EPIC monitors and conducts analysis on key energy-related legislation in California. EPIC's Legislative Center provides a listing and summary of energy-related legislation.
2013 California Energy-Related Legislation
2013 Bills Being Considered
- Alternative Fuels and Vehicles
- Bioenergy
- Budget
- California Environmental Quality Act
- California Public Utilities Commission
- Direct Access
- Electric Vehicles
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Planning
- Energy Program Investment Charge
- Energy Storage
- Financing
- Green Building
- Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Natural Gas
- Nuclear Energy
- Oil/Petroleum
- Proposition 39
- Rates and Tariffs
- Renewable Energy
- Transportation
Alternative Fuels and Vehicles
AB 8 (Perea) Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Funding Programs
This bill would: (1) provide that the State Air Resources Board (ARB), until January 1, 2024, has no authority to enforce any element of its existing clean fuels outlet regulation or other regulation that requires or has the effect of requiring any person to construct, operate, or provide funding for the construction or operation of any publicly available hydrogen fueling station, (2) require the ARB to aggregate and make available to the public, no later than January 1, 2014, and every two years thereafter, the number of vehicles that automobile manufacturers project to be sold or leased, as reported to the ARB, (3) require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to allocate $20 million each fiscal year, and up to $20 million each fiscal year thereafter, for purposes of achieving a hydrogen fueling network sufficient to provide convenient fueling to vehicle owners, and expand that network as necessary to support a growing market for vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel, until there are at least 100 publicly available hydrogen fueling stations, (4) require, on or before December 31, 2015, and annually thereafter, the CEC and the ARB to jointly review and report on the progress toward establishing a hydrogen fueling network that provides the coverage and capacity to fuel vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel that are being placed into operation in the state, (5) authorize the CEC to design grants, loan incentive programs, revolving loan programs, and other forms of financial assistance, for purposes of assisting in the implementation of these provisions, (6) require, no later than July 1, 2013, the ARB and air districts to jointly convene working groups to evaluate the specified policies and goals of specified programs, (7) require the CEC and the ARB to coordinate efforts to measure the progress of alternative fuels use, (8) require the CEC, in consultation with the ARB, on or before November 1, 2014, to update a specified economic analysis, (9) require the CEC and the ARB, to evaluate how the use of new and existing investment programs could be used to increase the state alternative transportation fuels use, and evaluate how the impact of federal fuel policies and existing state policies will help increase the use of alternative transportation fuels in the state, (10) require the CEC and the ARB, on or before November 1, 2015, and every 2 years thereafter, to report in the integrated energy policy report the status of the state alternative transportation fuels use and make specified evaluations, (11) require the ARB to include a finding on the effect of proposed regulations on state alternative transportation fuels use, (12) extend vehicle registration fees, vessel registration fees, specified service fees for identification plates, and smog abatement fees in the amounts required to make specified deposits into the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, the Air Quality Improvement Fund, and the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount until January 1, 2024, at which time the fees would be reduced by those amounts, and (13) This bill would extend the current authorization for the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to fund a broader range of projects that reduce emissions until January 1, 2024.
AB 204 (Wilk) Green Vehicle Fees
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to impose a fee in conjunction with registration on green vehicles to address the costs of those vehicles using public roads and highways.
AB 278 (Gatto) Criteria for Determining Carbon Intensity of Fuels Under Low Carbon Fuel Standard
This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, in determining the carbon intensity of fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or another scoring system, to consider the following: (1) the life-cycle carbon intensity impacts of potential or actual deforestation, (2) the environmental laws and practices of the jurisdiction from which the fuel originates, (3) any disruptions or other effects upon food supply, food costs, and food shipping that could occur as a result of California policy, and (4) changes to the local economy, including job loss or worker displacement, resulting from changes in the production of a fuel.
AB 1048 (Gray) Biodiesel Blending Rules
This bill would prohibit a fuel terminal from selling diesel fuel combined with biodiesel unless the specific amount of biodiesel blended with the diesel, either by percent or by actual gallons, is disclosed on the fuel invoice or product transfer document.
AB 1077 (Muratsuchi) Tax and Fee Exemption for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
This bill would: (1) on and after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, exclude from the terms “gross receipts” and “sales price” the amount of the incremental cost included in the sales price of a new alternative fuel motor vehicle, (2) specify that the exclusion does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes, (3) on and after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, for purposes of determining the vehicle license fee, exempts from the determination of market value the incremental costs that are incurred in the purchase of a new motor vehicle propelled by alternative fuel, and (4) take effect immediately as a tax levy.
AB 1079 (Bradford) Energy Management Zones
This bill would: (1) amend the Enterprise Zone Act to authorize a city, county, or city and county to propose one or more energy management plans, developed jointly with an electrical corporation, gas corporation, local publicly owned electric utility, or rural electric cooperative, serving an enterprise zone other than an area within a harbor or port district formed pursuant to specified law, in order to reduce air emissions and to promote economic development, the addition of new business, and the retention of existing businesses in that enterprise zone; (2) require the Public Utilities Commission, if the city, county, or city and county has developed jointly with an electrical or gas corporation one or more plan elements that involve special programs to be offered to the enterprise zone and administered by the electrical or gas corporation to facilitate economic development, to provide expedited review of the proposed jointly developed elements; (3) would require the commission to encourage electrical or gas corporations to participate jointly with local agencies in developing, implementing, and administering viable energy management plans for enterprise zones and would prohibit the commission from limiting the role of the electrical or gas corporation that was cooperatively developed in the energy management plan; (4) make a project, to promote economic development in enterprise zones developed pursuant to an energy management plan in accordance with the bill, eligible for funding through California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank; and, (5) require the bank to consider appropriate action to remove unnecessary barriers for the financing of that project.
