Archive
2007-2008 California Energy Legislation (Updated 10-17-07)
The following information on energy-related bills is available on the EPIC website:
2007 Energy Bills Signed into Law
The following bills have been signed by Governor Schwarzenegger.
Click on the bill number to see the full bill text, history, and legislative analysis.
Air Quality
AB 233 (Jones) Penalties for air Pollution
This bill would increase the minimum civil penalty to $300 for violations of the state's airborne toxic control measure to limit diesel-fueled
commercial motor vehicle idling. Also, the bill would require CARB, every three years, to review enforcement of
specified diesel emission control regulations and develop a strategic
plan for consistent, comprehensive, and fair enforcement of these
regulations. This bill would require the department to refuse registration, or renewal or transfer of registration if the owner or an operator of the vehicle has
been cited for a violation pertaining to the vehicle of specified air
pollution laws until the violation has been cleared.
AB 294 (Adams) Manganese Particulate Matter
This bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study to identify areas in the state where manganese is at dangerous levels in the air and determine strategies to remove manganese from the air in these high level areas
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Alternative Fuels
AB 118 (Nunez) Funding for Alternative fuels
The bill would create three programs and associated funds to provide funding for alternative fuel vehicle technologies: the Alternative and Renewable Fuel, Vehicle Technology, Carbon Reduction, and Clean Air Program(CEC), Air Quality Improvement Program (CARB), Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (Bureau of Automotive Repair). The bill would also temporarily increase vehicle registration and smog abatement fees to fund in part these new programs.
AB 236 (Lieu) State and Local Motor Vehicle Fleets
This bill would require the Department of General Services, in conjunction with CARB and CEC, by December 31, 2008, to amend and revise existing purchasing methodology to rank environmental and energy benefits, and costs of motor vehicles for potential procurement by state and local governments and to develop vehicle ranking containing specified criteria.
SB 23 (Cogdill) High Polluter Vehicles Exchange Program
This bill would require the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to develop and administer a voluntary program to remove high polluter vehicles within the district by exchanging them for donated vehicles. The bill would limit the program to 200 exchanges annually.
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Distributed Generation
AB 1613 (Blakeslee) Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act
This bill would enact the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions
Reduction Act. It would state the intent of the Legislature: (A) to dramatically advance the efficiency of the state's use of natural gas by capturing unused waste heat, (B) to reduce wasteful consumption of energy through improved residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and manufacturer utilization of waste heat, and (C) to support and facilitate both customer- and utility-owned combined heat and power systems. In addition the bill would among other things authorize the CPUC to require an electrical corporation to purchase excess electricity delivered by certain combined heat and power systems, require the CPUC to a pay-as-you-save pilot program to finance all of the up front costs for the purchase and installation of combined heat and power systems, require the CPUC to require electric utilities to incorporate into their procurement plans an assessment of the reliability of incorporating combined heat and power solutions to the maximum degree that is cost effective compared to other competing forms of wholesale generation, technologically feasible, and environmentally beneficial, require the Energy Commission, by January 1, 2010, to adopt guidelines that require combined heat and power systems be designed to reduce waste energy, be sized to meet the eligible customer-generator's, operate continuously in a manner that meets the expected thermal load and optimizes the efficient use of waste heat, and are cost effective, technologically feasible, and environmentally beneficial.
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AB 609 (Eng) Life-cycle Cost Analysis of Energy Measures in State Buildings
Instead of requiring equipment, conservation measures, or energy
services contracts subject to the provisions The State Building Construction Act of 1955 to be required to provide cost savings to the state in each year during
the term of any revenue bonds, notes, or energy service contracts
issued, this bill would require such contracts to be anticipated to provide
cost savings to the state during the useful life of the equipment or
conservation measure.
AB 1103 (Saldana) Commercial Buillding Energy Benchmarking
AB 1103 would require electric utilities by 2009 to provide automated billing information for nonresidential buildings in a format that is compatible for uploading onto the United States Environmental
Protection Agency’s Energy Star Portfolio Manager (Energy Star
Portfolio Manager) upon the authorization of the building owner or operator. It would also require that when a nonresidential building is put up for sale or lease, or when it is financed or refinanced, the benchmarking data and scores generated by the Energy Star system must be disclosed, beginning in 2010.
AB 1109 (Huffman) Regulation of Toxics in Lighting
This bill would enact the California Lighting Efficiency and Toxics
Reduction Act and would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2010, a
person from manufacturing for sale in the state specified general purpose
lights that contain levels of hazardous substances prohibited by the
European Union pursuant to the RoHS Directive.
