BILL NUMBER: AB 937INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mendoza FEBRUARY 18, 2011 An act to add Section 39633 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vessels. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 937, as introduced, Mendoza. Vessels: emission reduction control. Existing law regulates emissions from cruise ship engines and oceangoing ship engines. Existing law prohibits a cruise ship, as defined, and an oceangoing ship, as defined, from conducting onboard incineration while operating within 3 miles of the California coast. This bill would authorize cruise ships and oceangoing ships, while in California ports, to use exhaust filtration technology approved by the State Air Resources Board, as an alternative to shore power. 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 39633 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 39633. While in California ports, cruise ships and oceangoing ships may use exhaust filtration technology that has been approved by the state board as an alternative to shore power.