AB 1314 (Bloom) Inspection of Natural Gas Vehicles
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to ensure the reliability and safety of compressed natural gas vehicles by addressing the inspection of cylinders and tank brackets on these vehicles.
SB 11 (Pavley) Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Funding Programs
This bill would: (1) provide that the State Air Resources Board (ARB), until January 1, 2024, has no authority to enforce any element of its existing clean fuels outlet regulation or other regulation that requires or has the effect of requiring any person to construct, operate, or provide funding for the construction or operation of any publicly available hydrogen fueling station, (2) require the ARB to aggregate and make available to the public, no later than January 1, 2014, and every two years thereafter, the number of vehicles that automobile manufacturers project to be sold or leased, as reported to the ARB, (3) require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to allocate $20 million each fiscal year and up to $20 million each fiscal year thereafter for purposes of achieving a hydrogen fueling network sufficient to provide convenient fueling to vehicle owners, and expand that network as necessary to support a growing market for vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel, until there are at least 100 publicly available hydrogen fueling stations, (4) on or before December 31, 2015, and annually thereafter, require the CEC and the ARB to jointly review and report on the progress toward establishing a hydrogen fueling network that provides the coverage and capacity to fuel vehicles requiring hydrogen fuel that are being placed into operation in the state, (5) authorize the CEC to design grants, loan incentive programs, revolving loan programs, and other forms of financial assistance for purposes of assisting in the implementation of these provisions, (6) no later than July 1, 2013, require the ARB and air districts to jointly convene working groups to evaluate the specified policies and goals of specified programs, (7) require the CEC and the ARB to coordinate efforts to measure the progress of alternative fuels use, (8) require the CEC, in consultation with the ARB, on or before November 1, 2014, to update a specified economic analysis, (9) require the CEC and the ARB, to evaluate how the use of new and existing investment programs could be used to increase the state alternative transportation fuels use, and evaluate how the impact of federal fuel policies and existing state policies will help increase the use of alternative transportation fuels in the state, (10) require the CEC and the ARB, on or before November 1, 2015, and every 2 years thereafter, to report in the integrated energy policy report the status of the state alternative transportation fuels use and make specified evaluations, (11) require the ARB to include a finding on the effect of proposed regulations on state alternative transportation fuels use, (12) extend existing vehicle registration fees, vessel registration fees, specified service fees for identification plate, and smog abatement fee in the amounts required to make deposits into the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, the Air Quality Improvement Fund, and the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount until January 1, 2024, at which time the fees would be reduced by those amounts, (13) extend the current authorization for the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program 9to fund a broader range of projects that reduce emissions until January 1, 2024, (14) extend the $6 limitation on the district board of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District surcharge on motor vehicle registration fees until January 1, 2024, with the limit returning to $4 beginning on that date, (15) on January 1, 2015, increase the California tire fee to $1.50 per tire until January 1, 2024, and reduce the tire fee to $0.75 per tire on and after January 1, 2024, and (16) declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
SB 459 (Pavley) Financial Incentives for Middle-Income Households to Adopt Fuel Efficiency Vehicles
This bill would require the State Air resources Board (ARB), in consultation with the California Energy Commission (CEC), air pollution control and air quality management districts, and the Bureau of Automotive Repair, to submit a specified plan to the Legislature that identifies opportunities to utilize existing legal authorities to reduce fuel expenditures by middle-income households by accelerating the adoption of more fuel-efficient vehicles and (2) require the ARB to convene an advisory board to provide guidance in developing the plan.
SB 600 (Lieu) Alternative Fuel Conversion Certificate Program
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that simplifies and improves the alternative fuel conversion certification program administered by the State Air Resources Board.
SB 611 (Hill) DIvision of Ratepayer Advocates
This bill would rename the Division of Ratepayer Advocates the Office of Ratepayer Advocates, would authorize the office to seek rehearings and judicial review of commission decisions, and would require that the director of the office develop a budget for the office that would be submitted to the Department of Finance for final approval.
Bioenergy
SB 804 (Lieu) Waste Conversion Technologies
This bill would: (1) require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to include in the annual report that is due by March 31, 2015, an analysis of the opportunities for utilizing waste conversion technologies, and (2) make a statement of legislative intent regarding the development of waste conversion technology facilities.
Budget
AB 73 (Blumenfield) 2013–14 Budget
This bill contains expenditures for the proposes 2013-14 budget, including for agencies related to energy and greenhouse gas regulation, such as the California Energy Commission (3360), the California Public Utilities Commission (8860), and Air Resources Board (3900).
SB 65 (Leno) 2013–14 Budget
This bill contains expenditures for the proposes 2013-14 budget, including for agencies related to energy and greenhouse gas regulation, such as the California Energy Commission (3360), the California Public Utilities Commission (8860), and Air Resources Board (3900).
California Environmental Quality Act
AB 794 (Gorell) CEQA Exemption for Landfill and Organic Waste Projects
This bill would: (1) exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) a project that takes landfill materials or organic waste and converts them into renewable green energy if the lead agency finds that the project will result in a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions or support sustainable agriculture and (2) exempt from the requirements of CEQA a project that uses biological processes to convert organic waste streams into nonchemical soil fertility products that support renewable and reusable cultivation and viability.
AB 1323 (Mitchell) CEQA Review for Wind Projects
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would reduce the time and expense associated with the environmental review of qualifying wind energy projects without affecting the required environmental studies and required mitigation of those studies.
SB 731 (Steinberg) Changes to the CA Environmental Quality Act
This bill would: (1) state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation revising the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to, among other things, provide greater certainty for smart infill development, streamline the law for specified projects, and establish a threshold of significance for specified impacts, (2) state the intent of the Legislature to provide $30,000,000 annually to the Strategic Growth Council for the purposes of providing planning incentive grants to local and regional agencies to update and implement general plans, sustainable communities strategies, and smart growth plans.
