BILL NUMBER: SB 1298	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Communications
(Senators Bowen (Chair), Alarcon, Baca, Brulte, Hughes, Kelley,
Mountjoy, Peace, Solis, Speier, and Vasconcellos)

                        MARCH 1, 1999

   An act relating to energy resources  , and making an
appropriation therefor  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1298, as amended, Committee on Energy, Utilities and
Communications.  Energy resources:  federal oil overcharge funds.
   Under existing law, funds in the Petroleum Violation Escrow
Account, as defined in federal law, consisting of federal oil
overcharge funds, have been disbursed to this state by the federal
government and deposited in the Federal Trust Fund in the State
Treasury, a continuously appropriated fund.
   This bill would  declare the Legislature's intent that, to
the extent permitted by federal law, the sum of $____ be
appropriated, without regard to fiscal years,  
appropriate $14,000,000 to the State Energy Resources Conservation
and Development Commission  for  specified energy
conservation  projects and programs  designed to promote
energy conservation   in the state  .  
   The funds would be disbursed by the Controller, subject to
approval by the Director of Finance as to which court judgment or
federal agency order is the proper source of the funds. 
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:   no   yes
 .  Fiscal committee:   no   yes  .
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  
  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature that,
notwithstanding  
  SECTION 1.  (a) Notwithstanding  Sections 13340 and 16361 of
the  Government Code, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the
sum of  ____ dollars ($____)   fourteen million
dollars ($14,000,000)  of the money in the Federal Trust Fund,
created by Section 16360 of the Government Code, received by the
state from federal oil overcharge funds in the Petroleum Violation
Escrow Account, as defined by Section 155 of the Further Continuing
Appropriations Act of 1983 (P.L. 97-377) or other federal law, and
consisting of federal oil overcharge funds available pursuant to
court judgments or federal agency orders,  be appropriated,
without regard to fiscal years, for projects and programs designed to
promote energy conservation.   is hereby appropriated
to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission
for expenditure for energy conservation projects and programs in the
state, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) The sum of two million five hundred thousand ($2,500,000) for
grants that are available to all local air quality management
districts, on a matching basis, for local programs to buy-down the
cost of zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure.
   (2) The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for grants that
are available to all counties and cities in California, on a
competitive basis, to buy-down the cost of acquiring zero-emission
vehicles and infrastructure for use in their own fleets.
   (3) The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for grants
to the Department of General Services, the Senate Committee on
Rules, and the Assembly Committee on Rules to acquire zero-emission
vehicles and related recharging infrastructure for use in their own
vehicle fleets.
   (b) The money appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
disbursed by the Controller, subject to the approval by the Director
of Finance as to which court judgment or federal agency is the proper
source of those funds.