BILL NUMBER: AB 333	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to add Section 38598.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 333, as introduced, Grove. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: unemployment.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions.
   This bill would require the state board to exempt from an emission
reduction requirement adopted pursuant to the act an emissions
source located within a county that on January 1, 2012, has an
unemployment rate of 7% or greater, until that county's unemployment
rate drops below 7% for 6 consecutive months.
   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 38598.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38598.5.  The state board shall exempt from an emission reduction
requirement adopted pursuant to this division an emissions source
located within a county that on January 1, 2012, has an unemployment
rate of 7 percent or greater, until that county's unemployment rate
drops below 7 percent for six consecutive months. The exemption
created pursuant to this section shall not return if the unemployment
rate rises above 7 percent at a later time.