Gonzalez
Author
Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels. Existing law creates the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, to be administered by the commission, and requires the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the commission to implement the program. This bill would revise and recast the program to expand the purpose of the program to include developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics. The bill would no longer require the commission to provide certain project preferences. The bill would delete the list of projects that the commission is required to make eligible for funding. The bill would authorize the commission to periodically review incentive programs, as provided. The bill would provide that the goals of the program shall be to advance the state's clean transportation, equity, air quality, and climate emission goals and would require the commission to ensure program investments support specified requirements. The bill would require the commission to expend at least 50% of the moneys appropriated to the program for projects that directly benefit or serve residents of disadvantaged and low-income communities and low-income Californians, and would require at least 50% of funding for tangible location-based investments to be expended in disadvantaged and low-income communities. The bill would delete various other requirements relating to the administration of the program. This bill would require the Strategic Growth Council to coordinate and convene at least 2 meetings each calendar year with specified state agencies and regional entities, if the regional entities choose to participate, to coordinate their implementation of sustainable transportation policies. The bill would require those state agencies and regional entities, on or before December 31, 2023, and each year thereafter, to collaboratively develop a summary of actions undertaken as part of the meetings and would require the summary to be publicly available on the Strategic Growth Council's internet website.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.
Ordered to third reading.
From inactive file.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Reyes.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26).
August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1380.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1202.) (May 20).
Set for hearing May 20.
May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 10.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1. Page 943.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
Set for hearing April 27.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 757.) (April 12).
Set for hearing April 12.
Referral to Com. on E., U. & C. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.
Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q., TRANS., and E., U. & C.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
(Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
Read first time.
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB726 | HTML |
| 02/19/21 - Introduced | |
| 03/11/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/13/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/21/21 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/16/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/29/21 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/09/21- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/22/21- Senate Transportation | |
| 05/08/21- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/22/21- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/21/21- Assembly Natural Resources | |
| 07/01/21- Assembly Transportation | |
| 08/16/21- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 08/31/21- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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