California Public Utilities Commission
SB 48 (Hill) Merit Review for Energy Research; Entities Formed to Receive Benefits on Behalf of Rate
This bill would: (1) require that any research and development or research, development, and demonstration project that is performed by a 3rd party and is funded in whole or in part by the ratepayers of an electrical or gas corporation be subject to a merit review, (2) require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to select the persons to perform the merit review, (3) require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to prepare and submit to the policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, by February 1 of each year, a written report listing all research and development, or research, development, and demonstration projects that were funded in whole or in part by the ratepayers of an electrical or gas corporation during the previous 5 years, (4) prohibit the PUC, when authorizing a merger, acquisition, or change in control, from establishing an entity to receive benefits on behalf of ratepayers without first obtaining statutory authorization from the Legislature, and (5) prohibit a commissioner of the PUC from being an officer or director of an entity formed to receive benefits of behalf of ratepayers resulting from approval of a merger, acquisition, or change in control of an electrical, gas, or telephone corporation.
Direct Access
AB 687 (Roger Hernández) Direct Access Priority for Groundwater Remediation on Superfund Sites
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission, when authorizing additional direct transactions for retail nonresidential end-use customers, to provide the highest priority to entities treating and remediating groundwater that a federal, state, or local agency identifies as contaminated on a site listed as a Superfund site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Electric Vehicles
AB 225 (Nestande) Medium-Speed Electric Vehicles Regulation
This bill would: (1) authorize the operation of a medium-speed electric vehicle at speeds of no more than 35 miles per hour on a roadway with a speed limit that does not exceed 45 miles per hour and (2) require that the driver of a medium-speed electric vehicle possess a class A, class B, or class C driver’s license.
AB 898 (Ting) Zero-Emission Vehicles
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would reduce motor vehicle emissions through the construction of infrastructure to charge zero-emission electric vehicles, with the goal of expanding the travel range of zero-emission electric vehicles by January 2015 pursuant to a specified executive order.
AB 1092 (Levine) Electric Charge Station Requirement for New Construction Projects
This bill would: (1) require a new construction project with 4 or more offstreet parking spaces to include one electric vehicle charge station per every 4 offstreet parking spaces included in the project and (2) provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the California Constitution requirement that the state reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state.
SB 454 (Corbett) Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act
This bill would: (1) create the Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act that would require that an electric vehicle charging station that is installed in a public parking space be made available for use by the general public, (2) provide that persons desiring to use the electric vehicle charging station shall not be required to pay a subscription fee in order to use the station, and shall not be required to obtain membership in any club, association, or organization as a condition of using the station, (3) authorize an electric vehicle charging station to require additional out-of-network charges if those charges are disclosed to the public, (4) require an electric vehicle charging station to provide one or more specified options of payment to the general public and would strongly encourage owners of electric vehicle charging stations in public parking spaces to clearly mark their charging stations with Department of Transportation approved signage at the station and at the entrance to the parking area or facility where the station is located, (5) require all electric vehicle charging stations in public parking spaces that provide electricity for a fee or monthly subscription to disclose to the public and the California Energy Commission (CEC) the station’s geographic location, including specific location in the parking lot or garage if applicable, accepted methods of payment, the amount of the fees or monthly subscription charged, any additional charges to nonmembers or out-of-network charges, and how a consumer can find out if the charging station is available, (6) authorize the CEC to provide this information to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory or other governmental entities for the purposes of compiling it and providing the information to the public, (7) require the CEC, on or after January 1, 2015, to adopt interoperability standards for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations, and would require, if the CEC adopts standards, all electric vehicle charging stations to meet those standards within one year, (8) require the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) to maintain a toll-free telephone number and e-mail address to collect complaints about electric vehicle charging stations from electric vehicle owners or drivers, and (9) authorize the DCA to respond to consumer complaints and would require the department to summarize those complaints by number and type of complaint and make the summary available to the public.
Energy Efficiency
AB 122 (Rendon) Nonresidential Building Energy Retrofit Financing Program
This bill would: (1) enact the Nonresidential Building Energy Retrofit Financing Act of 2012 and would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish the Nonresidential Building Energy Retrofit Financing Program and to develop a request for proposal for a third-party administrator by July 1, 2013, to develop and operate the program to provide financial assistance to owners of eligible nonresidential buildings for implementing energy improvements for their properties, (2) require that the bonds be secured by the recording of an energy remittance repayment agreement on the deed of the property for which the improvements are performed, (3) require the State Board of Equalization to collect installment payments from owners of eligible properties whose applications have been approved by the commission, (4) require the CEC to meet for the purpose of approving applicants to participate in the program, (5) authorize the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA) to issue and renew the negotiable revenue bonds to generate moneys to finance energy improvements for approved applicants, (6) establish the Nonresidential Building Energy Retrofit Debt Servicing Fund in the State Treasury and the Loan Loss Reserve Account and Administration Account within the fund, (7) require the State Board of Equalization to deposit the installment payment received from the owners of eligible buildings into the fund, (8) continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund and the accounts to repay the principal and interest on the bonds, and to cover the administrative costs incurred by the authority, the CEC, and the State Board of Equalization, thereby making an appropriation, (9) require the Director of Finance to transfer, as a loan, up to $1,000,000, to the CAEATFA, and up to $7,000,000, to the CEC, from the General Fund for the purposes of implementing the program, and (10) require the loans to be repaid on or before January 1, 2023.
AB 270 (Bradford) Website for Energy Efficiency Program Information
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to require the electrical and gas corporations to cooperate in establishing, by June 1, 2014, a publicly available Internet Web site containing specified information regarding ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs and (2) require the PUC to include in its annual report on the costs of programs and activities conducted by each electrical and gas corporation information on its effort to identify and eliminate ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs that duplicate programs administered by other specified state agencies.
