BILL NUMBER: AB 118 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 750
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 14, 2007
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 14, 2007
PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
AMENDED IN SENATE SEPTEMBER 7, 2007
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 20, 2007
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 17, 2007
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 26, 2007
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 1, 2007
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 17, 2007
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2007
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Nunez
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Laird)
JANUARY 9, 2007
An act to add Article 11 (commencing with Section 44125) to
Chapter 5 of, to add Chapter 8.9 (commencing with Section 44270) to,
Part 5 of Division 26 of, and to add and repeal 44060.5 of, the
Health and Safety Code, and to add and repeal Sections 9250.1,
9261.1, and 9853.6 of the Vehicle Code, relating to air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 118, Nunez. Alternative fuels and vehicle technologies: funding
programs.
(1) Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air
contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and
nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air
Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility
for the control of vehicular air pollution. Under existing law, the
State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
(Energy Commission), in conjunction with other state agencies, is
required to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of
alternative fuels, as defined.
Existing law establishes the Public Interest Research,
Development, and Demonstration Fund in the State Treasury, and
provides that the money collected by the public goods charge to
support cost-effective energy efficiency and conservation activities,
public interest research and development not adequately provided by
competitive and regulated markets, be deposited in the fund for use
by the Energy Commission to develop, implement, and administer the
Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Program to
develop technologies to, improve environmental quality, enhance
electrical system reliability, increase efficiency of energy-using
technologies, lower electrical system costs, or provide other
tangible benefits.
The bill would create the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Program, to be administered by the Energy
Commission, to provide, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
grants, loans, loan guarantees, revolving loans, or other appropriate
measures, to public agencies, businesses and projects,
public-private partnerships, vehicle and technology consortia,
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 attain the state's climate change policies.
The bill would create the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Fund (Alternative Fund), and would require the
Energy Commission to expend the moneys in the Alternative Fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to implement the Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The bill would require
$10,000,000 to be transferred annually to the Alternative Fund from
the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund.
The bill would also create the Air Quality Improvement Program, to
be administered by the State Air Resources Board, to fund air
quality improvement projects, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
relating to fuel and vehicle technologies. The bill would create the
Air Quality Improvement Fund, and would require the state board to
expend the moneys in that fund, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to implement the Air Quality Improvement Program.
(2) Existing law creates the High Polluter Repair or Removal
Account in the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund, and makes moneys
deposited in the account available, upon appropriation by the
legislature, to the Department of Consumer Affairs and the state
board to establish and implement a program for the repair or
replacement of high polluters.
This bill would create an enhanced fleet modernization program for
the retirement of high polluting vehicles to be administered by the
Bureau of Automotive Repair pursuant to guidelines adopted by the
state board. The bill would create the Enhanced Fleet Modernization
Subaccount in the High Polluter Removal and Repair Account to
establish and implement this enhanced program, upon appropriation by
the Legislature.
(3) The bill, beginning July 1, 2008, until January 1, 2016, would
increase vehicle registration fees from $31 to $34, vessel
registration fees from $10 to $20 and from $20 to $40, as applicable,
and specified service fees for identification plates from $15 to
$20. The bill would require the additional revenue generated by those
fee increases to be deposited in the Alternative and Renewable Fuel
and Vehicle Technology Fund, the Air Quality Improvement Fund, and
the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount, as provided.
The bill beginning July 1, 2008, until January 1, 2016, would also
increase smog abatement fees from $12 to $20, and would require1/2
of the additional revenue generated by that fee increase to be
deposited in the Air Quality Improvement Fund and the other1/2 of
that additional revenue to be deposited in the Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division
25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code)
requires California to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to
1990 levels by 2020.
(b) The transportation sector is responsible for approximately 40
percent of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and significant
degradation of public health and environmental quality due to air and
water pollution.
(c) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission (Energy Commission) in its Integrated Energy Policy Report
recommends that alternative fuels comprise 20 percent of on-road
motor vehicle fuels by 2020.
