Alternative fuel vehicles: flexible fuel vehicles.

(1) Existing law creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies and requires the committee to ascertain facts and make recommendations to the Legislature and to committees of the Legislature concerning the state's programs, policies, and investments related to climate change, as specified. This bill would provide that the joint committee may recommend that the State Air Resources Board provide education and support to local governments regarding specific components of local government climate action plans, such as ensuring the use of E85 in flexible fuel vehicles, expanding infrastructure for zero-emission vehicles, and enabling active transportation. (2) Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in partnership with the State Air Resources Board, and in consultation with specified state agencies, to develop and adopt a state plan to increase the use of alternative fuels, as defined. This bill would require the state board, no later than April 1, 2019, to develop a simple, factual summary on the distribution of E85 and flexible fuel vehicle registrations, as specified; to provide that summary to the United States Environmental Protection Agency; and to post that summary on the state board's Internet Web site. The bill would require the state board to develop policy recommendations to maximize the use of E85 in flexible fuel vehicles that operate in the state and to consider adopting those policy recommendations at a board meeting no later than October 1, 2019.