BILL NUMBER: AB 33	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        DECEMBER 1, 2014

   An act to add  Sections   Section 
38561.5  and 38561.7  to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 33, as amended, Quirk. California Global Warming Solutions Act
of 2006:  Climate Change   Energy Integration
 Advisory Council.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes
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 adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit, as defined, to be achieved by 2020 equivalent to
the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990.  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.  The California
Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires the Public Utilities
Commission to implement annual procurement targets for the
procurement of eligible   renewable energy resources for all
retail sellers to achieve the targets and goals of the program.

   This bill would establish the  Climate Change 
 Energy Integration  Advisory Council in state government
and would  assign   require  the council
 specified duties, including, among others, developing
  to develop recommendations for inclusion in the
scoping plan prepared by the state board,   including, among
others,  an analysis of  the  various strategies
 to achieve the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit. The
bill also would require the state board to establish consistent
metrics to accurately quantify reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions, quantify public health benefits, and measure the
cost-effectiveness of the various strategies identified by the
council.   necessary for the energy grid to integrate
specified annual procurement targets as part of the California
Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. 
   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) Climate change is a global emissions problem.
   (b) California is responsible for approximately 1 percent of the
world's global greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, needs to address
the problem of climate change with a global perspective.
   (c) Significant technological advances and major policy
initiatives that can be deployed at scale in developed and developing
countries will be necessary to transition away from fossil fuel as
the primary fuel source to allow the developed and developing
countries of the world to achieve low-carbon economic growth.
   (d) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that
greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals are achievable by strategies
that other states and countries could reasonably adopt.
   (e) Demonstrating effective climate change policy can increase the
likelihood that other states and countries will follow California's
lead, which is necessary for the state to have a significant effect
on the global climate change problem. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 38561.5
is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
   38561.5.  (a) The  Climate Change   Energy
Integration  Advisory Council is hereby established in state
government, and it shall consist of all of the  following:
  following members:  
   (1) The chair of the state board, or his or her designee.
 
   (1) The chair of the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, or his or her designee. 
   (2) The president of the Public Utilities Commission, or his or
her designee.
   (3) The  chair of the governing board  
president  of the California Independent System Operator, or his
or her designee.
   (4) The chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, or his
or her designee. 
   (5) The chair of the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, or his or her designee.  
   (5) The chair of the state board, or his or her designee. 
   (b) The council, as recommendations for inclusion in the scoping
plan developed pursuant to Section 38561, shall complete all of the
following:
   (1) Develop an analysis of  the  various 
strategies to achieve the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit,
including, but not limited to, all of the following: 
    (A)     Strategies
  strategies  necessary for the energy grid to
integrate a 40-percent, a 50-percent, and a greater than 50-percent
standard as part of the California Renewables Portfolio Standard
Program (Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3
of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code) in order to
minimize and eliminate over-generation and the need for curtailment,
including, but not limited to, all of the following: 
   (i) 
    (A)  Deepening regional coordination in the western
interconnection. 
   (ii) 
    (B)  Increasing energy storage. 
   (iii) 
    (C)  Retrofitting existing baseload electrical
generation facilities in order that they may perform as peaking
electrical generation facilities. 
   (iv) 
    (D)  Using renewable energy generation facilities as
peaking electrical generation facilities. 
   (v) 
    (E)  Allowing for very  low-carbon-fossil-fuel
  low-carbon fossil fuel  peaking electrical
generation facilities by deploying carbon capture and storage.

   (vi) 
    (F)  Encouraging demand response through both of the
following: 
   (I) 
    (i)  Transitioning to time-of-use pricing for
residential buildings. 
   (II) 
    (ii)  Increasing customer access to real-time or
near-real-time energy usage data. 
   (B) Strategies to increase energy efficiency in both commercial
and residential buildings, including, but not limited to, all of the
following:  
   (i) Validating existing energy efficiency programs against actual
energy usage data.  
   (ii) Optimizing heating and cooling systems.  
   (iii) Transitioning to the electrification of buildings. 

   (C) Strategies to advance the transportation sector, including,
but not limited to, all of the following:  
   (i) Increasing the fuel economy of light-duty vehicles. 

   (ii) Examining strategies for reducing emissions from heavy-duty
vehicles, such as through the use of natural gas, biogas, and
biodiesel.  
   (iii) Increasing the market for low-carbon and very low-carbon
fuels.  
   (iv) Building electric vehicle infrastructure and low-carbon and
very low-carbon vehicle infrastructure. 
   (2) Develop an economic assessment using the best available
economic models and data of the various  greenhouse gas
emissions reduction  strategies required  to achieve
the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit.   to be
analyzed pursuant to paragraph (1). 
   (3) Develop an analysis of the benefits to the health, safety, and
welfare of state residents, worker safety, the state's environment
and quality of life, and any other benefits associated with the
various greenhouse gas emissions reduction 
strategies  to achieve the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
limit.   required to be analyzed pursuant to paragraph
(1). 
   (c) The information developed pursuant to subdivision (b) is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision. 
  SEC. 3.    Section 38561.7 is added to the Health
and Safety Code, to read:
   38561.7.  The state board shall establish consistent metrics to
accurately quantify reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, quantify
public health benefits, and measure the cost-effectiveness of the
various strategies identified by the Climate Change Advisory Council
pursuant to Section 38561.5 in order to achieve the statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit.