BILL NUMBER:  SB 1645
  VETOED	DATE: 09/28/2008




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 1645 without my signature.

This bill will result in unnecessary cost pressures to the General
Fund as my Office of Planning and Research (OPR) is already updating
its General Plan Guidelines to assist local government with
considering policies that address climate change in their general
plans.  As a result, this bill's creation of a model climate change
element to assist local governments in the development of their
general plans is unnecessary.

Additionally, this bill would assign the overall development of the
model elements to the California Energy Commission.  However, state
planning law already establishes OPR as the agency that provides
guidance on the development of local government general plans.

For these reasons, I am returning this bill without my signature.

Sincerely,



Arnold Schwarzenegger