CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1579Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia(Principal coauthor: Senator Padilla)February 17, 2023 An act relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1579, as introduced, Garcia. Vehicles: batteries.Existing law establishes several programs pertaining to vehicles and reducing pollution, including the Clean Transportation Program, the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle program.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints. The bill would make related findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) The transportation sector is responsible for more than one-half of Californias carbon pollution, 80 percent of Californias smog-forming pollution, and 90 percent of Californias toxic diesel emissions, all while communities in the Los Angeles Basin and central valley experience some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.(2) As California transitions to a clean transportation economy, its heavy reliance on importing lithium from foreign countries robs the state of the opportunity to pair its transportation goals with the creation of high-quality green jobs.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1579Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia(Principal coauthor: Senator Padilla)February 17, 2023 An act relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1579, as introduced, Garcia. Vehicles: batteries.Existing law establishes several programs pertaining to vehicles and reducing pollution, including the Clean Transportation Program, the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle program.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints. The bill would make related findings and declarations.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1579
Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia(Principal coauthor: Senator Padilla)February 17, 2023
Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia(Principal coauthor: Senator Padilla)
February 17, 2023
An act relating to vehicles.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1579, as introduced, Garcia. Vehicles: batteries.
Existing law establishes several programs pertaining to vehicles and reducing pollution, including the Clean Transportation Program, the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle program.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Existing law establishes several programs pertaining to vehicles and reducing pollution, including the Clean Transportation Program, the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program, and the Zero-Emission Vehicle program.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) The transportation sector is responsible for more than one-half of Californias carbon pollution, 80 percent of Californias smog-forming pollution, and 90 percent of Californias toxic diesel emissions, all while communities in the Los Angeles Basin and central valley experience some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.(2) As California transitions to a clean transportation economy, its heavy reliance on importing lithium from foreign countries robs the state of the opportunity to pair its transportation goals with the creation of high-quality green jobs.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) The transportation sector is responsible for more than one-half of Californias carbon pollution, 80 percent of Californias smog-forming pollution, and 90 percent of Californias toxic diesel emissions, all while communities in the Los Angeles Basin and central valley experience some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.(2) As California transitions to a clean transportation economy, its heavy reliance on importing lithium from foreign countries robs the state of the opportunity to pair its transportation goals with the creation of high-quality green jobs.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints.
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) The transportation sector is responsible for more than one-half of Californias carbon pollution, 80 percent of Californias smog-forming pollution, and 90 percent of Californias toxic diesel emissions, all while communities in the Los Angeles Basin and central valley experience some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.(2) As California transitions to a clean transportation economy, its heavy reliance on importing lithium from foreign countries robs the state of the opportunity to pair its transportation goals with the creation of high-quality green jobs.(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints.
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
### SECTION 1.
(1) The transportation sector is responsible for more than one-half of Californias carbon pollution, 80 percent of Californias smog-forming pollution, and 90 percent of Californias toxic diesel emissions, all while communities in the Los Angeles Basin and central valley experience some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.
(2) As California transitions to a clean transportation economy, its heavy reliance on importing lithium from foreign countries robs the state of the opportunity to pair its transportation goals with the creation of high-quality green jobs.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require, beginning in 2035, electric vehicles used for state purposes to be equipped with lithium-ion batteries that are sourced from operations with near-zero carbon footprints.