AB 489 (Skinner) CEC Funding for Existing Building Efficiency Program
This bill would repeal the provision of Section 25943 of the Public Resources Code requiring the California Energy Commission to fund a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in the state’s existing residential and nonresidential building stock from the Federal Trust Fund consistent with the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or other sources of nonstate funds available to the commission.
AB 572 (Atkins) Energy Efficient Building Demonstration Project
This bill would, for purposes of determining the viability of incentivizing greenhouse gas emissions reductions through increased energy efficiency, require the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the California Energy Commission, to identify and evaluate the energy efficiency investments of at least one large-scale building development project that the ARB determines will likely provide a significant low-cost opportunity for greenhouse gas emissions reductions through investment in energy efficient measures that are more stringent than applicable building code standards.
AB 719 (Roger Hernández) Efficient Street Lighting Requirement for Electric Utilities
This bill would: (1) require an electrical corporation to replace low-efficiency light bulbs with high-efficiency light bulbs in street light poles that the electrical corporation owns, at the same rate as the city, county, or city and county in which any of the electrical corporation’s street light poles are located or at the highest rate of an adjacent city or county if the street light poles are located in a city or county that does not own any street light poles and (2) state the intent of the Legislature that this program be funded through existing collection mechanisms of Section 384.5 to the Public Utilities Code, and that the implementation of this program not result in an increase in any amount collected.
SB 418 (Jackson) Low-Income Energy Efficiency Programs
This bill would amend Section 384 of the Public Utilities Code to require the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) programs provided to low-income electricity customers to be funded at not less than year 2000 authorized levels based on an assessment of customer need.
Energy Planning
AB 284 (Quirk) California Energy Commission Road to 2050 Board
This bill would require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to convene the Road to 2050 Board consisting of representatives from specified entities, (2) require the Road to 2050 Board to undertake specified studies regarding the achievement of a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% of the 1990 emissions level by 2050, (3) require the Road to 2050 Board to conduct a review and provide a full public accounting of energy efficiency programs, alternative energy programs, and alternative fuel programs administered by the members of the Road to 2050 Board, and (4) require the Road to 2050 Board to make the accounting available on a publicly available Internet Web site and to submit to the Legislature the accounting, and a report on the findings of the studies.
AB 628 (Gorell) Energy Management Plans for Harbor and Port Districts
This bill would: (1) require the California Infrastructure Development Bank to fund projects to finance projects to promote economic development in harbor and port districts that are developed pursuant to energy management plan, (2) require a harbor or port district in collaboration with an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or publicly owned electric utility serving the district, to prepare an energy management plan for the district that is intended to reduce air emissions and promote economic development through the addition of new businesses and the retention of existing businesses in the district, and (3) include a project to develop or implement an energy management plan developed pursuant to provisions of the bill among those types of projects covered by the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011
SB 35 (Pavley) Energy Solutions Action Plan for State Colleges and Universities
This bill would: (1) require the Board of Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and would request the Regents of the University of California, to each develop and administer a Systemwide Energy Solutions Action Plan that provides a near- and long-term strategy for assessing, evaluating, contracting for, overseeing, auditing, measuring, and communicating publicly concerning energy savings projects, (2) establish the Higher Education Energy Solutions Fund in the State Treasury and would require moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the development and implementation of the plans, and (3) require, before January 1, 2014, and January 1 of each year thereafter, each segment of public postsecondary education, if it receives moneys from the fund, to submit to the Legislature a report describing the disposition of the moneys received in the previous calendar year and the planned expenditures for the following calendar year.
Energy Program Investment Charge
AB 340 (Bradford) Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Rules
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to require all grants, contracts, subsidies, financing, and activities administered through the Electric Program Investment Charge to comply with General Order 156 of the PUC related to women, minority, and disabled veteran owned businesses.
Energy Storage
SB 674 (Corbett) Payment for Electricity with Integrated Energy Storage
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to adjust the payment rate for electricity purchased from electrical generation facility projects that integrate energy storage to adequately compensate for the additional value that energy storage system provides.
Financing
AB 905 (Ting) Commercial Energy Efficiency Financing
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide an efficient financing mechanism for commercial property owners to make improvements to reduce the consumption of energy and natural resources.
AB 1131 (Skinner) Changes to Clean Energy Upgrade (PACE) Program
Existing law, until January 1, 2015, appropriates up to $50,000,000 from the Renewable Resource Trust Fund for the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to develop and administer PACE programs. Existing law requires the Authority, until January 1, 2015, to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the implementation of the above programs. This bill would extend that appropriation and the reporting requirement to January 1, 2017. It also would delete an existing provision that requires the Authority, in evaluating the eligibility of a loan program for the Clean Energy Upgrade Program, to consider, among other things, whether the loans made under the loan program are for less than 10% of the value of the property.
SB 37 (De León) On-bill Repayment Program
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact an on-bill repayment program that will provide Californians greater access to energy efficiency and clean technology upgrades.
SB 798 (De León) California Green Infrastructure Bank Act
This bill would: (1) enact the California Green Infrastructure Bank Act (CGIBA), (2) establish the California Green Infrastructure Bank (CGIB) as a public corporation and would make it responsible for administering the act, (3) make the CGIB under the direction of an executive director to be appointed by the Governor subject to Senate confirmation, and (4) the CGIB would be governed and its corporate power exercised by a board of directors consisting of 5 members, including 3 members appointed by the Governor subject to Senate confirmation and the Senate Committee on Rules and the Speaker of the Assembly would each appoint one member.
