Bill Text: CA ACR14 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-27 - In committee: Refused adoption. [ACR14 Detail]
Download: California-2009-ACR14-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 14 AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 27, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Niello (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Nielsen) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Tom Berryhill, DeVore, Duvall, Fuller, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman,and JeffriesHarkey, Jeffries, Knight, and Silva ) (Coauthors: Senators Aanestad, Cox, Harman, Hollingsworth, Huff, and Runner) JANUARY 27, 2009 Relative to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 14, as amended, Niello. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This measure would call upon the State Air Resources Board, prior to any regulatory action being taken consistent with the scoping plan for the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, to perform an economic analysis that will give the State of California a more complete and accurate picture of the costs and benefits of the act's implementation. The measure would also call upon the Governor to use the authority granted by the act to adjust any applicable deadlines for regulations. Fiscal committee: yes. WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board is developing a greenhouse gas emission reduction program pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (the act) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state to 1990 levels by the year 2020; and WHEREAS, The act requires the State Air Resources Board to design emission reduction measures to meet statewide emissions limits for greenhouse gases established pursuant to the act in a manner that minimizes costs and maximizes benefits for California's economy; and WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board has adopted a scoping plan to lower the state's greenhouse gas emissions to meet the 2020 limit; and WHEREAS, The scoping plan's primary purpose is to develop a set of measures that will provide the maximum cost-effective and technologically feasible greenhouse gas emission reductions; and WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board is required by the act to consider the economic impacts of the scoping plan through an economic analysis; and WHEREAS, Given the current extraordinary circumstances with regard to California's budget and the recessionary state of our economy, it is more important than ever that we have an accurate economic estimate of the impact of the actions proposed in the scoping plan before proceeding with regulations to implement the act; and WHEREAS, As public servants, it is the duty of the State Air Resources Board to ensure that California has a complete and accurate picture of the full economic impact of any regulatory actions; and WHEREAS, The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst believes that the scoping plan's overall emissions reductions and purported net economic benefit are highly reliant on one measure; and WHEREAS, The Legislative Analyst believes that the plan's evaluation of the costs and savings of some recommended measures are inconsistent and incomplete; and WHEREAS, The Legislative Analyst believes the scoping plan's macroeconomic modeling results show a slight net economic benefit to the plan, but that the State Air Resources Board failed to demonstrate the analytical rigor of its findings; and WHEREAS, The Legislative Analyst believes that economic analysis played a limited role in development of the scoping plan; and WHEREAS, The Legislative Analyst believes the scoping plan fails to lay out an "investment pathway"; and WHEREAS, The State Air Resources Board's peer review of the scoping plan, commissioned by the State Air Resources Board, also found that the State Air Resources Board was less than thorough or analytical in its economic analysis of the scoping plan and found that the board should have taken into account several factors that it did not; and WHEREAS, The Governor has the ability under the authority granted to him by the act in Section 38599 of the Health and Safety Code to adjust the applicable deadlines for individual regulations when extraordinary circumstances, catastrophic events, or threat of significant economic harm exists; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature calls upon the State Air Resources Board to, prior to any regulatory action being taken consistent with the scoping plan for the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, perform an economic analysis that will give the State of California a more complete and accurate picture of the costs and benefits of the act's implementation; and be it further Resolved, That the Governor of the State of California use the authority granted by the act to adjust any applicable deadlines for the adoption of regulations; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.