BILL NUMBER: SB 1455 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 29, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 29, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 25, 2012
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 9, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Senator Kehoe
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Skinner)
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to add Section 43867.5 Sections
43867.5 and 43867.6 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to
vehicular air pollution.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1455, as amended, Kehoe. Alternative fuels.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, in partnership with the State Air Resources
Board, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of
alternative transportation fuels.
This bill would require the commission and the state board, among
other things, to coordinate efforts to implement the state
alternative fuels goal, as specified measure the
progress of alternative fuels use . The bill would require the
commission and the state board, on or before November 1, 2014, to
update a specified economic analysis , .
The bill would require the commission and the state board
to evaluate how the use of new and existing investment programs
could be used to attain increase the
state alternative transportation fuels goal
use , and evaluate how the impact of federal fuel policies and
existing state policies will help attain the state
increase the use of alternative transportation fuels
goal in the state . The bill would
require the commission and the state board, on or before November 1,
2015, and every 2 years thereafter, to report in the integrated
energy policy report, as specified, the status and
implementation of reaching the
state state's alternative transportation fuels
goals use , as specified, and make
specified evaluations. The bill would require the state board to
include a finding on the effect of proposed regulations
related to the on state alternative
transportation fuels goal use .
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 43867.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
43867.5. (a) The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1)
(a) The state overwhelmingly relies on a single source
of fuel, petroleum, for its transportation needs, and nearly one-half
of that petroleum comes from overseas. This overreliance on
petroleum leaves residents vulnerable to supply interruptions and
price instabilities, and it leaves consumers with essentially no
options for alternative transportation fuels.
(2)
(b) Residents spend over twenty billion dollars
($20,000,000,000) each year on petroleum fuel imports, representing a
significant missed economic opportunity.
(c) It is in the interest of the state to increase alternative
fuels usage to reduce fuel price volatility, improve environmental
quality and transportation energy security, and demonstrate the state'
s continued leadership in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
(3)
(d) The "State Alternative Fuels Plan," which was
adopted by the state board and the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to Section 43866,
outlined specific strategies and targets that would increase the use
of alternative and nonpetroleum fuels. The strategy set a
moderate growth goal of 26 percent penetration for alternative
fuel use in on-road and off-road vehicles by 2022. In 2007,
alternative fuels accounted for less than 5 percent of the
transportation sector's consumption.
(4)
(e) Therefore, it is in the interest of the state to
codify evaluate progress toward increasing
alternative fuels usage goals that will help guide the
state down a path to transportation energy
security, improve environmental quality, reduce fuel price
volatility, and demonstrate the state's continued leadership in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions .
(b)
SEC. 2. Section 43867.6 is added to the
Health and Safety Code , to read:
43867.6. (a) In order to attain a
goal measure the progress of at least
26 percent alternative transportation fuels
alternative fuels use for on-road and off-road vehicles in the
state by 2022 , it is the intent of the
Legislature that the state board and the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission implement
shall update the analysis of the state alternative
transportation fuels goal use described
in this section.
(c)
(b) The state board and the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission shall coordinate efforts to
implement this article. Implementation also shall complement
existing state and federal policies and programs.
(d)
(c) On or before November 1, 2014, the state board and
the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
shall do all of the following:
(1) Update
update the economic analysis used in developing
and reviewing state board regulations to include a range of petroleum
and alternative fuel prices to more accurately assess the
future cost of petroleum-based and alternative fuels.
(d) The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission, in consultation with the state board, shall do all of the
following:
(2)
(1) Evaluate how the use of new and existing investment
programs could be used to attain increase
the state alternative transportation fuels goal
use .
(3)
(2) Evaluate how the impact of federal fuel policies
and existing state policies will help attain the state
increase the use of alternative transportation
fuels goal in the state .
(e) On or before November 1, 2015, and every two years thereafter
consistent with and reported within the integrated energy policy
report, pursuant to Section 25302 of the Public Resources Code, the
state board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission shall report on the status and
implementation of reaching the
state state's alternative transportation fuels
goals use in subdivision (b)
(a) and make evaluations required in subdivision
(d). The report shall include details as to the quantities of
alternative fuels used in the state during the preceding years in
absolute terms and as a percentage of the state's overall
transportation fuel mix.
(f) As part of developing relevant new and amended regulations,
the state board shall include a finding on the effect of proposed
regulations related to on the state
alternative transportation fuels goal use
.
(g) This section shall be implemented consistent with the
environmental, public health, and sustainability considerations
included in Sections 44271 and 44272. Further, nothing in this
section shall be interpreted to preempt the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section
38500)) or the programs and policies implemented pursuant to that
act.
(h) The state board and the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission, in implementing
studying the state alternative transportation fuels
goal use , shall seek to achieve
measure all of the following:
(1) In-state job creation through the continued development of an
alternative fuels industry in the state.
(2) Decrease economic Economic
vulnerability of residents to future, costly petroleum fuel price
spikes by positioning the state to be an early adopter of
the use of either petroleum fuels or alternative
fuels and vehicles.
(3) Maximize alternative Alternative
fuel market penetration in nonattainment areas.
(4) Increase access to the supply of alternative fuels
and alternative fuel vehicles for all residents ,
including barriers to supply .