BILL NUMBER: AB 1225	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member De La Torre

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 12018.5 to the Government Code, relating to
energy efficiency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1225, as introduced, De La Torre. Energy efficiency: federal
funds.
   Existing law authorizes the Governor to designate the agency
responsible for each federal program in which federal money is given
to the state, with the requirement that it be handled by a single
state agency, except as otherwise provided by statute. Existing law
requires that when the Governor designates an agency pursuant to this
authorization, the Governor notify the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee of the agency designated and the federal program for which
the agency was designated.
   Executive Order S-20-04 and the accompanying Green Building Action
Plan established an interagency Green Action Team chaired by the
Secretary of the State and Consumer Services Agency, with additional
members being the Director of the Department of Finance, the
Secretaries of Business, Transportation and Housing, Environmental
Protection, Resources, Education, and a commissioner of the Public
Utilities Commission.
   This bill would designate the Green Action Team as being
responsible for evaluating opportunities for the state to participate
in, and benefit from, the energy-related programs of the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and to coordinate the state's
participation in any federal energy-related economic stimulus
programs and the distribution of moneys for energy efficiency and
renewable energy programs to specified entities.
   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.  Section 12018.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   12018.5.  The Green Action Team established as a result of
Executive Order S-20-04 shall be responsible for evaluating
opportunities for the state to participate in, and benefit from, the
energy-related programs of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 and to coordinate the state's participation in any federal
energy-related economic stimulus programs and the distribution of
moneys for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs to
electrical corporations and gas corporations, as defined in Sections
218 and 222 of the Public Utilities Code, local publicly owned
electric utilities, as defined in Section 224.3 of the Public
Utilities Code, the Department of Community Services and Development
for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, the Department of
General Services, the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, and local governments.