Senate Bill 22-193 Summary

• Creates Industrial and Manufacturing Operations Clean Air Grant Program with $25 million in funding to help finance voluntary projects reducing air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities, with priority given to disproportionately impacted communities and nonattainment areas.

• Establishes Community Access to Electric Bicycles Grant Program and Rebate Program with $12 million to finance bike share and ownership programs for low- and moderate-income households, with priority to disproportionately impacted communities and nonattainment areas.

• Creates Electrifying School Buses Grant Program with $65 million to help school districts and charter schools procure electric school buses, charging infrastructure, and retire fossil-fuel buses, with priority to schools in disproportionately impacted communities.

• Creates Cannabis Resource Optimization Cash Fund with $1.5 million to provide grants and incentives to cannabis producers to reduce energy and water use and promote renewable energy and sustainable practices.

• Appropriates $7 million to the Department of Public Health and Environment's air pollution control division and makes technical amendments to air quality permit and hearing procedures under Colorado law.