Bill Text: CA SB429 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Transportation network companies: participating drivers: vehicle inspections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Veto sustained. [SB429 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB429-Amended.html
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Amended
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Assembly
June 19, 2023 |
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Amended
IN
Senate
March 20, 2023 |
| Introduced by Senator Bradford |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including gas corporations. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in regulating those emissions. The implementing regulations adopted by the state board provide for the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to electrical corporations and gas corporations pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism. Existing law requires the commission, until June 30, 2023, to annually allocate $50,000,000 of the revenues received by gas corporations as a result of
the direct allocation of greenhouse gas emissions allowances provided to gas corporations to fund the Building Initiative for Low-Emissions Development Program and the Technology and Equipment for Clean Heating Initiative.
This bill would require the revenues, including any accrued interest, received by a gas corporation as a result of that allocation of allowances to be credited directly to the residential customers of the gas corporation. The bill would require the commission to annually direct gas corporations to distribute the credit, as specified.
Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.
Because a violation of a commission action implementing this bill’s requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 5445.4 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:5445.4.
(a) A transportation network company shall require a vehicle to satisfy the vehicle inspection requirements established by the commission before allowing a participating driver to operate the vehicle as part of its service, and every 12 months or 50,000 in-app miles thereafter, whichever occurs first. Inspections shall be performed by a mechanic affiliated with a facility licensed by the Bureau of Automotive Repair on location, virtually, or remotely.SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.(a)The commission shall require revenues, including any accrued interest, received by a gas corporation as a result of the direct allocation of greenhouse gas allowances to gas utilities pursuant to subdivision (a) and paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 95893 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations to be credited directly to the residential customers of the gas corporation.
(b)Each year the commission shall direct gas corporations to distribute the credit described in subdivision (a) during the February utility billing cycle, so as to coincide with the highest usage gas utility bill during the year.
(c)The commission may consider a gas
corporation’s billing system’s ability to distribute the credit described in subdivision (a) in February and may authorize the gas corporation to provide the credit as close to the February utility billing cycle as feasible.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