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Nuclear Energy
AB 292 (Blakeslee) Nuclear Power Plant Special Account
The California Emergency Services Act provides for the assessment
of certain state agency costs on utilities operating certain nuclear
power plants, and the deposit of those moneys into, and the
appropriation and allocation of moneys from, the Nuclear Planning
Assessment Special Account. These provisions become inoperative on
July 1, 2009, and are repealed on January 1, 2010.
This bill would extend the inoperative date of these provisions to
July 1, 2019, and the repeal date to January 1, 2020.
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Rates and Tariffs
SB 428 (Dutton) Continuation of Interruptible Electric Rates
This bill would require electrical corporations to offer optional
interruptible or curtailable service programs using pricing
incentives that are cost effective and that may reflect the full range
of costs avoided by the reductions in demand created by these
programs. The bill would also extend to January 1, 2015 existing provisions
requiring the commission to continue the availability of optional
interruptible or curtailable service
and the provision prohibiting the alteration of the level of the
pricing incentive.
Renewable Energy
AB 809 (Blakeslee) Hydroelectirc Eligibility for Renewable Portfolio Standard
This bill would revise the definition of an "eligible renewable energy resource" to provide that a conduit hydroelectric facility, as defined, of 30 megawatts or less that commenced operation before January 1, 2006, is an eligible renewable energy resource, or if a conduit hydroelectric facility of 30 megawatts or less commences operation after December 31, 2005, it is an eligible renewable energy resource so long as it does not cause a material adverse impact on instream beneficial uses.
AB 946 (Krekorian) Water and Wastewater Renewable Generation
This bill would amend the definition of an "electric generation facility" for purposes of renewable portfolio standard eligibility to require that the facility be owned and operated by a public water or wastewater agency that is a retail customer of an electrical corporation, that the facility have an effective capacity of not more than one megawatt, and that the facility is located on land owned or under the control of the public water or wastewater agency.
SB 1036 (Perata) Renewable Energy Incentives and payments
This bill would, effective July 1, 2008, repeal certain existing provisions related to the New Renewable Resources Account within the Renewable Resource Trust Fund. The bill would delete the requirement that the Energy Commission award production incentives and allocate and award supplemental energy payments to eligible renewable energy resources to cover above-market costs of renewable energy. The bill would require the Energy Commission to terminate all production incentives awarded prior to January 1, 2002, from the New Renewable Resources Account, unless the renewable energy project began generating electricity by January 1, 2007.
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Solar Energy
AB 532 (Wolk) Solar Energy Equipment on State Property
This bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that solar energy
equipment is installed no later than January 1, 2009, on all state buildings and
state parking facilities, and state-operated swimming pools
that are heated with fossil fuels or electricity, where feasible.
AB 1470 (Huffman) Solar Hot Water and Efficiency Act of 2007
This bill would establish the Solar Heating and Efficiency Act of
2007. It would make findings and declarations of the
Legislature relating to the promotion of solar hot water systems and
other technologies that reduce natural gas demand. The bill would require the
CPUC to evaluate the data available from a specified pilot
program, and, if it makes a specified determination, to design and
implement a program of incentives for the installation of 200,000 solar
water heating systems in homes and businesses throughout the state by
2017.
AB 1714 (Levine) Time Variant Tariffs for Solar
This bill authorizes the PUC to delay implementation of time-variant
pricing for ratepayers with a solar energy system, until the effective date of
the rates established in the next general rate case of the state’s 3 largest
electrical corporations. If the commission delays implementation of
time-variant pricing, the bill would require that ratepayers required to take
service under time-variant pricing between January 1, 2007, and January 1,
2008, and that would otherwise qualify for flat rate pricing, be given the
option to take service under flat rate or time-variant pricing.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency
statute.
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Energy Bills Vetoed in 2007
The following bills have been vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger.
AB 35 (Ruskin) Sustainable Building Standards in State Buildings
This bill would enact the Sustainable Building Act of 2007. It
would require a state agency, on and after July 1, 2010, that
begins construction of a state building, or renovation to a
building owned by the state, to design, construct, and operate that
state building to meet applicable certification
standards described in the United States Green Building Council’s
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for a gold rating.
AB 89 (Garcia) Border Infrastructure
This bill would require the Secretary of Business, Transportation
and Housing, by January 1, 2010, to prepare and provide to the Legislature a study on the infrastructure development along the border between California and Mexico and any need for alternative financing mechanisms suited to the challenges of the border region. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2011.
