Bill Text: CA SB1420 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hydrogen production facilities: certification and environmental review.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-19 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. [SB1420 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1420-Amended.html
Amended
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July 08, 2024 |
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June 24, 2024 |
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May 16, 2024 |
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April 30, 2024 |
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April 08, 2024 |
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March 20, 2024 |
Introduced by Senators Caballero, Archuleta, Dodd, and Newman |
February 16, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
(1)Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board, no later than July 1, 2008, to adopt hydrogen fuel regulations that ensure state funding for the production and use of hydrogen fuel contributes to the reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants, and ensure the production and direct use of hydrogen fuel in motor vehicles also contributes to a reduced dependence on petroleum, as provided. Existing law requires that those regulations impose certain requirements relating to emissions from hydrogen fuel and require that, on a statewide basis, no less than 33.3% of the hydrogen produced
for, or dispensed by, fueling stations that receive state funds be made from specified renewable energy resources. Existing law requires the state board, in consultation with other relevant agencies, to review the emissions and renewable resource requirements every 4 years and strengthen those requirements if it makes a specified determination. Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to convene the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee at least once annually to solicit the committee’s comments on the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel.
This bill would delete those requirements. The bill would express the policy of the state that hydrogen produced for use in a fuel cell electric vehicle shall have a well-to-gate carbon intensity equal to or less than the carbon intensity of electricity from the California electrical grid when used to power an electric vehicle. The bill would require the state board to adopt new regulations, or act pursuant to existing regulations or other authority, to ensure that, on a statewide basis, no less than 33.3% of the retail
hydrogen produced for, or dispensed by, fueling stations that receive state funds is made from those specified renewable energy resources.
Under existing law, a person who knowingly violates regulations adopted by the state board pertaining to motor vehicle fuels is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Because a knowing violation of the hydrogen fuel regulations adopted pursuant to this bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a)To the extent it does not inhibit the state’s ability to access federal incentives, it is the policy of the state that hydrogen produced for use in a fuel cell electric vehicle shall have a well-to-gate carbon intensity equal to or less than the carbon intensity of electricity from the California electrical grid when used to power an electric vehicle.
(b)The state
board
shall adopt new hydrogen fuel regulations, or act pursuant to existing regulations or other authority, to ensure both of the following:
(1)That state funding for the production and use of hydrogen fuel contributes to the reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions, criteria air pollutant emissions, and toxic air contaminant emissions. The
state board, at a minimum, shall do both of the following:
(A)Ensure that, on a statewide basis, no less than 33.3 percent of the hydrogen produced for, or dispensed by, fueling stations that receive state funds be made from eligible renewable energy resources consistent with Section 399.12 of the Public Utilities Code or the equivalent as determined by the state board.
(B)Require that providers of hydrogen fuel for transportation in the state report to the state board the annual mass of hydrogen fuel dispensed and the method by which the dispensed hydrogen was produced and delivered.
(2)That hydrogen fuel contributes to a reduced dependence on petroleum, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, criteria air pollutant emissions, and toxic air
contaminant emissions.
SEC. 2.SECTION 1.
Section 21189.81 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:21189.81.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:SEC. 3.SEC. 2.
Section 25545 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:25545.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: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.