BILL NUMBER: SB 497	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 38597 of, and to add Section 38575 to, the
Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 497, as introduced, Walters. California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: fees.
   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.
   This bill would require the state board to freely allocate
greenhouse gas emissions allowances to the California State
University and the University of California for purposes of any
market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the state board. The
bill would prohibit the state board from assessing a fee on the
California State University or the University of California for
purposes of any program or regulation adopted pursuant to the act.
   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 38575 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38575.  Notwithstanding Section 38592, the state board shall
freely allocate greenhouse gas emissions allowances to the California
State University and the University of California for any
market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the state board.
  SEC. 2.  Section 38597 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
   38597.   (a)    The state board may adopt by
regulation, after a public workshop, a schedule of fees to be paid by
the sources of greenhouse gas emissions regulated pursuant to this
division, consistent with Section 57001. The revenues collected
pursuant to this section, shall be deposited into the Air Pollution
Control Fund and are available upon appropriation, by the
Legislature, for purposes of carrying out this division. 
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the state board shall not
assess a fee on the California State University or the University of
California for purposes of any program or regulation adopted pursuant
to this division.