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          Bill No:  SB 1455
          Author:   Kehoe (D)
          Amended:  8/24/12
          Vote:     27

           
           SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM.  :  5-3, 04/17/12
          AYES:  DeSaulnier, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Pavley, Simitian
          NOES:  Gaines, Harman, Wyland
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Rubio

           SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE  :  5-2, 4/23/12
          AYES:  Simitian, Hancock, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Pavley
          NOES:  Strickland, Blakeslee

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  5-2, 5/24/12
          AYES:  Kehoe, Alquist, Lieu, Price, Steinberg
          NOES:  Walters, Dutton

           SENATE FLOOR  :  25-13, 5/31/12
          AYES:  Alquist, Calderon, Corbett, Correa, De Le�n, 
            DeSaulnier, Evans, Hancock, Hernandez, Kehoe, Leno, Lieu, 
            Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Padilla, Pavley, Price, 
            Rubio, Simitian, Steinberg, Vargas, Wolk, Wright, Yee
          NOES:  Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Cannella, Dutton, 
            Emmerson, Fuller, Gaines, Harman, Huff, La Malfa, 
            Walters, Wyland
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Runner, Strickland

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  Not available


           SUBJECT  :    Alternative fuels and vehicle programs
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           SOURCE  :     CalSTART


           DIGEST  :    This bill, extends until December 1, 2023, 
          various fees and surcharges related to the clean air, fuel, 
          tire recycling, and vehicle programs of the Air Resources 
          Board (ARB), the California Energy Commission (CEC), the 
          Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery 
          (CalRecycle), and the State Bureau of Automotive Repair 
          (BAR).  This bill prohibits ARB from moving forward with 
          implementation of the Clean Fuels Outlet regulation, and 
          instead directs funds from the Alternative and Renewable 
          Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund for the construction and 
          operation of a hydrogen fueling network in California.  
          This bill requires CEC and ARB to report on the status of 
          the state's alternative transportation fuel use in the 
          Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR).

           Assembly Amendments  extend the sunset dates of various 
          clean air and alternative fuels and vehicle programs, and 
          the related fees and surcharges, under ARB, CEC, and BAR 
          until December 31, 2023, as specified, and prohibit ARB 
          from submitting regulations related to the Clean Fuels 
          Outlet regulation and the deployment of hydrogen fueling 
          stations to the Office of Administrative Law, as specified.  

          ANALYSIS  :    In 2005, the Legislature passed and Governor 
          signed AB 1007 (Pavley), Chapter 371, which required the 
          CEC, in partnership with ARB and other specified state 
          agencies, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the 
          use of alternative transportation fuels by June 30, 2007.  
          The CEC adopted the  State Alternative Fuels Plan  at its 
          December 5, 2007 meeting.  The plan outlined specific 
          strategies and targets to increase the use of alternative 
          fuels, including setting a goal of 26 percent penetration 
          for alternative fuel use in California for on-road and 
          off-road vehicles by 2022.

          In 2006, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed AB 
          32 (N��ez and Pavley), Chapter 488, to establish a 
          statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit such that by 
          2020 California reduces its GHG emissions to the level they 
          were in 1990.







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          This bill:

          1.Extends the sunset dates of various clean air and 
            alternative fuels and vehicle programs, and the related 
            fees and surcharges, under ARB, CEC, and BAR to December 
            31, 2023.  The fees and surcharges are: 

             A.   AB 118 (Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007, Nunez), 
               which authorizes a vehicle registration fee to fund 
               the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle 
               Technology Program; 

             B.   AB 923 (Chapter 707, Statutes of 2004, Firebaugh), 
               which increased the vehicle registration fee for 
               vehicles registered in specified areas in the state 
               and increased the Tire Recycling Fee to fund air 
               emissions reduction activities. 

             C.   The Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards 
               Attainment (Carl Moyer) Program, which can be used to 
               fund the incremental cost of cleaner-than-required 
               vehicles, engines, and equipment. 

