Drafted Legislation: 2011-12 Legislative Session

The following list highlights the most current legislation Fueling California is monitoring:

AB 81 (Beall) Fuel taxes: aircraft jet fuel dealers: rate.
Summary: Would reduce the rate of the jet fuel tax to $0.01 for each gallon of fuel sold. This bill contains other related provisions.

AB X12 (Louge) State Air Resources Board: alternative actions to assessing penalties)
Summary: Would authorize the state board, in lieu of assessing penalties for a violation of an air pollution control law administered by the state board, to require a person who has violated that law to spend an amount equivalent to the amount that would have been assessed for the violation toward actions to comply with the air pollution control law that was violated or toward a supplemental environmental project, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 23 (Simitian) Energy: renewable energy resources.
Summary: Would require an applicant to inform the United States Department of Defense of a proposed project and that an application will be filed with the commission if the site and related facility specified in the application are proposed to be located within 1,000 feet of a military installation, or lie within special use airspace or beneath a low-level flight path, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB 68 (Leno) 2011-2012 Budget.
Summary: Would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2011-12 fiscal year. This bill contains other related provisions.

SB 116 (de Leon) Income taxes: single sales factor.
Summary: Would eliminate the authorization for specified taxpayers to elect to have business income apportioned in accordance with a single sales factor formula and instead require those taxpayers to apportion their business income in accordance with a single sales factor formula for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, and would make related changes. This bill contains other related provisions.

SB 148 (Steinberg) Partnership academies: Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Program.
Summary: Would require the Controller annually to allocate $8,000,000 from the Energy Resources Program Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for expenditure in the form of grants to school districts to be allocated pursuant to the existing provisions for creating and maintaining partnership academies. The bill would require a grantee to implement or maintain a partnership academy that focuses on employment in clean technology businesses and renewable energy businesses and provides skilled workforces for the products and services for energy or water conservation, or both, renewable energy, pollution reduction, or other technologies. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SB X1 1 (Steinberg) Partnership academies: Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Program.
Summary: Would require the Controller annually to allocate $8,000,000 from the Energy Resources Program Account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for expenditure in the form of grants to school districts to be allocated pursuant to the existing provisions for creating and maintaining partnership academies. The bill would require a grantee to implement or maintain a partnership academy that focuses on employment in clean technology businesses and renewable energy businesses and provides skilled workforces for the products and services for energy or water conservation, or both, renewable energy, pollution reduction, or other technologies. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.