AB 527 (Torrico) Energy Efficiency In State Buildings
This bill would require the Department of General Services, in partnership with the CA Energy Commission , to develop and adopt, on or before January 1, 2009, a state plan to include energy efficient technology in certain public buildings. It would require the department, with the cooperation of the commission , to begin implementation of the state plan upon its adoption. It would also require the department , in conjunction with the commission , to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2011, on the progress of the implementation of the state plan and its effectiveness in improving the energy efficiency of public buildings. The bill would also create the California Energy Efficient Technology Pooled Investment Fund in the State Treasury, which would be
administered by the Secretary of State and Consumer Services, for the procurement and implementation of qualifying measures that are specified in the state plan and approved by the State Public Works Board. In addition to authorizing private monetary contributions to the fund the bill would require each state agency to deposit a specified percentage of its annual utility budget into the fund for these purposes and would specify that all net savings resulting from the implementation of a qualifying measure would be retained by the state agency implementing the measure.
AB 785 (Hancock) State Contractors' State Licensing Board / Urban Heat Island Effect
This bill would make unlicensed contractors who fail to comply
with the building energy efficiency standards subject to a civil
penalty of not less than $2,000.
It would also specify that the failure of a licensee to comply with the building energy efficiency standards constitutes a cause for disciplinary action. The bill would require the Contractor's State Licensing Board, beginning July 1, 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter, to compile data and to submit a report to the Legislature that includes the number of fines assessed by the board against licensees for failure to comply with these standards. This bill would also require the CARB and CEC to develop and submit to the legislature by November 1, 2009, a coordinated plan for how to use urban
heat island mitigation measures. The CEC would be required to include that report in the 2009 integrated energy policy report. Finally, the bill would revise the definition of “energy-efficient vehicle”
to include a highly reflective colored vehicle that meets other
specified requirements.
AB 888 (Lieu) Green Buildings Standards for Commercial Buildings
This bill would require new commercial buildings that are 50,000 square feet
or greater and approved for construction on
or after January 1, 2013 be designed, constructed, and operated, to meet the applicable
standards described in the United States Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold rating, its
equivalent, or a similar green building standard adopted by the state.
AB 1058 (Laird) Green building Best Practices for Residential Buildings
This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community
Development, by July 1, 2009, in conjunction with other public and private entities, to
develop green building standards for residential occupancies, and submit
them to the Building Standards Commission for review, adoption,
approval, and publication.
The bill would also: require that such standards include measures regarding energy, water, materials and
resources efficiency, indoor environmental quality, innovation and
design process, nonmotorized transportation, and a method for
determining life cycle cost; the Building Standards Commission, on or before July 1, 2010, to
publish approved green building standards in the California Building Standard Code. The bill would include sustainable and green building standards in
the existing definition of “building standard.
SB 70 (Florez) Biodiesel in School Buses (Veto Message)
This bill would authorize school districts to use a biodiesel fuel blend to operate all of the diesel-powered school buses under their control, under certain conditions. It also would authorize the use of a biodiesel fuel blend to operate diesel-powered vehicles owned or leased by the State of California, by a city, county, or city and county, or by a mass transit district, under certain conditions.
This bill would require CARB to adopt, implement, and
enforce a low-carbon fuel standard by regulation that achieves the
maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions
in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, and at least a 10%
reduction in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by January
1, 2020. The
low-carbon fuel standard would apply to all refiners, blenders,
producers, and importers of transportation fuels to the extent
permitted by law.
SB 451 (Kehoe) Distributed Renewable Generation Purchase tariff
Investor-owned utilities (IOU) are currently required to offer a standard tariff to waste water treatment plants to purchase renewable energy generation from waste water treatment plants. This bill would require IOUs to offer a similar tariff to any customer until the total statewide installed capacity participating in the tariff equals 1,000 megawatts. The bill would provide that the electricity
generated by a renewable electric generation facility counts toward theIOU’s renewables portfolio standard and resource adequacy
requirements. The bill would delete an existing requirement that the
electric generation facility be sized to offset part or all of the generator’s
electricity demand. The bill would also place certain restrictions on participating in net metering.
SB 660 (Perata) Clean Technology RD&D Council (Veto Message)
This bill would, establish and prescribe the composition of the Strategic
Research Investment Council, which would exist until January 1, 2012, to help coordinate existing research and development expenditures in the following agencies: CARB, CEC, CPUC, CalEPA, Department of Transportation, and the Resources Agency.
The bill would require the council, on or before
March 1, 2008, and annually thereafter through 2011, to prepare
and adopt a strategic research, development, and demonstration
plan that establishes priorities, and identifies key expenditure
categories, for these funds to be expended by state agencies
represented on the council for the following fiscal year. The bill
would also require the research, development, and demonstration
funds allocated for clean technology, environmental protection,
and public interest energy research and administered by the Department of Transportation to be expended in accordance with the plan adopted by the council.
