually develop and approve a low-carbon transportation funding plan.SEC. 3.
Section 44274.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:44274.8.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the state board may provide, to the extent moneys are available, for advance payment for projects funded by the state board pursuant to this article, including projects funded from the Air Quality Improvement Fund, created pursuant to Section 44274.5, based on the total grant or contract to all entities if the state board makes a finding that those advance payments will further the purpose of improving air quality.The commission shall establish a California Electric Vehicle Initiative, to be administered by electrical corporations, subject to the commission’s supervision, and funded by credits earned by electrical corporations pursuant to the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations). The program shall incentivize the purchase of electric vehicles in the state, including incentives to low-income households and incentives for electrical corporations for the deployment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.