Bill Text: CA AB2703 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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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-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 18, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2703

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Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bennett, Bloom, and Luz Rivas)

February 18, 2022

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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 amended, Muratsuchi. Zero-emission fueling station Electric vehicle charging stations: 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 publicly available electric vehicle charging 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. Commission, as specified. The bill would require the commission to publish data on compliance with the reliability standards as part of the above-described assessment and to protect the confidential information of an entity subject to the reliability standards by anonymizing and aggregating the compliance data in the assessment. 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 electric vehicle charging stations, micromobility transportation options, and ridesharing services, as specified.

Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.

This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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. electric vehicle charging stations.

(b) The program shall make financial assistance available through a contactless-enabled, an open-loop, and reloadable payment card that has both EMV chip and contactless capabilities and 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. electric vehicle charging station.

(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” the following definitions apply:

(1) “Charging station” means an electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electrical energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.

(2) “Commission” means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.

(3) “Open-loop” means redeemable upon presentation at multiple, unaffiliated merchants for goods or services.

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 electric vehicle charging station, a person receiving the recipient of 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 electric vehicle charging stations, including both of the following:

(1) Uptime requirements.

(2) Operation and maintenance plan requirements.

(c) The commission shall may develop different standards based on fueling technology, technology type, including, but not limited to, direct current fast charging stations and stations, 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. stations, and off-grid charging stations.

(d) The commission may develop requirements and incentives for increasing compliance with the reliability standards.

(e) The commission shall publish data on compliance with the reliability standards as part of the assessment prepared pursuant to Section 25229. The commission shall protect the confidential information of an entity subject to this section, including, but not limited to, by anonymizing and aggregating the compliance data to ensure an individual entity’s data is not identifiable in the commission’s assessments prepared pursuant to Section 25229.

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(f) The requirement established pursuant to subdivision (a) shall apply to all state agency funding or other incentives that are provided to deploy a publicly available zero-emission fueling electric vehicle charging station beginning no later than installed on or after July 1, 2023.

(g) For purposes of this section, “charging station” means an electrical component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electrical energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle.

SEC. 3.

 The Legislature finds and declares that Section 2 of this act, which adds Section 25234 to the Public Resources Code, imposes a limitation on the public’s right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies within the meaning of Section 3 of Article I of the California Constitution. Pursuant to that constitutional provision, the Legislature makes the following findings to demonstrate the interest protected by this limitation and the need for protecting that interest:

In order to protect the confidential and proprietary information of an entity subject to Section 2 of this act, it is necessary that this act limit the public’s right of access to that information.