BILL NUMBER: SB 1298	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 28, 1999
	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 appropriate $14,000,000 to the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission for specified
energy conservation projects and programs 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:  yes.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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


  SECTION 1.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 13340 and 16361 of the
Government Code, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the sum
of 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,  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.  
   (4) The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to
the San Joaquin Council of Governments for a regional bicycle
project. 
   (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.