BILL NUMBER: AB 2426	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Low

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 44270.3 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2426, as introduced, Low. Alternative and renewable fuel and
vehicle technology.
   The California Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology,
Clean Air, and Carbon Reduction Act of 2007 requires the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to
administer the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology
Program to provide financial assistance for the development and
deployment of innovative technologies that transform California's
fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change
policies. The act requires the State Air Resources Board to
administer the Air Quality Improvement Program to fund projects to
reduce criteria air pollutants, to improve air quality, and to fund
research to determine and improve air quality impacts of alternative
transportation fuels and vehicles, vessels, and equipment
technologies. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of
those programs.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in the provision
defining those terms.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 44270.3 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   44270.3.  For the purposes of this chapter, the following 
terms have the following meanings:   definitions shall
apply: 
   (a) "Benefit-cost score," for the Alternative and Renewable Fuel
and Vehicle Technology Program created pursuant to Section 44272,
means a project's expected or potential greenhouse gas emissions
reduction per dollar awarded by the commission to the project from
the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund.
   (b) "Commission" means the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission.
   (c) "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, cultivation, transport, and
storage, and the transportation and use of water and changes in land
use and land cover therein.
   (2) Fuel production, manufacture, distribution, marketing,
transport, and storage, and the transportation and use of water
therein.
   (3) Vehicle operation, including refueling, combustion,
conversion, permeation, and evaporation.
   (d) "Vehicle technology" means any vehicle, boat, off-road
equipment, or locomotive, or component thereof, including its engine,
propulsion system, transmission, or construction materials.
   (e) For purposes of the Air Quality Improvement Program created
pursuant to Section 44274, the following  terms have the
following meanings:   definitions shall apply: 
   (1) "Benefit-cost score" means the reasonably expected or
potential criteria pollutant emission reductions achieved per dollar
awarded by the board for the project.
   (2) "Project" means a category of investments identified for
potential funding by the board, including, but not limited to,
competitive grants, revolving loans, loan guarantees, loans,
vouchers, rebates, and other appropriate funding measures for
specific vehicles, equipment, technologies, or initiatives authorized
by Section 44274.