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Other Energy Bils Introduced in 2007
This section includes bills that were introduced into the 2007-2008 legislative session but either did not pass out of their house of origin on June 8, 2007 or were not approved by both chambers of the California legislature by the session end. Bills are listed in order by bill number with Assembly bills listed first.
AB 6 (Houston) market-based compliance mechanism for Greenhouse gases
Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt market-based compliance mechanisms to ensure that 2020 emissions levels match 1990 levels. This bill would instead require the state board to adopt market-based compliance mechanisms.
AB 94 (Levine) Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
This bill would raise the current goal of 20% renewables by 12/31/10 to 33% by 12/31/20. Also, electrical corporations would have to increase their % of retail sales of renewables by at least 1% each year until 2020 rather than 2010.
AB 99 (Feuer) Clean Alternative Fuels for Vehicles
This bill would declare the intent of the legislature to ensure that, by January 1, 2012, no less than 50% of all new cars made available for sale in California are powered by clean alternative fuels. This bill would also make legislative findings and declarations regarding the use of clean, alternative fuels.
AB 109 ( Nunez) Annual report of CA Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
This bill would require the California Air Resources Board to report to the Legislature annually on the status and progress of implementing the Global Warming Act of 2006.
AB 114 (Blakeslee) Carbon Dioxide Containment Program
This bill would require the commission to develop a program by January 1, 2010 to facilitate and encourage the implementation of cost effective containment, scrubbing, and capture technologies to decrease carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes.
AB 153 (Blakeslee) Energy Biosciences Institute at Univ. of California
This bill would urge the regents to enter into a public/private partnership for the siting of an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at a campus of the University of California, with the goal of completing construction of the EBI by 2010. The bill would express
the intent of the Legislature that any state funding necessary for the construction of the EBI be provided in an appropriation in a specified item of the Budget Act of 2007.
AB 154 (Nakanish) Tax Credit for Commercial Building Construction
This bill would allow a contractor who placed an energy efficient commercial building in service during the taxable year to deduct an amount equal to the cost of that building.
AB 155 (Nakanishi) Tax Credit for Efficient Home Construction/Purchase
This bill would for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2008 allow a refundable credit to a homebuilder for the construction of, or to a homebuyer for the purchase of a qualified energy efficient home.
AB 242 (Blakeslee) Greenhouse Gases Emissions Reduction
This bill states the legislative intent that by 2020 statewide greenhouse gas emission levels be lowered to 1990 levels. Also, entities that voluntarily reduce their emissions by January 1, 2012, receive credit for early action. This act also encourages the creation of emissions credits for entities to purchase that have tried other methods of reduction already.
AB 255 (De Leon) Clean Air and Energy Independence Fund
This bill would create the Clean Air and Energy Independence Fund, and would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to CARB to be used towards specified purposes, including incentives for alternative fuel and alternative fuel vehicles. This bill would increase the smog abatement fee from $12 to $16, and would allocate the $4 increase to the Clean Air and Energy Independence Fund.
AB 307 (Hayashi) Tax Exemptions for fuel Cell Transit buses
This bill would exempt from the sales and use tax an eligible fuel-cell transit bus, or a fuel-cell system, sold or leased to a qualified person. It would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.
AB 493 (Ruskin) Clean Vehicle Incentive Program
This bill would require the CA Air Resources Board (CARB) to create and implement a clean vehicle incentive program to provide rebates to, and require surcharges from, purchasers of new motor vehicles based on greenhouse gas emissions. The bill would create the Clean Vehicle Incentive Account to be administered by CARB in consultation with the State Board of Equalization.
AB 505 (Plescia) Tax credits for hybrid vehicles
This bill would authorize a credit against Personal Income and Corporation taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2007. The amount of the tax credit is not yet determined.
AB 578 (Blakeslee) Distributed Generation Impacts Study
This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission, on or before January 1, 2009, in consultation with the Independent System Operator, to study, and submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor, on the impacts of distributed energy generation on the state's distribution and transmission grid.
AB 625 (Levine) Funding for Efficiency Retrofits at CA's Colleges and Universities
This bill would provide that , except for moneys allocated pursuant to AB 118 of the 2007-08 Regular Session, moneys and interest generated by an energy settlement agreement with The Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company, received for energy efficiency retrofit of schools and public buildings, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to energy conservation projects and related educational services at the University of California, the California State University, or the California Community Colleges, pursuant to specified criteria. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources to report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2008, and each July 1 thereafter, on all sums collected and expended for costs associated with siting and installation of certain generator units obtained through an energy settlement agreement with The Williams Companies, Inc. and Williams Energy Marketing & Trading Company.
AB 631 (Horton) Ethanol Blends in CA Fueling Stations
his bill would require the CA Air Resources Board adopt regulations to require that, on and after January 1, 2010, all new fueling stations constructed in this state be able to provide E85 fuel, as defined, to vehicles that use that fuel.
