Amended
IN
Assembly
May 25, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 17, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 02, 2018 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2018 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1933 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Maienschein (Coauthors: Assembly Members Baker, Mathis, McCarty, and Voepel) |
January 24, 2018 |
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 requires the state board to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in implementing the act. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board 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 makes
a legislative declaration that it is the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by 2020.
This bill would explicitly authorize up to $200,000,000 to be appropriated in the annual Budget Act, without regard to fiscal year, from the fund to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for organic waste recycling infrastructure projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and solid waste recycling infrastructure projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(a)Up to two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) may be appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund in the annual Budget Act, without regard to fiscal year, to the
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, to be allocated as follows:
(1)Up to one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) for organic waste recycling infrastructure projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including, but not limited to, water treatment facilities, composting facilities, and facilities for the diversion of food waste.
(2)Up to one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) for solid waste recycling infrastructure projects
that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(b)This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2020, and as of that date is repealed.