BILL NUMBER: AB 2050 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Quirk
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
An act to add and repeal Sections 38561.5 and 38561.7 to
of the Health and Safety Code, relating to
greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2050, as amended, Quirk. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: scoping plan: advisory panel.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes
the State Air Resources 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 act
requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for
achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The act requires the scoping
plan to be updated at least once every 5 years.
This bill, until January 1, 2020, would require the state board to
include specified elements when updating the scoping plan. The bill
would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2019
2020 , to submit a report to the appropriate
committees of the Legislature on those specified elements of the
updated scoping plan.
This bill, until January 1, 2020, would establish the Scoping Plan
Advisory Panel, as specified. The bill would require the panel, on
or before January 1, 2019, to submit a report to the appropriate
committees of the Legislature evaluating and reporting key findings
and recommendations on the update of the scoping plan.
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. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) California is responsible for less than 2 percent of the world'
s global greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, cannot mitigate the
effects of climate change with any meaningful solutions without the
participation of key states and nations.
(b) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that the
goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are flexible and developed
with the intent to produce adaptable policies and programs that other
states and nations could reasonably adopt.
(c) Demonstrating effective climate change policy can increase the
likelihood that other states and nations will follow California's
lead, which is necessary for the state to have a significant effect
on the global climate change problem.
SEC. 2. Section 38561.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
38561.5. (a) On or before January 1, 2019, for purposes of the
update of the scoping plan pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section
38561, the state board shall include, but not be limited to, all of
the following:
(1) A proposal for further reducing greenhouse gas emissions by
2050, including intermediate goals.
(2) An evaluation of the emissions-reduction goals proposed
pursuant to paragraph (1) based on what technologies can be scaled to
the rest of the country and the world that ensure cost-effectiveness
and maintain local and systemwide reliability.
(3) The establishment of consistent metrics to
effectively accurately quantify greenhouse gas
emissions from technologies that are designed to reduce greenhouse
gases and retrofits that increase overall efficiency for the purpose
of reducing a carbon footprint.
(b) (1) On or before January 1, 2019 2020
, the state board shall submit to the appropriate committees of
the Legislature the elements of the update of the scoping plan
included pursuant to subdivision (a).
(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. Section 38561.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
38561.7. (a) (1) The Scoping Plan Advisory Panel shall be
appointed to advise the state board on the update of the scoping plan
completed pursuant to Section 38561.5.
(2) The members of the panel shall be highly qualified and
professionally active or engaged in the economic development of the
technologies associated with the reduction and mitigation of
greenhouse gas emissions and shall be appointed as follows:
(A) Five members shall be appointed by the Secretary for
Environmental Protection, all of whom shall be qualified as ____.
(B) Two members shall be appointed by the Senate Committee on
Rules, both of whom shall be qualified as ____.
(C) Two members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly,
both of whom shall be qualified as ____.
(D) Members of the panel shall be appointed from a pool of
nominees submitted to each appointing body by the President of the
University of California. The pool shall include, at a minimum, three
nominees for each discipline represented on the panel.
(3) (A) On or before January 1, 2019, the panel shall evaluate and
report key findings and recommendations to the appropriate
committees of the Legislature on the update of the scoping plan
completed pursuant to Section 38561.5 and subdivision (h) of Section
38561, including, but not limited to, both of the following:
(i) Any continuation, modification, or suspension of any program
reasoned to be appropriate.
(ii) An economic assessment that includes, but is not limited to,
a marginal cost curve analysis of each program contained in the
scoping plan to provide an assessment of cost-effectiveness.
(B) A report to be submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(4) The panel may utilize special consultants or establish ad hoc
committees, which may include other scientists, to assist the panel
in performing its functions.
(5) Any ad hoc committees or hearings conducted pursuant to
paragraph (4) shall be held at the Sacramento headquarters of the
California Environmental Protection Agency.
(6) Members of the panel, and any ad hoc committee established by
the panel, shall submit annually a financial disclosure statement
that includes a listing of income received within the preceding three
years, including investments, grants, and consulting fees derived
from individuals or businesses that might be affected by regulatory
actions undertaken by the state board pursuant to this division. The
financial disclosure statements submitted pursuant to this
subdivision are public information. Members of the panel shall be
subject to the disqualification requirements of Section 87100 of the
Government Code.
(7) Members of the panel shall receive one hundred dollars ($100)
per day for attending panel meetings and meetings of the state board,
or upon authorization of the chair of the state board while on
official business of the panel, and shall be reimbursed for actual
and necessary travel expenses incurred in the performance of their
duties.
(8) The panel shall receive sufficient resources, including, but
not limited to, technical, administrative, and clerical support.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.