Bill Text: CA SB1027 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: State employee survey.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-25 - May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1027 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB1027-Amended.html
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Amended
IN
Senate
March 12, 2018 |
| Senate Bill | No. 1027 |
| Introduced by Senator Pan |
February 07, 2018 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit equivalent to the statewide GHG emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective GHG emission reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. The act requires all state agencies to consider and implement strategies to reduce their GHG emissions. 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 by the
Legislature.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:
(a)“Agency” means the California Environmental Protection Agency.
(b)“Climate Action Team Report” means the report prepared pursuant to Executive Order S-3-05 and submitted to the Governor and the Legislature in March 2006.
(c)“GHG” means greenhouse gas as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 38505 of the Health and Safety Code.
(d)“GHG emission reduction target” means a target established for a state agency in the Climate Action Team Report,
a requirement made applicable to that state agency by an action taken by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code, or a target established for an employee or category of employees pursuant to this chapter.
(e)“Secretary” means the Secretary for Environmental Protection.
(f)“State agency” means a state agency listed in the Climate Action Team Report, a state office, department, division, bureau, board, or commission whose operations or programs result in greenhouse gas emissions that are
subject to Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety Code, and any other state agency listed in Section 12800, as determined by the secretary.
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 12892 of the Government Code is amended to read:12892.
(a) On or before October 1 of each year, each state agency shall prepare and submit to the secretary in a standardized format as determined by the agency all of the following:(4)A GHG emission reduction target, or updated target, for each employee or category of employees.
(a)Not less than once every three years, each state agency reporting pursuant to Section 12892 shall, to the extent funds are available, conduct an independent audit in a standardized format determined by the agency and verification of the actual and proposed GHG emission reductions achieved by that state
agency, and the actual and proposed GHG emission reductions for each employee or category of employees, in order to ensure that the state agency is achieving GHG emission reduction targets.
(b)In the independent audit conducted pursuant to subdivision (a), a state agency shall identify areas of improvement for reducing GHG emissions of each employee or category of employees, determine best practices for reducing employee GHG emissions, and revise its employee GHG emission reduction targets and proposed measures for reducing employee GHG emissions, pursuant to that determination.
The implementation of this chapter shall be funded with moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8, or other funds available to carry out the purposes of this chapter, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
