BILL NUMBER: AB 2024	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 43018.3 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2024, as introduced, Mendoza. Vehicular air pollution:
exemption: low-use vehicles: nonprofit organizations.
   Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air
contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and
nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air
Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility
for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the
state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards,
in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications
for the control of air contaminants, including standards for off-road
and nonvehicle engine categories.
   This bill would require the state board to amend a specified
regulation relating to the emissions restrictions of diesel
particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria pollutants
from in-use, on-road, diesel-fueled vehicles.
   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 43018.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   43018.3.  The state board shall amend Section 2025 of Title 13 of
the California Code of Regulations to do all of the following:
   (a) Modify the definition of "low-use vehicle" to mean a vehicle
that will be operated fewer than 5,000 miles in California in any
compliance year. If that vehicle has an engine that powers other
equipment that can only be used while stationary, the engine or power
take off must also operate less than 100 hours in any compliance
year. The hour limitation does not apply for vehicles where the
engine is used to power an auxiliary mechanism that strictly loads
and unloads cargo from the vehicle.
   (b) Exempt all tax-exempt nonprofit organizations.