Bill Text: CA AB2802 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Air pollution: carbon tax and dividend.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-19 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. [AB2802 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2802-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2802

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Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

February 18, 2022

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An act relating to air pollution.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2802, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Air pollution: carbon tax and dividend.

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. Existing law requires the state board to adopt greenhouse gas emissions limits and emissions reduction measures by regulation to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in furtherance of achieving a specified statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would create a carbon tax and dividend program that would impose charges on entities responsible for air pollution emissions and allocate the revenue from those charges to frontline communities that suffer from the air pollution caused by those emissions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would create a carbon tax and dividend program that would impose charges on entities responsible for air pollution emissions and allocate the revenue from those charges to frontline communities that suffer from the air pollution caused by those emissions.