BILL NUMBER: AB 768	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 7, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 14, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

    An act to add Section 38560.7 to the Health and Safety
Code, relating to air pollution.   An act to add Part 10
(commencing with Section 125850) to Division 106 of the Health and
Safety Code, relating to male circumcision, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 768, as amended, Gatto.  California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: Low Carbon Fuel Standard.   Male
circumcision.  
   Existing law regulates various subjects relating to the protection
and preservation of personal health, including infant, child, and
adolescent health, reproductive privacy, and the prevention of the
practice of female genital mutilation.  
   This bill would preclude a local statute, ordinance, or
regulation, or administrative action implementing a local statute,
ordinance, or regulation from prohibiting or restricting the practice
of male circumcision, or the exercise of parental authority with
respect to male circumcision.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions. The state board adopted a Low Carbon Fuel Standard
regulation pursuant to these requirements.  
   This bill would require the state board to allow a regulated party
that elects to be subject to the requirements of the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard regulation in order to generate credits for the purposes of
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation, to generate credits through
the sale of biomethane produced out of state, but distributed to
consumers in the state through displacement trade contracts, if the
regulated party can demonstrate a physical pathway to California
through use of a pipeline system connected to California. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee:  yes   no  .
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Part 10 (commencing with Section
125850) is added to Division 106 of the   Health and Safety
Code   , to read:  

      PART 10.  MALE CIRCUMCISION


   125850.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
   (1) Male circumcision has a wide array of health and affiliative
benefits.
   (2) This section clarifies and augments existing law.
   (b) No local statute, ordinance, or regulation, or administrative
action implementing a local statute, ordinance, or regulation shall
prohibit or restrict the practice of male circumcision, or the
exercise of parental authority with respect to the same. 
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to clarify the state's authority with respect to the
regulation of the practice of male circumcision at the earliest
possible time, it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 38560.7 is added to the
Health and Safety Code, to read:
   38560.7.  The state board shall allow a regulated party that
elects to be subject to the requirements of the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard regulation in order to generate credits for the purposes of
the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation, to generate credits through
the sale of biomethane produced out of state, but distributed to
consumers in the state through displacement trade contracts, if the
regulated party can demonstrate a physical pathway to California
through use of a pipeline system connected to California.