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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 832
Author: Senate Environmental Quality Committee
Amended: 9/4/09
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE ENV. QUALITY COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/4/09
AYES: Simitian, Runner, Ashburn, Corbett, Hancock,
Lowenthal, Pavley
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 39-0, 5/26/09 (Consent)
AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Benoit, Calderon,
Cedillo, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham,
DeSaulnier, Ducheny, Dutton, Florez, Hancock, Harman,
Hollingsworth, Huff, Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal,
Maldonado, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley,
Romero, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg, Strickland, Walters,
Wiggins, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Vacancy
SENATE FLOOR : 25-3, 9/12/09
AYES: Alquist, Calderon, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa,
DeSaulnier, Ducheny, Florez, Hancock, Kehoe, Leno, Liu,
Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla, Pavley,
Price, Romero, Simitian, Steinberg, Wiggins, Wolk,
Wright, Yee
NOES: Denham, Hollingsworth, Maldonado
NO VOTE RECORDED: Aanestad, Ashburn, Benoit, Cogdill, Cox,
Dutton, Harman, Huff, Runner, Strickland, Walters, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-1, 9/11/09 - See last page for vote
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SUBJECT : Resources: California Pollution Control
Financing
Authority: public lands: solid waste
diversion
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill makes various technical,
non-substantive changes to the various codes under the
jurisdiction of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.
Assembly Amendments add provisions that conform and update
the governing code to reflect changes in business
practices, program updates, and federal tax law, and make
other changes.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1. Establishes the California Pollution Control Financing
Authority (CPCFA) with specified powers and duties, and
authorizes the authority to approve financing for
projects or pollution control facilities to prevent or
reduce environmental pollution (Section 44150 et seq. of
the Health and Safety Code).
2. Establishes the California Integrated Waste Management
Board with specified powers and duties over solid waste
management (Section 40000 et seq. of the Public
Resources Code).
3. Establishes the State Lands Commission with specified
powers and duties over the management of state lands
including the power to apply to the United States
Department of the Interior for patents to the numbered
school sections in place, which have not been patented
by the state (Section 6101 et seq. of the Public
Resources Code).
This is the Senate Environmental Quality Committee's
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omnibus bill, which contains provisions to update, clarify
and make non-controversial changes to various programs to
increase effective program implementation.
Within the State Treasurer's Office, CPCFA provides
low-cost innovative financing to California businesses. As
a "conduit issuer" of tax-exempt private activity bonds,
CPCFA is able to facilitate low-cost financing to qualified
waste and recycling projects. Other projects to control
pollution can qualify for tax-exempt financing as allowed
by federal tax law. Examples of recent assistance include
projects to purchase clean-air vehicles by waste companies,
recycle used oil, and develop construction and demolition
debris recycling programs. CPCFA works with participating
financial institutions to assist small business with loans
up to $1.5 million. CPCFA also assists with the clean-up
of contaminated sites through a $60 million grant and loan
program and a site-assessment loan program. The codes
governing the CPCFA have not been updated since 1975. This
bill conforms and updates the governing code to reflect
changes in business practices, program updates, and federal
tax law.
This bill corrects a drafting error in SB 1016 (Wiggins),
Chapter 343, Statutes of 2008, by replacing the term "city
and county" with "jurisdiction." This bill makes a
technical change related to school lands and patents.
Additionally, it defines "severely disadvantaged community"
as a community with a median household income of less than
60 percent of the statewide median household income for
purposes of the State Water Pollution Control Revolving
Fund.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Arambula, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Tom
Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter,
Chesbro, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore,
Emmerson, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber,
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Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Krekorian, Lieu, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Monning, Nava, Nestande,
Niello, Nielsen, John A. Perez, V. Manuel Perez,
Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner,
Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson,
Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, Bass
NOES: Anderson
NO VOTE RECORDED: Conway, Miller, Vacancy
TSM:mw 10/12/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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