California 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate 4 D cosponsors

SB 726 — Alternative fuel and vehicle technologies: sustainable transportation.

Last action — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed Assembly
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels. Existing law creates the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, to be administered by the commission, and requires the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the commission to implement the program. This bill would revise and recast the program to expand the purpose of the program to include developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics. The bill would no longer require the commission to provide certain project preferences. The bill would delete the list of projects that the commission is required to make eligible for funding. The bill would authorize the commission to periodically review incentive programs, as provided. The bill would provide that the goals of the program shall be to advance the state's clean transportation, equity, air quality, and climate emission goals and would require the commission to ensure program investments support specified requirements. The bill would require the commission to expend at least 50% of the moneys appropriated to the program for projects that directly benefit or serve residents of disadvantaged and low-income communities and low-income Californians, and would require at least 50% of funding for tangible location-based investments to be expended in disadvantaged and low-income communities. The bill would delete various other requirements relating to the administration of the program. This bill would require the Strategic Growth Council to coordinate and convene at least 2 meetings each calendar year with specified state agencies and regional entities, if the regional entities choose to participate, to coordinate their implementation of sustainable transportation policies. The bill would require those state agencies and regional entities, on or before December 31, 2023, and each year thereafter, to collaboratively develop a summary of actions undertaken as part of the meetings and would require the summary to be publicly available on the Strategic Growth Council's internet website.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.

  2. Ordered to third reading.

  3. From inactive file.

  4. Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Reyes.

  5. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  7. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  8. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26).

  9. August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

  10. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  11. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  13. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

  14. Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and TRANS.

  15. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  16. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1380.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  18. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1202.) (May 20).

  19. Set for hearing May 20.

  20. May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.

  21. Set for hearing May 10.

  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1. Page 943.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  23. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  24. Set for hearing April 27.

  25. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

  26. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 757.) (April 12).

  27. Referral to Com. on E., U. & C. rescinded because of the limitations placed on committee hearings due to ongoing health and safety risks of the COVID-19 virus.

  28. Set for hearing April 12.

  29. Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q., TRANS., and E., U. & C.

  30. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  31. Referred to Com. on RLS.

  32. Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)

  33. (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)

  34. Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.

  35. Read first time.

  36. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

  37. Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 4 co-sponsors · 117 not signed on · 8 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (4)

Not signed on (117)

117 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Do pass as amended.

Passed 12 Yea · 4 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6200
Democratic 6000
Republican 0200
Total 12400
% of votes cast 75%25%0%0%
How each member voted (16)
Member Party Vote
Levine — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bigelow — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Vince Fong — Nay
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bryan, Isaac G. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 8 Yea · 4 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 3202
Democratic 5101
Republican 0100
Total 8403
% of votes cast 53%27%0%20%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Friedman — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Cunningham — Nay
Medina — Not Voting
Daly — Not Voting
Luz Rivas — Yea
Vince Fong — Nay
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Not Voting
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Lee, Alex Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Nay
Ward, Christopher M. Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Davies, Laurie Republican Nay

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Transportation]

Passed 8 Yea · 2 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7100
Democratic 1000
Republican 0101
Total 8201
% of votes cast 73%18%0%9%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
McCarty — Yea
Wood — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Chau — Yea
Mathis — Nay
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Not Voting
Seyarto, Kelly Republican Nay

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3rd Reading SB726 Gonzalez et al.

Passed 31 Yea · 6 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 18203
Democratic 13000
Republican 0400
Total 31603
% of votes cast 78%15%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Dodd — Yea
Roth — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Newman — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Min — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Pan — Yea
Borgeas — Nay
Wilk — Nay
Melendez — Not Voting
Nielsen — Not Voting
Bates — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Nay
Grove, Shannon Republican Nay
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay
Ochoa Bogh, Rosilicie Republican Nay

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Do pass

Passed 5 Yea · 2 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4100
Democratic 1000
Republican 0100
Total 5200
% of votes cast 71%29%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Wieckowski — Yea
Kamlager — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Bates — Nay
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Nay

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5000
Democratic 1000
Republican 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Kamlager — Yea
Bates — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Laird, John Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 13 Yea · 1 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7102
Democratic 6000
Republican 0001
Total 13103
% of votes cast 76%6%0%18%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Rubio — Yea
Bates — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Newman — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Min — Yea
Melendez — Nay
Wieckowski — Not Voting
Skinner — Not Voting
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Becker, Josh Democratic Yea
Cortese, Dave Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Not Voting

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Subjects

environment transportation
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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 726 do?
Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide funding to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels. Existing law creates the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, to be administered by the commission, and requires the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be expended by the commission to implement the program. This bill would revise and recast the program to expand the purpose of the program to include developing and deploying innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help reduce criteria air pollutants and air toxics. The bill would no longer require the commission to provide certain project preferences. The bill would delete the list of projects that the commission is required to make eligible for funding. The bill would authorize the commission to periodically review incentive programs, as provided. The bill would provide that the goals of the program shall be to advance the state's clean transportation, equity, air quality, and climate emission goals and would require the commission to ensure program investments support specified requirements. The bill would require the commission to expend at least 50% of the moneys appropriated to the program for projects that directly benefit or serve residents of disadvantaged and low-income communities and low-income Californians, and would require at least 50% of funding for tangible location-based investments to be expended in disadvantaged and low-income communities. The bill would delete various other requirements relating to the administration of the program. This bill would require the Strategic Growth Council to coordinate and convene at least 2 meetings each calendar year with specified state agencies and regional entities, if the regional entities choose to participate, to coordinate their implementation of sustainable transportation policies. The bill would require those state agencies and regional entities, on or before December 31, 2023, and each year thereafter, to collaboratively develop a summary of actions undertaken as part of the meetings and would require the summary to be publicly available on the Strategic Growth Council's internet website.
Who sponsors SB 726?
SB 726 is sponsored by Min, Stern, Henry I. (Democratic), Reyes, Eloise Gómez (Democratic), Archuleta, Bob (Democratic), and Gonzalez, Lena A. (Democratic).
What is the current status of SB 726?
This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 726?
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