Bills

AB 1218: Zero-emission new passenger vehicle and light-duty truck goals.

  • Session Year: 2021-2022
  • House: Assembly
  • Latest Version Date: 2022-01-06
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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. On September 23, 2020, the Governor issued Executive Order No. N-79-20 establishing a goal that 100% of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035.

This bill would declare that, to help achieve the states climate and air quality goals and mandates, it is the goal of the state state, as established in Executive Order No. N-79-20, that 100% of in-state sales of new passenger vehicles and light-duty vehicle sales are trucks be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The bill, on and after January 1, 2023, would require the total passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold by a manufacturer in the state in a calendar year to meet specified greenhouse gas emissions standards pursuant to a tiered plan that would require the total passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks to meet, on average, in the 2030 calendar year a greenhouse gas emissions standard that is 60% below the average greenhouse gas emissions level for those classes of vehicles in the 2020 calendar year. The bill would require the state board to impose an administrative civil penalty on a manufacturer who violates these requirements, as specified. The bill would require the state board to deposit any revenues from the administrative civil penalty into the Equitable Access to Zero-Emission Vehicles Fund, which the bill would establish. The bill would make moneys in the fund available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for a new program for vehicle rebates and for other specified purposes. The bill would require the state board to submit a biennial report to the Legislature that includes certain information relating to the expenditures from the fund. The bill would require the state board, to the extent consistent with state and federal law, to develop and adopt passenger vehicle and light-duty truck regulations requiring increasing volumes of new zero-emission vehicles sold in the state towards the target of 100% of in-state sales by 2035.

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Amended Assembly (1/6/2022)