BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 31, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET
Philip Ting, Chair
SB
830 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) - As Amended August
30, 2016
SENATE VOTE: 25-11
SUBJECT: CAP AND TRADE
SUMMARY: Amends the 2016 Budget Act to appropriate $900 million
of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds consistent with the 2016 Cap
and Trade Plan. Specifically, this bill:
1) Appropriates $900 million of Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Funds for a portfolio of programs:
a. $135 million for the Transit and Intercity
Rail Capital program, helping fund essential local
capital projects to keep Californians moving by bus
and commuter rail;
b. $10 million for the Active Transportation
Program to fund bicycle and pedestrian programs that
make walking or biking to school and work safer and
easier;
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c. $133 million for a reformed Clean Vehicle
Rebate Project, which help low and middle income
families purchase the newest, cleanest vehicles
available;
d. $150 million for the Heavy Duty and Off-Road
Investments to help develop and pilot cleaner
industrial vehicles, buses, and port equipment with
new low or zero emissions;
e. $80 million for the Enhanced Vehicle Fleet
Modernization program to provide low income families
help in replacing their existing polluting vehicle
with a newer, cleaner vehicle;
f. $140 million for the Transformative Climate
Communities program to allow for a community-wide
approach for disadvantaged communities specified in
statute to implement an integrated transportation,
housing, and green space development plan to reduce
pollution and improve local quality of life;
g. $5 million to reduce black carbon emissions by
supplementing successful local programs to reduce wood
smoke pollution through fireplace, stove, and heater
replacement;
h. $40 million for waste diversion projects for
organic material which fund projects that have a
double environmental benefit of capture greenhouse
gases while also reducing methane emissions;
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i. $7.5 million for the Healthy Soils program, to
establish innovative farming practices that capture
carbon, reduce water use and improve soil health;
j. $50 million for programs that help dairies
reduce emissions and pollution associated with animal
manure;
aa. $7.5 million to continue the successful State
Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP) which
helps replace older inefficient water irrigation and
pumping equipment with new state-of-the-art
replacements that pollute less and save water;
bb. $25 million for the Healthy Forest program,
which preserves existing forests by reducing the
threat of wildfires by reducing fuels, removing dead
trees, and providing long-term protection to forest
land;
cc. $80 million for the Urban Greening program, to
create green spaces and parks in communities in
California that lack green space;
dd. $15 million to continue the successful Urban
Forestry program, which helps urban disadvantage
communities plant trees in their neighborhood;
ee. $20 million to help individuals in low-income
communities reduce their energy use with
weatherization and energy efficiency improvements,
including solar installations; and
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ff. $2 million to assist disadvantaged communities
and local governments with developing climate action
plans.
2) Reappropriates previously appropriated funds for the
Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) program
at the Department of Housing and Community Development and
Affordable Housing and Sustainable Community program funds
at the Strategic Growth Council.
FISCAL EFFECT: This bill contains $900 million of Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund appropriations, which would result in a
remaining fund balance for the fund of at least $460 million for
future appropriations.
COMMENTS: This bill amends the 2016 Budget Act, SB 826 (Leno)
(Chapter 23, Statutes of 2016) to add appropriations related to
Cap and Trade. When the budget agreement was reached in June,
the decision regarding programmatic funding for Cap and Trade
programs was deferred. This bill reflects the result of a
subsequent agreement on spending a portion of available
Greenhouse Gas Reduction funds and thus adds these
appropriations into the 2016 Budget.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
None on File
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Opposition
None on File
Analysis Prepared by:Christian Griffith / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099