Bill Text: CA SB398 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Green Assistance Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB398 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB398-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 398	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leyva
   (Coauthors: Senators Beall and Pavley)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Part 10 (commencing with Section 44480) to Division
26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to nonvehicular air
pollution.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 398, as introduced, Leyva. Green Assistance Program.
   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 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 generally designates the state board as the state
agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular
air pollution, and air pollution control and air quality management
districts with the primary responsibility for the control of air
pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources.
   This bill would establish the Green Assistance Program, to be
administered by the Secretary for Environmental Protection, that,
among other things, would provide technical assistance to small
businesses and small cities in applying for an allocation of moneys
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and would provide assistance
to small businesses and small cities in complying with all applicable
state, federal, and local air quality laws.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Small businesses and small cities often lack the technical
expertise to develop grant and financing options.
   (b) In order for the state to meet its air quality goals, every
business and community must have the same opportunity to compete for
funding that is available to meet those air quality goals.
  SEC. 2.  Part 10 (commencing with Section 44480) is added to
Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      PART 10.  Green Assistance Program


   44480.  The Green Assistance Program is hereby established and
shall be administered by the Secretary for Environmental Protection.
The program shall do all of the following:
   (a) Provide technical assistance to small businesses and small
cities when applying for an allocation of the moneys deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8
of the Government Code.
   (b) Assist small cities in equitably applying for funding to help
mitigate the impacts of poor air quality and help improve the health
of the state's most disadvantaged communities.
   (c) Assist small businesses in applying for funding for energy
efficiency upgrades to meet and exceed the greenhouse gas emissions
goals established by the state board pursuant to the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with
Section 38500)).
   (d) Assist small businesses and small cities in complying with all
applicable state, federal, and local air quality laws.