Bill Text: CA SB511 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-01 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB511 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB511-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 24, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 511
Introduced by Senator Blakespear |
February 14, 2023 |
An act to add Section 38561.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to climate change.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 511, as amended, Blakespear.
Greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.
This bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2028, to develop and publish, develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emission
emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county, and special district, county that requests inclusion in the report, as provided. The bill would require the state board, consistent with the preparation of the updates to the scoping plan and before January 1, 2033, and every 5 years thereafter, to update the inventories inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the subsequent
calendar years,
as specified. year 2030 and every 5th year thereafter. The bill would authorize the state board to solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories. The bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2026, to establish a local government advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories. The bill would allocate, make available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $2,500,000 in the 2024–25 fiscal year for above-described
purposes.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(a) Local governments play a vital role in meeting the state’s climate goals and greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories are critical in developing data-informed climate action plans that direct limited local resources to implement climate action measures.
(b) There is a need for the state to support access to necessary data and the conduct of emissions
inventories to make additional local resources and capacity available for implementation.
SEC. 2.
Section 38561.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:38561.1.
(a) (1) Before January 1, 2028, the state board shall(2) Consistent with the preparation of the update of the scoping plan pursuant to Section 38561, before January 1, 2033, and every five years thereafter, the state board shall update the greenhouse gas emission inventories emissions inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests
inclusion in the respective update, for the calendar year that is five years after the prior inventories, beginning with the calendar year 2025. 2030 and every fifth year thereafter.
(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), the state board may collect necessary data from state agencies, special districts, local governments, and electric and gas utilities.
(c) The state board may solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories.
(d) Before January 1, 2026, the state board shall establish a local government
advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emission emissions
inventories.