BILL NUMBER: AB 1608	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 8, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2012

   An act to add Section  44274.8   39617.8
 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1608, as amended, Wieckowski. Clean Vehicle Rebate 
Project.   Project and Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher
Incentive Project. 
   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   designates
the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality
standards. Existing law generally designates the state board as the
state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of
vehicular air pollution  .
   This bill would  establish the Clean Vehicle Rebate
Project to be administered by the California Center for Sustainable
Energy and   require the state board in implementing the
Clean Vehicle Rebate Project,  with funds made available by the
state board  pursuant to the Air Quality Improvement
Program. The bill would require  , to provide 
rebates  be made available  for the purchase of
eligible  medium- or heavy-duty commercial  
light-duty  vehicles from a California manufacturer, as defined,
in an amount 40% greater than the rebates made available for the
purchase of eligible  medium- or heavy-duty commercial
  light-duty  vehicles not from a California
manufacturer.  The bill also would require the state board in
implementing the Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project, with
funds made available by the state board, to provide rebates for the
purchase of eligible medium- or heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles
from a California manufacturer, as defined, in an amount 40% greater
than the rebates made available for the purchase of eligible medium-
or heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles not from a California
manufacturer. 
   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  44274.8   39617.8 
is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
    44274.8.   39617.8.   (a)  The
  (1)     In implementing the 
Clean Vehicle Rebate Project  is hereby established within
the Air Quality Improvement Program. The project shall be
administered by the California Center for Sustainable Energy
  (CVRP)  , with funds made available by the state
board  pursuant to this article. Rebates   ,
  rebates  shall be made available from those funds for
the purchase of eligible  medium- or heavy-duty commercial
  light-duty  vehicles from a California
manufacturer in an amount 40 percent greater than the rebates made
available for the purchase of eligible  medium- or heavy-duty
commercial   light-duty  vehicles not from a
California manufacturer. 
   (2) In implementing the Hybrid Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive
Project (HVIP), with funds made available by the state board, rebates
shall be made available from those funds for the purchase of
eligible medium- or heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles from a
California manufacturer in an amount 40 percent greater than the
rebates made available for the purchase of eligible medium- or
heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles not from a California manufacturer.

   (b) (1) As used in this section, "California manufacturer" means
any sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or
other business entity that manufactures eligible vehicles in the
state and that meets either of the following criteria:
   (A) The owners or policymaking officers are domiciled in the state
and the permanent principal office, or place of business from which
the manufacturer's trade is directed or managed, is located in the
state.
   (B) A business or corporation, including those owned by, or under
common control of, a corporation, that meets all of the following
criteria continuously during the five years prior to selling an
eligible vehicle to a rebate recipient:
   (i) Owns and operates an in-state manufacturing facility that
builds or manufactures eligible vehicles.
   (ii) Is licensed by the state to conduct business within the
state.
   (iii) Employs state residents for work within the state.
   (2) For the purposes of qualifying as a California manufacturer, a
distribution or sales management office or facility does not qualify
as a manufacturing facility.