AB 2145: Vehicular air pollution.

(1)The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature.

Existing law establishes the California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007, which includes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, and the Air Quality Improvement Program, administered by the state board. The act requires the energy commission and state board to meet specified goals in fulfilling their responsibilities under their respective programs.

The California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program, upon appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, funds zero- and near-zero-emission truck, bus, and off-road vehicle and equipment technologies and related projects, including, among others, projects that help to facilitate clean goods movement corridors. Existing law requires the state board, in consultation with the energy commission, to develop guidance through the existing Air Quality Improvement Program funding plan process for the implementation of the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program that is consistent with the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Existing law requires the guidance to ensure that California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program investments are coordinated with specified funding programs developed as part of the California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 and to promote projects that assist the state in reaching its climate goals beyond 2020. Existing law requires the state board, when evaluating potential projects to be funded under the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program, to give priority to specified projects, including, among others, projects that benefit specified disadvantaged communities.

This bill would add as eligible projects for the California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program those projects that support grid integration and integrated storage solutions and charging management demonstration and analytics. The bill would additionally require the energy commission, as part of the guidance developed for the program, to advise the state board on to how to allocate moneys for vehicle charging infrastructure consistent with the energy commissions investment plan strategies on charging infrastructure that is part of the California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007. The bill instead would require the guidance to promote projects that assist the state in reaching its climate goals beyond 2030. The bill would additionally require the state board, when evaluating potential projects to be funded under the program, to give priority to a project that benefits communities that have implemented a specified community emissions reduction program.

(2)This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 39719.2 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 1403 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1403 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.