          1.Prohibits ARB from submitting regulations related to the 
            Clean Fuels Outlet regulation and the deployment of 
            hydrogen fueling stations to the Office of Administrative 
            Law, and instead: 

             A.   Defines "publicly available hydrogen fueling 
               station" to mean the equipment used to store and 
               dispense hydrogen fuel to vehicles according to 
               industry codes and standards that is open to the 
               public. 

             B.   Requires ARB to aggregate and make available to the 
               public no later than January 1, 2014, and every two 
               years thereafter, the number of vehicles that 
               automobile manufacturers project to be sold or leased. 


             C.   Requires CEC to allocate twenty million dollars 
               each fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2013, through June 
               30, 2016, and up to twenty million dollars 







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               ($20,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, not to 
               exceed 20 percent of moneys appropriated by the 
               Legislature from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel 
               and Vehicle Technology Fund, for purposes of 
               constructing and operating a hydrogen fueling network 
               sufficient to provide convenient fueling to vehicle 
               owners and expand that network as necessary to support 
               a growing market for vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel, 
               until there are at least 100 publicly available 
               hydrogen fueling stations 

             D.   Requires CEC's expenditures not exceed 20 percent 
               of the moneys appropriated annually by the Legislature 
               from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle 
               Technology Fund. 

             E.   Permits CEC to defer allocating the moneys as 
               needed to keep the number of fueling stations 
               appropriate for the fueling needs of hydrogen 
               vehicles. 

             F.   Once CEC determines, in consultation with ARB, that 
               the private sector is establishing publicly available 
               hydrogen fueling stations without the need for 
               government support, requires CEC to cease providing 
               funding for those stations. 

             G.   Requires, on or before December 31, 2015, and 
               annually thereafter, that ARB and CEC jointly review 
               and report on progress toward establishing a hydrogen 
               fueling network, as specified. 

             H.   Authorizes CEC to design loan incentive programs, 
               revolving loan programs, and other forms of financial 
               assistance, and authorizes CEC to enter into an 
               agreement with the Treasurer to provide financial 
               assistance to further the development of the hydrogen 
               fueling network. 

             I.   Requires that funds appropriated to CEC for the 
               purposes of this bill be available for encumbrance by 
               CEC for up to four years from the date of the 
               appropriation. 








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             J.   Requires ARB, no later than July 1, 2013, to 
               convene a working group to evaluate the policies and 
               goals contained within the Carl Moyer and Assembly 
               Bill 923 (Chapter 707, Statutes of 2004) programs. 

             AA.  Sunsets these provisions on December 31, 2023. 

          1.Directs ARB and CEC, by November 1, 2014, to update the 
            economic analysis used to develop and review ARB's 
            regulations to include a range of petroleum and 
            alternative fuel prices to more accurately assess the 
            future costs of petroleum-based and alternative fuels. 

          2.Beginning November 1, 2015, and every two years 
            thereafter, requires CEC, in consultation with ARB and as 
            a part of its IEPR, to provide a status of the state's 
            alternative transportation fuel use, including: 

             A.   An evaluation of how new and existing investment 
               programs could help to increase the state's 
               alternative fuels use; and, 

             B.   An evaluation of how federal fuel policies and 
               existing state policies will help increase the use of 
               alternative fuels in the state. 

          1.Requires ARB when developing new and amended regulations, 
            to include a finding on the effect of the proposed 
            regulations on the state's alternative transportation 
            fuels use. 

          2.Provides that this bill does not preempt AB 32 and that 
            the bill be implemented consistent with environmental, 
            public health, and sustainability considerations 
            articulated in AB 32, clean fuels and vehicle funding 
            statutes. 

          3.Requires ARB and CEC, when studying the state's 
            alternative transportation fuel use, to measure: 

             A.   In-state job creation through the continued 
               development of an alternative fuels industry in the 
               state; 








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             B.   Economic vulnerability of residents to future 
               petroleum fuel price spikes by the use of either 
               petroleum fuels or alternative fuels and vehicles; 

             C.   Alternative fuel market penetration in 
               nonattainment areas; and, 

             D.   Increase access to the supply of alternative fuels 
               and alternative fuel vehicles for all residents, 
               including barriers to supply. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes   
          Local:  No

          According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee:

           Annual fee revenue, ranging from $48 million to $60 
            million, from the tire fee extension, 57% of which 
            (roughly $27 million to $34 million) goes to Calrecycle 
            to fund waste tire management and 43% of which (roughly 
            $21 million to $26 million) goes to ARB to fund the Carl 
            Moyer Program (special funds.) (Absent this bill, the 
            tire fees drops, as of January 1, 2015, from $1.75 per 
            tire to $0.75 per tire, all of which will go to 
            Calrecycle to fund waste tire management.) 

