BILL NUMBER: AB 156	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        JANUARY 20, 2015

   An act to amend Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 156, as introduced, Perea. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: investment plan.
   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 state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. 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. Existing law requires the California Environmental
Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities and 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.
   This bill would require the department to include in the 3-year
investment plan an allocation to provide technical assistance to
disadvantaged communities to assist them in proposing specified
projects for inclusion in the 3-year investment plan.
   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.  Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   39713.  (a) The investment plan developed and submitted to the
Legislature, pursuant to Section 39716, shall allocate a minimum of
25 percent of the available moneys in the fund to projects that
provide benefits to communities described in Section 39711.
   (b) The investment plan shall allocate a minimum of 10 percent of
the available moneys in the fund to projects located within
communities described in Section 39711.
   (c) The allocation pursuant to subdivision (b) may be, but need
not be, for projects included, in whole or in part, in the set of
projects supported by the allocation described in subdivision (a).

   (d) The investment plan shall allocate from the available moneys
in the fund technical assistance moneys to assist the communities
described in Section 39711 in proposing projects described in this
section. That allocation of technical assistance moneys shall not be
used to satisfy the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b).