Bill Text: CA SB934 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Zero-emission freight infrastructure: interagency coordination: report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-07 - August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. [SB934 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 934
| Introduced by Senator Gonzalez (Coauthors: Senators Archuleta and Rubio) |
January 16, 2024 |
An act to add Section 14517.5 13978.9 to the Government Code, relating to transportation.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 934, as amended, Gonzalez.
Zero-emission freight infrastructure: interagency coordination: report.
Existing law requires the California Transportation Commission to develop the Clean Freight Corridor Efficiency Assessment, in coordination with other state agencies, with the goal of identifying freight corridors, or segments of freight corridors, and infrastructure needed to support the deployment of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, as specified. Transportation Agency to prepare a state freight plan every 5 years to govern the immediate and long-range planning activities and capital investments of the state with respect to the movement of freight. Existing law requires the state freight plan to include, among other things, a description of needed infrastructure, projects, and operations for the deployment
of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and the development of freight corridors identified in a specified assessment.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), working with specified state agencies, to prepare 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 the emissions of greenhouse gases to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030.
This bill would require the California Transportation Commission
Agency and the Energy Commission to jointly convene the Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team, composed of representatives from various state agencies, to lead the statewide coordination of zero-emission freight infrastructure planning and implementation, including carrying out specified actions. The bill would require the Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team, in consultation with the California Transportation Commission Transportation Agency and the Energy Commission, to submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2026, and every 5 years thereafter, that includes, among other things, a description of the actions taken by the Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team.
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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) The(b) The Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team shall include
representatives from state agencies, including, but not limited to, the department, the Transportation Agency, agency, the Department of Transportation, the California Transportation Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the Public Utilities Commission, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.
(c) The Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team shall be responsible for all of the following actions:
(1) Working with zero-emission freight infrastructure stakeholders to strategically select specific project locations using a corridor-based approach that prioritizes the top freight corridors identified
in the Clean Freight Corridor Efficiency Assessment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 14517. 14517 and posting those project locations on the agency’s internet website.
(2) Coordinating actions between state agencies, utility companies, and other zero-emission freight infrastructure stakeholders.
(3) Developing a process for nongovernmental stakeholders to be included in zero-emission station location planning and implementation, including, but not limited to, impacted communities, community-based organizations, equity advocates, public health advocates, air quality advocates, tribal nations,
and
environmental justice advocates.
(4) Identifying lead entities from regional transportation planning agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, ports, utilities, state agencies, and other zero-emission freight infrastructure stakeholders that are necessary to build zero-emission stations quickly.
(5) Identifying available funding sources and public-private partnership models and posting that information on the commission’s agency’s internet website.
(6) Developing standardized zero-emission station development models, including
zoning and building permits that can be replicated for each station across a priority freight corridor, based on local municipality guidelines, and posting that information on the commission’s agency’s internet website.
(7) Working with community colleges and ports that provide training programs to support training of freight industry workers, as necessary.
(8) Promoting the timely and equitable implementation of zero-emission freight infrastructure throughout the state.
(d) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5, on or before March 1,
2026, and every five years thereafter, the Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team, in consultation with the commission agency and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, shall submit a report to the Legislature that does all of the following:
(A) (i) Describes the actions taken by the Zero-Emission Freight Central Delivery Team.
(ii) For the report due on or before March 1, 2026, the description required pursuant to clause (i) shall cover actions taken during the 2025 calendar year. For each subsequent report, the description shall cover actions taken
during the five calendar years preceding the report.
(B) Identifies best practices regarding zero-emission freight
infrastructure planning and implementation.
(C) Makes any policy recommendations needed to facilitate the deployment of zero-emission freight infrastructure.
(D) Includes an assessment of the state’s progress towards meeting the number of zero-emission stations needed to support zero-emission freight goals.
(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.
