Bill Text: CA AB772 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Child day care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-18 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. [AB772 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB772-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 772

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Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson

February 13, 2023

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An act to add Section 25402.15 to the Public Resources Code, and to add Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8400) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to transportation electrification.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 772, as introduced, Jackson. Electric vehicle chargers.

Existing law establishes the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and vests the commission with jurisdiction over various matters related to energy production and usage in the state. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to prepare and update, as provided, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.

This bill would require the Energy Commission to require, by regulation, that each single-family residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, include a rapid compact electric vehicle charger and that each multifamily residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, include sufficient rapid compact electric vehicle chargers to serve at least 10% of its residential capacity at any given time.

Existing law vests the PUC with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities, as defined, are under the direction of their governing boards.

This bill would require an electrical corporation and local publicly owned electric utility, on and after January 1, 2025, and upon receiving a request from a homeowner in its service territory, to install an electric vehicle charger at the homeowner’s property within a reasonable time. The bill would require the PUC to establish accounts to track moneys allocated and reimbursements made to an electrical corporation or publicly owned electric utility for that purpose.

Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.

Because a violation of a commission action implementing this bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Additionally, by imposing the requirement described above on local publicly owned electric utilities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 25402.15 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25402.15.

 The commission shall require, by regulation in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, both of the following:

(a) Each single-family residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, shall include a rapid compact electric vehicle charger.

(b) Each multifamily residence constructed on and after January 1, 2025, shall include sufficient rapid compact electric vehicle chargers to serve at least 10 percent of its residential capacity at any given time.

SEC. 2.

 Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 8400) is added to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, to read:

CHAPTER  8. Electric Vehicle Chargers

8400.

 For purposes of this chapter, “electrical utility” means an electrical corporation, as defined in Section 218, or a local publicly owned electric utility, as defined in Section 224.3.

8401.

 On and after January 1, 2025, each electrical utility, upon receiving a request from a homeowner in its service territory pursuant to this chapter, shall, within a reasonable time, install an electric vehicle charger at the homeowner’s property.

8402.

 The commission shall establish accounts to track moneys allocated and reimbursements made to electrical utilities for purposes of this chapter.

8403.

 It is the intent of the Legislature that the requirements of this chapter be funded through existing appropriations and that electrical utilities be adequately compensated by the state for their actions pursuant to this chapter.

SEC. 3.

 No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.