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
Amended
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Assembly
June 29, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
June 16, 2021 |
Amended
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Senate
April 21, 2021 |
Amended
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Senate
April 13, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 11, 2021 |
Introduced by Senator Gonzalez (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Reyes) (Coauthors: Senators Archuleta, Min, and Stern) |
February 19, 2021 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
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The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 43018.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43018.4.
(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,(D)The strategy shall identify overall greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals and criteria pollutant reduction goals for the transportation sector, and shall identify the sustainable transportation goals and programs that are intended to reduce emissions in the transportation sector to achieve those emissions reductions goals. These sustainable transportation goals and programs shall include, but not are limited to, zero-emission and alternative fuel vehicles, transit, active transportation, vehicle pooling,
and reduction of vehicle miles traveled initiatives.
(3)In considering the role of zero-emission vehicles in helping to reach the overall transportation sector emission reduction goals identified pursuant to paragraph (1), the strategy shall include a roadmap to achieve the goal of 100 percent of in-state 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.
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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.(c)
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(4)The project provides greenhouse gas and criteria air pollutant
reductions in areas classified as nonattainment areas pursuant to the federal Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 7401 et seq.) with priority given to the highest designation of nonattainment in descending order.
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Section 44272.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:44272.1.
(a) Beginning with the(7)Vehicle and equipment programs that displace local air pollution that disproportionately burdens underserved communities.
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