Bill Text: CA AB713 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State Air Resources Board: greenhouse gas emissions scoping plan: comprehensive health analysis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-08-26 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB713 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB713-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 22, 2021 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Cristina Garcia |
February 16, 2021 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act authorizes the state board to include in its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The act authorizes the state board to adopt regulations that establish a system of market-based declining annual aggregate emissions limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases that the state board determines will achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, in the aggregate, from those sources or categories of sources. The act requires the
state board, in adopting those regulations, to establish a price ceiling for the market-based compliance mechanism, with consideration of various factors, including the full social cost associated with emitting a metric ton of greenhouse gases. The act defines “social cost” for these purposes.
The bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this definition of “social cost.”
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13979.3 is added to the Government Code, to read:13979.3.
(a) The agency, in collaboration with the State Air Resources Board, the State Department of Public Health, and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall, no later than January 1, 2023, develop an action plan to better integrate health analysis broadly into the design, implementation, and evaluation of the state’s transportation policies, programs, and funding allocations with the goal of maximizing health and health equity benefits.SEC. 2.
Section 38591.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38591.4.
(a) The state board shall conduct a comprehensive health analysis in conjunction with the development of each update of the scoping plan developed pursuant to Section 38561, including the update to be adopted by the state board in 2022, and integrate the health analysis into the development of the elements of the scoping plan and their prioritization within the scoping plan. The state board shall develop the comprehensive health analysis in collaboration with the State Department of Public Health and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and other agencies as appropriate.For purposes of this division, “social cost” means an estimate of the economic damages, including, but not limited to, changes in net agricultural productivity; impacts to public health; climate adaptation impacts, such as property damages from increased flood risk; and changes in energy system costs, per metric ton of emissions of greenhouse
gases per year.