California Education Code

§ 17927

EDC § 17927 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 10.8

Statute text

(a)Commencing January 1, 2035, 100 percent of all newly purchased or contracted schoolbuses of a local educational agency shall be zero-emission vehicles, where feasible.

(b)If a local educational agency determines that the purchase or contracting of a zero-emission schoolbus is not feasible due to both terrain and route constraints, the local educational agency may request a one-time extension for a term not to exceed five years, in order to meet the requirements in subdivision (a), provided that both of the following conditions are met:

(1)The local educational agency can reasonably demonstrate that a daily planned bus route for transporting pupils to and from school cannot be serviced through available zero-emission technology in 2035.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 445, Sec. 2. (AB 579) Effective January 1, 2024.