BILL NUMBER: SB 1153	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hancock

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act relating to global warming.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1153, as introduced, Hancock. Global warming: renewable energy
projects: agricultural land.
   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 gas
emissions level in 1990, to be achieved by 2020. The state board is
required by January 1, 2011, to adopt greenhouse gas emissions limits
and emission reduction measures by regulation to achieve the
prescribed emission reductions.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address the serious threat of global warming to the
economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the
environment of the state by coordinating permit approvals and
providing incentives for renewable energy projects with multiple
environmental and economic benefits to agricultural land.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address the serious threat of global warming to the
economic well-being, public health, natural resources, and the
environment of the state by coordinating permit approvals and
providing incentives for renewable energy projects with multiple
environmental and economic benefits to agricultural land.