Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1336

Introduced by Assembly Member Salas

February 27, 2015

An act to amend Section begin delete 38571 end delete begin insert 39713 end insert of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1336, as amended, Salas. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: begin delete methodologies. end delete begin insert disadvantaged communities. 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. begin delete 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. The act requires the state board to adopt methodologies for the quantification of voluntary greenhouse gas emission reductions. end delete begin insert 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 a minimum of 25% of the available moneys in the fund to be allocated to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities. end insert

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This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

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This bill instead would require a minimum of 40% of the available moneys in the fund to be allocated to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged communities.

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

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

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begin insert Section 39713 of the end insert begin insert Health and Safety Code end insert begin insert is
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39713.  

(a) The investment plan developed and submitted to
the Legislature, pursuant to Section 39716, shall allocate a
minimum of begin delete 25 end delete begin insert 40 end insert 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).

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SECTION 1.  

Section 38571 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:

38571.  

The state board shall adopt methodologies for the
quantification of voluntary greenhouse gas emission reductions.
The state board shall adopt regulations to verify and enforce any
voluntary greenhouse gas emission reductions that are authorized
by the state board to be used to comply with greenhouse gas
emission limits established by the state board. The adoption of
methodologies is exempt from the rulemaking provisions of the
Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
Code).

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