Bill Text: CA AB1176 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-07-02 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1176 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1176
| Introduced by Assembly Member Zbur (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Schiavo) |
February 16, 2023 |
An act to add Section 65302.13 to the Government Code, relating to local government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1176, as amended, Zbur.
General plans: Local Electrification Planning Act.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive general plan for the city’s or county’s physical development that includes various elements, including, among others, a land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land in specified categories, and a circulation element that identifies the location and extent of existing and proposed major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, any military airports and ports, and other local public utilities and facilities, as specified.
This bill, the Local Electrification Planning Act, would require a city, county, or city and county to prepare and adopt a specified plan, or otherwise integrate a plan into the general plan, that, among other things, identifies opportunities to
expand electric vehicle charging to meet the needs of the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s current and future visitors, residents, and businesses, and includes policies and implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups, as specified. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to adopt a specified plan, or otherwise integrate the plan into the general plan, on or after January 1, 2025,
2026, but no later than January 1, 2028. 2029. The bill would deem a plan adopted pursuant to these provisions as a regional plan for specified purposes. The bill would require that the above-described provisions only apply to a city, county, or city and county with a population greater than 75,000 residents.
Because the bill would increase the duties of local public officials, it would establish a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory
provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Local Electrification Planning Act.Local Electrification Planning Act
SEC. 2.
Section 65302.13 is added to the Government Code, to read:65302.13.
(a) On or after January 1,(1) Locally based goals, objectives, policies, and feasible implementation measures that include, but are not limited to, the following components:
(A) Identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging to meet the needs of the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s current and future visitors, residents, and businesses, including, but not limited to, removal of any barriers to expanding charging.
(B) Identification of opportunities to expand electric vehicle charging in residential, retail, and commercial parking lots and structures, and on public streets, including, but not limited to, consideration of the creation of public electric charging corridors on public
streets, to the extent necessary to meet the needs of the city’s, county’s, or city and county’s current and future visitors, residents, businesses, disadvantaged communities, and low-income households.
(C) Identification of strategies for the public electrification and decarbonization of new and existing buildings, including removing any barriers to support this transition.
(D) Identification of opportunities to expand zero-emission and renewable distributed energy resources to increase clean energy generation and local energy reliability, including, but not limited to, rooftop solar, community solar, microgrid, and battery storage technologies.
(E) Identification of areas where infrastructure may be needed
and strategies to meet the existing and projected needs of public and private medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle fleets operating within the city, county, or city and county.
(F) In coordination with the load-serving entities, identification of areas where grid infrastructure upgrades are needed to meet the transportation and building electrification needs of visitors, residents, businesses, and governmental entities within the city, county, or city and county.
(2) Policies or implementation measures that address the needs of disadvantaged communities, low-income households, and small businesses for equitable and prioritized investments in zero-emission technologies that directly benefit these groups.
(b) (1) If a city, county, or city and county has already adopted a similar plan, apart from the general plan, that meets the requirements of this section, the city, county, or city and county may incorporate the plan by reference into the general plan to comply with this section.
(2) If the general plan has provisions in existing elements that meet the requirements of this section, the city, county, or city and county may use those provisions to comply with this section.
(c) The requirements of this section shall only apply to a city, county, or city and county with a population greater than 75,000 residents.
(c)
(d) A plan adopted pursuant to this section shall be deemed a regional plan for purposes of Section 15125 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
(d)
(e) For purposes of this section, the following terms shall apply:
(1) “Disadvantaged communities” means an area identified by the California Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code, or
an area that is a low-income community, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code.
(2) “Load-serving entity” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (k) of Section 380 of the Public Utilities Code.
(3) “Low-income households” means households of persons and families of very low and low income, as defined in Sections 50093 and 50105 of the Health and Safety Code.
