SB 513 — Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program: fees.

Summary

(1) Existing law authorizes the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to adopt a $6 surcharge on motor vehicle registration fees applicable to motor vehicles registered within the district. Existing law requires the collected fees to be used for specified purposes, including, among others, awarding grants eligible for funding under the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program. This bill would additionally authorize those fees to be used for projects that involve alternative fuel and electric infrastructure, as specified. (2) Existing law authorizes an air pollution control or air quality management district, except the Sacramento district, that has been designated by the State Air Resources Board as a state nonattainment area for any pollutant emitted by motor vehicles to levy a fee of up to $6 on motor vehicles registered within the air district, subject to specified conditions. This bill instead would authorize any air district, except the Sacramento district, regardless of its state attainment designation to levy a fee of up to $6 on motor vehicles registered within the air district. The bill also would authorize those fees to be used for the attainment or maintenance of state or federal ambient air quality standards or the reduction of toxic air contaminant emissions from motor vehicles and for alternative fuel and electric infrastructure projects, as specified. (3) Existing law establishes the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, which is administered by the state board, to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of eligible projects that reduce emissions of air pollutants from vehicular sources in the state and for the funding of a fueling infrastructure demonstration program and technology development efforts. This bill would revise and recast provisions of the program, including, among others, changing the definition of covered source to include any marine vessel and any other category necessary for the state and air districts to meet air quality goals; authorizing the state board to adjust, rather than just reduce, the values of the maximum grant award criteria to improve the ability of the program to achieve its goals; authorizing the state board to reserve up to 10% of the program moneys available each year to directly fund any project that is a covered source, as defined, or a specified eligible project; removing the prohibition on using specified motor vehicle registration fees as matching funds; requiring the state board, instead of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to publish procedures to monitor and audit infrastructure projects; increasing the authorization for support and outreach costs from not more than 2% to not more than 2.5% of the moneys for use by the program in the Air Pollution Control Fund; removing the repeal date of January 1, 2024, from the provisions on how moneys in the Air Pollution Control Fund are allocated and segregated; removing the repeal date of January 1, 2024, from the provisions regarding the terms and conditions for an allocation of moneys to an air district; and requiring an air district to liquidate, as defined, the moneys by June 30 of the fourth year following the year of allocation and to return, as defined, those moneys that have not been liquidated to the state board within 90 days. (4) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would authorize the state board to allocate moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and other specified sources for the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program without those other moneys being required to be factored into the criteria emission reduction cost-effectiveness calculations.

Bill Text

• Chaptered 10/08/15 - Chaptered Current pdf October 08, 2015
• Enrolled 09/04/15 - Enrolled pdf September 04, 2015
• Amended 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly pdf August 31, 2015
• Amended 08/17/15 - Amended Assembly pdf August 17, 2015
• Amended 06/02/15 - Amended Senate pdf June 02, 2015
• Amended 05/12/15 - Amended Senate pdf May 12, 2015
• Amended 04/06/15 - Amended Senate pdf April 06, 2015
• Introduced 02/26/15 - Introduced pdf February 26, 2015
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Action History

1. October 08, 2015

   Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 610, Statutes of 2015.

2. October 08, 2015

   Approved by the Governor.

3. September 09, 2015

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

4. September 03, 2015

   Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2443.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

5. September 02, 2015

   In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

6. September 02, 2015

   Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 26. Page 2787.) Ordered to the Senate.

7. September 01, 2015

   Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

8. August 31, 2015

   Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

9. August 28, 2015

   From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 27).

10. August 19, 2015

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

11. August 17, 2015

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

12. July 14, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

13. June 18, 2015

    Referred to Com. on TRANS.

14. June 04, 2015

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

15. June 03, 2015

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1303.) Ordered to the Assembly.

16. June 02, 2015

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

17. June 01, 2015

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1155.) (May 28).

18. May 23, 2015

    Set for hearing May 28.

19. May 18, 2015

    May 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

20. May 12, 2015

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

21. May 08, 2015

    Set for hearing May 18.

22. April 30, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 858.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

23. April 23, 2015

    Set for hearing April 29.

24. April 22, 2015

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 732.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

25. April 16, 2015

    Re-referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E.Q.

26. April 16, 2015

    Set for hearing April 21 in T. & H. pending receipt.

27. April 06, 2015

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

28. March 12, 2015

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

29. February 27, 2015

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.

30. February 26, 2015

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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• Beall · Primary

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