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Bill	Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.	Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires the program to provide funding measures to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to provide preferences to projects that maximize the goals of the program based on certain criteria, including the project's ability to provide economic benefits for California by promoting California-based technology firms, jobs, and businesses. Existing law specifies that projects eligible for funding include workforce training programs related to various sectors or occupations related to the purposes of the program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1697	California AB 1697 (20152016)	bill	Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.	enacted	Bonilla	8	29	9	2016-01-21	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/00308c40-ed1e-4cfa-a48a-572be9589144	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1697	24c5c02dc02b1ae17d02226727479cbe39bbfda0b87551c7d43ec91d77d041bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1697 (20152016) — Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program.

Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires the program to provide funding measures to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to provide preferences to projects that maximize the goals of the program based on certain criteria, including the project's ability to provide economic benefits for California by promoting California-based technology firms, jobs, and businesses. Existing law specifies that projects eligible for funding include workforce training programs related to various sectors or occupations related to the purposes of the program.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 01/21/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/25/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1697 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1697 Bonilla By Roth — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1697 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1697 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy] — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-01-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2016-02-08 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2016-03-31 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 31). Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2016-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J., E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5021.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on T. & H. referral-committee
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 5118.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6158.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 446, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00308c40-ed1e-4cfa-a48a-572be9589144. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).