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Senate Bill No. 605

Introduced by begin delete Senator end delete begin insert Senators end insert Lara begin insert and Pavley end insert

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(Coauthor: Senator Steinberg)

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February 22, 2013

An act to begin delete amend Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, and to end delete add begin delete Section 38561.5 to end delete begin insert Chapter 4.2 (commencing with Section 39730) to Part 2 of Division 26 of end insert the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse begin delete gases, and making an appropriation therefor. end delete begin insert gases. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 605, as amended, Lara. begin delete California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and scoping plan. end delete begin insert Short-lived climate pollutants. end insert

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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.

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This bill would require the state board to complete a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, as defined, in the state.

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(1) 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.

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The act authorizes the state board to include the 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. Existing law authorizes the Controller to use the moneys in the fund for cash flow loans to the General Fund, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

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This bill, during the 2013-14 fiscal year, would require the Controller to determine the amount of moneys collected and deposited in the fund by the state board. The bill would appropriate a specified amount of those moneys that are unencumbered to the state board from the fund to be expended consistent with the act on projects and programs that are located within and benefit disadvantaged communities, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would authorize moneys in the fund to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the state board and administering agencies for administrative purposes related to these provisions. The bill would prohibit moneys in the fund designated for those specified programs and projects to disadvantaged communities from being transferred or loaned to any other fund in the 2013-13 fiscal year.

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(2) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 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.

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This bill would require the state board, when updating the scoping plan, to include specified criteria. The bill would require the state board to submit that specified criteria to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, as specified. The bill would require the state board, if it has completed an update of the scoping plan prior to January 1, 2014, to further update the scoping plan to meet the criteria and provisions of this bill.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation:  begin delete yes end delete begin insert no end insert . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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(a) Notwithstanding Sections 38550 and 38551, no
later than January 1, 2016, the state board shall complete a
comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate
pollutants in the state. In developing the strategy, the state board
shall do all of the following:

(1) Complete an inventory of sources and emissions of
short-lived climate pollutants in the state based on available data.

(2) Identify research needs to address any data gaps.

(3) Identify existing and potential new control measures to
reduce emissions from any sector identified by the state board.

(4) Prioritize the development of new measures for short-lived
climate pollutants that offer cobenefits by improving water quality
or reducing other air pollutants that impact community health and
benefit disadvantaged communities, as identified pursuant to
Section 39711.

(5) Coordinate with other state agencies and districts to develop
and implement measures identified as part of the comprehensive
strategy.

(b) As part of the strategy developed pursuant to subdivision
(a), the state board shall consult with experts in academia,
industry, and the community on short-lived climate pollutants. The
topics shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) Assessment of the current status of controls that directly or
indirectly reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the
state.

(2) Identification of opportunities and challenges for controlling
emissions.

(3) Recommendations to further reduce emissions.

(c) To provide a forum for public engagement, the state board
shall hold at least one public workshop during the development
of the strategy required pursuant to subdivision (a).

(d) For purposes of this section, “short-lived climate pollutant”
means an agent that has a relatively short lifetime in the
atmosphere, from a few days to a few decades, and a warming
influence on the climate that is more potent than that of carbon
dioxide.

(e) This section does not affect the existing authority of a state
agency to adopt and implement rules and regulations that result
in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or short-lived climate
pollutants to the extent authorized or required by existing law.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 16428.8 of the Government Code is
amended to read:

16428.8.  

(a) The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, hereafter
referred to in this article as the fund, is hereby created as a special
fund in the State Treasury.

(b) Except for fines and penalties, all moneys collected by the
State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of allowances,
pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism established
pursuant to Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of
the Health and Safety Code and specified in Sections 95800 to
96022, inclusive, of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations,
shall be deposited in the fund and available for appropriation by
the Legislature.

(c) All moneys deposited in the fund shall be appropriated and
shall be separately identified in the annual Budget Act. No moneys
from the General Fund or any other fund shall be deposited in the
fund.