AB 657 (Jeffries) Changes to Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
This bill would make a technical, non substantive change to these provisions of law pertaining to CARB's role in implementing the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
AB 705 (Huffman) Geologic Carbon Sequestration
This bill would require the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Resources Agency to prescribe regulations for geologic carbon sequestration projects to provide regulatory guidance for those performing these projects and to minimize the health and safety risks to the public.
AB 719 (DeVore) Repeal of Nuclear Power plant Permitting Ban
The bill would repeal that prohibition regarding permitting and certifying nuclear fission thermal power plants, along with certain other duties of the commission with regard to nuclear fission thermal power plants.
AB 722 (Levine) Prohibition on Incandescent Lamps
This bill would prohibit on and after January 1, 2012, the sale of general service incandescent lamps in the state.
AB 746 (Krekorian) Natural Gas Vehicles
This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission, by July 1, 2008, and in
consultation with the CA Energy Commission, the CA Air Resources Board, air quality
management districts, air pollution control districts, electrical
corporations, gas corporations, the motor vehicle industry, and the
natural gas vehicle and transportation fuel industries, to develop
and implement policies and programs that promote the development and increased use of natural
gas as an alternative transportation fuel.
AB 747 (Levine) Low-Carbon Transportation Fuel Standard
This bill would require the state board to reduce the carbon intensity of the state's transportation fuels by at least 10% by 2020, and would require the state board to implement a low-carbon fuel standard applicable to refiners, blenders, producers, and importers of transportation fuel. Refiners, blenders, producers, and importers of transportation fuel would be allowed to meet the standard through market-based methods.
AB 792 (Garcia) Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program
This bill would establish the Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Housing Program under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development. The program would consist of the Construction Liability Insurance Reform Pilot Program; the Green Building, Energy Efficiency, and Building Design Program; and the Affordable Housing for Teachers Program, all of which would be under the administration of the department. Among other things, the bill would establish the Green Building, Energy Efficiency, and Building Design Program under the administration of the department for the purpose of promoting the use of green building to assist in the implementation of the goals established by the Climate Action Team Report to the Governor and Legislature.
AB 811 (Levine) Tax Credits for Eligible Renewable Energy Resources
This bill would authorize a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2012, for the costs paid or incurred by a taxpayer for the construction of an eligible renewable resource.
AB 882 (Hernandez) Tax Exemption for Energy Efficient Products
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property. That law provides various exemptions from that tax. This bill would also exempt from that tax during a qualified period, which would be defined as the first week of October of each year beginning in 2008, energy efficient products, as defined.
AB 940 (Krekorian) Solar Energy
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to promote solar energy usage in this state.
AB 1064 (Lieber) Changes to Self-Generation Incentive Program
This bill would make various changes to the Self Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). Among these, the bill would (1) except from the definition of a heat corporation,
a person employing solar thermal distributed technology, as defined,
for the production or generation of heat for its own use or the use
of its tenants or for sale to a heat corporation or state or local
public agency, (2) make waste gas, as defined, advanced solar thermal,
fuel cell, and wind distributed generation technologies meeting certain
requirements eligible for the SGIP. In addition, this bill would require the Energy Commission in consultation with the PUC and the CA Air Resources Board, on or before November 1, 2009, as part of the next integrated energy policy report, to evaluate past costs and benefits of providing ratepayer funded subsidies to natural gas and fossil fuel fired distributed generation through the self-generation incentive program and to evaluate the costs and benefits of providing ratepayer funded subsidies for ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation, including effects on air pollution, energy efficiency, and the electrical transmission and distribution system, and to include recommendations for certain program changes.
AB 1077 (Lieber) Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
This bill would enact the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric
Vehicle Leadership Act of 2007. It would establish a 19-member
California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council to coordinate and collaborate on plug-in hybrid
electric vehicle-related activities, identify existing and potential
barriers to the successful development and commercialization of
plug-in hybrid vehicles, assess current and proposed activities
related to plug-in hybrid vehicles, and describe the extent to which
these will address identified barriers, recommend and prioritize
additional work, activities, research, development and demonstration,
and programs that will contribute to the resolution of identified
barriers. The bill would establish a goal for the council to have at a
minimum 1,000,000 plug-in hybrid vehicles on California roads by
2015.
AB 1234 (Wolk) Furnace Replacement Prior to Property Sale
This bill would require the transferor of real property to disclose to a prospective transferee the condition of the existing furnace and would provide that if a residential dwelling unit has an old floor furnace or old wall furnace, that furnace shall be replaced prior to the transfer of real property. This bill also would require the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the Low-Income Oversight Board and the gas corporations or electrical corporations that participate in the CARE program, to establish a program to replace old gas furnaces in residential dwelling units occupied by customers eligible for the CARE program. The bill would provide that the furnace replacement program shall go into effect on July 1, 2008, and continue until December 31, 2013.
