Bill Text: CA AB2559 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Local planning: electric vehicle service equipment: permitting delays.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-08-15 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2559 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2559-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2559
| Introduced by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris |
February 14, 2024 |
An act to add Section 65850.72 to the Government Code, relating to land use.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2559, as amended, Petrie-Norris.
Local planning: electric vehicle service equipment: permitting delays.
Existing law creates the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law requires every city, county, and city and county to administratively approve an application to install electric vehicle charging stations through the issuance of a building permit or similar nondiscretionary permit and requires the review of an application to install an electric vehicle charging station to be limited to the building official’s review of whether it meets all health and safety requirements of local, state, and federal law. Existing law requires an electric vehicle charging station to comply with, among other things, all applicable rules of the Public Utilities
Commission regarding safety and reliability, as specified.
This bill would require GO-Biz to create and maintain a publicly accessible internet website that contains a landing page with functionality to collect information and report delays and denials in the regarding all applicable forms of permitting of electric for zero-emission vehicle service equipment, infrastructure, as specified.
The bill would prohibit GO-Biz from publicly displaying any submissions received under these provisions. The bill would require GO-Biz to establish a in a new or existing working group group, as specified, to evaluate the data it receives from the internet website and direct the working group to determine recommended solutions to address permitting delays. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2026, GO-Biz to submit to the Legislature and publish on its internet website a comprehensive report regarding the challenges identified throughout the data collection process, as specified. The
bill would also require GO-Biz to establish a permit streamlining specialist to assist authorities having jurisdiction with permit delays and denials related to these provisions.
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 65850.72 is added to the Government Code, to read:65850.72.
(a) Consistent with Chapter 598 of the Statutes of 2015 and Chapter 710 of the Statutes of 2021, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) shall create and maintain a publicly accessible internet website that contains a landing page with functionality to collect information and report delays and denials(1) The authority having jurisdiction over the permit.
(2) The reported reason for delay or denial.
(3) The length of delay, if applicable.
(b) GO-Biz shall not publicly display any submissions that are received under this section.
(b)
(c) GO-Biz shall establish shall, in a new or existing working group to group, evaluate the data it receives from the internet website described in subdivision (a) and direct the working group to determine recommended solutions to address permitting delays.
The working group shall include a diverse set of external stakeholders to discuss the permit delays.
(c)
(d) (1) On or before January 1, 2026, GO-Biz shall submit to the Legislature and publish on its internet website a comprehensive report regarding the challenges identified through the data collection process pursuant to this section.
(2) The report required to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision may be included in the
Zero-Emissions Vehicle Market Development Strategy developed pursuant to Executive Order No. N-79-20.
(2)
(3) The report required to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.
(3)
(4) The requirement for submitting a report imposed
under this subdivision is inoperative on January 1, 2030, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(d)
(e) GO-Biz shall establish a permit streamlining specialist to assist authorities having jurisdiction with permit delays and denials related to this section.
