California Air Resources Board

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Would exempt certain leased zero-emission medium- or heavy-duty trucks from vehicle license and registration and weight fees, as well as exempting the fuel for these vehicles from sales tax. Eligible vehicles would be those leased after July 1, 2022, and that requires the lessor to provide specific information to the lessee. Was not heard in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

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Allows Community Choice Aggregators to access the California Public Utilities Commission's Bioenergy Market Adjusting Tariff (BioMAT) program.

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Would provide a partial sales tax exclusion starting 2021 for the sale of zero-emission or near-zero-emission drayage trucks that qualify for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project, Carl Moyer, or Volkswagen mitigation programs. Was not heard in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.

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Would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission, and CARB, in consultation with all balancing authorities, to develop a strategy by January 1, 2024, on how to achieve the SB 100 policy of achieving the 100 percent renewable and zero-carbon resources goal by the end of 2045 in a cost-effective and environmentally beneficial manner. Specifically, the strategy must achieve a target of at least five Gigawatt-hours of “operational long-term backup electricity” by the end of 2030. The strategy must address carbon sequestration and storage of emissions from conventional power plants. The strategy must also achieve a target of at least an additional five Gigawatt-hours of operational long-term backup electricity in each subsequent year beginning 2031 through 2045. By January 1, 2024, CPUC is required to submit the strategy in a report to the Legislature and every four years thereafter through January 1, 2044 detailing the progress made on achieving the targets of the strategy. Was not heard in the Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee.

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Would require Strategic Growth Council to coordinate and convene at least two meetings each calendar year with specified State agencies, including CARB, and regional entities, to coordinate their implementation of sustainable transportation policies including vehicle miles traveled reduction goals, zero-Emission Vehicle deployment goals, transit goals, and active transportation goals. The bill would require those State agencies and regional entities, on or before December 31, 2023, and each year thereafter, to collaboratively develop a summary of actions undertaken as part of the meetings and would require the summary to be publicly available on the Strategic Growth Council’s internet website. Moved to the Assembly Inactive File.

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Would provide an exemption from taxes with respect to the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, a qualified motor vehicle. The bill defines “qualified motor vehicle” as a specified zero-emission truck. The bill would disallow the exemption for sales or uses made on or after January 1, 2025, if the purchaser also received other specified benefits. The bill would provide that this exemption does not apply to specified state sales and use taxes from which the proceeds are deposited into the Local Revenue Fund, the Local Revenue Fund 2011, or the Local Public Safety Fund. Moved to the Senate Inactive File.

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Would change retention rules surrounding information captured by automatic license plate readers (ALPR).  Current law authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol to retain license plate data captured by license plate reader technology for not more than 60 days unless the data is being used as evidence, or for the investigation of felonies. This data can be shared with law enforcement agencies and requires both an ALPR operator and an ALPR end-user, as those terms are defined, to implement a usage and privacy policy regarding that ALPR information. This bill would require, if the ALPR operator or ALPR end-user is a public agency and not an airport authority, ALPR data be destroyed within 24 hours if it does not match a hot list. Held on suspense in Senate Appropriations Committee.

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Would revise and recast the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, also known as the Clean Transportation Program, to expand the purpose of the program to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics, as well as, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, when developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types. This bill requires California Energy Commission CEC to invest no less than 50 percent, over a three-year period, in programs and projects that directly benefit or serve residents of disadvantaged and low-income communities and low-income Californians. Moved to the Assembly Inactive File.

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Spot bill related to the State’s Smog Check program. Remains at Assembly Desk.

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Would set a goal that at least 60 percent of new zero-emission passenger vehicles (ZEV) sold in the State for noncommercial private use be purchased by, or on behalf of persons from, an underrepresented community as defined by the bill. The bill also stated that this goal should supersede any other ZEV goals. Additionally, the bill would prohibit CARB from pursuing strategies to implement any goal for zero-emission passenger vehicle sales established by statute or executive order unless those strategies are also designed to achieve the zero-emission vehicle equity goal established by this bill simultaneously. Was not heard in Assembly Transportation Committee.

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