BILL NUMBER: AB 937	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 30, 2011

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 amended, 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.   Regulations of the State Air
Resources Board require vessel fleets to either reduce onboard power
generation to specified levels or achieve equivalent emission
reductions. 
   This bill would  authorize cruise ships and oceangoing
ships, while in California ports, to use, without penalty, exhaust
filtration technology approved by the State Air Resources Board, as
an alternative to shore power   require the state board
to amend those regulations to ensure that a person choosing the
equivalent emission reduction compliance option is not subject to
more stringent requirements than a person choosing the reduced
onboard power generation option  .
   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.  The state board shall amend Section 93118.3 of Title 17 of
the California Code of Regulations to ensure that a person choosing
the equivalent emission reduction compliance option is not subject to
more stringent requirements than a person choosing the reduced
onboard power generation option.  
  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, without penalty, exhaust filtration technology that
has been approved by the state board as an alternative to shore
power.