Bill Text: CA SB1248 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1248 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Corrections: stationary electricity generating bicycles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-20 - Re-referred to Coms. on EQ. and RLS. [SB1248 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1248-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 1248	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 13, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Dutton

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to  amend Section 201 of the Public Utilities Code,
relating to public utilities.   add and repeal Section
38561.5 of the Health and Safety Code, to add and repeal Section 5072
of the Penal Code, to add and repeal Section 25   744.2 of
the Public Resources Code, and to add and repeal Section 399.17 of
the Public Utilities Code, relating to corrections, making an
appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1248, as amended, Dutton.  Public Utilities Act.
  Corrections: stationary electricity generating
bicycles.  
   Existing law establishes the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation, and invests it with various duties and powers. 

   This bill would require the department, until January 1, 2012, to
create and administer a pilot program at a facility with a low-risk
inmate population for testing one or more stationary electricity
generating bicycles to create additional, renewable energy to
mitigate the facility's electricity use by powering one or more
television monitors for viewing by inmates, as specified. The bill
would require the department to report the results of the program to
the chairs of the Senate Committee on Public Safety, and the Assembly
Committee on Public Safety.  
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the
State Air Resources Board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for
achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.  
   This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, until
January 1, 2012, to update the scoping plan to include the pilot
program developed by the department as a greenhouse gas emission
reduction measure that assists the state to achieve the goals of the
California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.  
   Existing law establishes the Renewable Energy Resources Program
administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission and continuously appropriates moneys in the
Renewable Resource Trust Fund to foster the development of emerging
renewable technologies in distributed generation applications. 

   This bill would, until January 1, 2012, specify that the pilot
program developed by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
pursuant to this measure is an eligible electricity generating
system and would qualify for funding from the Renewable Resource
Trust Fund, thereby making an appropriation.  
   Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to establish
a renewables portfolio standard requiring electrical corporations to
procure a minimum quantity of output from eligible renewable energy
resources.  
   This bill would, until January 1, 2012, provide that the pilot
program is an eligible renewable energy resource and the electricity
generated by the prison under the pilot program may be considered by
the electrical corporation supplying electricity to that prison in
meeting that electrical corporation's renewables portfolio standard.
 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory
authority over public utilities, as defined. The existing Public
Utilities Act sets forth the general regulatory responsibilities of
the commission with respect to all public utilities. 

   This bill would make technical and nonsubstantive changes to the
statute setting forth the name of the act. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   yes  . Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 38561.5 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   38561.5.  (a) The state board shall update the scoping plan
adopted pursuant to Section 38561 to include the program created
pursuant to Section 5072 of the Penal Code as a greenhouse gas
emission reduction measure that assists the state to achieve the
goals of this division.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 5072 is added to the  
Penal Code   , to read:  
   5072.  (a) The department shall create and administer a pilot
project at a facility with a low-risk inmate population for testing
one or more stationary electricity generating bicycles to create
additional, renewable energy to mitigate the facility's electricity
use by powering one or more television monitors for viewing by
inmates. Inmates shall power the bicycles and shall be required to
participate in that function in order to view the television monitor
or monitors so powered. This pilot project shall become inoperative
on January 1, 2012.
   (b) The department shall report the results of the pilot program
to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Public Safety and the
Assembly Committee on Public Safety on or before March 1, 2012.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends
that date. 
   SEC. 3.    Section 25744.2 is added to the  
Public Resources Code   , to read:  
   25744.2.  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the pilot program
developed pursuant to Section 5072 of the Penal Code is an instate
renewable electricity generation facility and is eligible for funding
pursuant to Section 25744.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date. 
   SEC. 4.    Section 399.17 is added to the  
Public Utilities Code  , to read:  
   399.17.  (a) The pilot program developed pursuant to Section 5072
of the Penal Code is an eligible renewable energy resource and the
electricity generated by the prison facility may be considered by the
electrical corporation supplying electricity to that prison facility
in meeting the renewables portfolio standard by the electrical
corporation.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date. 
   SEC. 5.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure proper administration of this energy
conservation pilot program and the proper supervision of the inmates
participating therein, it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 201 of the Public Utilities
Code is amended to read:
   201.  This partis to be known and cited as the "Public Utilities
Act."