Bill Text: CA SB397 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: San Francisco Bay area: public transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB397 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB397-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  January 03, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  March 22, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 397

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Introduced by Senator Wahab
(Coauthors: Senators Durazo and Gonzalez)

February 09, 2023

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An act to add Chapter 8.8 (commencing with Section 44269) to Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to transportation electrification. An act to add Section 13978.9 to the Government Code, relating to transportation.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 397, as amended, Wahab. Safety roadside rests: electric vehicle service equipment. San Francisco Bay area: public transportation.

Existing law creates the Metropolitan Transportation Commission as a local area planning agency for the 9-county San Francisco Bay area with comprehensive regional transportation planning and other related responsibilities. Existing law creates various transit districts located in the San Francisco Bay area, with specified powers and duties relating to providing public transit services.

Existing law establishes the Transportation Agency, consisting of various state agencies under the supervision of an executive officer known as the Secretary of Transportation, who is required to develop and report to the Governor on legislative, budgetary, and administrative programs to accomplish comprehensive, long-range, and coordinated planning and policy formulation in the matters of public interest related to the agency.

This bill would require the Transportation Agency to develop a plan to consolidate all transit agencies, as defined, that are located within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, working with the State Air Resources Board and the Public Utilities Commission, to prepare, and update biennially, 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, as specified.

This bill would require the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish a program to install and maintain electric vehicle service equipment at safety roadside rests, with the goal of serving at least one-half of the parking spaces, excluding those parking spaces designed for use by a tractor-trailer, at each safety roadside rest in California. The bill would require that the electric vehicle service equipment installed pursuant to the program be available to the public at no charge and be the fastest type that is reasonably commercially available.

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 13978.9 is added to the Government Code, to read:

13978.9.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “transit agency” has the same meaning as “public transportation operator” as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 99312.2 of the Public Utilities Code.

(b) The Transportation Agency shall develop a plan to consolidate all transit agencies that are located within the geographic jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, as described in Section 66502.

SECTION 1.Chapter 8.8 (commencing with Section 44269) is added to Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

8.8.Transportation Electrification

44269.

For purposes of this chapter, both of the following definitions apply:

(a)“Electric vehicle service equipment” has the same meaning as defined in Section 44268.

(b)“Safety roadside rests” has the same meaning as used in Article 7 (commencing with Section 218) of Chapter 1 of Division 1 of the Streets and Highways Code.

44269.1.

(a)Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the state board shall establish a program to install and maintain electric vehicle service equipment at safety roadside rests.

(b)The goal of the program is to install and maintain electric vehicle service equipment sufficient to serve at least one-half of the parking spaces, excluding those parking spaces designed for use by a tractor-trailer, at each safety roadside rest in California.

(c)The electric vehicle service equipment installed pursuant to the program shall be available to the public at no charge.

(d)The electric vehicle service equipment installed pursuant to the program shall be the fastest type that is reasonably commercially available.