Bill Text: CA AB239 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Greenhouse gases: regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB239 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB239-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 239	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallagher
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Bigelow, Brough, Chang,
Grove, Patterson, Steinorth, Wagner, and Wilk)
   (Coauthors: Senators Anderson, Fuller, Morrell, and Nielsen)

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2015

   An act to add Section 38511 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 239, as introduced, Gallagher. Greenhouse gases: regulations.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 authorizes the
State Air Resources Board to adopt greenhouse gas emissions limits
and emission reduction measures by regulation to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse
gas emissions limit. The act authorizes the board, in the regulations
adopted, to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms.
   This bill would prohibit the board, on and after January 1, 2016,
from adopting or amending regulations pursuant to the act. The bill
would authorize the board to submit to the Legislature
recommendations on how to achieve the goals of the act.
   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 38511 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38511.  (a) Notwithstanding any law, on and after January 1, 2016,
the state board shall not adopt or amend a regulation pursuant to
this division. The state board may submit to the Legislature
recommendations on how to achieve the goals of this division.
   (b) This section does not affect the validity of regulations
adopted before January 1, 2016.