BILL NUMBER: AB 1388	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 26001 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1388, as introduced, Wieckowski. California Alternative Energy
and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act.
   Existing law establishes the Calfornia Alternative Energy and
Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act, which is intended to
provide industry within this state with an alternative method of
financing alternative methods and sources of energy in this state.
The act includes various legislative findings and declarations
relating to the need to develop renewable energy sources and promote
energy sources that reduce the degradation of the environment and
protect the health, welfare, and safety of the public.
   This bill would make a technical, clarifying change in those
legislative findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 26001 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   26001.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) It is essential that the state, in cooperation with the
federal government, use all practical and commercially feasible means
to promote the prompt and efficient development of energy sources
which are renewable or which more efficiently utilize and conserve
 scarce   finite  energy resources.
   (b) The promotion of energy sources which reduce the degradation
of the environment and which protect the health, welfare, and safety
of the people of this state is in the public interest and serves a
public purpose.
   (c) It is essential that the state, in cooperation with the
federal government, use all practical and commercially feasible means
to promote the development and commercialization of advanced
transportation technologies to conserve energy, reduce air pollution,
promote economic development and jobs, and protect the health,
welfare, and safety of the people of the state.