BILL NUMBER: AB 278	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gatto

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2013

   An act to add Section 38566 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 278, as introduced, Gatto. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (the act),
establishes the State Air Resources Board (state board) as the state
agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting
greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a
statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, to be achieved
by 2020, equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels
in 1990. The state board is additionally required to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low
Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
   This bill would require the state board, in determining the carbon
intensity of fuels under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or
another scoring system, to consider specified matters.
   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 38566 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38566.  (a) For purposes of this section, "Low Carbon Fuel
Standard regulations" means those regulations adopted by the state
board in Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4 of
Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations.
   (b) In determining the carbon intensity of fuels under the Low
Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or another scoring system, the state
board shall consider all of the following:
   (1) The life-cycle carbon intensity impacts of potential or actual
deforestation.
   (2) The environmental laws and practices of the jurisdiction from
which the fuel originates.
   (3) Any disruptions or other effects upon food supply, food costs,
and food shipping that could occur as a result of California policy.

   (4) Changes to the local economy, including job loss or worker
displacement, resulting from changes in the production of a fuel.