Bill Text: CA AB593 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Carbon emission reduction strategy: building sector.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB593 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 593
| Introduced by Assembly Member Haney (Coauthor: Senator Stern) |
February 09, 2023 |
An act to add Section 25403.7 to the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 593, as amended, Haney.
Carbon emission reduction strategy: building sector.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, by January 1, 2021, to assess the potential for the state to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from the state’s residential and commercial building stock by at least 40% below 1990 levels by January 1, 2030. Existing law requires the commission to include in the 2021 edition of the integrated energy policy report and all subsequent integrated energy policy reports a report on the emissions of greenhouse gases associated with the supply of energy to residential and commercial buildings. Existing law requires the commission to establish the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program that includes a direct install program and a statewide incentive program for low-carbon building technologies.
Existing law establishes the policy of the state to achieve
net zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to ensure that, by 2045, statewide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 85% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions in 1990.
This bill would require the commission, on or before June 1, 2024, to identify an emission reduction adopt a strategy, with milestones, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for the building sector to support achieving those carbon emissions reduction goals, sector,
as provided. The bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2025, to implement the emission reduction strategy as a part of the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program and to take certain actions for purposes of implementing the strategy. commission, in developing the strategy, to consult and collaborate with certain entities, to hold at least 2 public workshops, and to convene stakeholder sessions. The bill would require the commission, on or before September 31, 2024, to submit the adopted strategy to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 25403.7 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:25403.7.
(a) On or before June 1, 2024, the commission, at a publicly noticed voting meeting, shall adopt a strategy, with milestones, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases for the building sector consistent with the targets and strategies identified in the most recent scoping plan adopted pursuant to Section 38561 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) In developing the strategy, the commission shall do all of the following:
(1) Consult and collaborate with the Public Utilities Commission, the California Building Standards Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the California Workforce Development Board, and the disadvantaged community advisory group established pursuant to Section
400 of the Public Utilities Code.
(2) Hold no less than two public workshops to solicit public input on the development of the strategy.
(3) Convene stakeholder sessions to solicit input from organizations representing the affected workforce, tenants, affordable housing organizations, small businesses, ratepayer organizations, and consumer organizations.
(c) The commission shall ensure that the strategy does all of the following:
(1) Maximizes workforce development, emphasizing high road jobs as defined by the California Workforce Development Board and including job retention and retraining, prioritizing a skilled and trained workforce, and protecting the affected workforce from job losses due to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases from the building
sector.
(2) Provides market signals to appliance manufacturers and installers.
(3) Minimizes impacts on ratepayers, informed by analysis from the Public Utilities Commission that includes the impacts on varying customer segments, including, but not limited to, the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors.
(4) Supports extreme heat protection and prevention goals.
(5) Prioritizes the needs of low-income communities, as defined in Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code, and disadvantaged communities, as identified pursuant to Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code or as defined in Section 75005, including by identifying necessary tenant protections and reducing barriers for low-income individuals.
(6) Evaluates specific obstacles and considerations for low-income occupants of multifamily and mobilehome structures.
(7) Identifies opportunities to deploy zero-emission home heating and cooling technologies, including heat pumps, to meet the needs of communities impacted by climate change and extreme weather events.
(d) (1) On or before September 31, 2024, the commission shall submit the adopted strategy to the relevant policy committees of the Legislature.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this subdivision shall become inoperative on September 31, 2028.
(a)On or before June 1, 2024, the commission shall identify an emission reduction strategy, with milestones, for the building sector to support achieving the carbon emissions reduction goals set forth in Section 38562.2 of the Health and Safety Code by 2045.
(b)The emission reduction strategy shall do all of the following:
(1)Maximize workforce development.
(2)Provide clear market signals to appliance manufacturers and installers.
(3)Minimize impacts on ratepayers.
(4)Support extreme heat goals.
(5)Reduce barriers for low-income individuals.
(6)Identify how to deploy zero-emission home heating and cooling technologies, including bidirectional heat pumps, to meet the needs of communities impacted by climate change and extreme weather events.
(c)On or before July 1, 2025, the commission shall implement the emission reduction strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a) as a part of the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program established pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 25665) of Chapter 7.6.
(d)On or before July 1, 2025, the commission shall take actions specified in subdivision (b) of Section 25235 for purposes of implementing the emission reduction strategy developed pursuant to subdivision (a).