(d) The State Air Resources Board is currently developing a
"low-carbon" fuel standard for transportation fuels to reduce the
carbon intensity of transportation fuels by 10 percent by 2020.
(e) The Energy Commission will adopt a state alternative fuel
implementation plan to increase the use of alternative transportation
fuels by recommending policies and financial incentives, and
identifying barriers to alternative fuel use.
(f) Investing in the development of innovative and pioneering
technologies will assist California in achieving the 2020 statewide
limit on emissions of greenhouse gases.
(g) Research, development, and commercialization of alternative
fuels and vehicle technologies in California have the potential to
strengthen California's economy by attracting and retaining clean
technology businesses, stimulating high-quality job growth, and
helping to reduce the state's vulnerability to petroleum price
volatility. Research, development, demonstration, and deployment of
alternative and renewable fuels and vehicle technologies will also
result in new skill and occupational demands across California
industries.
(h) This act will provide ongoing funding for alternative fuel and
vehicle technology research, development, demonstration, and
deployment in order to advance the state's leadership in clean
technologies, achieve the state's petroleum reduction objectives and
clean air and greenhouse gas emission reduction standards, develop
public-private partnerships, and ensure a secure and reliable fuel
supply.
(i) This act will ensure that research is conducted to evaluate
the air quality impacts of alternative fuels and to establish clear
criteria to prevent net increases in criteria air pollutants and air
toxics.
(j) This act will be implemented in a manner to ensure the fair
treatment of people of all races, cultures, and income levels,
including minority populations and low-income populations of the
state.
(k) This act will provide funding consistent with the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Integrated Energy Policy
Report, the state alternative fuels plan adopted pursuant to Section
43866 of the Health and Safety Code, and other state goals and
requirements.
SEC. 2. It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate moneys
from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund
and the Air Quality Improvement Fund to the Department of Motor
Vehicles to cover the administrative costs of implementing the fee
increases created by this act.
SEC. 3. Section 44060.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
44060.5. (a) Beginning July 1, 2008, the smog abatement fee
described in Section 44060 shall be increased by eight dollars ($8).
(b) Revenues generated by the increase described in this section
shall be distributed as follows:
(1) The revenues generated by four dollars ($4) shall be deposited
in the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by Section 44274.5.
(2) The revenues generated by four dollars ($4) shall be deposited
in the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund
created by Section 44273.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 4. Article 11 (commencing with Section 44125) is added to
Chapter 5 of Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
Article 11. Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program
44125. (a) No later than July 1, 2009, the state board, in
consultation with the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), shall adopt
a program to commence on January 1, 2010, that allows for the
voluntarily retirement of passenger vehicles and light-duty and
medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. The program shall be
administered by the BAR pursuant to guidelines adopted by the state
board.
(b) The guidelines shall ensure all of the following:
(1) Vehicles retired pursuant to the program are permanently
removed from operation and retired at a dismantler under contract
with the BAR.
(2) Districts retain their authority to administer vehicle
retirement programs otherwise authorized under law.
(3) The program is available for high polluting passenger vehicles
and light-duty and medium-duty trucks that have been continuously
registered in California for two years prior to acceptance into the
program or otherwise proven to have been driven primarily in
California for the last two years and have not been registered in any
other state or country in the last two years.
(4) The program is focused where the greatest air quality impact
can be identified.
(5) Compensation levels for retired vehicles are flexible, taking
into account factors including, but not limited to, the age of the
vehicle, the emission benefits of the vehicle's retirement, the
emissions impact of any replacement vehicle, and the location of
vehicles in areas of the state with the poorest air quality.
(6) Cost-effectiveness and impacts on disadvantaged and low-income
populations are considered.
44126. The Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount is hereby
created in the High Polluter Removal and Repair Account. All moneys
deposited in the subaccount shall be available to the department and
the BAR, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish and
implement the program created pursuant to this article.
SEC. 5. Chapter 8.9 (commencing with Section 44270) is added to
Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
CHAPTER 8.9. CALIFORNIA ALTERNATIVE AND RENEWABLE FUEL,
VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY, CLEAN AIR, AND CARBON REDUCTION ACT OF 2007
44270. This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Clean
Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007.
