BILL NUMBER: AB 572	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 38571.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 572, as introduced, Atkins. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: market-based compliance mechanisms.
   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 emissions
reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of
market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys,
except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from
the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based
compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature.
   This bill, for purposes of determining the viability of
incentivizing greenhouse gas emissions reductions through increased
energy efficiency, would require the state board, in consultation
with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission, to identify and evaluate the energy efficiency
investments of at least one large-scale building development project
that the state board determines will likely provide a significant
low-cost opportunity for greenhouse gas emissions reductions through
investment in energy efficient measures that are more stringent than
applicable building code standards.
   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 38571.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38571.5.  To determine the viability of incentivizing greenhouse
gas emissions reductions through increased energy efficiency, the
state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources
Conservation and Development Commission, shall identify and evaluate
the energy efficiency investments of at least one large-scale
building development project that the state board determines will
likely provide a significant low-cost opportunity for greenhouse gas
emissions reductions through investment in energy efficient measures
that are more stringent than applicable building code standards.