Amended in Senate April 6, 2015

Senate BillNo. 40


Introduced by Senator Gaines

December 1, 2014


An act to add Section 44274.9 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air resources.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 40, as amended, 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 qualifyingbegin insert zero-emission, battery-electricend insert passenger vehicles under the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project of the Air Quality Improvement Program to be limited tobegin delete passengerend delete vehiclesbegin insert in that categoryend insert with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $40,000 or less. The bill would require the rebate for qualifyingbegin insert zero-emission, battery-electricend insert 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:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 44274.9 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code
, to read:

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44274.9.  

begin insert(a)end insertbegin insertend insert Incentives for qualifyingbegin insert zero-emission,
2battery-electricend insert
passenger vehicles under the Clean Vehicle Rebate
3Project established as part of the Air Quality Improvement Program
4shall be limited tobegin delete passengerend delete vehiclesbegin insert in that categoryend insert with a
5manufacturer’s suggested retail price of forty thousand dollars
6($40,000) or less. The rebate for qualifyingbegin insert zero-emission,
7battery-electricend insert
passenger vehicles shall be three thousand five
8hundred dollars ($3,500), subject to availability of funds.

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9(b) This section does not apply to any other Clean Vehicle
10Rebate Project vehicle category or rebate.

end insert


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