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(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Californians have a right to safe, affordable, and reliable energy, including electricity, to power their homes and businesses.
(2) Californians have the right to produce energy in this state, and to use energy produced in this state, including oil, wind, solar, biomass, natural gas, geothermal, nuclear, and hydropower.
(3) Californians have a fundamental right to earn a living. This right shall not be compromised by, among other things, requirements that unreasonably raise the cost or limit the availability of commercial space.
(4) Californians have the right to purchase or rent a home or domicile unburdened by the cost of fees, levies, and regulatory requirements that, individually or
severally, raise the cost of housing in an unreasonable manner.
(5) Californians have a right to purchase a car or other vehicle for purposes of independent ownership and operation on state roads and highways. Driving itself shall remain a right, subject to all laws and requirements determined to be necessary for safety.
(6) Californians, and those visiting California, have a right to operate lawful vehicles on state roads and highways, and to traverse the state free of any individual monitoring, for mileage or other purposes. State or local agencies shall continue to monitor roadways for adherence to driving laws.
(7) Californians have the right to a domestically grown food supply. That food supply shall not be overburdened by regulations that drastically increase the cost of food production or decrease crop yield.
(8) All rules, regulations, restrictions, or other policies related to the
reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases shall be tailored narrowly to meet reduction goals while minimizing the impact on the liberty of California residents.
(9) To the maximum extent feasible, revenues derived from regulating emission of greenhouse gases should support projects that further reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, in the most cost-effective manner feasible.
(b) The Energy, Environment, and Economy Council is hereby created. The Energy, Environment, and Economy Council shall consist of the following members:
(1) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency.
(2) The Secretary for Environmental Protection.
(3) The Secretary of Transportation.
(4) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services.
(5) The Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing.
(6) The
Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.
(7) The Director of State Planning and Research.
(8) A representative of a large business.
(9) A representative of a small business with 25 or fewer employees.
(10) A representative of agriculture.
(11) An economist.
(12) A representative from northern California.
(13) A representative from southern California.
(14) A representative from central California.
(15) A representative from a rural county.
(16) A representative from an urban county.
(c) The members listed in paragraphs (8) to (16), inclusive, of subdivision (b) shall be selected by a selection committee of not more than two members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, two members appointed by the
minority leader of the Assembly, two members appointed by the Senate President pro Tempore, and two members appointed by the minority leader of the Senate, by no later than February 1, 2021. The selection committee shall include one Senator from each party and one Assembly Member from each party. The Energy, Environment, and Economy Council members shall be selected upon affirmative vote of six of the eight selection committee members by no later than July 1, 2021.
(d) (1) The Energy, Environment, and Economy Council shall engage with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and state and local agencies with jurisdiction relevant to environmental protection and economic vitality in order to determine the policies can be implemented to meet the state’s environmental goals, while avoiding harm to the state’s economy and maintaining the protections listed in subdivision (a).
(2) Stakeholders and subject matter experts shall include, but
not be limited to, persons representing businesses, labor, and industry, economists, and persons representing environmental organizations. Their engagement shall include, but is not limited to, convening a series of public workshops throughout the state to give interested parties an opportunity to comment and a series of stakeholder meetings designed to facilitate dialogue between stakeholders of various interest groups.
(3) Not later than July 1, 2022, the Energy, Environment, and Economy Council shall submit a report to the Legislature, pursuant to Section 9795, that makes recommendations on appropriate policies to achieve the following environmental goals of the state, while maintaining the protections described in subdivision (a), ensuring consumer choice is not compromised, and avoiding harm to the state’s economy:
(A) Reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 40 percent below 1990 levels by no later than December 31, 2030 (Section 38566 of the
Health and Safety Code).
(B) Procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources so that the total kilowatthours of those products sold to retail end-use customers in California achieves 44 percent of retail sales by December 31, 2024, 52 percent by December 31, 2027, and 60 percent by December 31, 2030, (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code).
(C) Supply 100 percent of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers and 100 percent of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2045, with eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources (Section 454.53 of the Public Utilities Code).
(D) Employ statewide energy efficiency savings and demand reduction that will achieve a cumulative doubling of statewide energy efficiency savings in electricity and natural gas final
end uses of retail customers by January 1, 2030, compared to those achieved by January 1, 2016 (subdivision (c) of Section 25310 of the Public Resources Code).
(E) Reduce statewide emissions of methane by 40 percent, hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40 percent, and anthropogenic black carbon by 50 percent below 2013 levels by 2030 (Section 39730.5 of the Health and Safety Code).
(F) Reduce the statewide level of disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 75 percent by 2025 (Section 39730.6 of the Health and Safety Code).
