Bill Text: CA AB2703 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Electric vehicle charging stations: reliability standards: low-income and disadvantaged community financial assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2703 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2703-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Electric vehicle charging stations: reliability standards: low-income and disadvantaged community financial assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2703 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2703-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2703
| Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bennett, Bloom, and Luz Rivas) |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 43872 to the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 25234 to the Public Resources Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2703, as introduced, Muratsuchi.
Zero-emission fueling station reliability standards: transportation: low-income and disadvantaged community financial assistance.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare and update, as provided, a statewide assessment of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure needed to support the levels of electric vehicle adoption required for the state to meet its goals of putting at least 5,000,000 zero-emission vehicles on California roads by 2030, and of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
Existing law establishes the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the Energy 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.
This bill would require a person who receives state funding or other incentives to deploy a zero-emission vehicle fueling station to agree, as a condition of receiving the incentive, to operate the station in compliance with reliability standards that would be developed by the Energy Commission. The bill would also require the Energy Commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop a program to provide financial assistance to low-income and disadvantaged community members to use zero-emission vehicle fueling stations, micromobility transportation options, and ridesharing services, as specified.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 43872 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:43872.
(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the commission shall develop a program to provide financial assistance to low-income and disadvantaged community members to use zero-emission vehicle fueling facilities, micromobility transportation options, and ridesharing services.(b) The program shall make financial assistance available through a contactless-enabled, open-loop, and reloadable payment card that is readily accessible to all low-income and disadvantaged community members in the state.
(c) The program shall not limit the choice of the person receiving the financial assistance with regard to the provider or vendor of the zero-emission transportation service or device.
(d) The commission shall establish eligibility criteria for the program that are similar to programs that provide financial assistance to low-income and disadvantaged communities for public transit and service from electrical corporations.
(e) (1) The commission shall establish the amount of financial assistance that is available to each individual eligible to receive assistance under the program.
(2) The commission may adjust the amount established pursuant to paragraph (1) depending on which zero-emission transportation activity will be funded by the financial assistance.
(f) The commission may contract for professional services in implementing and administering this program.
(g) For purposes of this section, “commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.
SEC. 2.
Section 25234 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25234.
(a) As a condition of receiving state funding or other incentives to deploy a publicly available zero-emission fueling station, a person receiving the state funding or incentive shall agree to operate the station in compliance with the reliability standards developed by the commission pursuant to subdivision (b).(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), the commission shall develop reliability standards for the operation of publicly available zero-emission vehicle fueling stations. The commission shall develop different standards based on fueling technology, including, but not limited to, direct current fast charging stations and Level 2 charging stations. The commission may develop different standards for publicly available zero-emission vehicle
fueling stations that are in remote parts of the state to account for the shipment of goods or availability of contractors to perform service or repairs.
(c) The requirement established pursuant to subdivision (a) shall apply to all state funding or other incentives that are provided to deploy a publicly available zero-emission fueling station beginning no later than July 1, 2023.
