Bill Text: CA AB2426 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workplace Charging Station Grant Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2426 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2426-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2426 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 18, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Low
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 44270.3 add and
repeal Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 39950) of Part 2 of
Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to
air resources. vehicular air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2426, as amended, Low. Alternative and renewable fuel
and vehicle technology. Workplace Charging Station
Grant Program.
The California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology,
Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 requires the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to
administer the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology
Program to provide financial assistance for the development and
deployment of innovative technologies that transform California's
fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change
policies. The act requires the State Air Resources Board to
administer the Air Quality Improvement Program to fund projects to
reduce criteria air pollutants, to improve air quality, and to fund
research to determine and improve air quality impacts of alternative
transportation fuels and vehicles, vessels, and equipment
technologies. Existing law defines various terms for
purposes of those programs. Existing law requires the
commission to allocate $20,000,000 annually to fund the number of
publicly available hydrogen-fueling stations identified by the State
Air Resources Board as being needed, as specified, until at least 100
stations are in operation.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the provision
defining those terms.
This bill would require the state board, until January 1, 2021, to
establish and implement the Workplace Charging Stations Grant
Program to award grants to eligible applicants, as defined, for the
installation of electric vehicle charging stations in commercial
parking facilities for employees and visitors. The bill would require
eligible applicants awarded grants pursuant to the program to report
annually to the state board on certain usage statistics of the
charging stations. The bill would require the state board, on or
before July 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, to submit to the
Legislature a report on the program, as provided. The bill would
repeal the above provision on January 1, 2022.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 10 (commencing with Section
39950) is added to Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and
Safety Code , to read:
CHAPTER 10. WORKPLACE CHARGING STATIONS GRANT PROGRAM
39950. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Eligible applicant" means a commercial property owner or
lessee providing parking facilities for employees and visitors.
(b) "Program" means the Workplace Charging Stations Grant Program
established pursuant to Section 39951.
39951. (a) The state board, until January, 1, 2021, shall
establish and implement the Workplace Charging Stations Grant Program
to award grants to eligible applicants for the installation of
electric vehicle charging stations in their parking facilities.
(b) (1) The state board may award to an eligible applicant two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the first Level 2 charging
port installed and an additional five hundred dollars ($500) for
each additional Level 2 charging port installed.
(2) The maximum grant that may be awarded to an eligible applicant
pursuant to the program is six thousand dollars ($6,000) per
facility.
39952. (a) In considering an application for a grant, the state
board shall consider the cost effectiveness of the proposed
installation, the potential for timely completion and operation of
the electric vehicle charging station, and the overall economic
benefits to California of the proposed installation.
(b) The state board shall give priority to proposed installations
that meet one or more of the following criteria:
(1) The eligible applicant has made a binding commitment to make
the electric vehicle charging stations readily available to employees
and the public at no fee for charging for at least the first three
years of the operation of the stations.
(2) The charging stations are available to employees and other
members of the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
(3) The charging stations are installed in disadvantaged
communities, as identified pursuant to Section 39711.
(4) The charging stations are located at or near a major traffic
corridor.
39953. (a) Eligible applicants receiving grants pursuant to this
chapter shall report annually to the state board on the following:
(1) The number of charging sessions delivered for each charging
station for which a grant was awarded.
(2) The amount electricity delivered for each charging session.
(3) The total amount of time an electric vehicle is plugged in for
each charging session.
(4) The amount of downtime of each charging station for
maintenance and repair.
(5) The maintenance or repair events of each charging station.
(b) (1) On or before July 1, 2018, and annually thereafter, until
July 1, 2020, the state board shall submit a report to the
Legislature providing a survey of the data submitted pursuant to
subdivision (a) for the prior calendar year, identifying the benefits
and problems with the program, and recommending improvements to the
program.
(2) On or before July 1, 2021, the state board shall submit to the
Legislature a final report providing an overall survey of the
program and identifying the benefits accrued from the program.
(3) The reports required pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) shall be
submitted in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
39954. This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2022, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2022, deletes or extends
that date.
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
definitions shall apply:
(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 definitions shall apply:
(1) "Benefit-cost score" means the reasonably expected or
potential criteria pollutant emission reductions achieved per dollar
awarded by the board for the project.
(2) "Project" means a category of investments identified for
potential funding by the 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.
