BILL NUMBER: AB 2585	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 15, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2585, as amended, Williams. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of  2006: biomethane.   2006: market-based
compliance mechanisms. 
   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. 
Existing law requires the state board to complete a comprehensive
strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants, as
defined, in the state.   The act authorizes the state
board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. 

   This bill would  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.  
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. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 38572 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   38572.  (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.  
  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. 

  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).