Green Building
AB 341 (Dickinson) Green Building Standards
This bill would require the California Building Standards Commission to: (1) solicit recommendations for code updates relating to green building standards from state agencies with the authority and expertise to propose green building standards applicable to a particular occupancy, (2) to submit recommended code updates for the next 2 California Building Standards Code adoptions and to indicate whether the recommended code updates are intended to be voluntary or mandatory green building standards, and (3) compile the recommendations by adoption cycle and by whether the recommendations are for voluntary or mandatory green building standards.
Greenhouse Gas/Climate Change
AB 153 (Bonilla) Offset Protocols for California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
This bill, if the State Air Resources Board (ARB) uses its authority to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms, would require the ARB, on or before January 1, 2014, to adopt a specified process for the review and consideration of new offset protocols and, commencing in 2014 and continuing annually thereafter, use that process to review and consider new offset protocols.
AB 245 (Grove) Western Climate Initiative Open Meetings Requirement
This bill would amend Section 12895 of the Government Code to subject the Western Climate Initiative, Incorporated, and its appointees to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, which generally requires that all meetings of a state body be open and public.
AB 416 (Gordon) Local Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Program
This bill would: (1) create the Local Emission Reduction Program and would require money to be available from the general fund for purposes of providing grants to develop and implement greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in the state and (2) require the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to award moneys under the program to eligible recipients and would permit the ARB to give consideration to the ability of a project to create local job training and job creation benefits and provide opportunities to achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction in ways that increase localized energy resources.
AB 691 (Muratsuchi) Requirement for Local Land Trustees to Develop Plan for Sea Level Rise
Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission control over specified state lands, including tidelands and submerged lands. Existing law grants to various local entities the right, title, and interest of the state in and to certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust generally for purposes of commerce, navigation, and fisheries, and for other public trust purposes. This bill would: (1) provide that addressing the impacts from sea level rise for all of its legislatively granted public trust shall be among the management priorities of a local trustee, (2) require a local trustee whose gross public trust revenues exceed $250,000 to prepare and submit to the State Lands Commission (SLC) no later than July 1, 2019 a descriptive plan of how it proposes to address sea level rise, (3) permit, but not require, a local trustee whose gross public trust revenues are $250,000 or less to prepare and submit a plan to the SLC, (4) require a local trustee to consider and use relevant information from specified reports on sea level rise in preparing the plan, (5) require that the SLC make those plans available to the public on its Internet Web Site, and send electronic copies to certain other public entities.
AB 1051 (Bocanegra) Loans for Housing Close to Transit Stations
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the Department of Housing and Community Development to be expended for loans for the development and construction of housing development projects within close proximity to transit stations.
AB 1375 (Chau) Clean Technology Investment Fund
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to establish the Clean Technology Investment Fund that would consist of public moneys from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism with matching moneys from private investment sources and would be used to facilitate economic, environmental, and public health benefits through the funding of research, development, and the deployment of innovative technologies while creating jobs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing the state tax base.
SB 1 (Steinberg) Communities Investment Authority
This bill would: (1) authorize public entities of a Sustainable Communities Investment Area to form a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority (SCIA) to carry out the Community Redevelopment Law, (2) require the SCIA to adopt a Sustainable Communities Investment Plan for a Sustainable Communities Investment Area and authorize the SCIA to include in that plan a provision for the receipt of tax increment funds provided that certain economic development and planning requirements are met, (3) authorize the legislative body of a city or county forming an SCIA to dedicate any portion of its net available revenue to the authority through its Sustainable Communities Investment Plan, (4) require the SCIA to contract for an independent financial and performance audit every 5 years, (5) establish prequalification requirements for entities that will receive more than $1,000,000 from the Sustainable Communities Investment Authority and would require the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) to monitor and enforce compliance with prevailing wage requirements for specified projects within a Sustainable Communities Investment Area, and (6) deposit moneys received by the DIR from developer charges related to the costs of monitoring and enforcement in the State Public Works Enforcement Fund.
SB 34 (Rubio) Carbon Capture and Storage
This bill would: (1) upon the adoption by the State Air Resources Board (ARB) of a final methodology for carbon capture and storage projects seeking to demonstrate geologic sequestration of greenhouse gases, specifically would require the division to regulate carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery projects that seek to demonstrate carbon sequestration under various laws providing for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, (2) require the ARB, by January 1, 2016, to adopt a final methodology for carbon capture and storage projects seeking to demonstrate sequestration under various laws providing for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, (3) additionally vest the State Fire Marshal with the exclusive safety regulatory and enforcement authority over pipelines transporting a fluid consisting of more than 90% carbon dioxide compressed to a supercritical state, (4) specify that free space includes pore space that can be possessed and used for the storage of greenhouse gas, and (5) declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
SB 257 (Hancock) Coastal Physical Adaptations to Climate Change
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would address the issue of coastal physical adaptations to climate change.
SB 497 (Walters) Allocation of GHG Allowances to State Universities
This bill would: (1) require the State Air Resources Board (ARB) to freely allocate greenhouse gas emissions allowances to the California State University and the University of California for purposes of any market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the ARB, and (2) prohibit the ARB from assessing a fee on the California State University or the University of California for purposes of any program or regulation adopted pursuant to the act.
