BILL NUMBER: AB 2583	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 44272.8 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vehicular air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2583, as introduced, Blumenfield. Alternative and Renewable
Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund: public parking infrastructure.
   Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and
Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy
Commission), to provide to specified entities, upon appropriation by
the Legislature, grants, loans, loan guarantees, revolving loans, or
other appropriate measures for the development and deployment of
innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle
types to help attain the state's climate change goals. Existing law
creates the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology
Fund and requires the Energy Commission to make a determination,
prior to awarding specified moneys from the fund, that a proposed
project will provide benefits to electric or natural gas ratepayers
based upon the Energy Commission's adopted criteria.
   This bill would require the Energy Commission to work in
coordination with appropriate state agencies, including the
Department of General Services and the Department of Transportation,
to fund the development and installation of alternative fuel
infrastructure in public parking facilities of 50 spaces or more and
park and ride lots. The bill also would require the Energy
Commission, for purposes of funding that infrastructure, to use
existing state resources dedicated to the deployment of clean,
efficient, and low carbon alternative fuels and technologies; moneys
collected pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism established
under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; federal
funds; and private funds.
   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 44272.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   44272.8.  (a) The commission shall work in coordination with
appropriate state agencies, including the Department of General
Services and the Department of Transportation, to fund the
development and installation of alternative fuel infrastructure in
public parking facilities of 50 spaces or more and park and ride
lots.
   (b) For purposes of implementing subdivision (a), the commission
shall use existing state resources dedicated to the deployment of
clean, efficient, and low carbon alternative fuels and technologies;
moneys collected pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 38570)
of Division 25.5; federal funds; and private funds.