Bill Text: CA SB1230 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1230 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicle incentive programs: requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 371, Statutes of 2022. [SB1230 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1230

Introduced by Senator Limón

February 17, 2022

An act relating to greenhouse gases.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1230, as introduced, Limón. Greenhouse gas emissions: transportation.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would implement measures and programs that achieve the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets for the transportation sector identified in the 2017 scoping plan and that would minimize increases in greenhouse gas emissions in the electric power sector from transportation electrification through a combination of specified actions.

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

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

SECTION 1.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) The scoping plan for 2017 adopted by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to Section 38561 of the Health and Safety Code includes a greenhouse gas emissions target in the transportation sector with a range between 103 and 111 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, that is approximately 27 percent to 32 percent below the 1990 level.

(2) The transportation sector directly accounts for approximately 40 percent of total emissions in the state greenhouse gas inventory, and, in addition, is one of the largest causes of greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector due to the extraction, refining, and distribution of petroleum in California.

(3) The electricity sector has achieved at least 40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions below the 1990 level, more than a decade in advance of 2030, and that it is now essential that the transportation sector step up to achieve its proportional greenhouse gas reduction in order to meet the requirement to reduce total state greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030, and that this be done in such a way that does not jeopardize or impair efforts to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would do both of the following:

(1) Implement measures and programs that achieve the 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets for transportation identified in the 2017 scoping plan.

(2) Minimize increases in greenhouse gas emissions in the electric power sector from transportation electrification through a combination of increased vehicle and building energy efficiency, reduced vehicle miles traveled, distributed low- and zero-emission electric generation, and other clean energy resources and technology, to the extent technically feasible, cost effective, and consistent with public health and safety.