SB 40, as introduced, Gaines. Air Quality Improvement Program: vehicle rebates.
Existing law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program, administered by the State Air Resources Board, to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, air quality improvement projects related to fuel and vehicle technologies, including incentives for various types of vehicles.
This bill would require incentives for qualifying passenger vehicles under the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project of the Air Quality Improvement Program to be limited to passenger vehicles with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $40,000 or less. The bill would require the rebate for qualifying passenger vehicles to be $3,500, subject to availability of funds.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 44274.9 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
Incentives for qualifying passenger vehicles under
4the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project established as part of the Air
5Quality Improvement Program shall be limited to passenger
P2 1vehicles with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of forty
2thousand dollars ($40,000) or less. The rebate for qualifying
3passenger vehicles shall be three thousand five hundred dollars
4($3,500), subject to availability of funds.
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