BILL NUMBER: AB 2596	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2008
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2008

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jones

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2008

   An act to add Section  38573   38594.5 
to the Health and Safety Code, relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2596, as amended, Jones. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: cities and  counties: market-based compliance
mechanisms.   counties. 
   Existing law imposes various limitations on emissions of air
contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and
nonvehicular sources. Existing law, the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006, designates the  state board 
 State Air Resources Board  as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases
that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse
gas emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and requires
the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public
process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and
cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions.  The act
authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms to comply with the regulations. 

   This bill would authorize a city or county, to the extent its
plans and implementing ordinances will reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions by 25% or more of state board projections, to sell,
exchange, or auction any emission reductions achieved by those plans
and ordinances in any open market-based compliance mechanism
established by the state board.  
   This bill would require the state board to quantify a baseline
level of greenhouse gas emissions generated by land use and
transportation activities in 2009 for each city and county with a
population of at least 50,000. The state board would also be required
to develop and make available to cities and counties a model that
cities and counties may use to quantify the projected level of
greenhouse gas emissions for the period from January 1, 2011, through
January 1, 2020, that will be generated from land use and
transportation activities for each city and county. 
   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  38573   38594.5  is
added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
    38573.   38594.5.   (a) On or before
January 1, 2011, the state board shall quantify a baseline level of
greenhouse gas emissions generated by land use and transportation
activities  for each city and county from activities in 2009
  in 2009 for each city and county with a population of
at least 50,000  .
   (b) On or before January 1, 2011, the state board shall 
develop and make available to cities and counties a model that cities
and counties may use to  quantify the projected level of
greenhouse gas emissions, for the period from January 1, 2011,
through January 1, 2020, that will be generated from land use and
transportation activities for each city and county based on
established trends and existing plans and the baseline level
determined pursuant to subdivision (a).  Nothing in this
subdivision requires a city or county to utilize the model developed
by the state board or to quantify its projected level of greenhouse
gas emissions.  
   (c) (1) If a city or county adopts plans and implementing
ordinances that will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 25
percent or more of the state board projections established pursuant
to subdivision (b), the city or county may sell, exchange, or auction
any emission reductions achieved by those plans and ordinances in
any open market-based compliance mechanism established by the state
board pursuant to Section 38570.  
   (2) Before a city or county may participate in any market-based
compliance mechanisms, the state board shall determine both of the
following:  
   (A) The plans and ordinances described in paragraph (1) are
adopted and enforceable, and will result in reductions in greenhouse
gas emissions meeting the requirements of paragraph (1). 

   (B) Actual, verifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions have
occurred.