BILL NUMBER: AB 693	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 30, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huffman

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 181016 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 693, as amended, Huffman. Local government: Sonoma County
Regional Climate Protection Authority.
   (1) Existing law, until December 1, 2015, creates the Sonoma
County Regional Climate Protection Authority (authority). Existing
law provides for the authority to be governed by the same board as
that governing the Sonoma County Transportation Authority and imposes
certain duties on the authority. Existing law authorizes the
authority, in cooperation with local agencies, as defined, that elect
to participate, to perform coordination and implementation
activities, within the boundaries of the County of Sonoma, to assist
those agencies in meeting their greenhouse gas emissions reduction
goals and develop, coordinate, and implement programs and policies to
comply with the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and
other federal or state mandates and programs designed to respond to
greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
   This bill would instead make the above provisions inoperative on
December 1, 2019, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2020. By
extending the addition of new duties on local governments
participating in the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection
Authority, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.  
   (2)This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as
to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sonoma. 

   (3) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 181016 of the Public Utilities Code is amended
to read:
   181016.  This division shall become inoperative on December 1,
2019, and, as of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is
repealed. 
  SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. 
   SEC. 2   .    The Legislature finds and
declares that a special law is necessary and that a general law
cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article
IV of the California Constitution because of the unique greenhouse
gas emission reduction goals of the County of Sonoma. 
   SEC. 3.    No reimbursement is required by this act
pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local
agency or school district are the result of a program for which
legislative authority was requested by that local agency or school
district, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code
and Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.