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  APRIL 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cedillo

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

    An act to amend Section 5102 of the Vehicle Code,
relating to vehicles.   An act 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.  Vehicles: environmental
license plates.  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 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 in order to purchase equipment for compliance with any
regulation adopted by the state board for the reduction of air
pollution from those vehicles.  
   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.  
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue
special distinctive motor vehicle license plates, including, not
limited to, the environmental license plates. Existing law requires,
among other things, that the environmental license plates be the same
color as regular passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, motorcycle,
or trailer license plates.  
   This bill would instead require that the environmental license
plates be the color green. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   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. 
   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.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 5102 of the Vehicle Code is
amended to read:
   5102.  The environmental license plates shall be the color green
and shall be the same design as regular passenger vehicle, commercial
vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer license plates, and shall consist of
any combination of numbers or letters, not exceeding seven positions
and not less than two positions, if there are no conflicts with
existing passenger, commercial, trailer, motorcycle, or special
license plates series or with Section 4851.