Bill Text: CA SB726 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Alternative fuel and vehicle technologies: sustainable transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-25 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes. [SB726 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB726-Amended.html
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August 30, 2021 |
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June 29, 2021 |
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Introduced by Senator Gonzalez (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes) (Coauthors: Senators Archuleta, Min, and Stern) |
February 19, 2021 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution and as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Existing law 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. Existing law requires the state board, no later than January 1, 2021, and at least every 5 years thereafter, in consultation with specified state agencies, to update its 2016 mobile source strategy to include a comprehensive strategy for the deployment of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in the state, as specified.
This bill would require the state board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with specified public agencies, including local air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, if those districts choose to participate, to jointly develop, no later than January 1,
2024, a comprehensive transportation sustainability strategy to be known as the Sustainable Transportation Strategy. The bill would
specify that the purpose of the strategy is to evaluate the plans, actions, and required funding needed to reach the state’s various transportation greenhouse gas emissions and criteria pollutant reduction goals in a cost-effective, technology neutral, and efficient manner, specifically considering the role of sustainable transportation goals and programs. The bill would require the strategy to evaluate the role of, and establish measurable deployment goals for, each sustainable transportation goal and
program and would require specified state agencies to adopt those deployment goals. The bill would require the strategy to develop an overall transportation sector greenhouse gas emission and criteria pollutant emissions reduction goal. The bill would require the state board, as part of the 2026 update to the mobile source strategy, to consider the Sustainable Transportation Strategy and to include any portion of the Sustainable Transportation Strategy in the mobile source strategy. The bill would require, as part of the 2027 update of the scoping plan, the state board to consider the overall greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal for the transportation sector identified in the Sustainable Transportation Strategy. The bill would require the Governor to identify and appoint one key lead agency to steer the coordination of zero-emission vehicle deployment across state
agencies and to implement the zero-emission vehicle component of the Sustainable Transportation Strategy.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)(1)(A)The state board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in coordination with the Public Utilities Commission, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, the Department of Transportation, the California Transportation Commission, the Department of General Services, and districts, if the districts choose to participate, shall jointly develop a comprehensive transportation sustainability strategy, which shall be known as the Sustainable Transportation
Strategy.
(B)The strategy shall be developed in consultation with metropolitan planning organizations and other relevant local entities.
(C)The purpose of the strategy shall be to evaluate the plans, actions, and required funding needed to reach the state’s transportation greenhouse gas
emissions and criteria pollutant reduction goals in a
cost-effective, technology neutral, and efficient manner, specifically considering the role of sustainable transportation goals and programs, including, but not limited to, zero-emission, near-zero-emission, and alternative fuel vehicles, transit, active transportation, vehicle pooling, and reduction of vehicle miles traveled initiatives.
(2)The strategy shall do all of the following:
(A)Describe the current state of deployment for each sustainable transportation goal and program specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), including mobile source and related
infrastructure using existing state reports and assessments, where applicable.
(B)Evaluate the role of, and establish measurable deployment goals for, each sustainable transportation goal and program specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1)
in reaching the overall transportation sector emissions reductions goals identified pursuant to subparagraph (E).
(C)Identify any existing barriers to implementing the sustainable transportation goals and programs specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1),
and propose strategies to deploying those transportation goals and programs, specifically by considering deployment strategies in
disadvantaged and low-income communities.
(D)Identify the programs, funding sources and levels, and appropriate regulatory mandates for deployment of each sustainable transportation goal and program specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and which, through their collective implementation, would result in meeting overall transportation sector emission reduction goals
developed pursuant to subparagraph (E).
(E)Develop an overall transportation sector greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions reduction goal.
(3)The strategy shall be equity focused, technology neutral, and prioritize investments for market penetration and investments that will support disadvantaged and
low-income communities.
(4)The measurable deployment goals developed for each sustainable transportation goal and program pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be adopted by each state agency described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1).
(5)In addition to considering the role of zero-emission vehicles in helping to reach the overall transportation sector emission reduction goal identified pursuant to subparagraph (E) of paragraph (2), the strategy shall also include a roadmap to achieve the goal of 100 percent of instate sales of new passenger cars and trucks being zero emission by 2035, and 100 percent of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in California being zero emission by 2045 where feasible and for all drayage trucks to be zero emission by 2035.
(6)The strategy shall be completed no later than January 1, 2024.
(b)As part of the 2026 update to the mobile source strategy required pursuant to Section 43024.2, the state board shall consider the Sustainable Transportation Strategy and may
include any portion of the Sustainable Transportation Strategy in the mobile source strategy.
(c)As part of the 2027 update to the scoping plan required pursuant to Section 38561, the state board shall consider the overall greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal for the transportation sector identified in the Sustainable Transportation Strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a).
(d)The Governor shall identify and appoint one key lead agency to steer the coordination of zero-emission vehicle deployment across state agencies and to implement the zero-emission vehicle component of the
Sustainable Transportation Strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a).
SEC. 2.
Section 43018.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43018.4.
(a) (1) The Strategic Growth Council shall coordinate and convene at least two meetings each calendar year with all of the following members:SEC. 3.
Section 44272 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:44272.
(a) The Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program is hereby established. The program shall be administered by the commission. The commission shall implement the program by regulation pursuant to the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The program shall provide, upon appropriation by the Legislature, competitive grants, revolving loans, loan guarantees, loans, or other appropriate funding measures to public agencies, vehicle and technology entities, businesses and projects, public-private partnerships, workforce training partnerships and collaboratives, fleet owners, consumers, recreational boaters, and academic institutions to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics and attain the state’s climate change policies. The emphasis of this program shall be to develop and deploy technology and alternative and renewable fuels in the marketplace, without adopting any one preferred fuel or technology.(3)Multiyear market acceleration strategies.
(h)Beginning with the 2022–25 investment cycle, and for each investment cycle thereafter, in awarding grants,