Bill Text: CA AB309 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr. Research Grant.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB309 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB309-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 309	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mathis

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2015

   An act relating to  education,   water, 
and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 309, as amended, Mathis. Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr.
Research Grant.
   Existing law establishes various grant programs relating to
education, including, but not limited to, the Education Technology
Grant Act of 2002 and the Child Development Teacher and Supervisor
Grant 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 state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act authorizes the state
board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms in
regulations to achieve this goal. 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.  
   Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the
State Water Project and exercises other functions relating to the
state's water resources. 
   This bill would require the  state board, in collaboration
with the  Department of Water  Resources, 
 Resources  to create and administer the "Edmund G. 'Pat'
Brown, Sr., Research Grant" to provide a one-year grant to support
research that would examine ways to  increase fresh water
yield, improve energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by combining desalination and power generation plants. 
 expand California's water portfolio.  The bill would
specify that only California State University campuses and University
of California campuses are eligible for this grant. The bill would
appropriate $145,000 from the  Greenhouse Gas Reduction
  General  Fund to the  state board
  department  for this purpose.
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   
  SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares
the following:
   (a) The largest desalination plant project in the western
hemisphere is in Carlsbad, California. The project has been approved
by the California Coastal Commission, the State Lands Commission, and
the area's regional water quality control board, and, when the plan
becomes operational in 2016, has the ability to produce 50 million
gallons of drinking water daily for the residents of San Diego
County.
   (b) In March 2015, Santa Barbara municipal officials announced
that the city is working on bringing a 20-year old desalination plant
back into operation. The city expects that the facility will produce
enough water to make up approximately 30 percent of Santa Barbara's
water demand once the plant is fully operational. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   (a) The
State Air Resources Board, in collaboration with the 
Department of Water  Resources,   Resources
 shall create and administer the "Edmund G. 'Pat' Brown, Sr.,
Research Grant" to provide a one-year grant to support research that
would examine ways to  increase fresh water yield, improve
energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by combining
desalination and power generation plants.   expand
California's water portfolio.  Only California State University
campuses and University of California campuses shall be eligible for
this grant.
   (b) There is hereby appropriated one hundred forty-five thousand
dollars ($145,000) from the  Greenhouse Gas Reduction
  General  Fund to the  State Air Resources
Board   Department of Water Resources  for the
purpose of this section.