BILL NUMBER: SB 1204 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 24, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Senators Lara and Pavley
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to add Section 39719 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1204, as amended, Lara. California Clean Truck and
, Bus , and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment
Technology Program.
Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties,
collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale
of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism relative
to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, commonly known as cap and
trade revenues, to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,
and to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified
purposes.
This bill would create the California Clean Truck and
, Bus , and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment
Technology Program, to be funded from cap and trade revenues,
to fund zero- and near-zero emission truck and zero-emission
, bus , and off-road vehicle and equipment
technology and related projects, as specified, with preference
to be given to projects in disadvantaged communities. The program
would be administered by the state board , in conjunction with
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 39719 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
39719. (a) The California Clean Truck and
, Bus , and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology
Program is hereby created, to be administered by the state
board in conjunction with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission. The program, from moneys
appropriated from the fund for purposes of the program, shall fund
development, demonstration, pilot deployment, and commercial
deployment of zero- and near-zero emission truck, bus, and
off-road vehicle and equipment technologies. Priority shall be given
to projects located in disadvantaged communities pursuant to the
requirements of Sections 39711 and 39713 .
(b) From funds appropriated from the fund for that purpose, the
state board shall establish a focused medium- and heavy-duty truck
deployment program, with an emphasis on technology development and
demonstration for zero- and near-zero emissions goods movement.
Eligible projects under this subdivision shall include, but not be
limited to, targeted early stage technological development funding,
small scale pilot demonstrations of new technologies, and larger,
commercial scale demonstrations of trucks operating in real world
conditions. Funding made available under this subdivision shall
complement existing efforts in this area at the State Energy
Conservation and Development Commission and the state board.
Preference shall be given to disadvantaged communities pursuant to
the requirements of Sections 39711 and 39713.
(c) From funds appropriated from the fund for that purpose, the
state board shall establish an emerging technology demonstration
program for zero-emission buses to be used in public transportation.
Eligible projects to be funded under the program include projects
recommended by public transit agencies to demonstrate and deploy, as
part of their fleets, advanced fueled vehicles and associated
infrastructure. The objective of the program shall be to demonstrate
zero-emission bus technology at a commercial scale, in order to clear
the path for broader deployment of zero-emission bus technology
throughout the state. Preference shall be given to disadvantaged
communities pursuant to the requirements of Sections 39711 and 39713.
(b) The program shall fund projects in each of the following
areas:
(1) Zero- and near-zero emission medium- and heavy-duty truck
technology development, demonstration, and pilot deployment.
(2) Zero- and near-zero emission buses. The program shall fund
pilot deployments to demonstrate operation of large numbers of clean
buses in a real world setting, to showcase the following issues: (A)
these vehicles can make direct impacts in disadvantaged communities,
(B) transit operators are currently unable to economically purchase
vehicles of this type because of high costs and technological
uncertainty, which may be overcome through large pilot deployments,
and (C) zero- and near-zero emission technologies in the bus context,
once successfully demonstrated on a large scale, may find
applications in a wide variety of other heavy-duty vehicles in
addition to buses. In that connection, the state board, in
consultation with transit operators, shall develop solicitations to
fund at least two large scale zero- or near-zero emission bus pilot
deployment projects of between 10 and 40 buses, to be located in or
near disadvantaged communities.
(3) Development, demonstration, and pilot deployment of zero- and
near-zero emission technologies to be used in off-road vehicles and
equipment, including, but not limited to, port equipment,
agricultural equipment, and marine and rail equipment.
(4) Development of commercially available zero- and near-zero
emission trucks, buses, and off-road vehicles and equipment using
streamlined purchase incentives pursuant to the California Hybrid and
Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). The
state board shall create a multiyear framework and plan for HVIP
incentives. The plan shall focus on providing incentives for zero-
and near-zero emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles as they become
commercially available. The incentives shall be structured to drive
acquisition volumes by reducing payback times for these vehicles. The
plan shall provide long-term certainty about incentives while also
remaining flexible and open to new technologies. The plan shall also
examine opportunities to link HVIP vehicle funding with
infrastructure funding to provide coordinated funding for both
vehicles and related infrastructure. HVIP incentives for plug-in and
zero-emission vehicles in disadvantaged communities shall be
sufficient to increase sales of the cleanest vehicles in communities
where they are needed most.