BILL NUMBER: AB 2024INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mendoza FEBRUARY 23, 2012 An act to add Section 43018.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vehicular air pollution. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2024, as introduced, Mendoza. Vehicular air pollution: exemption: low-use vehicles: nonprofit organizations. Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants, including standards for off-road and nonvehicle engine categories. This bill would require the state board to amend a specified regulation relating to the emissions restrictions of diesel particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and other criteria pollutants from in-use, on-road, diesel-fueled vehicles. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 43018.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 43018.3. The state board shall amend Section 2025 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations to do all of the following: (a) Modify the definition of "low-use vehicle" to mean a vehicle that will be operated fewer than 5,000 miles in California in any compliance year. If that vehicle has an engine that powers other equipment that can only be used while stationary, the engine or power take off must also operate less than 100 hours in any compliance year. The hour limitation does not apply for vehicles where the engine is used to power an auxiliary mechanism that strictly loads and unloads cargo from the vehicle. (b) Exempt all tax-exempt nonprofit organizations.