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  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.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 397, as amended, Wahab. Rest stops: Safety roadside rests: electric vehicle charging stations and alternative fuel sources. service equipment.

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 state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to encourage the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, and access to alternative fuel sources, at rest stops. 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: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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:

CHAPTER  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.

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to encourage the installation of electric vehicle charging stations, and access to alternative fuel sources, at rest stops.