California Air Resources Board

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Requires the California Energy Commission to consider in the investment planning process for the Electric Program Investment Charge Program (EPIC) bioenergy projects for biomass conversion.

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Expands the list of eligible projects under the California Energy Commission's Energy Conservation Assistance Account (ECAA) to include installation of energy storage systems and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Also expands the eligible entities who can participate in the ECAA program to include California Native American tribes.

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Expands the types of projects eligible for funding from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) to include projects that develop in-state supply chains and the workforce for raw materials and components needed for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing. This bill expands the groups the California Energy Commission (CEC) must consult as part of ARFVTP workforce development efforts to include California Conservation Corps, local Conservation Corps, California Mobility Center, and California Community Colleges. This bill also incorporates workforce development as a resource CEC must evaluate part of its regular assessment of resources needed to meet State ZEV deployment goals.

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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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Directs CARB to establish a program administered by California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA), to make financing tools and nonfinancial support tools available to the operators of medium- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets, to enable those operators to transition their fleets to zero-emission vehicles. Such direction includes developing and designing financing tools (e.g., grants, vouchers) and non-financial support tools (e.g., calculators, outreach), setting program criteria and prioritization for funding, defining success metrics, and collecting and compiling data about deployment of funding. Seventy-five percent of the funds must be deployed in priority areas defined in the bill, and the financing tools and non-financial supports must be accessible to fleets by January 1, 2023.

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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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Requires, among other things, CARB to establish processes to identify any overlap among its transportation-related incentive programs that share the same objectives, and create a process to define, collect, and evaluate data on the behavioral changes that result from each of its incentive programs. The bill also requires CARB to develop a process to define, collect, and evaluate data that will translate to metrics demonstrating the socioeconomic benefits that result from each of its incentive programs, and to use this data to make funding and design recommendations in its annual reports to the Legislature and funding plans. The work outlined by the bill is contingent upon appropriation and must be completed within three years of the appropriation.

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Would have established a goal of 100 percent new passenger and light-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The bill would have required, on and after January 1, 2023, the total passenger vehicles and light-duty vehicles trucks sold by a manufacturer in the State, in a calendar year to meet specified greenhouse gas emissions standards pursuant to a tiered plan that would require the total passenger vehicles and light-duty vehicles trucks to meet, on average, in the 2030 calendar year, a greenhouse gas emissions standard that is 60 percent and 40 percent below the average greenhouse gas emissions level for those classes of vehicles in the 2020 calendar year, respectively. The bill would have required CARB to impose an administrative civil penalty on a manufacturer who violates these requirements. Held on suspense by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Specifies that peer-to-peer truck sharing platform demonstration projects are eligible for funding under CARB’s California Clean Truck, Bus, and Off-Road Vehicle and Equipment Technology Program.

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Would have required CARB, as a part of the Clean Cars 4 All program, to provide vouchers to low-income persons living in disadvantaged communities for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles if two conditions were met: (1) the vehicles to be replaced had failed a smog check inspection, and (2) the repair cost of each vehicle to be replaced in order to pass the smog check inspection was greater than the maximum amount of assistance provided by the bureau’s Consumer Assistance Program. The bill also would have required CARB to: (1) Review award amounts offered under Clean Cars 4 All under each qualifying income bracket. (2) Ensure that vouchers awarded pursuant to Clean Cars 4 All are sufficient to incentivize purchases of near zero- and zero-emission transportation options eligible under the Clean Cars 4 All existing guidelines. (3) Develop metrics to demonstrate the socioeconomic benefits that result from Clean Cars 4 All participation. (4) Establish a centralized online database for consumers to view all light-duty electric vehicle incentives offered in the State. (5) Develop a community outreach strategy with stakeholders of all participating districts, including Clean Cars 4 All administrators, eligible residents, and participating residents, to examine the barriers limiting a low-income consumer’s adoption of electric vehicles, including, but not limited to, barriers of cost, lack of information, language, and availability of charging infrastructure. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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