BILL NUMBER: ABX2 3	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  FEBRUARY 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Evans  
Galgiani 

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2009

    An act relating to the Budget Act of 2008.  
An act to add Section 44282.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air pollution. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3, as amended,  Evans   Galgiani  .
 Budget Act of 2008.   Air pollution: grants:
farm equipment.  
   Existing law gives to the State Air Resources Board the primary
responsibility for the control of emissions from motor vehicles. The
state board is required to administer the Carl Moyer Memorial Air
Quality Standards Attainment Program to provide grants to offset the
incremental cost of projects that reduce covered emissions from
covered sources. The state board is required to establish and update
grant criteria and guidelines for covered vehicle projects. 

   This bill would require an off-road project that involves farm
equipment to be deemed to have a minimum project life of at least 10
years. The bill would authorize a grant to be awarded for those
projects involving farm equipment regardless of the time period
between the date the application for funding was submitted and the
compliance date required by any local, state, or federal statute,
regulation, rule, memorandum of agreement, memorandum of
understanding, or other legal restriction or legally binding document
that requires the change in equipment, vehicle, or operation
involved in the project, provided the project is not funded after the
date for compliance.  
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2008. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 44282.5 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   44282.5.  (a) An off-road project that involves farm equipment
shall be deemed to have a minimum project life of at least 10 years.
   (b) A grant may be awarded for a project described in subdivision
(a) regardless of the time period between the date the application
for funding was submitted and the compliance date required by any
local, state, or federal statute, regulation, rule, memorandum of
agreement, memorandum of understanding, or other legal restriction or
legally binding document that requires the change in equipment,
vehicle, or operation involved in the project, provided the project
is not funded after the date for compliance.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2008.

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