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 01/23/25 - Introduced

 SB-94 Transportation funding: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: Motor Vehicle Fuel Account.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/26/2025 09:00 PM

SB94:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 26, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 94

Introduced by Senator Jones Strickland

January 23, 2025

 An act to amend Section 39000 of the Vehicle Code, relating to transportation. 39719 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Sections 7360, 7362, 7363, and 7364 of, and to add and repeal Section 7374 of, the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to transportation, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 94, as amended, Jones Strickland.
 Transportation: bicycles. Transportation funding: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: Motor Vehicle Fuel Account.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of those emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law continuously appropriates 25% of the annual proceeds of the fund to the High-Speed Rail Authority for certain purposes, as specified.

This bill would eliminate the continuous appropriation of 25% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the High-Speed Rail Authority on June 30, 2026. The bill, beginning with the 2026–27 fiscal year, and until December 31, 2030, would require 25% of the annual proceeds of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be transferred to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account.

Existing law, the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, imposes a tax upon each gallon of motor vehicle fuel removed from a refinery or terminal rack in this state, entered into this state, or sold in this state, at a specified rate per gallon. Existing law provides that amounts received pursuant to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law are deposited into the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account in the Transportation Tax Fund. Existing law transfers the portions of those
 motor vehicle fuel tax revenues attributable to various off-highway uses of motor vehicle fuel to specified funds and transfers the remaining revenues to the Highway Users Tax Account for allocation to various state and local transportation purposes consistent with the expenditure restrictions imposed by Article XIX of the California Constitution on excise tax revenues from fuels used in motor vehicles on the highway.

This bill, beginning July 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031, would reduce the rate of the tax imposed upon each gallon of fuel by a specified percentage based annually on the amount transferred to the Motor Vehicle Fuel Account from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. By transferring moneys to a continuously appropriated account, this bill would make an appropriation.

Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to procure and distribute bicycle license indicia and registration forms to all counties and cities that have adopted a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution. Existing law prohibits a city or county that adopts a bicycle licensing ordinance or resolution from prohibiting the operation of an unlicensed bicycle. Existing law defines “bicycle” for these purposes.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY2/3 
 Appropriation:
 NOYES 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 39719 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

39719.

 (a) The Legislature shall appropriate the annual proceeds of the fund for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this state in accordance with the requirements of Section 39712.

(b) To carry out a portion of the requirements of subdivision (a), the annual proceeds of the fund ar