BILL NUMBER: AB 296	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 21, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Skinner
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Blumenfield, Fletcher, and Gordon)
   (Coauthor: Senator Hancock)

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2011

   An act  to add Section 14457 to the Government Code, and
 to add Section 18941.9 to the Health and Safety Code  ,
and to add Part 5 (commencing with Section 71400) to Division 34 of
the Public Resources Code  , relating to building standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 296, as amended, Skinner. Department of Transportation: paving
materials.
   (1) Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is
responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the state highway
system. 
   This bill would require the department to develop one or more
standard specifications for cool pavements and materials, by January
1, 2014.  
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations
regarding the meaning of urban heat island effect (UHIE). The bill
would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to
develop a definition for the term UHIE and, upon completion of an
UHIE index, develop a standard specification for sustainable or cool
pavements. 
   (2) The California Building Standards Law requires any building
standard adopted or proposed by a state agency to be submitted to,
and approved or adopted by, the California Building Standards
Commission prior to codification.
   This bill would require the commission, in the next triennial
adoption process of the California Green Building Standards Code
 that begins on or after January 1, 2015, to
consider incorporating  those specifications proposed
  a standard specification for sustainable or cool
pavements that this bill would require the Department of
Transportation to develop  in the Cool Pavements Handbook as
additional strategies for Heat Island Effect: Hardscape Alternatives
in the California Green Building Standards Code.
   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 14457 is added to the
Government Code, to read:
   14457.  (a) On or before January 1, 2014, the department shall,
through a new or existing process, develop one or more standard
specifications for cool pavements or materials, and may identify
existing standard specifications of the department that have cool
pavements or materials.
   (b) The department, when developing sustainable cool pavement
technologies and performing life cycle analyses of pavements, shall
consider potential greenhouse gas reductions and energy reductions,
and improvements to local public health, water quality, and other
local and global benefits during the use phase of the pavement.

   SECTION 1.    (a) The Legislature finds and declares
that urban heat island effect is a phenomenon characterized by a
temperature differential between developed and rural lands. 

   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the California
Environmental Protection Agency develop a standard definition of the
term "urban heat island effect." 
  SEC. 2.  Section 18941.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   18941.9.  The commission shall, in the next triennial adoption
process for the code adopted after  January 1, 2015 
 the development of a standard specification by the Department
of Transportation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 71400 of the
Public Resources Code  , consider incorporating  those
specifications proposed pursuant to Section 14457 of the Government
Code   that specification  as  an 
additional  strategies   strategy  for Heat
Island Effect: Hardscape Alternatives in the California Green
Building Standards Code (Section A5.106.11.1 of Appendix 5 of Part 11
(commencing with Section 101.1) of Title 24 of the California Code
of Regulations).
   SEC. 3.    Part 5 (commencing with Section 71400) is
added to Division 34 of the   Public Resources Code 
 , to read:  

      PART 5.  URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT


   71400.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all of the
following shall occur:
   (1) The California Environmental Protection Agency shall work with
its partners on the Climate Action Team to develop heat reduction
strategies that include urban forestry, cool roofs, and sustainable
or cool pavements.
   (2) The California Environmental Protection Agency shall develop a
definition for the urban heat island effect. The definition shall
include the extent and severity of an urban heat island effect index
for California cities such that the cities can have a quantifiable
goal for heat reduction.
   (3) In support of this effort, the Department of Transportation
shall work with the California Environmental Protection Agency and
other stakeholders on sustainable or cool pavement technologies and
research.
   (b) Upon completion of a definition for an urban heat island
effect index, the Department of Transportation shall develop a
standard specification for sustainable or cool pavements that can be
used to reduce the urban heat island effect index.