Bill Text: CA AB1321 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Public lands: State Lands Commission: coastal ports: automated technology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-09-09 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Beall. [AB1321 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1321-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
August 13, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 17, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 27, 2019 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Gipson |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would authorize the commission to approve, on a case-by-case basis, the use of automated technology, as defined, on the property of coastal ports within the commission’s jurisdiction when the commission determines that the proposed transition to the use of automated technology will provide a safe working environment and not cause critical damage to the state economy or to the economies of surrounding local communities, as specified.
The bill would require the commission to submit an annual report to the Legislature, commencing on or before March 1, 2021, detailing each instance in which the commission has approved a use of automated technology pursuant to the bill during the preceding year.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)Notwithstanding any other law, the commission may approve, on a case-by-case basis, the use of automated technology on the property of coastal ports within the commission’s jurisdiction when the commission determines that the proposed transition to the use of automated technology will provide a safe working environment and not cause critical damage to the state economy or to the economies of surrounding local communities.
(b)In its consideration of proposals to use automated technology on the property of coastal ports, the commission shall consider issues including, but not necessarily limited to, the effects of automated technology with respect to both of the following:
(1)The safety of the working environment at the coastal ports.
(2)The economic impact, including an estimate of the job loses or gains that would result from the proposed use of automated technology.
(c)The commission shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2021, and on or before March 1 of each year thereafter, detailing each instance in which the commission has approved a use of automated technoloy pursuant to this section during the preceding year. The report shall comply with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(d)As used in this section, “automated technology” means any equipment or infrastructure that does not require a human operator physically located in the machine or at the location of the infrastructure to operate it, and that is used on public trust lands or
coastal ports. “Automated technology” does not mean equipment or infrastructure operated by a human and that produces zero emissions or near zero emissions.