AB 1306 (Huff) Gasoline Sales Tax
This bill would reduce the portion of gasoline sales tax revenues that are deposited in the Public Transportation Account by eliminating what is commonly known as the ""spillover"" formula. The bill would thereby increase the revenues from the sales tax on gasoline that are deposited in the General Fund, and by operation of Article XIX B of the Constitution, would require those revenues to be subsequently transferred to the Transportation Investment Fund.
AB 1083 (Huffman) Tax credits for sale of biodiesel fuel
This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, and before January 1, 2023, allow a tax credit in an amount equal to an unspecified amount for each gallon of qualified biodiesel fuel, sold by a fuel retailer, at any facility located in this state. This bill also states the Legislature's intent to provide grants to retailers that install tanks and distribution equipment that meet specified low carbon standards.
AB 1065 (Lieber) Greenhouse Gas Building Standards
This bill would require the commission to adopt standards that would reduce the energy consumption per gross square foot of floor space of a new residential and new nonresidential buildings, from offsite sources, on a specified schedule using the standards adopted in 2003 as the baseline for comparison purposes. The commission would be required to review and or approve one or more computer programs for use in demonstrating compliance with the commission prescribed energy standards.
AB 1190 (Horton) Tax Incentives for Low Carbon Diesel
This bill would (1) exempt Category 1 fuel from taxes imposed under the Use Fuel Tax and the Diesel Fuel Tax laws, (2) decrease the rate of taxes imposed by those laws to $0.09 per gallon for Category 2 fuel, and (3) create a high-carbon fuel tax for Category 3 fuel, as defined. This bill would correspondingly decrease the combined state and federal tax rate limits, as applicable to each type of fuel. This bill would authorize the State Board of Equalization to adjust, as necessary, the rate of high-carbon fuel tax to ensure that the total amount of revenues derived from that tax rate, as estimated on the basis of the revenues derived from the tax rate imposed on Category 3 fuel during the immediately preceding year, does not exceed the amount of revenue loss during the same year attributable to the exemptions allowed under both laws for Category 1 and 2 fuel.
AB 1223 (Arambula) Net Energy Metering for Agricultural Customers
This bill would require that, for the purposes of determining
whether an agricultural customer-generator was a net consumer or a
net producer of electricity during a 12-month period, the electrical
corporation shall aggregate the electrical load of the agricultural
customer under the same ownership located on property adjacent or
contiguous to the generation facility. The bill would further require
that each aggregated account be billed and measured according to a
time-of-use rate schedule.
AB 1225 (DeSaulnier) State and Local Government Fleet Evaluation
This bill would require the Energy Commission, in conjunction with the California Air Resources Board and the Department of General Services, on or before July 1, 2008, to develop a method, criteria, and procedures to evaluate the environmental and energy benefits, and costs of motor vehicles for potential procurement by state and local governments based on specific criteria. The bill also would require the Department of General Services, on January 1, 2009, to revise its procedures for the procurement of state and local government vehicles, require the Director of General Services to compile and maintain certain additional information regarding the nature of vehicles that are owned or leased by the state, and require a local governmental agency with a vehicle fleet of 100 vehicles or more to evaluate and utilize the evaluation methodology described above in its consideration of its motor vehicle procurement procedure.
AB 1285 (Parra) Tax Incentives for Clean Technology
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact the California Clean Equipment and Technology Investment Initiative of 2007. For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008 and before January 1, 2014, the bill would exempt from the sales and use taxes the purchases of specified manufacturing equipment and to allow a deduction from, or credit against, the taxes imposed by the income and corporation tax laws for research and development expenses of new products and technology designed, or used for, the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
AB 1327 (Ma) green building Definition; tax Incentives
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to develop a uniform definition for "green building" and to extend tax and planning incentives to developers to build green buildings.
AB 1428 (Galgiani) Net Metering for Manure-fueled Electricity
This bill would include certain manure-fueled electrical generating facilities in the existing biogas net metering pilot program. These facilities include those generate electricity from biogas or other thermal decomposition of manure.
