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AB-1580 Air pollution: electric vehicle infrastructure.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 05/01/2023 02:00 PM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 01, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1580


Introduced by Assembly Member Juan Carrillo

February 17, 2023


An act to add and repeal Section 44272.8 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1580, as amended, Juan Carrillo. Air pollution: electric vehicle infrastructure.
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 establishes the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program to provide funding for each fiscal year until fiscal year 2026 to the states to strategically deploy electric vehicle charging stations and to establish an interconnected network to facilitate data collection, access, and reliability.
Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, which is administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide financial assistance to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies to transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change goals. Existing law requires the commission to develop and adopt an investment plan to determine priorities and opportunities for the Clean Transportation Program and to submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and all relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a draft update to the investment plan each January concurrent with the submittal of the Governor’s Budget.
This bill would require the commission and the Department of Transportation, on or before June 30, 2024, to jointly develop a State Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan California National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program Roadmap that is consistent with federal requirements and guidance provided by the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program. Program and that only includes projects receiving funding under that federal program. The bill would require the commission and the department to update the plan roadmap each January thereafter. The bill would require the plan roadmap and the updates to be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and all relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would authorize the commission and the department to submit the updates to the plan roadmap in conjunction with, or as a part of, the draft investment plan for the Clean Transportation Program. The bill would be inoperative on a specified date and would be repealed on January 1 of the year thereafter.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 44272.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

44272.8.
 (a) On or before June 30, 2024, the commission and the Department of Transportation shall jointly develop a State Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan California National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program Roadmap and shall update the plan roadmap each January thereafter, as appropriate. The plan roadmap shall only include projects receiving federal funding under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program, and be consistent with federal requirements and guidance provided by the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program established under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-58). The plan roadmap and its update shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and to all relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature.
(b) The commission and the Department of Transportation may submit the updates to the plan roadmap in conjunction with, or as part of, the investment plan required under Section 44272.7.
(c) (1) This section shall become inoperative on the date on which funding to the state from the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program is exhausted, and, as of January 1 of the following year, is repealed.
(2) The commission shall notify the Secretary of State of the exhaustion of the funding from the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program.