Bill Text: CA SB569 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB569 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB569-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 569	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 44270.3 of, and to add Section 44272.2 to,
the Health and Safety Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 569, as introduced, Kehoe. Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Program: electrical work.
   Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy
Commission), to provide to specified entities, upon appropriation by
the Legislature, grants, loans, loan guarantees, revolving loans, or
other appropriate measures, for the development and deployment of
innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle
types to help attain the state's climate change goals.
   This bill would require the commission to ensure that projects or
programs involving electrical work, as defined, are creating pathways
into skilled, high-paying careers. The bill would require electrical
work involved in a project or program to be performed by a licensed
electrical contractor or a state-certified general electrician
working under a licensed electrical contractor. The bill would
require a project or program involving electrical work to include
partnership with one or more existing electrical joint apprenticeship
programs in the geographic area of the project or program.
   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 44270.3 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   44270.3.  For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms
have the following meanings:
   (a) "Commission" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission. 
   (b) "Electrical work" means the placement, installation, erection,
or connection of an electrical wire, fixture, appliance, apparatus,
raceway, conduit, photovoltaic cell, charging station, or component
thereof, that generates, transmits, transforms, or utilizes
electricity in any form or for any purpose.  
   (b) 
    (c)  "Full fuel-cycle assessment" or "life-cycle
assessment" means evaluating and comparing the full environmental and
health impacts of each step in the life cycle of a fuel, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Feedstock production, extraction, cultivation, transport, and
storage, and the transportation and use of water and changes in land
use and land cover therein.
   (2) Fuel production, manufacture, distribution, marketing,
transport, and storage, and the transportation and use of water
therein.
   (3) Vehicle operation, including refueling, combustion,
conversion, permeation, and evaporation. 
   (c) 
    (d)  "Vehicle technology" means any vehicle, boat,
off-road equipment, or locomotive, or component thereof, including
its engine, propulsion system, transmission, or construction
materials.
  SEC. 2.  Section 44272.2 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   44272.2.  (a) The commission shall ensure that projects or
programs involving electrical work funded pursuant to this article
are creating pathways into skilled, high-paying careers.
   (b) Electrical work involved in a project or program funded
pursuant to this article shall be performed by a licensed electrical
contractor or a state-certified general electrician working under a
licensed electrical contractor.
   (c) A project or program involving electrical work shall include
partnership with one or more existing electrical joint apprenticeship
programs in the geographic area of the project or program. A project
or program involving electrical work shall not compete with an
existing electrical joint apprenticeship program in the geographic
area of the project or program.