BILL NUMBER: AB 2722	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Burke

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) to Division
44 of the Public Resources Code, relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2722, as amended, Burke. Transformative Climate Communities
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 from
the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based
compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund.   The state board is required to adopt a statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide
greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. 
   Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council and requires
the council to identify and review activities and funding programs
that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, improve
natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable
housing, improve transportation, meet the goals of the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, encourage sustainable land use
planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable
manner.
   This bill would create the Transformative Climate Communities
Program, to be administered by the council.  The bill would
provide that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, up to
$250,000,000 shall be available from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund to the council to administer the program.  The bill
would require the council, in coordination with the California
Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Justice and Tribal Affairs, to award competitive grants to specified
eligible entities for the development of transformative climate
community plans, and projects that implement plans, that contribute
to the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and demonstrate
potential climate, economic, workforce, health, and environmental
benefits in disadvantaged  communities, as defined, 
 communities  that have a demonstrated need for climate,
economic, workforce, health, and environmental benefits.
   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.  Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) is added to
Division 44 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

      PART 4.  Transformative Climate Communities Program


   75240.  The Transformative Climate Communities Program is hereby
created, to be administered by the Strategic Growth Council. The
program shall fund the development and implementation of
neighborhood-level transformative climate community plans that
include multiple, coordinated greenhouse gas emissions reduction
projects that provide local economic, environmental, and health
benefits that are directly connected to communities most impacted by
pollution and vulnerable to climate change. By making such
comprehensive public investments, it is the intent of the Legislature
that private resources can more effectively be catalyzed to support
innovative community and climate transformation in disadvantaged
communities.
   75241.  (a) The council, in coordination with the California
Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Justice and Tribal Affairs, shall award competitive grants to
eligible entities through an application process. To be eligible, an
entity shall demonstrate multistakeholder partnerships with local
agencies, community-based organizations, labor groups, workforce
investment boards, and other stakeholders, as appropriate. An
eligible entity includes any of the following:
   (1) A nonprofit organization.
   (2) A community-based organization.
   (3) A faith-based organization.
   (4) A coalition or association of nonprofit organizations.
   (5) A community development finance institution.
   (6) A community development corporation.
   (7) A local agency.
   (b) (1) The council shall award grants for the development of
transformative climate community plans, and projects that implement
plans, that contribute to the reduction of emissions of greenhouse
gases and demonstrate potential climate, economic, workforce, health,
and environmental benefits located in disadvantaged 
communities, as identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health
and Safety Code,   communities  that have a
demonstrated need for climate, economic, workforce, health, and
environmental benefits. The council shall award grants for plans that
are designed to achieve, and projects that demonstrate, an
integrated, innovative, cross-cutting project with multiple benefits
provided directly in a disadvantaged community and that demonstrate
community engagement and leadership in all phases. A plan shall
identify metrics to meet the overall goals of the Transformative
Climate Communities Program and the desired long-term changes in the
plan's region. In awarding grants, the council may make grant awards
for plan development contingent on the implementation of one or more
projects identified by the plan.
   (2) The council may award a grant over multiple years.
   (c) In awarding grants, the council shall weigh economic,
environmental, and health benefits equally with climate benefits
resulting from greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
   (d) (1) For purposes of this part, "economic benefits" means
high-quality, well-paid employment opportunities for residents in the
plan's region, benefits for small businesses located directly in the
relevant disadvantaged community, and benefits for minority-, LGBT-,
woman-, or disabled veteran-owned small businesses in the plan's
region.
   (2) For purposes of this subdivision, "LGBT" means lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or transgender.
   75242.  (a) The council and all funded entities shall endeavor to
identify additional public and private sources of funding to sustain
and expand the program.
   (b) The council shall endeavor to identify and coordinate a
network of technical assistance providers to assist in plan
development, implementation, and project financing. 
  SEC. 2.    Up to two hundred fifty million dollars
($250,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant
to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, to the Strategic Growth
Council to administer the Transformative Climate Communities Program
pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) of Division 44 of
the Public Resources Code.