Bill Text: CA SB1156 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Heavy-duty trucks: grants: compliance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-11 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. [SB1156 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1156-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1156	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cedillo

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act  to add and repeal Section 44274.9 of the Health and
Safety Code,   relating to air pollution, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1156, as amended, Cedillo. Heavy-duty trucks: grants:
compliance.
   (1) Existing law creates the Air Quality Improvement Fund, which
is administered by the State Air Resources Board. The moneys in the
fund are available to the state board, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to implement the Air Quality Improvement Program.
   This bill would appropriate  $10,000,000  
$20,000,000  from the Air Quality Improvement Fund to the state
board for the purpose of providing  direct  grants
to owners of on-road heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicles 
that service the state's ports and railyards  in order to
purchase equipment for compliance with  any regulation
  specified drayage truck regulations  adopted by
the state board  for the reduction of air pollution from
those vehicles   . The bill would prescribe requirements
for the administration of those moneys by the state board. The
provisions of the bill would be repealed on January 1, 2013  .
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    Notwithstanding Chapter 8.9
(commencing with Section 44270) of Part 5 of Division 26 of the
Health and Safety Code, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000)
is appropriated from the Air Quality Improvement Fund established
pursuant to Section 44274.5 of the Health and Safety Code to the
State Air Resources Board for the purpose of providing grants to
owners of on-road heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicles in order to
purchase equipment for compliance with any regulation adopted by the
State Air Resources Board for the reduction of air pollution from
those vehicles. 
   SECTION 1.    Section 44274.9 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   44274.9.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) is appropriated from
the Air Quality Improvement Fund to the state board for the purpose
of providing grants to owners of on-road heavy-duty diesel-fueled
motor vehicles that service the state's ports and railyards to
purchase equipment for compliance with Section 2027 of Title 13 of
the California Code of Regulations.
   (b) The moneys appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
administered consistent with subdivision (c) and with guidelines that
are adopted by the state board pursuant to Chapter 3.2 (commencing
with Section 39625) of Part 2, except that the moneys may be used for
emission reductions that are currently required by regulations
adopted by the state board.
   (c) The state board shall provide grants pursuant to subdivision
(a) consistent with all of the following requirements:
   (1) Funding shall be awarded only to owners of three or fewer
on-road heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicles.
   (2) Funding shall be used for equipment to meet 2007 model year
engine emissions standards pursuant to Section 2027 of Title 13 of
the California Code of Regulations, or emissions standards for a
newer model year engine.
   (3) Funding shall not be awarded for purposes of purchasing
equipment for any vehicle that has already met the requirements to
comply with Phase 1 of the state's drayage truck regulation pursuant
to Section 2027 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations.
   (d) Any moneys not expended before January 1, 2013, shall revert
to the Air Quality Improvement Fund.
   (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends
that date. 
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to provide help to financially struggling on-road
heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicle owners as soon as possible, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately  as an
urgency statute  .