Bill Text: CA AB2336 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Schoolbuses: retrofit and replacement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2336 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2336 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Salas |
February 13, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 44299.91 of, and to add Section 44299.92 to, of the Health and Safety Code, relating to vehicular air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2336, as amended, Salas.
Schoolbuses: retrofit and replacement.
Existing law establishes various programs for the reduction of vehicular air pollution, including the Lower-Emission School Bus Program adopted by the State Air Resources Board. The Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, approved by the voters as Proposition 1B at the November 7, 2006, general election, authorizes the issuance of $19.925 billion of general obligation bonds for specified purposes, including $200 million for schoolbus retrofit and replacement purposes. Existing law requires the state board to allocate those bond moneys for the schoolbus retrofit and replacement program to air pollution control and air quality management districts by prioritizing the retrofit or replacement of the most polluting schoolbuses in small air districts first and then medium air districts, as specified. Existing law requires each allocation to
provide sufficient funding for at least one project to be implemented as part of the Lower-Emission School Bus Program.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation.
This bill instead would require the state board to prioritize the retrofit or replacement of the most polluting and oldest schoolbuses that operate in air districts that are
designated federal extreme nonattainment, followed by small air districts, and then medium air districts, as specified. The bill would authorize moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be used to implement the Lower-Emission School Bus Program.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 44299.91 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:44299.91.
Of the funds appropriated pursuant to Item 3900-001-6053 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2007 and for the purposes of this chapter, the state board shall allocate the funds in accordance with all of the following:(a) All schoolbuses in operation in the state of model year 1976 or earlier shall be replaced.
(b) (1) The funds remaining after the allocation made pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be apportioned to districts based on the number of schoolbuses of model years 1977 to 1986, inclusive, that are in operation within each district consistent with subdivision (i).
(2) Each district shall determine the percentage of its allocation to spend between replacement of schoolbuses of model years 1977 to 1986, inclusive, and retrofit of schoolbuses of any model year. Of the funds spent by a district for replacement of schoolbuses pursuant to this paragraph, a district shall replace the oldest schoolbuses of model years 1977 to 1986, inclusive, within the district. Of the funds spent by a district for retrofit of schoolbuses pursuant to this paragraph, a district shall retrofit the most polluting schoolbuses within the district.
(c) All schoolbuses replaced pursuant to this section shall be scrapped.
(d) These funds shall be administered by either the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission or the district.
(e) If a district’s funds, including accrued interest, are not committed by an executed contract as reported to the state board on or before June 30, 2012, then those funds shall be transferred, on or before January 1, 2013, to another district that demonstrates an ability to expend the funds by January 1, 2014. In implementing this section, the state board in consultation with the districts shall establish a list of potential recipient districts, prioritizing districts consistent with subdivision (i).
(f) Each allocation made pursuant to this section to a district shall provide enough funding for at least one project to be implemented pursuant to the Lower-Emission School Bus Program adopted by the state board. In the event a district has unspent funds as of January 1, 2014, the
district shall work with the state board to transfer the unspent funds to an alternative district with existing demand consistent with subdivision (i).
(g) Funds made available pursuant to this chapter to a district shall be expended by June 30, 2014.
(h) All funds not expended by a district by June 30, 2014, shall be returned to the state board.
(i) Beginning January 1, 2019, funds authorized by the state board shall be allocated to districts by prioritizing to retrofit or replace the most polluting and oldest schoolbuses that operate in districts that are designated federal extreme nonattainment, followed by small districts first, and then medium districts, as defined by the state board. Each allocation shall provide
sufficient funding for at least one project to be implemented pursuant to the Lower-Emission School Bus Program adopted by the state board. If a district has unspent funds within six months of the expenditure deadline, the district shall work with the state board to transfer those funds to an alternative qualifying district with existing demand.
Moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement this chapter.
