California Air Resources Board

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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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Expands the set of violations that can cause port drayage contractors to be placed on a Division of Labor Standards Enforcement list that extends joint liability for future violations to customers of that contractor. This legislation relates to the implementation of AB 794 (Chapter 748, Statutes of 2021) as violators named in this bill would be ineligible for CARB incentive programs named in AB 794.

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Makes permanent existing law set to expire that authorizes Orange County to establish a neighborhood electric vehicle transportation plan for the Ranch Plan Planned Community, also known as Rancho Mission Viejo.

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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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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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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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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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