           Annual revenue of approximately $180 million from 
            extension of various vehicle, vessel, and other air 
            quality-related surcharges to fund AB 118 programs, as 
            follows: approximately $105 million for the ARFVT 
            program, administered by CEC, approximately $45 million 
            for the AQI Program, administered by ARB, and 
            approximately $30 million for the passenger vehicle car 
            scrap program, administered by the Bureau of Automotive 
            Repair (BAR) (special funds.) 

           Annual local revenue, of approximately $50 million, from 
            extension of local surcharge on vehicle registration fees 
            to fund local vehicle emissions reduction projects 
            (various local funds). 

           Annual redirection of $20 million from the ARFVT Fund 
            during each fiscal year 2013-14 through 2015-16, and up 
            to that amount each fiscal year thereafter, away from 







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            projects for the development and commercialization of 
            nonpetroleum fuels and to projects for the construction 
            and operation of a hydrogen fueling network. 

           Ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to 
            ARB, CEC and BAR to continue to administer various air 
            quality and alternative fuel programs (special funds). 
            These costs will be fully covered by the fee extensions 
            authorized by this bill. 

           Ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to 
            ARB and CEC to track and periodically report on 
            alternative-fueled vehicle sales and progress in 
            establishing a hydrogen fueling network, to evaluate 
            alternative fuels use and include such information in the 
            IEPR, and to update the economic analysis used in 
            developing ARB's regulations (special funds.) 

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  8/30/12)

          CALSTART (source) 
          Achates Power
          Aemetis, Inc.
          AeroVironment, Inc.
          Agricultural council of California
          Alhambra Unified School District
          Alhambra Unified School District 
          Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
          Alliance of Western Milk Producers
          Allison Transmission
          American Lung Association
          American Pistachio Growers
          Amtrak
          Antelope Valley Clean Cities
          Atieva
          AVL
          Azure Dynamics
          BAE Systems
          Ballard Power Systems
          Banning School District
          Bay Area Air Quality Management District
          Bear Valley Unified School District
          Beaumont Unified School District
          Bosch Rexroth







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          BP
          California Air Pollution Control Officers Association
          California Air Resources Board 
          California Airports Council
          California Association of School Transportation Officials
          California Association of Wheat Growers
          California association of Winegrape growers
          California Bean Shippers Association
          California Biomass Energy Alliance
          California Cattlemen's Association
          California Citrus Mutual 
          California Cotton Ginners Association
          California Cotton Growers Association
          California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance
          California Electric Transportation Coalition 
          California Energy Commission
          California Farm Bureau Federation
          California Grain and Feed Association
          California Grape and Tree Fruit League
          California Hydrogen Business Council
          California Independent Oil Marketers Association 
          California Manufacturers and Technology Association
          California Metals Coalition
          California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
          California Poultry Association
          California Retailers Association
          California Rice Commission
          California School Transportation Coalition
          California Seed Association
          California Service Station & Auto Repair Association 
          California Small Business Alliance
          California Trucking Association
          Californians Against Waste
          Carnival Cruise Lines
          Cascade Sierra Solutions
          Caterpillar
          Central Coast Clean Cities Coalition 
          ChargePoint
          City of Duarte
          City of Pomona
          City of Tulare
          Clean Cities Coachella Valley Region
          Clean Fuel Connection
          Clean Power Campaign







