Vehicular air pollution: reduction incentives.

(1) Existing law establishes the Air Quality Improvement Program that is administered by the State Air Resources Board for the purposes of funding projects related to, among other things, the reduction of criteria air pollutants and improvement of air quality. Pursuant to the Air Quality Improvement Program, the state board has established the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project to promote the production and use of zero-emission vehicles and the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project to provide vouchers to help California fleets to purchase hybrid and zero-emission trucks and buses. The Charge Ahead California Initiative, administered by the state board, includes goals of, among other things, placing in service at least 1,000,000 zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles by January 1, 2023, and increasing access for disadvantaged, low-income, and moderate-income communities and consumers to zero-emission and near-zero-emission vehicles. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the state board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill, for purposes of the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, would require the state board, until January 1, 2026, to provide specified rebate amounts for battery electric vehicles, fuel-cell vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and to implement a process to allow eligible applicants to obtain prompt preapproval from the state board prior to purchasing an eligible vehicle, as specified. The bill, until January 1, 2026, would authorize moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be available, upon appropriation, for allocation under those provisions and would authorize moneys available for allocation to disadvantaged communities to be available, upon appropriation, for allocations under those provisions to low- and moderate-income residents of those communities. This bill also would require the state board, until January 1, 2026, to issue specified rebates up to the costs associated with the purchase and the installation of an electric vehicle charging station to a property owner or lessee, as specified. The bill would authorize, until January 1, 2026, moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be available, upon appropriation, for allocation for those rebates. (2) Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state measured by sales price. The Sales and Use Tax Law defines the terms "gross receipts" and "sales price." This bill would exclude, until January 1, 2026, from the terms "gross receipts" and "sales price" for these purposes the value of a motor vehicle traded in for a qualified motor vehicle, as defined, if the value of the trade-in motor vehicle is separately stated on the motor vehicle invoice or bill of sale or similar document provided by the purchaser. The bill would authorize, until January 1, 2026, moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be available, upon appropriation, for allocation to reimburse counties and cities for any revenue losses caused by those sales and use tax exemptions. (3) Existing federal law, until September 30, 2017, authorizes a state to allow specified labeled vehicles to use lanes designated for high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs) . Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to designate certain lanes for the exclusive use of HOVs. Under existing law, until January 1, 2019, until federal authorization expires, or until the Secretary of State receives a specified notice, those lanes may be used by certain vehicles not carrying the requisite number of passengers otherwise required for the use of an HOV lane if the vehicle displays a valid identifier issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) . Existing law authorizes the DMV to issue no more than 85,000 of those identifiers. This bill would no longer limit the amount of identifiers issued by the DMV.