Bill Text: CA AB2480 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Zero-emission schoolbus replacement grants: private contractors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-22 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2480 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2480-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2480

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Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 13, 2024

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An act to add Section 44282.6 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2480, as introduced, Garcia. Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program: grants: school buses.

Existing law establishes the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, which is administered by the State Air Resources Board. The program authorizes the state board to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of eligible projects that reduce emissions from covered vehicular sources. The state board is required to establish and update grant criteria and guidelines for covered vehicle projects. Existing law sets forth general eligibility criteria for projects funded through the program, including a cost-effectiveness requirement. For schoolbus projects, existing law prohibits a grant from exceeding specified cost caps and requires the cost-effectiveness value to be set forth in the guidelines adopted by the state board.

This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other law, a project to purchase a new zero-emission schoolbus to replace an internal combustion engine schoolbus is eligible for a grant under the program regardless of the model year of the associated internal combustion engine.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 44282.6 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

44282.6.

 Notwithstanding any other law, a project to purchase a new zero-emission schoolbus to replace an internal combustion engine schoolbus shall be eligible for a grant under the program regardless of the model year of the associated internal combustion engine.