BILL NUMBER: AB 306	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 15, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 13, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Atkins, Blumenfield, Galgiani,
Gordon, Nestande, Wagner, and Williams)
   (Coauthors: Senators Pavley and Strickland)

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2011

   An act to add and repeal Section 25325 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 306, Gatto. Energy: piezoelectric transducers: study.
   Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission (Energy Commission), on a biennial basis
beginning in 2003, to adopt an integrated energy policy report
providing information on specified subjects related to energy.
Existing law establishes the Renewable Resource Trust Fund, a
continuously appropriated fund appropriated to the Energy Commission,
for the purposes of funding programs designed to foster the
development of new in-state renewable electricity generation
technology facilities.
   This bill would require the Energy Commission to conduct research
on generating electricity using piezoelectric transducers under
roadways or railways. The bill would require the Energy Commission to
establish pilot projects that would employ piezoelectric-based
energy-harvesting technology, if the Energy Commission determines
that the technology has the potential to generate electricity with
performance, reliability, and cost projections that are comparable to
existing or emerging renewable energy sources. The bill would
require the Energy Commission to collaborate with the Department of
Transportation and would require the department to conduct research
on the piezoelectric-based energy-harvesting technology according to
the department's usual research protocol if the pilot project is
conducted in a facility that is part of the state highway or rail
system under the department's jurisdiction. The bill would authorize
the Energy Commission to expend the moneys in the Renewable Resource
Trust Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement this
research. The Energy Commission would be required to report its
findings in the integrated energy policy report adopted in 2013.
These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2015.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 25325 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   25325.  (a) The commission shall conduct research on generating
electricity using piezoelectric technology under roadways and
railways. The commission shall award the research projects under this
section through competitive solicitations, interagency agreements,
or agreements with other governmental entities.
   (b) (1) If the commission finds, based on initial research, that
the piezoelectric-based energy-harvesting technology has the
potential to generate electricity with the performance, reliability,
and cost projections that are comparable to existing or emerging
renewable energy sources, then the commission shall establish a pilot
project or projects to employ piezoelectric-based energy-harvesting
technology. The commission shall collaborate with the Department of
Transportation if the pilot project is conducted in a facility that
is part of the state highway or rail system under the jurisdiction of
the Department of Transportation.
   (2) The Department of Transportation shall conduct research on the
piezoelectric-based energy-harvesting technology according to its
usual research protocol if the pilot project established pursuant to
paragraph (1) is conducted in a facility that is part of the state
highway or rail system under the jurisdiction of the Department of
Transportation.
   (c) The commission may expend the moneys in the Renewable Resource
Trust Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement this
section.
   (d) As a part of the integrated energy policy report that is
adopted in 2013, the commission shall report the findings of the
research performed pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends
that date.