Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act.

The Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act prohibits the charging of a subscription fee on persons desiring to use an electric vehicle charging station, as defined, and prohibits requiring those persons to obtain membership in any club, association, or organization as a condition of using the station, except as specified. The act requires an electric vehicle charging station to provide to the general public 2 specified options for payment. The act also authorizes the State Air Resources Board, if no interoperability billing standards have been adopted by a national standards organization by January 1, 2015, to adopt interoperability billing standards, as defined, for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations, and requires, if the state board adopts standards, all electric vehicle charging stations that require payment to meet those standards within one year. This bill instead would require an electric vehicle charging station to provide to the general public a toll-free telephone number for processing a credit card payment and onsite capacity for credit card payment, as defined. The bill instead would authorize the state board, if no interoperability billing standards, as defined, have been adopted by an international standards organization by January 1, 2021, to adopt interoperability billing standards for network roaming payment methods for electric vehicle charging stations, and would require, if the state board adopts standards, all electric vehicle charging stations that require payment to meet those standards by deadlines specified by the state board.