California Assembly Bill AB937 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 937AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 26, 2011 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 30, 2011 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 amended, 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.   Regulations of the State Air Resources Board require vessel fleets to either reduce onboard power generation to specified levels or achieve equivalent emission reductions.  This bill would  authorize cruise ships and oceangoing ships, while in California ports, to use, without penalty, exhaust filtration technology approved by the State Air Resources Board, as an alternative to shore power   require the state board to amend those regulations to ensure that a person choosing the equivalent emission reduction compliance option is not subject to more stringent requirements than a person choosing the reduced onboard power generation option  . 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. The state board shall amend Section 93118.3 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations to ensure that a person choosing the equivalent emission reduction compliance option is not subject to more stringent requirements than a person choosing the reduced onboard power generation option.   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, without penalty, exhaust filtration technology that has been approved by the state board as an alternative to shore power.