BILL NUMBER: AB 2223	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act relating to greenhouse gases, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2223, as introduced, Gray. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund:
manure digesters.
   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 in regulations
implementing the act the use of market-based compliance mechanisms.
Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties,
collected by the state board 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 defines a "renewable electrical generation facility"
for purposes of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program
to include facilities that use, among other renewable energy
resources, digester gas.
   This bill would continuously appropriate $100,000,000 annually
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the state board to make
manure digester market development payments for electricity produced
from California-generated manure by California-based manure
digesters.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
the sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) annually is
hereby continuously appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code to
the State Air Resources Board to make manure digester market
development payments of up to $____ per kW of electricity produced
from California-generated manure by California-based manure
digesters.