Hydraulic Fracturing
AB 7 (Wieckowski) Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This bill would: (1) define, among other things, hydraulic fracturing and hydraulic fracturing fluid, (2) require an operator of a well to record and include all data on hydraulic fracturing treatment, (3) require the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the State Air Resources Board (ARB), and the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRB), on or before January 1, 2014, to adopt rules and regulations specific to hydraulic fracturing, (4) require an operator of a well to file a notice of intention to commence hydraulic fracturing treatment, (5) require the hydraulic fracturing to be completed within one year of the filing of the notice of intention, (6) require DOGGR, within 10 days of the receipt of the notice of intention, to make the notice publicly available, to post it on the division’s Internet Web site, and to notify the appropriate regional water quality control board (7) require the supplier of the hydraulic fracturing treatment to provide to the operator, within 30 days following the conclusion of the hydraulic fracturing, certain information regarding the hydraulic fracturing fluid, (8) require the operator, within 60 days of the cessation of hydraulic fracturing treatment, to post on an Internet Web site accessible to the public specified information on the fracturing and fluid, (9) require a supplier claiming trade secret protection for the chemical composition of additives used in the hydraulic treatment to disclose the composition to DOGGR, but would prohibit those with access to the trade secret to disclose it, and a person who violates this prohibition would be guilty of a misdemeanor. Because this bill would create a new crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program, and (10) require the supervisor, on or before January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, to transmit to the Legislature and make available publicly a comprehensive report on hydraulic fracturing in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources in the state.
AB 288 (Levine) Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This bill would: (1) define “hydraulic fracturing” and require the operator of a well, at least 30 days prior to any hydraulic fracturing operations, to file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice of intention, to commence hydraulic fracturing, (2) prohibit any hydraulic fracturing operations until written approval is given by the supervisor or district deputy and would require the supervisor or district deputy to notify the operator of the approval or denial of the notice within 10 working days after the notice is submitted, (3) require the supervisor, upon approval of the notice, to immediately notify the appropriate regional water quality control board, (4) provide that if hydraulic fracturing has not commenced within one year of receipt of the notice, that the notice shall be deemed canceled, (5) authorize the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to establish a reasonable fee to be paid by the owner or operator for the costs incurred by the department for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing operations, and (6) repeal the following provisions of Sections 3106 and 3203 of the Public Resources Code: (a) the supervisor is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells so as to permit the owners or operators of these wells to utilize all methods and practices known to the oil industry for the purpose of increasing the recovery of underground hydrocarbons, (b) the grant in an oil and gas lease or contract to a lessee or operator of the right or power to explore for and remove all hydrocarbons from any lands in the state is deemed to allow the lessee or contractor to do what a prudent operator using reasonable diligence would do, having in mind the best interests of the lessor, lessee, and the state in producing and removing hydrocarbons, including, but not limited to, the injection of air, gas, water, or other fluids into the productive strata, the application of pressure heat or other means for the reduction of viscosity of the hydrocarbons, the supplying of additional motive force, or the creating of enlarged or new channels for the underground movement of hydrocarbons into production wells, when these methods or processes employed have been approved by the supervisor, (c) there is no legal duty upon the lessee or contractor, or the lessee’s or contractor’s successors or assigns, to conduct these operations.
SB 4 (Pavley) Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation
This bill would: (1) define hydraulic fracturing and hydraulic fracturing fluid, (2) require an operator of a well to record and include all data on hydraulic fracturing treatment, including names and locations of all known seismic faults, as a part of the history of the drilling of the well, (3) require the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Air Resources Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board, on or before January 1, 2015, to adopt rules and regulations specific to hydraulic fracturing, including governing the construction of wells and well casings and full disclosure of the composition and disposition of hydraulic fracturing, (4) require an operator to file with the supervisor or a district deputy, at least 30 days prior to the commencement of a hydraulic fracturing treatment, a notice of intention to commence hydraulic fracturing treatment, (5) require the hydraulic fracturing to be completed within one year of the filing of the notice of intention, (6) require DOGGR, within 10 days of the receipt of the notice of intention, to make the notice publicly available, to post it on the division’s Internet Web site, and to notify the appropriate regional water quality control board, (7) require the supplier of the hydraulic fracturing treatment to provide to the operator, within 30 days following the conclusion of the hydraulic fracturing, certain information regarding the hydraulic fracturing fluid, (8) require the operator, within 60 days of the cessation of hydraulic fracturing treatment, to post or cause to have posted on an Internet Web site accessible to the public specified information on the fracturing and fluid, (9) require a supplier claiming trade secret protection for the chemical composition of additives used in the hydraulic treatment to disclose the composition to DOGGR, but would prohibit those with access to the trade secret to disclose it, and a person who violates this prohibition would be guilty of a misdemeanor, and (11) require the supervisor, on or before January 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, to transmit to the Legislature and make available publicly a comprehensive report on hydraulic fracturing in the exploration and production of oil and gas resources in the state.
Natural Gas
AB 1257 (Bocanegra) California Energy Commission Natural Gas Report
This bill would: (1) enact the Natural Gas Act and would require the California Energy Commission, every 4 years, to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report containing specified information identifying strategies to maximize the benefits obtained from natural gas as an energy source and (2) require the Governor to review that report by a specific date and to report specific agreement or disagreement with, or modifications to, the report to the Legislature, and would declare the modified version of the report the natural gas policy of the state.
Nuclear Energy
AB 418 (Jackson) Nuclear Energy Planning and Responsibility Act
This bill would: (1) enact the Nuclear Energy Planning and Responsibility Act; (2) require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to require an applicant electrical corporation applying for ratepayer funding, or reopening an existing application for ratepayer funding, for the relicensing of a nuclear fission thermal powerplant with a generation capacity of 50 megawatts or greater by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to submit a detailed study of the project needs and costs in order to assess the cost-effectiveness of the continued operation of the nuclear fission thermal powerplant; and, (3) require the CPUC to make the study available on its website and to independently review the study to assess the cost-effectiveness of the continued operation of the nuclear fission thermal powerplant.
