BILL NUMBER: AB 2583 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 9, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Blumenfield
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to add Section 44272.8 to the Health and Safety
Code amend Section 25722.8 of, and to add Section
25722.9 to, the Public Resources Code , relating to vehicular
air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2583, as amended, Blumenfield. Alternative and
Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund: public parking
infrastructure. Alternatively fueled vehicles: state
fleet: public parking.
Existing law requires the Secretary of State and Consumer
Services, in consultation with the Department of General Services and
other appropriate agencies, on or before July 1, 2009, to develop
and implement, and submit to the Legislature and the Governor, a plan
to reduce or displace the state fleet's consumption of petroleum
products.
This bill would require the department to purchase new vehicles
that are alternatively fueled vehicles, as defined, to encourage the
operation of state alternatively fueled vehicles on the alternative
fuel for which the vehicle is designed and the development of
commercial infrastructure for alternative fuel pumps and charging
stations at or near state vehicle fueling or parking sites, and to
work with other public agencies to incentivize and promote state
employee operation of alternatively fueled vehicles through
preferential or reduced-cost parking, access to charging, or other
means. The bill would authorize the department to provide grants or
enter into interagency agreements to implement these goals. The bill
would require the department and the Department of Transportation to
develop and implement advanced technology vehicle parking incentive
programs in specified public parking facilities of 50 spaces or more
and specified park and ride lots to incentivize the purchase and use
of alternatively fueled vehicles, as defined, in the state, as
specified.
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 25722.8 of the
Public Resources Code is amended to read:
25722.8. (a) On or before July 1, 2009, the Secretary of State
and Consumer Services, in consultation with the Department of General
Services and other appropriate state agencies that maintain or
purchase vehicles for the state fleet, including the campuses of the
California State University, shall develop and implement, and submit
to the Legislature and the Governor, a plan to improve the overall
state fleet's use of alternative fuels, synthetic lubricants, and
fuel-efficient vehicles by reducing or displacing the consumption of
petroleum products by the state fleet when compared to the 2003
consumption level based on the following schedule:
(1) By January 1, 2012, a 10-percent reduction or displacement.
(2) By January 1, 2020, a 20-percent reduction or displacement.
(b) Beginning April 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, the
Department of General Services shall provide to the Department of
Finance and the appropriate legislative committees of the Legislature
a progress report on meeting the goals specified in subdivision (a).
The Department of General Services shall also make the progress
report available on its Internet Web site.
(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Department of
General Services shall purchase new vehicles that are alternatively
fueled vehicles based on the following schedule:
(A) Beginning January 1, 2013, 50 percent of the new vehicles
purchased.
(B) Beginning January 1, 2015, 100 percent of the new vehicles
purchased.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the purchase of types of
vehicles for which an alternatively fueled vehicle is not available.
(3) The Department of General Services shall encourage, to the
extent feasible, the operation of state alternatively fueled vehicles
on the alternative fuel for which the vehicle is designed and the
development of commercial infrastructure for alternative fuel pumps
and charging stations at or near state vehicle fueling or parking
sites.
(4) The Department of General Services shall work with other
public agencies to incentivize and promote, to the extent feasible,
state employee operation of alternatively fueled vehicles through
preferential or reduced-cost parking, access to charging, or other
means.
(5) The Department of General Services may provide grants or enter
into interagency agreements to implement this subdivision.
(6) For purposes of this subdivision, "alternatively fueled
vehicles" means light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles that reduce
petroleum usage and related emissions by using advanced technologies
and fuels, including, but not limited to, hybrid, plug-in hybrid,
battery electric, natural gas, or fuel cell vehicles and including
those vehicles described in Section 5205.5 of the Vehicle Code.
SEC. 2. Section 25722.9 is added to the
Public Resources Code , to read:
25722.9. (a) For purposes of this section, "alternatively fueled
vehicles" means light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles that reduce
petroleum usage and related emissions by using advanced technologies
and fuels, including, but not limited to, hybrid, plug-in hybrid,
battery electric, natural gas, or fuel cell vehicles and including
those vehicles described in Section 5205.5 of the Vehicle Code.
(b) The Department of General Services and the Department of
Transportation shall develop and implement advanced technology
vehicle parking incentive programs in public parking facilities of 50
spaces or more operated by the Department of General Services and
park and ride lots operated by the Department of Transportation to
incentivize the purchase and use of alternatively fueled vehicles in
the state. These programs shall provide meaningful, tangible benefits
for drivers of alternatively fueled vehicles. These incentives may
include preferential spaces, reduced fees, and fueling infrastructure
for alternatively fueled vehicles that use these parking facilities
or park and ride lots.
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.