Bill Text: CA AB2223 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2223 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Dairy methane reduction.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2223 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2223-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2223	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 412 to the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to  greenhouse gases.   dairy methane
reduction, and making an appropriation therefor. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2223, as amended, Gray.  Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund:
dairy digesters.   Dairy methane reduction. 

   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 as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the
Legislature.  
   Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture
under the administration of the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to
promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. 
   This bill would  provide that up to $100,000,000 shall be
made available, upon appropriation, from the fund  
appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund  to the Department
of Food and Agriculture to provide  incentives 
 loans  for the implementation of dairy digesters and other
dairy methane reduction projects and management practices.
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   yes  . Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares
all of the following:
   (a) The State Air Resources Board has embarked on an ambitious
strategy to reduce dairy methane emissions. These voluntary
reductions cannot begin to be achieved unless the state provides a
substantial and ongoing financial commitment to offset the costs of
achieving these reductions.
   (b) Dairy methane reduction projects are among the most
cost-effective investments the state can make to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
   (c) Investments in dairy digesters and other methane reduction
projects on dairies in the state will provide significant greenhouse
gas and short-lived climate pollutant emissions reductions, as well
as all of the following:
   (1) Significant benefits to disadvantaged communities, as
identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code,
including criteria pollutant reductions, water quality improvements,
and nuisance and odor control.
   (2) Help in achieving a 50 percent reduction in petroleum use by
replacing diesel with renewable natural gas.
   (3) Furtherance of the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan.

   (4) Substantial clean energy production, including renewable
electricity, renewable natural gas, and renewable carbon-negative
transportation fuel.
   (5) Increased decarbonization of the state's natural gas system.
   (6) Job creation and economic development in high-unemployment
rural communities.
   (7) Significant greenhouse gas emissions offsets and credit
production pursuant to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulation
(Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4 of
Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations).
   (8) Significant water quality benefits from advancements in manure
management. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 412 is
added to the Food and Agricultural Code, to read:
   412.   Up to one hundred   (a)  
  Ten  million dollars  ($100,000,000) from the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8
of the Government Code, shall be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature,   ($10,000,000) is hereby appropriated
 to the department to provide  incentives  
loans  for the implementation of dairy digesters and other
dairy methane reduction projects and management practices. 
   (b) Loans issued by the department for the purposes specified in
subdivision (a) shall be repaid within 10 years, and the payments
shall be deposited into the General Fund.