Oil/Petroleum
SB 241 (Evans) Oil Severance Tax
This bill would: (1) impose an oil severance tax, on and after January 1, 2014, upon any producer for the privilege of severing oil from the earth or water in this state for sale, transport, consumption, storage, profit, or use, as provided, at the rate of 9.9% of the gross value of each barrel of oil severed. The tax would be administered by the Department of Conservation and would be collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law, and (2) require the Department of Conservation to deposit all tax revenues, penalties, and interest collected pursuant to these provisions into the Oil Severance Fund, a continuously appropriated fund created by this bill, for allocation to the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the Department of Parks and Recreation, as provided.
Proposition 39
AB 29 (Williams) Proposition 39: Revolving Loans for State Colleges and Universities
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would use a portion of funds available in the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund to create 3 revolving loan funds for the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for energy efficiency retrofit projects, clean energy installations, and other energy system improvements to reduce costs and achieve energy savings and environmental benefits.
AB 39 (Skinner) Proposition 39: Grants and Loans for Public K-12 Schools
This bill would: (1) require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to administer grants, no-interest loans, or other financial assistance to an eligible institution, defined as a public school providing instruction in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for the purpose of projects that create jobs in California by reducing energy demand and consumption at eligible institutions, (2) continuously appropriate for prescribed fiscal years an unspecified amount to the CEC for this purpose in each year that at least that amount of money is transferred to the General Fund to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund (Job Creation Fund), (3) require the CEC to administer the grants, no-interest loans, or other financial assistance program to ensure that projects satisfy the prescribed criteria that apply to all expenditures from the Job Creation Fund, (4) require an eligible institution that receives a grant, no-interest loan, or other financial assistance to report the amount of energy saved to the CEC and to compute the cost of energy saved as a result of implementing projects funded by the grant, as prescribed, (5) set forth certain criteria to be used to prioritize projects to be funded from moneys in the Job Creation Fund relative to public schools, school districts, public colleges and universities, and other public buildings and facilities, (6) require moneys for job training and workforce development to be available from the Job Creation Fund to the California Conservation Corps, Certified Community Conservation Corps, Youth Build, and other existing workforce development programs consistent with the requirements of the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, (7) require moneys for public-private partnerships to be available from the Job Creation Fund for assistance to certain local governments to establish and implement Property Assisted Clean Energy programs or similar financial and technical assistance consistent with the requirements of the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, (8) require a person or entity receiving financial assistance from the Job Creation Fund to report certain information to the Citizens Oversight Board, and (9) require this information to be included in an annual report by the Citizens Oversight Board to the Legislature.
AB 114 (Salas) Proposition 39: Workforce Development Programs
This bill would: (1) require the Employment Development Department (EDD), using funds made available from the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for job training and workforce development purposes, to administer grants, no-interest loans, or other financial assistance for allocation to existing workforce development programs for the purposes of creating green energy jobs in California and (2) require the California Conservation Corps, certified community conservation corps, Youth Build, and other existing workforce development programs to give higher priority to disadvantaged youth and veterans who reside in an economically disadvantaged community or in a community with a higher unemployment rate than the statewide unemployment rate.
AB 239 (Hagman) Proposition 39: California Clean Energy School Fund
This bill would: (1) establish the California Clean Energy School Fund in the State Treasury and (2) transfer 50% of the moneys deposited into the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund to the California Clean Energy School Fund and would require the Office of Public School Construction to expend moneys in the fund to fund a zero-interest revolving loan program for school districts to perform energy efficiency retrofit or clean energy installation projects at public schools.
AB 1104 (Salas) Proposition 39 Implementation
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to Section 2827 of the Public Utilities Code related to a requirement for all electric service providers to develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering, and to make this contract available to eligible customer generators, upon request.
SB 39 (De León) Proposition 39: Clean Energy Employment and Student Advancement Act of 2013
This bill would: (1) enact the Clean Energy Employment and Student Advancement Act of 2013 and would require the Office of Public School Construction (OPSC) to establish a school district assistance program to distribute grants, on a competitive basis, for energy efficiency upgrade projects pursuant to the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, (2) require the OPSC, upon the approval of the State Allocation Board, to award a school district grants for energy efficiency upgrade projects meeting specified criteria, (3) require the OPSC to give priority applications meeting specified criteria, and (4) state the intent of the Legislature to appropriate moneys to the Office of Public School Construction from the fund for the purposes of awarding energy efficiency grants to the most disadvantaged schools in need of modernization for the purposes of energy efficiency upgrades.
SB 64 (Corbett) Proposition 39: Clean Energy on Schools, Universities, and Colleges
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to install clean energy at public schools, universities, and colleges, and at other public buildings and facilities consistent with the California Clean Energy Jobs Act.
SB 729 (Fuller) Proposition 39 Implementation
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to implement the California Clean Energy Jobs Act.
Rates and Tariffs
AB 327 (Perea) CPUC Authority to Change Residential Electric and Natural Gas Rates
This bill would repeal the limitations upon increasing the electric service rates of residential customers, including the rate increase limitations applicable to electric service provided to CARE customers. When the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approves changes to electric service rates charged to residential customers, the bill would require the CPUC to determine that the changes are reasonable, including that the changes are necessary in order to ensure that the rates paid by residential customers are fair, equitable, and reflect the costs to serve those customers. The bill would require the CPUC to consider specified principles in approving any changes to electric service rates, to report to the Legislature its findings and recommendations relating to tiered residential electric service rates in a specified rulemaking by January 31, 2014. The bill would delete the statement of Legislative intent that CARE program participants be afforded the lowest possible electric and gas rates and, to the extent possible, be exempt from additional surcharges attributable to the energy crisis of 2000-01.
AB 1228 (Manuel Pérez) Changes to Definition of Fuel Cell under Net Energy Metering
This bill would amend the definition of an eligible fuel cell customer-generator under Section 2827.10 of the Public Utilities Code to increase the capacity of a fuel cell electrical generating facility to not more than 3 megawatts.
