Bill Text: CA AB1332 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: offsets.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1332 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB1332-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1332 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Quirk
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
An act to add Section 38575 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1332, as introduced, Quirk. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: offsets.
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 emissions
reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of
market-based compliance mechanisms.
This bill would require the state board, as part of a market-based
compliance mechanism, to create an offset protocol for renewable
energy projects that are able to ramp up or down during peak energy
demands.
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 38575 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
38575. If the state board has exercised its authority pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 38570, the state board shall create an
offset protocol for renewable energy projects that are able to ramp
up or down during peak energy demands to be used as part of that
market-based compliance mechanism.
