Amended in Assembly March 15, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2585

Introduced by Assembly Member Williams

February 19, 2016

An act begin insert to add Section 38572 to the Health and Safety Code, end insert relating to greenhouse gases.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2585, as amended, Williams. California Global Warming Solutions Act of begin delete 2006: biomethane. end delete begin insert 2006: market-based compliance mechanisms. end insert

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. begin delete Existing law requires the state board to complete a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, as defined, in the state. end delete begin insert The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. end insert

This bill would begin delete state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would encourage the production and use of biomethane to meet the goals established in the act. end delete begin insert require the state board, no later than July 1, 2018, to review any regulation adopted as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to consider the intended purpose and consistency of requirements aimed to prevent resource shuffling, as defined, among all fuels subject to that regulation. end insert

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 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 38572 is added to the end insert begin insert Health and Safety
Code end insert begin insert , to read: end insert

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begin insert 38572. end insert   

(a) For purposes of this section, “resource shuffling”
means any plan, scheme, or artifice undertaken by a fuels provider
to substitute fuels deliveries from sources with relatively lower
emissions for fuels deliveries from sources with relatively higher
emissions to reduce the fuels provider’s emissions compliance
obligation.

(b) No later than July 1, 2018, the state board shall review any
regulation adopted pursuant to this part to consider the intended
purpose and consistency of requirements aimed to prevent resource
shuffling among all fuels subject to that regulation.

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SECTION 1.  

The Legislature finds and declares that
biomethane can provide the lowest-carbon fuel of any kind while
helping to meet the state’s goals relating to short-lived climate
pollutants, landfill diversion, and wildfire reduction.

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SEC. 2.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would encourage the production and use of biomethane to
meet the goals established in the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section
38500) of the Health and Safety Code).

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