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AB-591 Electric vehicle service equipment: connectors and public accessibility.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 44268 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

44268.
 As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) “Battery” means an electrochemical energy storage system powered directly by electrical current.
(b) “Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. “CHAdeMO electric vehicle service equipment” means direct current, fast charging electric vehicle service equipment that is equipped with a CHAdeMO connector or plug. 
(c) “Electric vehicle” means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell vehicle.
(d) “Electric vehicle charging station” means one or more publicly available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service equipment.
(e) “Electric vehicle service equipment” means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.
(f) “Interoperability billing standards” means the ability for a member of one electric vehicle  charging station billing network to use another billing network.
(g) “Network roaming” means the act of a member of one electric vehicle charging station billing network using a  an electric vehicle  charging station that is outside of the member’s billing network with the member’s  their  billing network account information.
(h) “Publicly available parking space” means a parking space that has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages. “Publicly available parking space” shall does  not include a parking space that is part of, or associated with, a private residence,  residence or  a parking space that is reserved for the exclusive use of an individual driver or vehicle or for a group of drivers or vehicles, such as employees, tenants, visitors, residents of a common interest development, or residents of an adjacent building, or a parking space provided by a producer of electric vehicles as a service. Nothing in this article limits  building. This article does not limit  the ability of an owner or lessee of a publicly available parking space whose primary business is other than electric vehicle charging from restricting use of the parking space, such as limiting use to customers and visitors of the business.
(i) “Substantially retrofitted” means that either onsite work was performed on the electric vehicle service equipment or the electric vehicle service equipment was fixed after malfunctioning, being broken, or otherwise being inoperable for at least 30 days.
(j) “Universal connector” means a plug that enables an electric vehicle equipped with a conductive charger inlet and charging system that meets the specifications applicable to direct current charging contained in the Society of Automobile Engineers’ (SAE) J1772 Surface Vehicle Standard (revised October 2017), SAE Electric Vehicle and Plug in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Conductive Charger Coupler, to charge using the electric vehicle service equipment.

SEC. 2.

 Section 44268.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

44268.4.
 (a) Except as specified in subdivision (b), any electric vehicle service equipment that is capable of charging a light-duty electric vehicle and is installed or substantially retrofitted shall include a universal connector and shall be publicly accessible.
(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to electric vehicle service equipment installed or substantially retrofitted for private use at a single-family residence or multifamily residence.

SEC. 3.

 Section 44268.6 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

44268.6.
 (a) An owner or operator of CHAdeMO electric vehicle service equipment that is in operation on January 1, 2024, shall maintain the CHAdeMO electric vehicle service equipment in good working condition until at least January 1, 2029.
(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to CHAdeMO electric vehicle service equipment that is located at a single-family residence or multifamily residence and is only for private use.