(d) Notwithstanding any other law, the Controller may use the
moneys in the fund for cashflow loans to the General Fund as
provided in Sections 16310 and 16381.

(e) Any technical amendments made by the State Air Resources
Board to the regulations established under Sections 95800 to 96022,
inclusive, of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations to
conform that regulation to this article shall be exempt from the
provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3) and
from the review and approval of the Office of Administrative Law.

(f) (1) During the 2013-14 fiscal year, the month following an
auction or sale of allowances, pursuant to a market-based
compliance mechanism established pursuant to Division 25.5
(commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code
and specified in Sections 95800 to 96022, inclusive, of Title 17 of
the California Code of Regulations, the Controller shall determine
the amount of moneys collected and deposited in the fund by the
State Air Resources Board.

(2) Of the unencumbered moneys determined by the Controller
to be in the fund, an amount not to exceed one hundred twenty-five
million dollars ($125,000,000) for the entire 2013-14 fiscal year
is hereby appropriated to the State Air Resources Board.

(3) Subject to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 39712
of the Health and Safety Code, of the moneys appropriated pursuant
to paragraph (2), the State Air Resources Board shall expend those
moneys on a periodic basis on projects and programs that are
located within and benefit disadvantaged communities, as defined
in Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code. Through an
expedited approval process, the State Air Resources Board shall
expend those moneys as quickly as feasible but no later than June
30, 2014, in accordance with existing programs within the
three-year investment plan developed and adopted pursuant to
Section 39716 of the Health and Safety Code for the 2013-14 to
2015-16 fiscal years, inclusive.

(4) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the fund
shall be available to the State Air Resources Board and to
administering agencies for administrative purposes in carrying out
this subdivision.

(5) This subdivision shall not be construed to interfere with
Chapter 20 of the Statutes of 2013.

(6) Notwithstanding subdivision (d), unencumbered moneys in
the fund designated for programs and projects pursuant to
paragraph (3) shall not be transferred or loaned to any other fund
in the 2013-14 fiscal year.

SEC. 2.  

Section 38561.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:

38561.5.  

(a) When updating the scoping plan pursuant to
subdivision (h) of Section 38561, the state board shall do all of
the following:

(1) Prioritize and emphasize measures and actions resulting in
greenhouse gas emissions reductions that do both of the following:

(A) Create jobs within the state.

(B) Reduce copollutants in regions of the state most impacted
by toxic and criteria air pollutants.

(2) Prioritize and emphasize current regulations and actions,
and recommend additional measures and actions that can be
implemented beginning no later than December 31, 2015, to
achieve the maximum, technologically feasible, and cost-effective
reductions in short-lived climate pollutants with high global
warming potentials.

(3) Limit the use of offsets to those offsets originating and
achieved within the state.

(4) Include a plan that achieves the greenhouse gas emissions
goals established pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section
38550) to be implemented in the event any regulatory measures
implemented and adopted by the state board pursuant to this
division are not projected to result in the greenhouse gas emissions
reductions necessary to meet the greenhouse emissions goals
established pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with Section 38550).

(5) Consider the use of special funds authorized to be expended
for the purposes of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, including,
but not limited to, funds derived from market-based compliance
mechanisms, the Electric Program Investment Charge Fund created
by Section 25711 of the Public Resources Code, and the Alternative
and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund created by
Section 44273 for emissions reductions from sources within the
state in furtherance of achieving and maintaining the greenhouse
gas emissions goals established pursuant to Part 3 (commencing
with Section 38550).

(b) The state board shall submit the criteria required pursuant
to subdivision (a) to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. If,
after 30 days of receipt, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee
has not made a finding on the submitted elements, the updated
scoping plan shall be deemed concurred.

(c) If the scoping plan is updated prior to January 1, 2014,
pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 38561, the state board shall
revise the scoping plan to incorporate the requirements detailed
in subdivision (a) and shall comply with subdivision (b).

(d) For purposes of this section, “offset” means a quantified
unit of greenhouse gas emission that is reduced, avoided, or
permanently sequestered in a sector not regulated by a
market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the state board.

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