AB 1451 (Leno) Tax Exclusion for New Solar System Installations
This bill would modify this exclusion to instead specify that an
active solar energy system used in the production of electricity, in
the case where the electricity is transmitted to a utility for
inclusion in the utility's transmission or distribution network,
includes all equipment and property, other than land, used up to the
point of interconnection with the utility transmission or
distribution network. This bill would also specify, for purposes of
this exclusion, "the construction or addition of an active solar
energy system" includes the construction of an active solar energy
system in a newly constructed single-family residence that is offered
for sale and for which the owner-builder incorporated an active
solar energy system in the initial construction of the residence and
the owner-builder does not intend to occupy the residence. This bill
would require the State Board of Equalization to prescribe the manner
and form for a taxpayer to claim this exclusion. This bill would
require the county assessor to reduce the base year value of these
residences by the value of the active solar energy system.
AB 1517 (Jones) Regulation of Utility Rates
This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission to determine on an annual basis, the state and federal income taxes actually paid to the respective taxing authority by each public utility subject to the ratemaking authority of the commission, and to annually report that information to the Legislature and the Department of Finance. It would require that the commission include in rates only those expenses for income taxes actually paid to state and federal taxing authorities, except that the commission would be authorized to include in rates those income tax reductions representing investment tax credits and accelerated depreciation, to the extent the amount of the credit or depreciation is invested by the public utility in facilities used and useful for providing utility service to customers of the utility.
AB 1506 (Arambula) Greenhouse Gas Reductions Incentives Study
This bill would require the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency to conduct a study of the most effective ways for the state to provide incentives to businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2009.
AB 1527 (Arambula) Cleantech Advantage Act of 2008
This bill would authorize a credit against Personal Income Tax and Corporation taxes between January 1, 2008 and January 1, 2013, in an amount equal to 8% of the amount paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer for qualified costs related to cleantech manufacturing activities. This bill would also authorize a credit against those taxes during the same period in an amount equal to 20% of the net tax expenses paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer for qualified research in California, related to cleantech industries. This bill would allow up to 50% of unused credits allowed to a qualified seller to be sold or traded to, and be used by, a qualified buyer.
AB 1532 (Parra) Net Metering Pilot for Energy Recovery Projects
This bill would require electrical corporations to provide eligible resource recovery projects with net energy metering, under a pilot program. The bill would prescribe conditions under which these customers may participate in the pilot program
established by the bill and would require the electrical corporation to file a standard tariff providing for net energy metering for eligible resource recovery projects. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with the CA Air Resources Board, to report certain information relative to the pilot program to the Legislature by December 31, 2010.
AB 1620 (Arambula) California Clean Technology Services Unit
This bill would establish the California Clean Technology Services Unit within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to promote the development of new technologies and products that meet the environmental objectives of the state, to facilitate the ability of businesses to bring clean technologies to California's market, and to coordinate with specified state agencies in order to encourage clean technologies that meet the state's environmental goals and standards. This bill would also require the unit to report annually to the Legislature with regard to its activities promoting clean technology within the state.
SB 71 (Florez) biodiesel Requirements for Public Agencies
This bill would require all vehicles owned or leased by the State of California, by a city, county, or city and county, or by a mass transit district, that use diesel fuel to instead use B20 biodiesel fuel or a higher blend of biodiesel, as specified. The bill would require the State Air Resources Board to establish a program to implement and monitor these requirements.
SB 72 (Florez) Biodiesel in School Buses
This bill would require a school district to use a biodiesel fuel blend of B20 or higher to operate all its own diesel-powered school buses and those operated for a district by another entity through contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2008. The bill would require the State Air Resources Board to implement and administer this section.
SB 73 (Florez) Refundable Tax Credit for Biodiesel
This bill would allow for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008 a refundable tax credit in an amount equal to a specified amount for each gallon of biodiesel fuel produced or manufactured by a qualified producer at any facility located in this state. The credit would be reimbursed on a quarterly basis.
SB 74 (Florez) tax Incentives for Biodeiesel equipment / biodiesel
This bill would exempt from sales and use taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person in the manufacturing, processing, or production of biodiesel fuel, as defined. This bill would also exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, biodiesel fuel, as defined. These exemptions would be in effect from January 1, 2008, through January 1, 2013. This bill would authorize a personal income tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2008, and ending on or before January 1, 2013, in a yet to be determined percentage of the qualified costs paid or incurred with respect to the manufacturing, production, delivery, or sale of biodiesel fuel, as defined.
SB 75 (Florez) Biodiesel Requirements for State Vehicles
This bill would require any vehicle purchased or leased by the State of California that uses diesel fuel to be a warranty-certified unit that uses at least B20 biodiesel fuel.
SB 140 (Kehoe) Renewable Diesel Fuel
This bill would require that all diesel fuel sold or offered for sale
in the state for use in internal combustion engines to contain at
least 2% renewable diesel fuel. This requirement must be implemented no later than one year
after a specified finding is made by the CA Air Resources Board, and, no later
than 2 years after the implementation of the 2% standard, would
require all diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in the state for use
in internal combustion engines to contain at least 5% renewable
diesel fuel. The bill also would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to enforce the provisions of the bill.
