BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1405
Author: De Leon (D)
Amended: 8/20/10 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE ENERGY, U.&C. COMMITTEE : 6-5, 7/7/09
AYES: Padilla, Corbett, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Simitian,
Wiggins
NOES: Benoit, Calderon, Cox, Strickland, Wright
SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE : 5-2, 7/13/09
AYES: Simitian, Corbett, Hancock, Lowenthal, Pavley
NOES: Runner, Ashburn
SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE : 5-2, 8/25/10
AYES: Simitian, Corbett, Hancock, Lowenthal, Pavley
NOES: Runner, Strickland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: 8-5, 8/27/09
AYES: Kehoe, Corbett, Hancock, Leno, Oropeza, Price, Wolk,
Yee
NOES: Cox, Denham, Runner, Walters, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 45-30, 6/3/09 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Climate Change Community Benefits
Fund
SOURCE : Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
Coalition for Clean Air
Greenlining Institute
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National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
DIGEST : This bill (1) creates a California Climate
Change Community Benefits Fund in the State Treasury, (2)
requires at least 10 percent of the revenues generated from
the state sale of compliance instruments for market-based
compliance mechanisms" under the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006, and (3) requires monies in the Fund
to be used solely in the most impacted and disadvantaged
communities, specify purposes for use of the funds, and set
procedures for determining the most impacted and
disadvantaged communities.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/20/10 replace creation of a
community benefits fund with a climate change community
benefits fund with new requirements for the fund.
ANALYSIS : The California Global Warming Solutions Act of
2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt
regulations to require the reporting and verification of
emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce
compliance with the reporting and verification program, and
requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse
gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse
emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act
requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in
an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas
emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board to
include the use of market-base compliance mechanism. The
act authorizes the state board to adopt a schedule of fees
to be paid by the sources of greenhouse gas emissions
regulated pursuant to the act, and requires the revenues
collected pursuant to that fee to be deposited into the Air
Pollution Control Fund and be available, upon appropriation
by the Legislature for purposes of carrying out the act.
Comments
According to the author's office, "The direct impacts of
climate change will largely affect disadvantaged
communities who are already suffering from adverse health
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impacts such as respiratory and cardiac illnesses and
episodes of extreme heat waves that have forced many into
the emergency room?funds need to be invested in the most
impacted and most disadvantaged communities in California
to accelerate greenhouse gas emission reductions and
mitigate direct health impacts of climate change."
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/23/10)
Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (co-source)
Coalition for Clean Air (co-source)
Greenlining Institute (co-source)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(co-source)
Diocese of Stockton
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environmental Defense Fund
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition Global Air Quality
Committee
Sierra Club
Association for Irritated Residents
American Lung Association
Breathe California
Central valley Air Quality Coalition
COFEM
Community Resources Project, Inc.
Planning and Conservation League
Union of Concerned Scientist
OPPOSITION : (Verified 8/23/10)
Amcor PET Packaging N.A.
California Chamber of Commerce
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance
California Forestry Association
California Grocers Association
California Independent Petroleum Association
California League of Food Processors
California Manufacturers and Technology Association
California Tax Payers Association
Del Monte Foods
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Industrial Environment Association
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Stop Hidden Taxes Coalition
Western States Petroleum Association
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Ammiano, Arambula, Beall, Blumenfield, Brownley,
Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter, Chesbro,
Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, Eng, Feuer, Fong,
Fuentes, Furutani, Hall, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill,
Huffman, Jones, Krekorian, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma,
Mendoza, Monning, Nava, John A. Perez, V. Manuel Perez,
Price, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Skinner, Solorio, Swanson,
Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Bass
NOES: Adams, Anderson, Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill,
Blakeslee, Conway, Cook, DeVore, Duvall, Emmerson,
Fletcher, Fuller, Gaines, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman,
Harkey, Huber, Jeffries, Knight, Logue, Miller, Nestande,
Niello, Nielsen, Silva, Smyth, Audra Strickland, Tran,
Villines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Block, Evans, Galgiani, Portantino,
Yamada
TSM:do 8/27/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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