BILL NUMBER: AB 278	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2013

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 amended, 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.  The bill
would require the state board to identify, to the extent feasible,
environmental laws and practices of the jurisdiction from which the
fuel originates that may affect greenhouse gas emissions from the
production and transportation of fuel. The bill would require the
state board to solicit comments and consider and respond to evidence
regarding specified significant effects caused by the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard regulations. 
   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:  
greenhouse gas emissions associated with land use or other
significant indirect   effects identified by the state
board, including, but not limited to, the impacts of potential or
actual deforestation and the impacts of increased food shipping
caused by food crop displacement.  
   (1) The life-cycle carbon intensity impacts of potential or actual
deforestation.  
   (2) 
    (c)  The  state board shall identify, to the extent
fea   sible,  environmental laws and practices of the
jurisdiction from which the fuel originates  that may affect
greenhouse gas emissions from the production and transportation of
fuel  . 
   (d) The state board shall solicit comments and consider and
respond to evidence regarding both of the following:  
   (3) Any disruptions or other 
   (1)     Significan   t  
 effects upon food supply, food costs, and food shipping
that could occur as a result of California policy  
caused by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations  . 
   (4) Changes to 
    (2)     Significant effects upon  the
local economy, including job loss or worker displacement  ,
resulting from changes in the production of a fuel  
caused by the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations  .