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) "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, transport, and storage.
(2) Fuel production, distribution, transport, and storage.
(3) Vehicle operation, including refueling, combustion,
conversion, permeation, and evaporation.
(c) "Vehicle technology" means any vehicle, boat, off-road
equipment, or locomotive, or component thereof, including its engine,
propulsion system, transmission, or construction materials.
44271. (a) This chapter creates the Alternative and Renewable
Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, pursuant to Section 44272, to be
administered by the commission, and the Air Quality Improvement
Program, pursuant to Section 44274, to be administered by the state
board. The commission and the state board shall do all of the
following in fulfilling their responsibilities pursuant to their
respective programs:
(1) Determine definitions of terms used in the provisions of this
chapter.
(2) Establish sustainability goals to ensure that alternative and
renewable fuel and vehicle deployment projects, on a full fuel-cycle
assessment basis, will not adversely impact the state natural
resources, especially state and federal lands.
(3) Identify revenue streams for the programs created pursuant to
this chapter.
(4) Ensure that the results of the reductions in emissions or
benefits can be measured and quantified.
(b) The state board shall develop guidelines for both the
Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and the
Air Quality Improvement Program to ensure that programs meet both of
the following requirements:
(1) Activities undertaken pursuant to the programs complement, and
do not interfere with, efforts to achieve and maintain federal and
state ambient air quality standards and to reduce toxic air
contaminant emissions.
(2) Activities undertaken pursuant to the programs maintain or
improve upon emission reductions and air quality benefits in the
State Implementation Plan for Ozone, California Phase 2 Reformulated
Gasoline standards, and diesel fuel regulations.
(c) For the purposes of both of the programs created by this
chapter, eligible projects do not include those required to be
undertaken pursuant to state or federal law or district rules or
regulations.
44271.5. (a) The commission shall create an advisory body to help
develop an investment plan to determine priorities and opportunities
for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology
Program created pursuant to this chapter. The advisory body shall be
subject to the public meetings requirements of the Bagley-Keene Open
Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1
of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The
investment plan shall describe how funding will complement existing
public and private investments, including existing state programs
that further the goals of this chapter. The plan shall be updated
annually.
(b) Membership of the advisory body created pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall include, but is not limited to, representatives
of fuel and vehicle technology consortia, labor organizations,
environmental organizations, community-based justice and public
health organizations, recreational boaters, consumer advocates,
academic institutions, workforce training groups, and private
industry. The advisory body shall also include representatives from
the Resources Agency, the Business, Transportation and Housing
Agency, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, and the
California Environmental Protection Agency.
44272. (a) The Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Program is hereby created. The program shall be
administered by the commission. The program shall provide, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, grants, revolving loans, loan
guarantees, loans, or other appropriate measures, to public agencies,
vehicle and technology consortia, 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 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.
(b) The commission shall provide preferences to those projects
that maximize the goals of the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Program created by Section 44272, based on the
following criteria, as appropriate:
(1) The project's ability to provide a measurable transition from
the nearly exclusive use of petroleum fuels to a diverse portfolio of
viable alternative fuels that meet petroleum reduction and
alternative fuel use goals.
(2) The project's consistency with existing and future state
climate change policy and low-carbon fuel standards.
(3) The project's ability to reduce criteria air pollutants and
air toxics and reduce or avoid multimedia environmental impacts.
(4) The project's ability to decrease, on a life-cycle basis, the
emissions of water pollutants or any other substances known to damage
human health or the environment, in comparison to the production and
use of California Phase 2 Reformulated Gasoline or diesel fuel
produced and sold pursuant to California diesel fuel regulations set
forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 2280) of Chapter 5 of
Division 3 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations.
(5) The project does not adversely impact the sustainability of
the state's natural resources, especially state and federal lands.
(6) The project provides nonstate matching funds.
(7) The project provides economic benefits for California by
promoting California-based technology firms, jobs, and businesses.
