Bill Text: CA AB1330 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental justice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-25 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB1330 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1330	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member John A. Pérez

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 71117 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to environmental justice.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1330, as introduced, John A. Pérez. Environmental justice.
   Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection
to convene a Working Group on Environmental Justice to assist the
secretary in developing, by July 1, 2002, an agencywide strategy for
identifying and addressing gaps in existing programs, policies, or
activities of the agency's boards, departments, and offices that may
impede the achievement of environmental justice.
   This bill would require the secretary, with the assistance of the
Working Group on Environmental Justice, to periodically revise and
update the agencywide strategy to identify and address any additional
gaps. The bill would require the secretary to submit to the Governor
and the Legislature, by July 1, 2014, a report on the revision and
update of the strategy.
   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.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) The Legislature, in 2001, enacted Senate Bill 828 of the
2001-02 Regular Session (Chapter 765 of the Statutes of 2001) to
require the California Environmental Protection Agency to convene a
Working Group on Environmental Justice to assist the agency in
developing an agencywide strategy for identifying and addressing gaps
in existing programs, policies, or activities that may impede the
achievement of environmental justice.
   (2) After the development of the strategy, Senate Bill 828
requires each board, department, and office within the agency, in
coordination with the Secretary for Environmental Protection and the
Director of the Office of Planning and Research, to review its
programs, policies, or activities that may impede the achievement of
environmental justice.
   (3) Senate Bill 828 also requires the secretary to submit, on a
triennial basis beginning on January 1, 2004, a report to the
Governor and the Legislature, on the implementation of above
requirements.
   (4) In September of 2004, the agency submitted to the Governor and
the Legislature a report on actions taken to implement Senate Bill
828.
   (5) In October of 2004, the agency issued the Environmental
Justice Action Plan identifying opportunities for the agency and its
boards, departments, and offices to take the initial steps toward
addressing environmental justice issues.
   (6) Since 2004, the agency has not submitted a report to the
Governor or the Legislature on the implementation of the
Environmental Justice Action Plan.
   (7) Additionally issues regarding environmental justice, not
addressed by the agency, may have arisen since 2004.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the agency should
update the Environmental Justice Action Plan to address issues
regarding environmental justice that may be arisen since 2004 that
may have impeded the achievement of environmental justice.
  SEC. 2.  Section 71117 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   71117.  (a) The Secretary for Environmental Justice shall, with
the assistance of the Working Group on Environmental Justice,
periodically revise and update the agencywide strategy developed
pursuant to Section 71113 to identify and address any additional gaps
in existing programs, policies, or activities that impedes the
achievement of environmental justice.
   (b) (1) On or before July 1, 2014, the secretary shall submit to
the Governor and the Legislature a report on the implementation of
this section.
   (2) The report required by paragraph (1) that is submitted to the
Legislature shall be submitted pursuant to Section 9795 of the
Government Code.
   (3) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
subdivision is inoperative on July 1, 2018.