SB 247 (Ashburn) Modifications to AB 32 Provisions
This bill would make a technical, non substantive change to the provisions of law added by AB 32 (the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006).
SB 324 (Migden) Definition of CARE and LIEE Rates (Solar)
For purposes of CA Solar Initiative eligibility, this bill would expand that definition of low-income residential housing to include residential housing that is wholly occupied by individuals enrolled in the commission's California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program Low-Income Energy Efficiency (LIEE) program , or Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program. The bill would also require the PUC to ensure that lower income households, as defined, and individuals enrolled in the programs referenced above are the primary beneficiaries of cost savings and power benefits of solar energy systems installed on low-income residential housing.
SB 332 (Corbett) Appliance Standards
This bill would require the commission, not later than January 1, 2008, to develop a priority list of appliances for review by the commission for test procedures and efficiency standards. By July 1, 2010, the commission would be required to develop testing procedures for televisions and computer monitors in the active modes.
SB 410 (Simitian) Renewable Resources Trust Fund Rules
This bill would make changes to the requirements for allocating funds from Renewable Resources Trust Fund.
SB 411 (Simitian) Renewable Portfolio Standard Compliance Date
This bill would require a retail seller to increase its total procurement of eligible renewable resources so that at least 33% of its retail sales are procured from eligible renewable energy resources no later than December 31, 2020, in furtherance of achieving the greenhouse gas emissions limit adopted pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
SB 412 (Simitian) Liquefied Natural Gas Evaluation
This bill would enact the Liquefied Natural Gas Project Evaluation Act and would require, upon the adoption of the integrated energy policy report on November
1, 2007, the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission and the State Air Resources Board, to adopt and submit to the
Legislature and the Governor, on or before July 1, 2008, the LNG Needs Evaluation Report of 2008.
SB 463 (Negrete Mcleod) Utility Purchase of Biogas Electricity
Under the bill, an electric service provider could enter into a purchase agreement with an eligible biogas digester customer-generator to purchase excess energy. The bill would impose a limit on the price for kilowatthours in a purchase agreement.
SB 494 (Kehoe) Alternative Fuel Vehicles Market in california
This bill would require the CA Air Resources Board, by June 30, 2009, in
consultation with the CA Energy Commission, the State Water
Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and
other relevant state agencies, to develop and adopt regulations that
would become operative no later than January 1, 2015, to
ensure that an unspecified percentage of
new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California each
year are clean alternative vehicles by January 1, 2015. The bill also would ensure that commencing
January 1, 2020, 1/2 of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks
sold in California each year are clean alternative vehicles. The bill
would require the state board to submit a report to the Legislature
on the progress passenger vehicle and light-duty truck manufacturers
have made in meeting these requirements, the progress the state has
made in increasing the use of alternative fuels and reducing the
state's dependence on imported petroleum and petroleum fuels, and any
improvements in public health and the environment attributable to
the use of clean alternative fuels, as specified.
SB 499 (Dutton) Changes to The Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions of the The Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Act of 1985.
SB 572 (Cogdill) Wildfire Emissions/Carbon Sequestration in Forests
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation urging the CA Air Resources Board to consider emissions created by catastrophic wildfire, as well as the benefits created by carbon sequestration within forests.
SB 627 (Dutton) Non substantive Changes to CEC Siting Authority
The Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Act generally provides that the CA Energy Commission has the exclusive power to
certify all electric transmission lines and thermal power plants, and related sites, that are regulated pursuant to the act. This bill would make technical, non substantive changes to that provision.
SB 871 (Kehoe) Expedited Siting of Electrical Generation
This bill would, until January 1, 2012, reinstate expiring provisions for establishing a process for the expedited review of applications to construct and operate thermal power plants and related facilities and for the expedited review of repowering projects.
SB 1012 (Dutton) Repeal of Electricity Oversight Board and Power Exchange
This bill would delete the Electricity Oversight Board and the Power Exchange. The bill would repeal provisions pertaining to the prescribed functions of the Electricity Oversight Board and the Power Exchange. The bill would make conforming changes to existing law by deleting certain references to the Electricity Oversight Board and the Power Exchange.
AJR 3 (Dymally) Low-income home energy assistance
This Assembly Joint Resolution would recommend that the U.S. Congress and President increase the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to $7 billion for 2007-2008. The Resolution also requests that the entire amount be distributed to the states. Currently, $5.1 billion has been budgeted, but only $2.2 billion has been appropriated.
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2007-2008 California Energy Legislation As Introduced
These file present lists of bills as introduced at the beginning of the 2007 legislative session.
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