Pending legislation - action needed

[mwalsh]

From Jay Friedland, Legislative Director, Plug In America

Over the last two weeks the California Legislature has sent an unprecedented six plug-in electric vehicle bills to Governor Jerry Brown's desk. Now we need your help in getting them over the finish line. What Plug In America has accomplished during this legislative session, working with a variety of coalitions and partners, sets an impressive new standard for making the state of California more EV friendly. It also helps create a framework we can leverage in other states and at the Federal level.

The bills include:

SB286 & AB266 - Extension of HOV access for plug-ins until 12/31/18 - a critical EV market incentive and extremely important for improving California's air quality
SB359 - Saves the CA CVRP Rebate Program and provides additional funding to last through June 2014
SB454 - EV Open Access - Charge at any paid charging station with a credit card, and know the price you'll pay
AB1092 - EV Building Standards - Moves the process forward for EV charging to be included in CA building code
AB8 - $2 billion for long-term state alternative fuels funding, including significant funding for EV related projects

Please urge Governor Brown to sign all six bills. Even better, ask him to sign them on National Plug In Day to show his support for all of the EV consumers who are plugging in!

Please contact the Governor to let him know you want all of these bills to become law, and also take the opportunity to thank your state legislators for setting an example to the rest of the country and the world.

Thank you for your support and for taking the time to act!

So far as I know, Governor Brown can be emailed at either [email protected] or [email protected]. The phone number for his office is 916-445-2841 and the fax number is 916-558-3160. And here is a helpful link to an email form:

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[TomT]

This one may be in trouble in the future... There is a strong push from the Feds and others in the state to do something about many of California's HOV lanes not even coming close to meeting the congestion standards... One of the few ways to correct this is to get vehicles out of the HOV lanes... Some things being considered are letting the Green and Silver stickers expire, capping the number of silver stickers like the green stickers, requiring 2 or 3 in a vehicle regardless of stickers at certain times, requiring three at all or certain times, etc...

SB286 & AB266 - Extension of HOV access for plug-ins until 12/31/18 - a critical EV market incentive and extremely important for improving California's air quality