BILL NUMBER: AB 2024	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 27, 2012

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 amended, 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   state the intent
of the Legislature that the state board, for purposes of a specified
provision relating to mobile source emissions reductions, as applied
to the reduction of  emissions  restrictions 
of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria
pollutants from  certain  in-use, on-road, diesel-fueled
vehicles  , define "low-use vehicle" for purposes of tax-exempt
churches and religious organizations as prescribed  .
   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 
    43018.3.    (a)     It is the
intent of the Legislature, for purposes of Section 43018, as applied
to the reduction of emissions of diesel particulate matter, oxides of
nitrogen, and other criteria pollutants from in-use diesel-fueled
vehicles, as applicable to any person, business, federal government
agency, school district or school transportation provider that owns
or operates, leases, or rents, affected vehicles that operate in
California and to persons that sell affected vehicles in California,
that the state board define  "low-use vehicle"  for purposes
of tax-exempt churches and religious organizations,  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   shall  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.  
   (b) As used in this section "affected vehicle" means those that
operate on diesel-fuel, dual-fuel, or alternative diesel-fuel that
are registered to be driven on public highways, were originally
designed to be driven on public highways whether or not they are
registered, yard trucks with on-road engines or yard trucks with
off-road engines used for agricultural operations, both engines of
two-engine sweepers, schoolbuses, and have a manufacturer's gross
vehicle weight rating greater than 14,000 pounds, except as exempted
by the state board.