Bill Text: CA AB1179 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: disadvantaged communities: report.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1179 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1179-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1179	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rendon

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1179, as introduced, Rendon. California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: disadvantaged communities: report.
   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 act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to
be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be
available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the California
Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities
and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the
state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as
specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
   Existing law requires the 3-year investment plan to allocate a
minimum of 25% of the available moneys in the fund to projects that
benefit disadvantaged communities and to allocate a minimum of 10% of
the available moneys in the fund to projects located in
disadvantaged communities.
   This bill would require the state board to prepare, and post on
its Internet Web site, a specified report on the projects funded to
benefit disadvantaged communities.
   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 39713 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   39713.  (a) The investment plan developed and submitted to the
Legislature, pursuant to Section 39716, shall allocate a minimum of
25 percent of the available moneys in the fund to projects that
provide benefits to communities described in Section 39711.
   (b) The investment plan shall allocate a minimum of 10 percent of
the available moneys in the fund to projects located within
communities described in Section 39711.
   (c) The allocation pursuant to subdivision (b) may be, but need
not be, for projects included, in whole or in part, in the set of
projects supported by the allocation described in subdivision (a).

   (d) The state board shall prepare, and post on its Internet Web
site, a report on the projects funded pursuant to this section. The
report shall include all of the following:  
   (1) A general description of the project.  
   (2) The location where the project will be implemented.  

   (3) The estimated date of completion of each project.  
   (4) The amount awarded to each project.  
   (5) The status of any moneys in the fund that are not awarded
pursuant to this section and the reasons, if any, why those moneys
have not been awarded.