BILL NUMBER: AB 1925	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2006

   An act to add and repeal Section 25216.7 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1925, as introduced, Blakeslee  Energy: electricity: carbon
dioxide.
   Existing law imposes various duties on the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, including requiring the
commission to undertake a continuing assessment of trends in the
consumption of electrical energy and other forms of energy and to
analyze the social, economic, and environmental consequences of these
trends, and to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature new and
expanded energy conservation measures as specified.
   This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1,
2008, to submit a report to the Legislature containing the commission'
s recommendations for how the state can facilitate, and provide
incentives for, cost effective strategies to contain, sequester, and
recycle carbon dioxide that is created during the generation of
electricity.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 25216.7 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   25216.7.  (a) On or before January 1, 2008, the commission shall
submit a report to the Legislature containing the commission's
recommendations for how the state can facilitate, and provide
incentives for, cost effective strategies to contain, sequester, and
recycle carbon dioxide that is created during the generation of
electricity.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2009, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2009, deletes or extends
that date.