SB 743 (Steinberg) Changes to California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE)
This bill would replace the existing authorization to increase California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) rates based upon the annual percentage increase in benefits under the CalWORKs program and instead authorize the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to increase the rates in effect for CARE program participants for electricity usage up to 130% of baseline quantities by the annual percentage increase of the Consumer Price Index from the prior year but not to exceed 4% per year, and subject to the limitation that the CARE rates not exceed 80% of the corresponding rates charged to residential customers not participating in the CARE program.
Renewable Energy
AB 148 (Manuel Pérez) Salton Sea Renewable Energy and Biofuel Research and Development Program
This bill would: (1) require the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation and coordination with the Salton Sea Authority (SSA), to establish a Salton Sea Renewable Energy and Biofuel Research and Development Program in the Salton Sea basin to meet high-priority economic and environmental goals by providing grants to facilitate research and the commercial development of renewable energy and biofuel resources, (2) further authorize the secretary, in consultation and coordination with the SSA, to provide grants to eligible research institutions and commercial enterprises for research and demonstration projects leading to the commercial development of the Salton Sea’s vast renewable energy and biofuel resources, (3) to be eligible for a grant a commercial enterprise for a demonstration project to agree to a royalty or other revenue arrangement, (4) require royalties and revenues received to be deposited into the Salton Sea Restoration Fund, and (5) require the secretary by July 1, 2014, to initiate the rulemaking process for the program and a process for the application, review, and issuance of grants.
AB 177 (Manuel Pérez) Renewable Portfolio Standard
This bill would state the policy of the state to require all retail sellers of electricity, including investor and publicly owned utilities, to procure new demand-side and clean energy generation to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction, resource adequacy, and renewable goals simultaneously in the most cost-effective manner practicable.
AB 516 (Brown) Taking of Birds in Transmission Infrastructure Development
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish a mechanism for permitting the taking of birds, eggs, and nests, subject to reasonable avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures to facilitate the construction of electrical transmission infrastructure to help achieve the state’s renewable energy goals.
AB 762 (Patterson) Hydroelectric Eligibility under Renewable Portfolio Standard
This bill would revise the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource for the purposes of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program to include a hydroelectric generation facility of any size if it meets certain requirements.
AB 1014 (Williams) Shared Renewable Energy Program
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature enact legislation to establish a shared renewable energy program to expand the ability of customers to control their energy future.
AB 1021 (Eggman) Financial Assistance for Use of Recycled Feedstock
This bill would authorize the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to provide financial assistance to projects that process or utilize recycled feedstock for alternative energy.
AB 1258 (Skinner) Hydroelectric and Pumped Storage Facilities as Storage
This bill would require the Public Utilities Commission to open a new proceeding or expand the scope of an existing proceeding to determine the potential use of hydroelectric facilities and specified pumped storage facilities to provide energy resources with deliverability characteristics that may include dispatchable baseload, firm, and as-available capacity.
SB 43 (Wolk) Shared Renewable Energy Self-Generation Program
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation, relating to a shared renewable energy self-generation program.
SB 124 (Corbett) Rules of Clean Energy Contracts for Public Entities
This bill would: (1) require state agencies and the Trustees of the California State University that accept bids or proposals for a contract for the purchase or installation of a clean energy device, technology, or system, as defined, to provide a 5% preference to a bidder that certifies that all of the parts of the clean energy device, technology, or system to be installed have been manufactured or assembled in the state, and (2) authorize a public agency, including, but not limited to, the Trustees of the California State University, to award a contract based on the fact that a clean energy device, technology, or system was manufactured or assembled in the state if the contract is an energy service contract determined to be in the best interest of the public agency.
SB 217 (Bradford) Low-Income Solar Homes Program
This bill would: (1) require the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adopt a program to provide monetary incentives for the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing commencing January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2021, (2) require the program to be funded by charges collected from customers of specified investor-owned utilities, (3) prohibit the total cost of the program from exceeding $108,000,000, (4) establish the Low Income Solar Energy Fund, would require the moneys collected to be deposited therein, and to be made available to the commission for the purposes of this bill upon appropriation by the Legislature, and (5) require that all moneys set aside for the purpose of funding the installation of solar energy systems on low-income residential housing, that are unexpended and unencumbered on January 1, 2022, be utilized to augment existing cost-effective energy efficiency measures in low-income residential housing that benefit ratepayers.
SB 548 (Roth) Renewable Energy Requirements for Municipal Utilities
This bill would provide that, for a publicly owned electric utility in existence on or before January 1, 2010, that provides 200,000 megawatt-hours or fewer of electricity to retail end-use consumers in its service territory during a calendar year, electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources may be used for compliance with the existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program content requirements under Section 399.18 of the Public Utilities Code.
SB 591 (Cannella) Role of Hydroelectric Generation in RPS Requirements for Municipal Utilities
This bill would require a local publicly owned electric utility that receives 50% greater of its consumption load demand from hydrodelectric generation and other renewable energy resources to procure eligible renewable energy resources, including renewable energy credits, to meet only the electricity demands unsatisfied by its hydroelectric generation in any given year to satisfy the existing California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program content requirements under Section 399.30 of the Public Utilities Code.
Transportation
AB 1002 (Bloom) Vehicle Registration Fee to Fund Sustainable Communities Strategies
This bill would: (1) impose a fee of $6 to be paid at the time of registration or renewal of registration of every vehicle subject to registration under the Vehicle Code, (2) require the Department of Motor Vehicles to remit all moneys realized pursuant to that provision for deposit in the Sustainable Communities Strategy Subaccount which is hereby established in the Motor Vehicle Account and made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for implementation of sustainable communities strategies, and (3) declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
