BILL NUMBER: AB 239 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 21, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hagman
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Chávez and Maienschein)
(Coauthor: Senator Walters)
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
An act to add Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 26230) to
Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 239, as amended, Hagman. Energy: school facilities: energy
efficiency upgrade projects.
The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative measure
enacted by voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general
election, establishes the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund and requires
moneys in the fund to be available for appropriation during
specified fiscal years for, among other things, the purposes of
funding energy efficiency retrofit and clean energy installation
projects in schools and other public facilities.
This bill would establish the California Clean Energy School Fund
in the State Treasury. The bill would transfer 50% of the moneys
deposited into the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund to the California
Clean Energy School Fund during specified fiscal years and
. The bill would require the Office
of Public School Construction , in consultation with the State
Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the
Public Utilities Commission, to expend moneys in the
fund California Clean Energy School Fund , upon
appropriation by the Legislature, to fund a zero-interest revolving
loan program and a grant program for school districts to
perform energy efficiency retrofit or clean energy installation
projects at public schools. The bill would require a school district
receiving an allocation from the office to provide to the office an
inventory of the school district's facilities, and basic site and
energy-related information for the facilities, which the office would
be required to compile into a specified database. The bill would
authorize the office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to
expend moneys in the California Clean Energy School Fund to develop
the database.
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. Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 26230) is added to
Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, to read:
CHAPTER 5. IMPLEMENTATION
26230. (a) The California Clean Energy School Fund is hereby
established in the State Treasury.
(b) For fiscal years 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and
2017-18, 50 percent of the moneys deposited into the Clean Energy Job
Creation Fund established pursuant to Section 26205 is hereby
transferred to the California Clean Energy School Fund.
(c) Moneys in the California Clean Energy School Fund shall, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, be expended by the Office of Public
School Construction , in consultation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission and the
Public Utilities Commission, to fund a zero-interest revolving
loan program and a grant program for school districts to
perform energy efficiency retrofit or clean energy installation
projects at public schools.
(d) (1) A school district receiving an allocation from the Office
of Public School Construction shall provide to the office an
inventory of the school district's facilities, and basic site and
energy-related information for the facilities.
(2) (A) The office shall compile the information provided pursuant
to paragraph (1) into a database that will assist the office in
achieving the purposes in subdivision (i) of Section 26205.
26206.
(B) The office may, upon appropriation by the Legislature, expend
moneys from the California Clean Energy School Fund for the purpose
of subparagraph (A).
(e) Excluding the moneys appropriated pursuant to subparagraph (B)
of paragraph (2) of subdivision (d), the Office of Public School
Construction shall expend moneys appropriated from the Clean Energy
School Fund as follows:
(1) Sixty percent for zero-interest revolving loans.
(2) Forty percent for grants.