Senate Transportation & Energy
The Senate Transportation & Energy Committee unanimously advanced SB26-021, a diesel-truck replacement measure, after adopting amendments that narrow eligibility to the oldest, highest-emitting trucks — even as the chair and members flagged unease about subsidizing upgrades that might have happened anyway.
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“And then if you dig in on the, on the actual bill, it's very clear that that truck will no longer be on the road. They have to drill through the engine block making sure that that truck that was more pollutant will never be on the road.”
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Sign in to subscribeOkay. Good afternoon. The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee will now come to order. Ms. Forbes, can you please call the roll? Senators Basley. President Atlen. Here. Exum. Good afternoon. Linstadt. Present. Malika. Here. Helton. Present. Sullivan. Excused. Ball. Here. And Madam Chair. Present. Okay, so we have before US Senate Bill 21, and it's for action only, so I believe there's amendments to discuss. Who would like to. Senator Malcolm. Thank you, Madam Chair. If it's all right with you, I'll move the amendment and then talk about it a little bit. I move amendment L5 members, any objection to that amendment? You want me to talk about it? Oh, yeah, talk about it. Go ahead. Thank you so much, Madam Chair. Members, this is in response to some of the feedback that we heard both from CDPH and some of the stakeholding. This allows for that zero emission technology when it comes to refrigeration transport. Also, you'll see you had gotten an amendment, amendment 04, the last hearing. This changes that. There was a little miscommunication. We had the year 2007 in that amendment. This prioritizes 2006 and earlier, which is something that you heard in testimony from…
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