Bill Text: CA AB946 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Electric vehicle charging stations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB946 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB946-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 946	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act  to amend Section 44268.2 of the Health and Safety
Code,   relating to electric vehicles.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 946, as amended, Ting. Electric  vehicles. 
 vehicle c   harging stations.  
   Existing law, the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access
Act, prohibits the charging of a subscription fee on persons desiring
to use an electric vehicle charging station, as defined, and
prohibits a requirement for persons to obtain membership in any club,
association, or organization as a condition of using the station,
except as specified. The act authorizes the State Air Resources Board
to adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming
payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations if no
interoperability billing standards have been adopted by a national
standards organization by January 1, 2015. The act provides that if
the state board adopts interoperability billing standards, all
electric vehicle charging stations that require payment shall meet
those standards within one year.  
   This bill would change the date of the state board's conditional
authorization to adopt those interoperability billing standards to
January 1, 2016, and would require the electric vehicle charging
stations to meet those standards within 6 months.  
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in
consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, the State Air Resources Board, electrical
corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate policies to
develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any barriers to the
widespread deployment and use of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles
and, by July 1, 2011, to adopt rules that address related matters.
 
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to increase the use of electric vehicles by improving
existing infrastructure for electric vehicles. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 44268.2 of the  
Health and Safety Code   is amended to read: 
   44268.2.  (a) (1) Persons desiring to use an electric vehicle
charging station that requires payment of a fee shall not be required
to pay a subscription fee in order to use the station, and shall not
be required to obtain membership in any club, association, or
organization as a condition of using the station. The total actual
charges for the use of an electric vehicle charging station,
including any additional network roaming charges for nonmembers,
shall be disclosed to the public at the point of sale. An electric
vehicle charging station that requires payment of a fee shall allow a
person desiring to use the station to pay via credit card or mobile
technology, or both.
   (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an electric vehicle charging
station may offer services on a subscription- or membership-only
basis provided those electric vehicle charging stations allow
nonsubscribers or nonmembers the ability to use the electric vehicle
charging station through the payment options detailed in paragraph
(1).
   (b) The service provider of electric vehicle service equipment at
an electric vehicle charging station or its designee shall disclose
to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory the electric vehicle
charging station's geographic location, a schedule of fees, accepted
methods of payment, and the amount of network roaming charges for
nonmembers, if any.
   (c) Electric vehicle charging stations shall be labeled in
accordance with Part 309 of Title 16 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, and, where commercially reasonable and feasible, may be
clearly marked with appropriate directional signage in the parking
area or facility where they are located.
   (d) If no interoperability billing standards have been adopted by
a national standards organization by January 1,  2015,
  2016,  the state board may adopt interoperability
billing standards for network roaming payment methods for electric
vehicle charging stations. If the state board adopts interoperability
billing standards, all electric vehicle charging stations that
require payment shall meet those standards within  one year.
  six months. Any standards adopted by the state
board shall consider other governmental or industry-developed
interoperability billing standards and may adopt interoperability
billing standards promulgated by an outside authoritative body.

  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation to increase the use of electric vehicles by
improving existing infrastructure for electric vehicles.