Bill Text: CA AB2722 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Transformative Climate Communities Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 371, Statutes of 2016. [AB2722 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2722-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2722	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Burke

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) to Division
44 of the Public Resources Code, relating to greenhouse 
gases, and making an appropriation therefor.   gases.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2722, as amended, Burke. Transformative Climate Communities
Program.
   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.
   Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council and requires
the council to identify and review activities and funding programs
that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, improve
natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable
housing, improve transportation, meet the goals of the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, encourage sustainable land use
planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable
manner.
   This bill would create the Transformative Climate Communities
Program, to be administered by the council. The bill would 
appropriate   provide that, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, up to  $250,000,000  shall be available 
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the council to administer
the program. The bill would require the council, in coordination with
the California Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Secretary
for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs, to award competitive
grants to specified eligible entities for the development 
and implementation  of transformative climate community
 plans   plans, and projects that implement
plans,  that contribute to the reduction of emissions of
greenhouse gases and demonstrate potential climate, economic,
workforce, health, and environmental benefits in disadvantaged
communities, as defined, that have a demonstrated need for climate,
economic, workforce, health, and environmental benefits.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation:  yes   no
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) is added to
Division 44 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

      PART 4.  Transformative Climate Communities Program


   75240.  The Transformative Climate Communities Program is hereby
created, to be administered by the Strategic Growth Council. The
program shall fund the development and implementation of
neighborhood-level transformative climate community plans that
include multiple, coordinated greenhouse gas emissions reduction
projects that provide local economic, environmental, and health
benefits that are directly connected to communities most impacted by
pollution and vulnerable to climate change. By making such
comprehensive public investments, it is the intent of the Legislature
that private resources can more effectively be catalyzed to support
innovative community and climate transformation in disadvantaged
communities.
   75241.  (a) The council, in coordination with the California
Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Justice and Tribal Affairs, shall award competitive grants to
eligible entities through an application process. To be eligible, an
entity shall demonstrate multistakeholder partnerships with local
agencies, community-based organizations, labor groups, workforce
investment boards, and other stakeholders, as appropriate. An
eligible entity includes any of the following:
   (1) A nonprofit organization.
   (2) A community-based organization.
   (3) A faith-based organization.
   (4) A coalition or association of nonprofit organizations.
   (5) A community development finance institution.
   (6) A community development corporation.
   (7) A local agency.
   (b) (1) The council shall award grants for  the development of
 transformative climate community  plans  
plans, and projects that implement plans,  that contribute to
the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and demonstrate
potential climate, economic, workforce, health, and environmental
benefits located in disadvantaged communities, as identified pursuant
to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code, that have a
demonstrated need for climate, economic, workforce, health, and
environmental  benefits.
    (2)     The council
shall award grants for both plan development and plan implementation.
A plan or plan development shall demonstrate, or engage in planning
  benefits. The council shall award grants for plans
that are designed  to achieve,  and projects that
demonstrate,  an integrated, innovative, cross-cutting project
with multiple benefits provided directly in a disadvantaged community
and  shall   that  demonstrate community
engagement and leadership in all phases. A plan shall identify
metrics to meet the overall goals of the Transformative Climate
Communities Program and the desired long-term changes in the plan's
region.    In awarding grants, the council may make
grant awards for plan development contingent on the implementation of
one or more projects identified by the plan.  
   (3) 
    (   2)  The council may award a grant over
multiple years.
   (c) In awarding grants, the council shall weigh economic,
environmental, and health benefits equally with climate benefits
resulting from greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
   (d) (1) For purposes of this part, "economic benefits" means
high-quality, well-paid employment opportunities for residents in the
plan's region, benefits for small businesses located directly in the
relevant disadvantaged community, and benefits for minority-, LGBT-,
woman-, or disabled veteran-owned small businesses in the plan's
region.
   (2) For purposes of this subdivision, "LGBT" means lesbian, gay,
bisexual, or transgender.
   75242.  (a) The council and all funded entities shall endeavor to
identify additional public and private sources of funding to sustain
and expand the program.
   (b) The council shall endeavor to identify and coordinate a
network of technical assistance providers to assist in plan
development, implementation, and project financing.
  SEC. 2.   Two  Up to two  hundred fifty
million dollars ($250,000,000)  is hereby appropriated
  shall be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature,  from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created
pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, to the Strategic
Growth Council to administer the Transformative Climate Communities
Program pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 75240) of
Division 44 of the Public Resources Code.