BILL NUMBER: AB 2722	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 2, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Burke, Arambula, and Rodriguez
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Leyva)

                        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, 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 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 establishes the Strategic Growth Council, which
consists of the heads of various state agencies and certain other
members, 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 require
the council to award competitive grants to specified eligible
entities for the development and implementation of neighborhood-level
transformative climate community plans that include greenhouse gas
emissions reduction projects that provide local economic,
environmental, and health benefits to disadvantaged communities, as
defined. The bill would require the council to develop guidelines and
selection criteria for the implementation of the program. The bill
would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to
provide assistance in performing outreach to disadvantaged
communities and assessing the environmental justice benefits of
project awards.


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 to disadvantaged communities, as described in Section 39711
of the Health and Safety Code. By making such comprehensive public
investments, it is the intent of the Legislature that private
resources can be more effectively catalyzed to support innovative
community and climate transformation in disadvantaged communities.
   75241.  (a) The council shall award competitive grants to eligible
entities through an application process. An eligible entity,
including, but not limited to, a nonprofit organization, a
community-based organization, a faith-based organization, a coalition
or association of nonprofit organizations, a community development
finance institution, a community development corporation, a local
agency, a joint powers authority, or a tribal government, shall
demonstrate multistakeholder partnerships with local agencies,
community-based organizations, labor groups, workforce investment
boards, and other stakeholders, as appropriate. The council shall
award grants for projects that demonstrate community engagement in
all phases.
   (b) (1) In awarding grants, the council shall make grant
selections for plan development contingent on the implementation of
one or more projects identified by the plan.
   (2) In awarding grants, the council may give priority to plans and
projects that cover areas that have a high proportion of census
tracks identified as disadvantaged communities and that focus on
communities that are most disadvantaged.
   (3) The council may award a grant over multiple years.
   (c) In order to be eligible for funding under the program, a plan,
and a project that implements a plan, shall demonstrate that it will
achieve a reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases.
   (d) The California Environmental Protection Agency shall provide
assistance in performing outreach to disadvantaged communities and
assessing the environmental justice benefits of project awards.
   (e) Projects shall maximize climate, public health, environmental,
workforce, and economic benefits.
   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 fund technical assistance providers to
assist in application development and project development and
implementation.
   75243.  (a) Before awarding funds under the program, the council
shall develop guidelines and selection criteria for plan development
and implementation of the program.
   (b) In adopting guidelines and selection criteria, the council
shall consider comments, if any, from local governments, regional
agencies, and other stakeholders. The council shall conduct outreach
to disadvantaged communities to encourage comments on the draft
guidelines and selection criteria from those communities.
   (c) In adopting the guidelines, the council shall consider whether
eligible plans and projects avoid economic displacement of
low-income disadvantaged community residents and businesses.