(8) The project uses existing or proposed fueling infrastructure
to maximize the outcome of the project.
(9) The project's ability to reduce on a life-cycle assessment
greenhouse gas emissions by at least 10 percent, and higher
percentages in the future, from current reformulated gasoline and
diesel fuel standards established by the state board.
(10) The project's use of alternative fuel blends of at least 20
percent, and higher blend ratios in the future, with a preference for
projects with higher blends.
(11) The project drives new technology advancement for vehicles,
vessels, engines, and other equipment, and promotes the deployment of
that technology in the marketplace.
(c) All of the following shall be eligible for funding:
(1) Alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve
alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels, including electricity,
ethanol, dimethyl ether, renewable diesel, natural gas, hydrogen, and
biomethane, among others, and their feedstocks that have high
potential for long-term or short-term commercialization, including
projects that lead to sustainable feedstocks.
(2) Demonstration and deployment projects that optimize
alternative and renewable fuels for existing and developing engine
technologies.
(3) Projects to produce alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels
in California.
(4) Projects to decrease the overall impact of an alternative and
renewable fuel's life-cycle carbon footprint and increase
sustainability.
(5) Alternative and renewable fuel infrastructure, fueling
stations, and equipment. The preference in paragraph (10) of
subdivision (b) shall not apply to these projects.
(6) Projects to develop and improve light-, medium-, and
heavy-duty vehicle technologies that provide for better fuel
efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions, alternative fuel usage
and storage, or emission reductions, including propulsion systems,
advanced internal combustion engines with a 40 percent or better
efficiency level over the current market standard, light-weight
materials, energy storage, control systems and system integration,
physical measurement and metering systems and software, development
of design standards and testing and certification protocols, battery
recycling and reuse, engine and fuel optimization electronic and
electrified components, hybrid technology, plug-in hybrid technology,
fuel cell technology, and conversions of hybrid technology to
plug-in technology through the installation of safety certified
supplemental battery modules.
(7) Programs and projects that accelerate the commercialization of
vehicles and alternative and renewable fuels including buy-down
programs through near-market and market-path deployments, advanced
technology warranty or replacement insurance, development of market
niches, and supply-chain development.
(8) Programs and projects to retrofit medium- and heavy-duty
on-road and nonroad vehicle fleets with technologies that create
higher fuel efficiencies, including alternative and renewable fuel
vehicles and technologies, idle management technology, and
aerodynamic retrofits that decrease fuel consumption.
(9) Infrastructure projects that promote alternative and renewable
fuel infrastructure development connected with existing fleets,
public transit, and existing transportation corridors, including
physical measurement or metering equipment and truck stop
electrification.
(10) Workforce training programs related to alternative and
renewable fuel feedstock production and extraction, renewable fuel
production, distribution, transport, and storage, high-performance
and low-emission vehicle technology and high tower electronics,
automotive computer systems, mass transit fleet conversion,
servicing, and maintenance, and other sectors or occupations related
to the purposes of this chapter.
(11) Block grants administered by not-for-profit technology
consortia for multiple projects, education and program promotion
within California, and development of alternative and renewable fuel
and vehicle technology centers.
(d) The same requirements in Section 25620.5 of the Public
Resources Code shall apply to awards made on a single source basis or
a sole sources basis.
44273. (a) The Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, to be
administered by the commission. The moneys in the fund, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, shall be expended by the commission
to implement the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Program in accordance with this chapter.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sum of ten
million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be transferred annually from the
Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund created
by Section 384 of the Public Utilities Code to the Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund. Prior to the award of any
funds from this source, the commission shall make a determination
that the proposed project will provide benefits to electric or
natural gas ratepayers based upon the commission's adopted criteria.
44274. (a) The Air Quality Improvement Program is hereby created.
The program shall be administered by the state board, in
consultation with the districts. The purpose of the program shall be
to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, air quality
improvement projects relating to fuel and vehicle technologies. The
primary purpose of the program shall be to fund projects to reduce
criteria air pollutants, improve air quality, and provide funding for
research to determine and improve the air quality impacts of
alternative transportation fuels and vehicles, vessels, and equipment
technologies.
