Amended in Assembly April 16, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 156

Introduced by Assembly Member Perea

January 20, 2015

An act to begin delete amend Section 39713 of, and to end delete add Section 39713.5 begin delete to, end delete begin insert to end insert the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 156, as amended, Perea. begin delete California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: investment plan. end delete begin insert Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: technical assistance program. end insert

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 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. Existing law requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities and 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. Existing law requires the 3-year investment plan to allocate a minimum of 25% of the available moneys in the fund to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities.

This bill would require the state board to establish a comprehensive technical assistance program, upon the appropriation of moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, for eligible applicants, as specified, assisting disadvantaged communities begin insert and other specified communities end insert .

This bill would also require the department to include in the 3-year investment plan an allocation to the state board begin delete to provide technical assistance to disadvantaged communities to assist them in developing project proposals for specified projects. end delete begin insert for that technical assistance program. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

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

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SECTION 1.  

Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:

39713.  

(a) The investment plan developed and submitted to
the Legislature, pursuant to Section 39716, shall allocate a
minimum of 25 percent of the available moneys in the fund to
projects that provide benefits to communities described in Section
39711.

(b) The investment plan shall allocate a minimum of 10 percent
of the available moneys in the fund to projects located within
communities described in Section 39711.

(c) The allocation pursuant to subdivision (b) may be, but need
not be, for projects included, in whole or in part, in the set of
projects supported by the allocation described in subdivision (a).

(d) The investment plan shall allocate from the available moneys
in the fund technical assistance moneys to the state board to assist
the communities described in Section 39711 in developing project
proposals for projects described in this section. That allocation of
technical assistance moneys shall not be used to satisfy the
requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b).

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Section 39713.5 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:

39713.5.  

(a)  begin delete Upon end delete begin insert The investment plan developed and
submitted to the Legislature pursuant to Section 39716 shall
allocate from the available moneys in the fund technical assistance
moneys to the state board to implement this section. That allocation
of technical assistance moneys shall not be used to satisfy the
requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 39713. end insert

begin insert (b) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert Upon an end insert appropriation of moneys from the fund, the state
board shall establish a comprehensive technical assistance begin delete program,
consistent with subdivision (d) of Section 39713, end delete begin insert program end insert for
eligible applicants assisting disadvantaged communities identified
pursuant to Section 39711 begin insert and other communities with median
incomes at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income
and that the state board determines require technical assistance end insert .
Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, regional agencies
and nonprofit organizations coordinating with local governments.

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(b)

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begin insert (c) end insert  The program established pursuant to this section shall
provide assistance to eligible applicants with any of the following:

(1) Identifying state agencies with appropriate grant programs.

(2) Developing competitive project proposals to apply for
moneys available through state agencies or pursuant to this chapter.

(3) Coordinating existing local programs to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions with new programs receiving moneys pursuant to
this chapter.

(4) Conducting community outreach begin delete to residents of
disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 end delete
on consumer programs receiving state or local moneys pursuant
to this chapter or for other programs that reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. The programs may include, but are not limited to,
programs that also improve air quality, reduce residential and
commercial water use, and increase residential and commercial
energy efficiency.