Bill Text: CA AB1717 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB1717 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1717	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hadley

                        JANUARY 27, 2016

   An act to amend Section 44270.3 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1717, as introduced, Hadley. California Alternative and
Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction
Act of 2007.
   Existing law establishes the California Alternative and Renewable
Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of
2007, which includes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Program and the Air Quality Improvement Program. Existing
law defines specified terms for purposes of the act.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 44270.3 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   44270.3.  For  the  purposes of this chapter, the
following terms have the following meanings:
   (a) "Benefit-cost score," for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel
and Vehicle Technology Program created pursuant to Section 44272,
means a project's expected or potential greenhouse gas emissions
reduction per dollar awarded by the commission to the project from
the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund.
   (b) "Commission" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission.
   (c) "Full fuel-cycle assessment" or "life-cycle assessment" means
evaluating and comparing the full environmental and health impacts of
each step in the life cycle of a fuel, including, but not limited
to, all of the following:
   (1) Feedstock production, extraction, cultivation, transport, and
storage, and the transportation and use of water and changes in land
use and land cover therein.
   (2) Fuel production, manufacture, distribution, marketing,
transport, and storage, and the transportation and use of water
therein.
   (3) Vehicle operation, including refueling, combustion,
conversion, permeation, and evaporation.
   (d) "Vehicle technology" means any vehicle, boat, off-road
equipment, or locomotive, or component thereof, including its engine,
propulsion system, transmission, or construction materials.
   (e) For purposes of the Air Quality Improvement Program created
pursuant to Section 44274, the following terms have the following
meanings:
   (1) "Benefit-cost score" means the reasonably expected or
potential criteria pollutant emission reductions achieved per dollar
awarded by the  state  board for the project.
   (2) "Project" means a category of investments identified for
potential funding by the  state  board, including, but not
limited to, competitive grants, revolving loans, loan guarantees,
loans, vouchers, rebates, and other appropriate funding measures for
specific vehicles, equipment, technologies, or initiatives authorized
by Section 44274.