(b) Projects proposed for funding pursuant to subdivision (a)
shall be evaluated based on their proposed or potential reduction of
criteria or toxic air pollutants, cost-effectiveness, contribution to
regional air quality improvement, and ability to promote the use of
clean alternative fuels and vehicle technologies as determined by the
state board, in coordination with the commission.
(c) The program shall be limited to competitive grants. Projects
to be funded include the following:
(1) On- and off-road equipment projects that are cost effective.
(2) Projects that provide mitigation for off-road gasoline exhaust
and evaporative emissions.
(3) Projects that provide research to determine the air quality
impacts of alternative fuels and projects that study the life-cycle
impacts of alternative fuels and conventional fuels, the emissions of
biofuel and advanced reformulated gasoline mixes, and air pollution
improvements and control technologies for use with alternative fuels
and vehicles.
(4) Projects that augment the University of California's
agricultural experiment station and cooperative extension programs
for research to increase sustainable biofuels production and improve
the collection of biomass feedstock.
(5) Incentives for small off-road equipment replacement to
encourage consumers to replace internal combustion engine lawn and
garden equipment.
(6) Incentives for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and equipment
mitigation, including all of the following:
(A) Lower emission schoolbus programs.
(B) Electric, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid on- and off-road medium-
and heavy-duty equipment.
(C) Regional air quality improvement and attainment programs
implemented by the state or districts in the most impacted regions of
the state.
(7) Workforce training initiatives related to advanced energy
technology designed to reduce air pollution, including
state-of-the-art equipment and goods, and new processes and systems.
Workforce training initiatives funded shall be broad-based
partnerships that leverage other public and private job training
programs and resources. These partnerships may include, though are
not limited to, employers, labor unions, labor-management
partnerships, community organizations, workforce investment boards,
postsecondary education providers including community colleges, and
economic development agencies.
(8) Incentives to identify and reduce emissions from high emitting
light-duty vehicles.
44274.5. The Air Quality Improvement Fund is hereby created in
the State Treasury, to be administered by the state board. The moneys
in the Air Quality Improvement Fund, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, shall be expended by the state board in accordance with
this chapter to implement the Air Quality Improvement Program. The
Legislature may transfer moneys from the fund to the Carl Moyer
Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Trust Fund.
SEC. 6. Section 9250.1 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
9250.1. (a) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in Section
9250 shall be increased by three dollars ($3).
(b) Two dollars ($2) of the increase shall be deposited into the
Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund created by
Section 44273 of the Health and Safety Code, and one dollar ($1)
shall be deposited into the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount
created by Section 44126 of the Health and Safety Code.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 7. Section 9261.1 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
9261.1. (a) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in Section
9261, as adjusted pursuant to Section 1678, shall be increased by
five dollars ($5).
(b) Two dollars and 50 cents ($2.50) of the increase shall be
deposited into the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Fund created by Section 44273 of the Health and Safety
Code, and two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) shall be deposited into
the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by Section 44274.5 of the
Health and Safety Code.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 8. Section 9853.6 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read:
9853.6. (a) (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in
paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 9853 shall be increased
by ten dollars ($10).
(2) Five dollars ($5) of the increase shall be deposited into the
Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund created by
Section 44273 of the Health and Safety Code and five dollars ($5)
shall be deposited into the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by
Section 44274.5 of the Health and Safety Code.
(b) (1) Beginning July 1, 2008, the fee described in paragraph (2)
of subdivision (b) of Section 9853 shall be increased by twenty
dollars ($20).
(2) Ten dollars ($10) of the increase shall be deposited into the
Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund created by
Section 44273 of the Health and Safety Code and ten dollars ($10)
shall be deposited into the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by
Section 44274.5 of the Health and Safety Code.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 9. The provisions of this act are severable. If any provision
of this act or its application is held invalid, that invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications that can be given
effect without the invalid provision or application.