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          Clean World Partners
          CleanTECH San Diego
          Coalition for Clean Air
          CODA Automotive
          Colton Joint Unified School District
          Construction Industry Air Quality Coalition
          CR&R
          Delta Liquid Energy
          Diesel Technology Forum
          Dow Kokam
          Downey Unified School District
          East Bay Clean Cities Coalition
          Eaton Corporation
          El Dorado National Coach
          Electric Vehicles International
          Electrification Leadership Council
          Environmental Defense Fund 
          Freightliner Custom Chassis
          FritoLay
          Garvey School District
          General Motors
          Global Automakers 
          GREEN TEAM of Silicon Valley 
          Greenkraft
          Hemet Unified School District
          Honda
          Hydrogenics
          Industrial Environmental Association
          International Council on Clean Transportation
          Kings Canyon Unified School District
          Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
          Los Angeles Unified School District
          Metrolink
          Mid Coast Gas LP
          Mohr Davidow Ventures
          Montebello Unified School District
          Monterey Park Environmental Commission
          Motiv Power Systems
          Murrieta Valley Unified School District
          National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 
          -Riverside Branch
          National Federation of Independent Business 
          Natural Resources Defense Council 
          Navistar, Inc.







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          Nisei Farmers League
          Odyne
          Orange County Cemetery District
          Orange Unified School District
          Pacific Egg and Poultry Association
          Pacific Ethanol
          Parker Hannifin
          Pearson Fuels
          Pepsi
          Plug In America
          Propel Fuels
          Protean Electric
          Proterra
          Quantum Technologies
          Revolution CNG
          Riverside Community College
          Rowland Unified School District
          Sacramento Clean Cities Coalition
          Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District
          San Diego Gas and Electric 
          San Diego Miramar College Advanced Transportation 
          Technology and Energy Center
          San Diego Regional Clean Cities Coalition
          San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District 
          San Joaquin Valley Clean Cities Coalition
          Sanitation District of Los Angeles County
          School Energy Coalition
          Sempra Energy Utilities
          Silicon Valley Leadership Group
          Small Business California
          Small School Districts Association
          Smith Electric Vehicles
          South Coast Air Quality Management District 
          Southern California Gas Company
          StarLine Tours of Hollywood
          SunLine Transit Agency 
          Technology Partners
          Tesla Motors
          Torrance Unified School District
          TransPower
          UPS
          VIA Motors
          Volvo Group
          Waste Management







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          Western Agricultural Processors Association
          Western Growers Association
          Western States Petroleum Association
          Western United Dairymen

           OPPOSITION  :    (Verified  8/30/12)

          AutoNation
          California New Car Dealers Association
          Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

           ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT  :    The author introduced this bill to 
          build upon the alternative fuels report that AB 1007 
          mandated and the subsequent guidelines ARB and the CEC 
          approved.  She notes that the bill also complements 
          executive branch actions to develop strategies that will 
          achieve our transition away from petroleum dependence and 
          to ensure that these strategies create jobs, produce clean 
          fuels, and reduce greenhouse gas emission reductions.  

          Supporters of the bill state that it is important to codify 
          the AB 1007 target and to build off of AB 1007 with 
          additional strategic planning, including updates of the 
          economic analysis used in developing alternative fuel 
          regulations, evaluating new and existing alternative fuel 
          goals, and creating jobs in the alternative fuels sector in 
          California.  They further note that the bill will provide 
          market signals that attract private investment and business 
          to California by creating a long-term and established 
          commitment to the clean transportation and alternative fuel 
          industries, allowing investors and consumers to plan for 
          the future and transition toward a cleaner and more 
          efficient transportation system.

           ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION  :    Auto Nation states, "?we must 
          oppose SB 1455 (Kehoe), which would extend until 2023 the 
          sunset on numerous vehicle registration fees set to expire 
          in 2015 at an additional cost of hundreds of millions of 
          dollars.  

          "In addition, SB 1455 would require the allocation of $20 
          million each fiscal year, and up to $20 million each fiscal 
          year thereafter, to establish a new hydrogen fueling 
          station network and expand that network to support a market 







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          for vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel, until there are at 
          least 100 publicly available hydrogen fueling stations.

          "To put it simply, this is a tax on many to pay for 
          hydrogen fueling stations for few. 

          "The Carl Moyer Program is important to many different 
          industries in our State.  However, reauthorization of this 
          program is being tied to the lengthy extension and of fees 
          without thorough review of the existing programs or cost 
          benefit analysis."


          JJA:n   8/31/12   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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