BILL NUMBER: AB 2293	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Cristina Garcia, Eggman, Eduardo
Garcia, and Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 39717 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2293, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund: 3-year investment plan: technical assistance program.
   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 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.
   This bill would require the state board to establish a technical
assistance program, upon an appropriation of moneys from the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, to assist small disadvantaged
communities in applying for moneys from programs using moneys from
the fund, as specified. The bill would also require the department to
include in the 3-year investment plan an allocation to the state
board for that technical assistance program.
   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 39717 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   39717.  (a) For purposes of this section, "disadvantaged community"
means a community identified pursuant to Section 39711.
   (b) The Department of Finance shall include in the investment plan
developed and submitted to the Legislature pursuant to Section 39716
an allocation to the state board to implement this section.
   (c) Upon an appropriation of moneys from the fund, the state board
shall establish a technical assistance program to assist small
disadvantaged communities in applying for moneys from programs that
have been appropriated moneys from the fund.
   (d) The program established pursuant to this section shall provide
assistance to small disadvantaged communities 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 to residents of small
disadvantaged communities that the state board determines require
technical assistance on consumer programs receiving state or local
moneys pursuant to this chapter or for other programs that reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. Those 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.