Bill Text: CA AB1965 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicle retirement and replacement.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB1965 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1965-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1965	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 16, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooper
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Cooley, Dodd, and McCarty)

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2016

   An act to add Section 44127 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1965, as amended, Cooper. Vehicle retirement and replacement.
    Existing law creates an enhanced fleet modernization program for
the retirement of high polluting vehicles to be administered by the
Bureau of Automotive Repair pursuant to guidelines adopted by the
State Air Resources Board.
   This bill, beginning in the  2016-17  
2017-18  fiscal year, and every year thereafter, would require
the state board, in consultation with the bureau, to set specific,
measurable goals for the retirement and replacement of passenger
vehicles and light-duty and medium-duty trucks that are high
polluters and to ensure those goals are met by updating the program's
guidelines no later than July 1,  2017,   2018,
 as specified. The bill would require the state board, no later
than July 1, 2018, and every other year thereafter, to collect and
post on the program's Internet Web site specified information on the
program. The bill would authorize the state board to allocate moneys,
upon appropriation, from specified funds to expand the vehicle
replacement component of the program.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The State Air Resources Board estimates that the state is home
to five times more cars over 20 years old than the national average.

   (b) At present, at least 2,000,000 cars in the state, about nine
percent of the state's 23,000,000 light- and medium-duty vehicles,
are over 20 years old.
   (c) In 2011, the nine percent of the fleet that was model year
1992 or older produced a full 40 percent of the smog-forming
emissions from passenger vehicles.
   (d) Furthermore, according to state and local agency estimates, a
mere 10 percent to 15 percent of the state's motor vehicles, the
subset known as gross polluters, are responsible for more than half
of the light-duty vehicle smog in the state.
   (e) An upgrade in fuel efficiency from 15 miles per gallon to 30
miles per gallon would save a typical household over $1,200 per year
in gasoline expenditures.
   (f) The enhanced fleet modernization program (Article 11
(commencing with Section 44125) of Chapter 5 of Part 5 of Division 26
of the Health and Safety Code) provides a significant opportunity to
improve air quality, reduce fuel costs for the state's low-income
residents, and contribute to the state's greenhouse gas emissions
reduction goals.
   (g) It is the intent of the Legislature that the enhanced fleet
modernization program (Article 11 (commencing with Section 44125) of
Chapter 5 of Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code) be
expanded to assist in meeting the state's environmental goals and
maximize benefits for disadvantaged communities, as identified
pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code.
  SEC. 2.  Section 44127 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   44127.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (1) "Disadvantaged community" means a community identified
pursuant to Section 39711.
   (2) "Program" means the program established pursuant to Section
44125.
   (b) Beginning in the  2016-17   2017-18 
fiscal year, and every fiscal year thereafter, the state board, in
consultation with the bureau, shall set specific, measurable goals
for the retirement and replacement of passenger vehicles and
light-duty and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters.
   (c) The state board, in consultation with the bureau, shall meet
the goals set pursuant to subdivision (b) by updating the guidelines
of the program no later than July 1,  2017.  
2018.  The updated guidelines shall ensure all of the following:

   (1) Specific steps are taken to ensure the vehicle replacement
component of the program is available in areas at risk of being
designated as federal extreme nonattainment.  
   (2) 
    (1)  Specific steps are taken to ensure the vehicle
replacement component of the program is available  in
  to  all districts  containing
disadvantaged communities.   that have more than one
million residents.  
   (3) 
    (2) Funding for targeted outreach in low-income 
and   or  disadvantaged communities for the
program  is increased from the amounts allocated in the
2015-16 fiscal year.   is evaluated and, if necessary,
enhanced to obtain the goals set pursuant to subdivision (b). 

   (4) 
    (3)  There  is   is, where
applicable,  improved coordination, integration, and
partnerships with other programs that target disadvantaged
communities and receive moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code.
   (d) No later than July 1, 2018, and every other year thereafter,
the state board shall collect and post on the program's Internet Web
site all of the following:
   (1) Program performance relative to the goals adopted pursuant to
subdivision (b).
   (2) An accounting that includes, but need not be limited to,
funding allocated to the program, funding sources, and program
expenditures by region. 
   (3) A comment on the overall success of the program, or lack
thereof, including, but not limited to, recommendations to improve
the overall performance of the program if the state board determines
the program needs improvement.  
   (3) An analysis broken down by district of the program's
performance to identify areas to be emphasized when setting future
goals or updating the program guidelines. 
   (e) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the state board may
allocate moneys for the expansion of the vehicle replacement
component of the program from any of the following:
   (1) The Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount, created pursuant
to Section 44126.
   (2) The High Polluter Repair or Removal Account, created pursuant
to Section 44091.
   (3) The Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund, created pursuant to
Section 9886 of the Business and Professions Code.