Bill Text: CA AB1349 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1349

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Bill Title: Electric vehicle charging station networks: data fields.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-07-06 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1349 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1349-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2023

Amended IN Assembly April 19, 2023

Amended IN Assembly March 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1349

Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin

February 16, 2023

An act to add Section 25231.6 to the Public Resources Code, relating to transportation electrification.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1349, as amended, Irwin. Electric vehicle charging station networks: data fields.

Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), to provide, among other things, competitive grants and revolving loans to specified entities for those 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 Energy Commission to develop and adopt an investment plan to determine priorities and opportunities for the program. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, as part of the development of the investment plan, to assess whether charging station infrastructure is disproportionately deployed, as specified, and, upon finding disproportionate deployment, to use moneys from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, as well as other mechanisms, including incentives, to more proportionately deploy new charging station infrastructure, except as specified.

Existing law requires the Energy Commission, in consultation with the Public Utilities Commission, to develop uptime recordkeeping and reporting standards for electric vehicle chargers and charging stations by January 1, 2024, as specified. Existing law requires the Energy Commission, beginning January 1, 2025, and biennially thereafter, to assess the uptime of charging station infrastructure, including, at a minimum, an assessment of equitable access to reliable charging stations in low-, moderate-, and high-income communities. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2035.

This bill would require, on and after June 1, 2024, ~~owners and operators~~ owners, operators, and infrastructure developers of electric vehicle charging stations for which ~~their owners or operators~~ those parties are awarded a state grant to support the electric vehicle charging stations, including related infrastructure, on or after January 1, 2024, ~~and authorize other owners and operators of electric vehicle charging stations,~~ to ensure that specified data fields for the owner’s or operator’s entire network of electric vehicle charging stations in California are made available, free of charge, to third-party software developers through an application programming interface, as specified. The bill would authorize other owners, operators, and infrastructure developers of electric vehicle charging stations to ensure that those data fields are available to third-party software developers under the same conditions.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

Section 25231.6 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

25231.6.

(a) On For purposes of this section, “owner or operator of an electric vehicle charging station” includes, but is not limited to, an electrical corporation, a local publicly owned electric utility, or a private electric vehicle charging infrastructure developer.

(b) On and after June 1, 2024, an owner or operator of an electric vehicle charging station for which the owner or operator was awarded a state grant to support the electric vehicle charging station, including related infrastructure, on or after January 1, 2024, shall, consistent with Section 680.116 of Title 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations, ensure that all of the following data fields for the owner’s or operator’s entire network of electric vehicle charging stations in California are made available, free of charge, to third-party software developers through an application programming interface:

(1) Each unique charging station name or identifier.

(2) The address, including the street address, city, and ZIP Code, of the property where each charging station is located.

(3) The geographic coordinates, in decimal degrees, of each charging station’s exact location.

(4) Each charging station operator’s name.

(5) Each charging network provider’s name.

(6) Each charging station’s status, such as operational, under construction, planned, or decommissioned.

(7) Each charging station’s access information, including both of the following:

(A) Each charging station’s access type, such as public or limited to commercial vehicles.

(B) The days and times each charging station is accessible and each charging station’s hours of operation.

(8) Each charging station’s port information, including all of the following:

(A) The number of charging ports.

(B) The unique port identifier.

(D) Each port’s charging level, such as direct current fast charging or alternating current level 2.

(E) The electricity delivery rating in kilowatts and by port.

(F) The accessibility of the charging station, including whether it is accessible to a vehicle with a trailer by means of a pull-through stall.

(G) The real-time status of each charging station, by port, in terms defined by Open Charge Point Interface 2.2.1.

(9) Real-time charging station information, including all of the following:

(A) Each charging station’s pricing structure.

(B) The real-time price to charge at each charging port, in terms defined by Open Charge Point Interface 2.2.1.

(D) Real-time information on whether each charging station is currently in use or available for use.

(E) Real-time information on whether each charging station is in operation or out of service, and, if it is out of service, how long it has been out of service.

(10) The date and time that the information described in paragraph (9) was last updated.

~~(b)~~

(c) An owner or operator of an electric vehicle charging station that is not subject to subdivision ~~(a)~~ (b) may otherwise ensure that the data fields specified in subdivision ~~(a)~~ (b) for the owner’s or operator’s entire network of electric vehicle charging stations in California are made available, free of charge, to third-party software developers through an application programming interface.