Bill Text: CA AB2292 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2292 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2292-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2292	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gordon
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Ting)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to environmental justice.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2292, as amended, Gordon. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: disadvantaged communities.
   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, also known as the California Communities
Environmental Health Screening, 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 California Environmental Protection
Agency to identify disadvantaged communities, also known as the
California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool, for
investment opportunities related to the plan. 
   This bill would require the agency, no later than July 1, 2017, to
update the California Communities Environmental Health Screening
 Tool  to include specified  factors  
factors, using the best-available data,  when identifying
disadvantaged communities for investment opportunities related to the
3-year investment plan.
   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 39711 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   39711.  (a) (1) The California Environmental Protection Agency
shall identify disadvantaged communities for investment opportunities
related to this chapter. These communities shall be identified based
on geographic, socioeconomic, public health, and environmental
hazard criteria, and may include, but are not limited to, either of
the following:
   (A) Areas disproportionately affected by environmental pollution
and other hazards that can lead to negative public health effects,
exposure, or environmental degradation.
   (B) Areas with concentrations of people that are of low income,
high unemployment, low levels of homeownership, high rent burden,
sensitive populations, or low levels of educational attainment.
   (2) The California Environmental Protection Agency shall hold at
least one public workshop prior to the identification of
disadvantaged communities pursuant to this section.
    (3) The Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing
with Section 11340) of the Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the
Government Code) does not apply to the identification of
disadvantaged communities pursuant to this section.
   (b) No later than July 1, 2017, the California Environmental
Protection Agency shall update the identification of disadvantaged
communities for investment opportunities related to this chapter, as
established pursuant to subdivision (a), to include  factors
  factors, using the best-available data,  that
include, but need not be limited to, areas of the state that are
disproportionately impacted by any of the following:
   (1) High poverty rates.
   (2) High rent burden and severe rent burden where households pay
more than 50 percent of their household income in gross rent.
   (3) High cost of living.