BILL NUMBER: AB 2343	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2343, as introduced, Cristina Garcia. Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund: 3-year investment plan: disadvantaged communities.
   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. Existing
law requires the 3-year investment plan to allocate a minimum of 10%
of the available moneys in the fund to projects located within
disadvantaged communities.
   This bill instead would require a minimum of 10% of the moneys in
fund to be allocated to projects located in a city of an unspecified
population within a disadvantaged community.
   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 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     in a city with a population of
less than ____ within a community  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).