Bill Text: CA SB40 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Air Quality Improvement Program: vehicle rebates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB40 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB40-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 40	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Gaines

                        DECEMBER 1, 2014

   An act to add Section 44274.9 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 40, as introduced, Gaines. Air Quality Improvement Program:
vehicle rebates.
   Existing law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program,
administered by the State Air Resources Board, to fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, air quality improvement projects
related to fuel and vehicle technologies, including incentives for
various types of vehicles.
   This bill would require incentives for qualifying passenger
vehicles under the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project of the Air Quality
Improvement Program to be limited to passenger vehicles with a
manufacturer's suggested retail price of $40,000 or less. The bill
would require the rebate for qualifying passenger vehicles to be
$3,500, subject to availability of funds.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 44274.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   44274.9.  Incentives for qualifying passenger vehicles under the
Clean Vehicle Rebate Project established as part of the Air Quality
Improvement Program shall be limited to passenger vehicles with a
manufacturer's suggested retail price of forty thousand dollars
($40,000) or less. The rebate for qualifying passenger vehicles shall
be three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500), subject to
availability of funds.