Bill Text: CA SB709 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations: biogas derived from livestock manure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB709 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB709-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
March 30, 2023 |
Introduced by Senator Allen |
February 16, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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 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 as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. 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 fund.
This bill would require the 3-year investment plan to additionally identify and analyze conflicts and overlapping policies, where applicable, in current state
strategies to meeting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets by sector.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 39730.7 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:39730.7.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:SEC. 3.
Section 39730.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:39730.9.
(a) In implementing the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations), the state board shall do all of the following:(a)The Department of Finance, on behalf of the Governor, and in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state entity, shall develop and submit to the Legislature at the time of the department’s adjustments to the proposed 2013–14 fiscal year budget pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 13308 of the Government Code a three-year investment plan. Commencing with the 2016–17 fiscal year budget and every three years thereafter, with the release of the Governor’s budget proposal, the Department of Finance shall include updates to the investment plan following the public process described in subdivisions (b) and (c). The investment plan, consistent with the requirements of Section 39712, shall do all of the following:
(1)Identify the state’s near-term
and long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets by sector.
(2)Identify and analyze gaps, conflicts, and overlapping policies, where applicable, in current state strategies to meeting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals and targets by sector.
(3)(A)Identify priority programmatic investments of moneys that will facilitate the achievement of feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions toward achievement of greenhouse gas reduction goals and targets by sector, consistent with subdivision (c) of Section 39712.
(B)In identifying priority
programmatic investments, the investment plan shall do both of the following:
(i)Assess how proposed investments interact with current state regulations, policies, and programs.
(ii)Evaluate if and how those proposed investments could be incorporated into existing programs.
(4)Recommend metrics that would measure progress and benefits from the proposed programmatic investments.
(b)(1)The state board shall hold at least two public workshops in different regions of the state and one public hearing prior to the Department of Finance submitting the investment plan.
(2)The state board shall, prior to the submission of each investment plan, consult with the Public
Utilities Commission to ensure the investment plan is coordinated with, and does not conflict with or unduly overlap with, activities under the oversight or administration of the Public Utilities Commission undertaken pursuant to Part 5 (commencing with Section 38570) of Division 25.5 or other activities under the oversight or administration of the Public Utilities Commission that facilitate greenhouse gas emissions reductions consistent with this division. The investment plan shall include a description of the use of any moneys generated by the sale of allowances received at no cost by the investor-owned utilities pursuant to a market-based compliance mechanism.
(c)The Climate Action Team, established under Executive Order S-3-05, shall provide information to the Department of Finance and the state board to assist in the development of each investment plan. The Climate Action Team shall participate in each public workshop held on an
investment plan and provide testimony to the state board on each investment plan. For purposes of this section, the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development shall assist the Climate Action Team in its efforts.