California Air Resources Board

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Requires the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development to develop a model permitting checklist, model zoning ordinances, and best practices for permit costs and permit review timelines to help local governments permit curbside charging stations.

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Would have required the California Energy Commission (CEC) to gather aggregated information that would allow the public sector to estimate the total anticipated hydrogen fueling demand at each fleet location. The bill would have also required CEC to share the aggregated data with developers of publicly available hydrogen fueling stations and would have prohibited the developer of a publicly available hydrogen fueling station from disclosing that data to third parties. This bill would have amended AB 2700 (McCarty, Chapter 354, Statutes of 2022) that requires CARB to supply data to CEC. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Would have required cities and counties to complete a plan for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations in the public right-of-way and updated the requirements of the statewide assessment of necessary electric vehicle charging infrastructure the California Energy Commission (CEC) prepares pursuant to existing law. The bill would have also required CEC, working with CARB and the California Public Utilities Commission, to prepare a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of light- and heavy-duty electric vehicle adoption required for the State to meet the goals of a specified executive order, a mobile source strategy, and achieving carbon neutrality as soon as possible and no later than 2045. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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Requires the California Energy Commission, in collaboration with CARB and the California Public Utilities Commission, to annually gather existing fleet data on existing medium- and heavy duty on- and off-road vehicles and share that data with electric utilities. This bill also requires utilities to consider the fleet data to facilitate the readiness of their electrical distribution system and to identify investments in general rate cases.

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Would have codified the light-duty portion of the Governor’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Executive Order, which sets a target of 100 percent new car sales be zero-emission by 2035. The bill also would have required CARB, to the extent consistent with State and federal law, to develop and adopt passenger vehicle and light-duty truck regulations requiring increasing volumes of new zero-emission vehicles sold in the State towards the target of 100 percent of in-State sales by 2035. Died on the Assembly Floor.

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Requires a covered school, and requests the University of California (UC), to ensure that facilities have heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems that meet minimum ventilation rate requirements and to install filtration that achieves levels of 13 or higher for minimum efficiency reporting values. The bill requires the California Building Standards Commission and the Division of the State Architect to propose for adoption mandatory standards for carbon dioxide monitors in classrooms of a covered school and UC.

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Would have required the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop and administer the Green Means Go Grant and Loan Program to award competitive grants and revolving loans to cities, counties, and special districts within the Sacramento region for qualifying projects within and benefitting green zones, as defined.  Was not heard in Assembly Transportation Committee.

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Expedites local government permit approval for electric vehicle charging stations by automatically deeming the permit approved if a local government official takes no action after specified time periods.

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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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Would require the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop and administer the Green Means Go Grant and Loan Program to award competitive grants and revolving loans to cities, counties, and special districts within the Sacramento region for qualifying projects within and benefitting green zones, as defined. Was not heard by the Assembly Committee on Transportation.

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