Bill Text: CA SB1122 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sustainable communities: Strategic Growth Council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - Held in committee and under submission. [SB1122 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1122	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to add Division 44 (commencing with Section 75200) to the
Public Resources Code, relating to sustainable communities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1122, as introduced, Pavley. Sustainable communities: Strategic
Growth Council.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, designates
the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The act authorizes the state board to include 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. Existing law requires the Department of
Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant
state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for
the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing
law authorizes moneys from the fund to be allocated for the purpose
of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this state through specified
investments, including funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
through strategic planning and development of sustainable
infrastructure projects.
   Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities
by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including
development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these
agencies are designated under federal law as metropolitan planning
organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning
organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, subject to
specified requirements, as part of a regional transportation plan,
which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the
State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region.
   Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council and requires
the council to, among other things, manage and award grants and
loans to support the development, adoption, or implementation of a
regional plan or other planning instrument consistent with a regional
plan that achieve specified objectives, including meeting the goals
of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Existing law
specifies that the financial assistance provided shall be funded by
the bond proceeds from the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and
Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006.

   This bill would additionally require the council to provide
financial assistance for those purposes, to be funded from moneys
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, and would additionally require the regional plan or
other planning instrument to meet the requirements of an applicable
sustainable communities strategy. The bill would require the council
to develop and implement regional grant programs to support the
implementation of sustainable communities strategies, alternative
transportation plans, or other regional greenhouse gas emission
reduction plans within a developed area. The bill also would
authorize the council to award financial assistance for the
development and implementation of agricultural, natural resource, and
open space land protection plans that are consistent with the
implementation of sustainable communities strategies, alternative
transportation plans, or other regional greenhouse gas emission
reduction plans.
   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.  Division 44 (commencing with Section 75200) is added to
the Public Resources Code, to read:

      DIVISION 44.  Sustainable Communities Implementation


      CHAPTER 1.  GENERAL PROVISION


   75200.  For the purposes of this division, "council" means the
Strategic Growth Council established pursuant to Section 75121.
      CHAPTER 2.  SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES


   75210.  (a) To support the planning and development of sustainable
communities, the council shall manage and award financial assistance
to a council of governments, metropolitan planning organization,
regional transportation planning agency, city, county, or joint
powers authority, to develop, adopt, or implement a regional plan or
other planning instrument consistent with a regional plan that
improves air and water quality, improves natural resource protection,
increases the availability of affordable housing, improves
transportation, meets the goals of the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500)
of the Health and Safety Code), encourages sustainable land use, and
meets the requirements of Section 65080 of the Government Code.
Moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund established pursuant to
Section 16428.8 of the Government Code shall, upon appropriation by
the Legislature, be expended by the council for providing financial
assistance provided pursuant to this section.
   (b) To support the implementation of sustainable communities
strategies, alternative transportation plans, or other regional
greenhouse gas emission reduction plans within a developed area, the
council may adopt criteria and requirements for the development and
implementation of regional grant programs that include all of the
following:
   (1) Require that project be selected within each region by the
regional granting authority through a competitive public process
based on reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases.
   (2) Establish the methods for evaluating, monitoring, and
verifying project effectiveness, including those related to travel
demand reduction, system efficiency, safety improvements, demographic
characteristics, and integrated land use and transportation
strategies.
   (3) Provide for the development and implementation of projects
that integrate infrastructure investment with land use or local code
changes to achieve the maximum reduction in the emissions of
greenhouse gases.
   (4) Provide for public participation in the review of proposed
projects.
   (5) Provide for consultation and coordination with air pollution
control districts and air quality management districts.
   (c) The council, in consultation with the State Air Resources
Board and the metropolitan planning organizations, shall establish
standards for integrated modeling systems and measurement methods to
ensure consistency in evaluating the potential effectiveness of
projects and verifying the actual benefits of projects after
completion.
   (d) The council shall review the implementation of this section on
an annual basis and may revise the criteria and requirements for
project selection, evaluation, monitoring, and verification developed
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b), as needed, to
improve program performance.
   (e) Moneys that are allocated for the regional grant programs
pursuant to the criteria and requirements adopted pursuant to
subdivision (b) shall be allocated to the regional granting authority
in each region on a per capita basis.
   75211.  The council may award financial assistance to a city,
county, city and county, or regional agency for the development and
implementation of agricultural, natural resources, and open space
land protection that reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and
that are consistent with and support the implementation of
sustainable communities strategies, alternative planning strategies,
or other regional greenhouse gas emissions reduction plans.