BILL NUMBER: AB 2313	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 39733 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2313, as introduced, Williams. Renewable natural gas.
   Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state
agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain
ambient air quality standards, to conduct research into the causes of
and solution to air pollution, and to systematically attack the
serious problem caused by motor vehicles. The California Global
Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the state board as the
state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources
emitting greenhouse gases.
   This bill would require the state board to study and evaluate a
strategy or strategies to increase the instate production and use of
renewable natural gas, as defined, to further specified goals.
   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 39733 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   39733.  (a) For purposes of this section, "renewable natural gas"
means a finished fuel derived from organic waste or other renewable
sources, including, but not limited to, biogas, as defined in Section
25420, and synthetic natural gas generated from an eligible
feedstock, as determined by the state board.
   (b) The state board shall study and evaluate a strategy or
strategies to increase the instate production and use of renewable
natural gas to further achieves the state's air quality, climate,
renewable energy, waste diversion, and petroleum reduction goals.