Bill Text: CA AB1970 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Low-carbon fuels: electric trucks and charging stations: zero-emission vans.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1970 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1970-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 12, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1970 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia |
January 31, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)California has dedicated significant funding to the development of low-carbon fuels.
(b)The development of low-carbon fuels has significant benefits for the transportation and energy sectors, which collectively contributed over one-half of
California’s emission of greenhouse gases in 2015, as well as significant cobenefits for communities across the state that see new jobs and reduced exposure to harmful copollutants.
(c)California’s low-carbon fuel standards created a global model for reducing the carbon intensity of fuels.
(d)California’s short-lived climate pollutant strategy requires methane mitigation from multiple sources across the state, most of which results in the production of renewable gas.
(e)
SEC. 2.
Section 39730.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:The state board, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and the Department of Food and Agriculture shall allocate ____ percent of moneys for fuels and methane mitigation appropriated by the Legislature to those agencies for the development of innovative low-carbon fuels.39730.9.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: