Bill Text: CA AB658 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Taxpayer contributions: California Police Activities

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 346, Statutes of 2010. [AB658 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB658-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 658	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hayashi

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Section 41999 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 658, as introduced, Hayashi. Air quality: dry cleaning: grants.

   Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to develop and
establish a grant program that provides incentives for dry cleaners
in the state that utilize perchloroethylene in their operations to
transition to utilizing dry cleaning systems determined by the state
board, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department
of Toxic Substances Control, and any other entity the state board
deems appropriate, to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming. Existing law
requires the state board to make grants available in the amount of
$10,000 to any eligible dry cleaning operation for the purchase of a
professional dry cleaning system that uses a nontoxic and
nonsmog-forming process, as specified.
   This bill would increase the amount of each grant to $20,000.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 41999 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   41999.  (a) The state board shall develop and establish a grant
program that provides incentives for dry cleaners in the state that
utilize perchloroethylene in their operations to transition to
utilizing dry cleaning systems determined by the state board, in
consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department
of Toxic Substances Control, and any other entity the state board
determines to be appropriate, to be nontoxic and nonsmog-forming.
   (b) To be eligible for a grant pursuant to this section,
applicants shall completely replace their 
percholorethylene-based   perchloroethylene-based 
dry cleaning system with a system that the state board, in
consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department
of Toxic Substances Control, and any other entity the state board
determines to be appropriate, has determined to be nontoxic and
nonsmog-forming. The state board shall determine the eligibility of
grant recipients.
   (c) The state board shall make grants available in the amount of
 ten thousand dollars ($10,000)   twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000)  to any eligible dry cleaning
operation for the purchase of a professional dry cleaning system that
uses a nontoxic and nonsmog-forming process, as determined by the
state board, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health
Hazard Assessment, the State Water Resources Control Board, the
Department of Toxic Substances Control, and any other entity the
state board determines to be appropriate.
   (d) The state board shall ensure that at least 50 percent of the
grant moneys provided pursuant to this section are awarded in a
manner that directly reduces air contaminants or reduces the public
health risk associated with air contaminants in communities with the
most significant exposure to air contaminants or localized air
contaminants, or both, including, but not limited to, communities of
minority populations or low-income populations, or both.
   (e) Commencing January 1, 2007, and every three years thereafter,
the state board shall provide a report to the Legislature evaluating
effectiveness of the grant program.
   (f) The state board shall establish a demonstration program to
showcase professional nontoxic and nonsmog forming dry cleaning
technologies in the state. The demonstration program shall require 50
percent matching funds to cover the costs of the demonstration
program. Any entity may contribute monies as matching funds,
including, but not limited to, a state or federal agency, an air
pollution control district or air quality management district, a
public utility district, or a nonprofit entity. Not more than 30
percent of the funds deposited annually in the Nontoxic Dry Cleaning
Incentive Trust Fund may be used for the demonstration program.