Amended  IN  Senate  March 14, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1086

Introduced by Senator Melendez

February 15, 2022

An act to amend Section 38590.1 of of, and to add Section 39719.3 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to air resources.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1086, as amended, Melendez. California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: market-based compliance mechanism. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: Salton Sea restoration.
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 authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. 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. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that moneys collected pursuant to the market-based compliance mechanism be appropriated to include certain priorities, including air toxic and criteria air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources.
Existing Law establishes the Salton Sea Restoration Fund and requires the funds to be administered by the Director of Fish and Wildlife. Existing law requires the moneys deposited in the fund to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for various purposes relating to the restoration of the Salton Sea.
This bill would include pollutants from the Salton Sea as air toxic and criteria air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources for purposes of the priorities established in the above-described statement of intent of the Legislature. Legislature. The bill would require, if moneys are appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for the Salton Sea ecosystem as a priority, that those moneys be deposited into the Salton Sea Restoration Fund.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 38590.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

38590.1.
 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that moneys collected from the auction or sale of allowances pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism established pursuant to this division shall be appropriated to include, but need not be limited to, the following priorities at the time an expenditure plan is adopted:
(1) Air toxic and criteria air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources, including pollutants from the Salton Sea.
(2) Low- and zero-carbon transportation alternatives.
(3) Sustainable agricultural practices that promote the transitions to clean technology, water efficiency, and improved air quality.
(4) Healthy forests and urban greening.
(5) Short-lived climate pollutants.
(6) Climate adaptation and resiliency.
(7) Climate and clean energy research.
(b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2031, and as of that date is repealed unless a later enacted statute that is enacted on or before that date deletes or extends that date.

SEC. 2.

 Section 39719.3 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

39719.3.
 Moneys appropriated from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for the Salton Sea ecosystem, pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 38590.1, shall be deposited in the Salton Sea Restoration Fund.