CA AB 2480

Title: Zero-emission schoolbus replacement grants: private contractors.
Author: Eduardo Garcia

Summary
AB 2480, as amended, Garcia. Zero-emission schoolbus replacement grants: private contractors. Existing law appropriates, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, $375,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Air Resources Board for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Voucher Incentive Project to fund grants to local educational agencies, as defined, for zero-emission schoolbuses to replace heavy-duty internal combustion schoolbuses owned by local educational agencies, as specified, and $125,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to fund grants to local educational agencies for zero-emission schoolbus charging or fueling infrastructure and related activities, including, but not limited to, charging or fueling stations, equipment, site design, construction, and related infrastructure upgrades, in order to complement those vehicle investments, as specified.This bill would include, for the definition of a local educational agency for purposes of these provisions, a private contractor with ownership of title for a schoolbus that is used to provide transportation services for a school district, county office of education, or charter school, as provided. The bill would require, if a private contractor acquires a schoolbus pursuant to these provisions and subsequently ceases to contract with any school district, county office of education, or charter school to provide transportation services using the schoolbus, ownership of title for the schoolbus to be transferred to the school district, county office of education, or charter school that it last contracted with. By expanding the scope of eligibility for purposes of an appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation.

Status
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.

Bill Documents
CA AB 2480 - 03/20/24 - Amended Assembly
03/20/24 - CA AB 2480 (03/20/24 - Amended Assembly)