BILL NUMBER: AB 2880	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 7, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 30, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lieu
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Laird and Saldana)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2006

   An act to add Section 40520 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to air quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2880, as amended, Lieu  California Integrated Waste Management
Board: green buildings.
   Existing law creates the California Integrated Waste Management
Board in the California Environmental Protection Agency. Existing
law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989,
establishes a comprehensive program implemented by the board and
local agencies to reduce, recycle, and reuse solid waste generated in
the state in an efficient and cost-effective manner to conserve
water, energy and other natural resources, and to protect the
environment, among other purposes.
   This bill would require the board, in consultation with the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and other
relevant state agencies, to  gather, analyze, and 
make available to the public, in part through  an 
 the board's  Internet Web site, public resources about
green buildings, as defined. This bill would require the board to
establish an advisory committee, as specified, and seek the advice of
the advisory committee in developing, maintaining, and updating the
Internet Web site, as specified.
   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 40520 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   40520.  (a) The board, in consultation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission and other relevant
state agencies, shall  gather, analyze, and  make
available to the public, resources about green buildings, including,
but not limited to, the following:
   (1) Information on practitioners and suppliers in the green
building industry.
   (2) Information on rebates, tax credits, and other incentives for
green buildings.
   (3) Educational brochures, booklets, handbooks, and other
offerings on green buildings.
   (4) Information about green building organizations.
   (5) Model ordinances that deal with green buildings.
   (6) All general information about green buildings that would be
useful to the public.
   (b) By January 1, 2008, the board shall make the information under
subdivision (a) available on  an easy to use, easily
accessible   the board's  Internet Web site.
   (1) To the extent technologically and economically feasible, the
Internet Web site shall allow users to search for green building
resources by building type, by entering a city name or zip code.
   (2) The board shall promote the Internet Web site using
advertising, public service announcements, flyers for use by local
agencies, Internet Web links, and other means.
   (c) (1) The board shall establish an advisory committee to help
the board ensure that the resources listed on the Internet Web site
are credible and valid green building resources.
   (2) The board shall consult with the advisory committee in
developing the Internet Web site. On or before January 1, 2009, and
annually thereafter, the board shall consult with the advisory
committee to evaluate and update the Internet Web site.
   (3) The advisory committee shall include qualified and experienced
representatives of  the League of California Cities, the
California State Association of Counties,  recognized green
building organizations,  local government, 
recognized environmental advocacy groups, and the architecture and
home building industry groups that have established interests in the
field of green buildings. To the extent feasible, the advisory
committee shall include expertise in each of the principal building
types or industry sectors, including, but not limited to, the
commercial, residential, educational, and institutional sectors, for
which resources are listed.
   (4) Members of the advisory committee shall be selected based on
their experience, qualifications, and industry-specific references.
   (d) As used in this section, "green building" means  a
structure that is designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in
an ecological and resource efficient manner.   a project
designed to reduce both direct and indirect environmental
consequences associated with its construction, use, operation,
maintenance, and eventual decommissioning, the design of which is
evaluated for cost, quality-of-life impacts, future flexibility, ease
of maintenance, energy and resource efficiency, and overall
environmental impact, with an emphasis on life cycle cost analysis.