BILL NUMBER: AB 937	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 39633 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vessels.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 937, as introduced, Mendoza. Vessels: emission reduction
control.
   Existing law regulates emissions from cruise ship engines and
oceangoing ship engines. Existing law prohibits a cruise ship, as
defined, and an oceangoing ship, as defined, from conducting onboard
incineration while operating within 3 miles of the California coast.
   This bill would authorize cruise ships and oceangoing ships, while
in California ports, to use exhaust filtration technology approved
by the State Air Resources Board, as an alternative to shore power.
   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 39633 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   39633.  While in California ports, cruise ships and oceangoing
ships may use exhaust filtration technology that has been approved by
the state board as an alternative to shore power.