Bill Text: CA AB40 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB40 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 40
| Introduced by Assembly Member Ting (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chiu and Mullin) |
December 03, 2018 |
An act to add Section 44274.8 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vehicular air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 40, as amended, Ting.
Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.
Existing law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program that is administered by the State Air Resources Board for the purposes of funding projects related to, among other things, the reduction of criteria air pollutants and improvement of air quality. Pursuant to its existing statutory authority, the state board has established the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, as a part of the Air Quality Improvement Program, to promote the use of zero-emission vehicles by providing rebates for the purchase of new zero-emission vehicles.
This bill would declare it is the policy of the state to place at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2030 and 10,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2035. The bill also would require the state board to limit vehicle eligibility for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project to only those vehicles
manufactured by companies that have entered into a specified agreement that has been adopted by the state board, board and to post that agreement on the state board’s internet website, to remove plug-in hybrid electric vehicles from vehicle eligibility in the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, to continue to maintain a waiting list for purchasers when moneys for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project are exhausted, to create a higher rebate dollar level per vehicle for vehicles with zero emissions and a greater driving range, and to continue to limit each zero-emission vehicle purchaser to 2 rebates. website.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) In response to the attempt by the current federal administration to roll back vehicular emissions standards, on July 25, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom and the State Air Resources Board announced a framework with several automakers that would ensure a reduction in vehicular emissions that can serve as an alternative path for clean vehicle standards nationwide. The State Air Resources Board announced that other automakers remained free to join the framework at that time.
(b) The framework is a pragmatic approach that provides automakers
additional flexibility to meet the current vehicular emissions standards while supporting an accelerated transition to zero-emission vehicles.
(c) California, in order to advance air quality and climate change goals, administers incentive programs to support the widespread commercialization of zero-emission vehicles, including the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program (Article 3 (commencing with Section 44274) of Chapter 8.9 of Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code).
(d) California should not incentivize the purchase of vehicles manufactured by companies that are not helping to achieve the state’s public health and climate goals by refusing to join the state’s framework.
SEC. 2.
Section 44274.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:44274.8.
(a) It is the policy of the state to place at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2030 and 10,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2035.(b)The state board shall do all of the following:
(1)(A)Limit
(b) (1) The state board shall limit vehicle eligibility for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program to only those vehicles manufactured by companies that have entered into an agreement that has been adopted by the state board to maintain and increase reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from those vehicles.
(B)
(2) The state board shall post on its internet website the adopted agreement described in subparagraph (A).
paragraph (1).
(2)Remove plug-in hybrid electric vehicles from vehicle eligibility in the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program.
(3)Continue to maintain a waiting list for purchasers when moneys for the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program are exhausted in order for purchasers to receive a rebate if additional moneys are appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose.
(4)Create a higher rebate dollar level per vehicle for vehicles with zero emissions and a greater driving range.
(5)Continue to limit each zero-emission vehicle purchaser to two
rebates.
