Bill Text: CA AB1992 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: very low carbon transportation fuels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-26 - In committee: Set second hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. [AB1992 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1992-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1992	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 38568 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1992, as amended, Quirk.  California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: very low carbon transportation fuels.
   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 to be achieved by 2020 equivalent to the statewide
greenhouse gas emissions levels of 1990. The state board additionally
is required to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process
to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Pursuant to the act, the state
board has adopted the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard regulations.
   This bill would authorize the state board to establish a very low
carbon fuel market commitment program that requires wholesalers,
producers, importers, or any other entity that provides
transportation fuel to a retailer or sells transportation fuel to a
consumer to include as part of their transportation fuel sales in the
state percentages of very low carbon transportation fuel, as
defined, to be determined by the state board. These provisions would
become inoperative 5 years after the state board makes a specified
notification to the Secretary of State.
   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) Low-carbon transportation fuels are an important element of
the state's greenhouse gas reduction policy and increasing the supply
of those fuels will help the state achieve its greenhouse gas
reduction goals.
   (b) Existing incentives for the development of low-carbon
transportation fuels, including the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
regulation (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4
of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations), the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006 (Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500)
of the Health and Safety Code), and Assembly Bill 118 (Chapter 750 of
the Statutes of 2007), have not resulted in sufficient development
of low-carbon transportation fuels.
  SEC. 2.  Section 38568 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   38568.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (1) "Indirect land use change emission" means the carbon emissions
associated with changes in agricultural activity that result from
the market-mediated effects of using an agricultural commodity that
is a food product as feedstock for the production of the
transportation fuel.
   (2) "Very low carbon transportation fuel" means a liquid or
gaseous transportation fuel having no greater than 50 percent the
carbon intensity of the closest comparable petroleum fuel for that
year, as measured by the methodology in the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
regulation (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4
of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations). The carbon intensity for the
transportation fuel shall include the indirect land use change
emission if an agricultural commodity that is a food product is used
as a feedstock for the production of the transportation fuel.
   (b) The state board may establish a very low carbon fuel market
commitment program that requires a wholesaler, producer, importer, or
any other entity that provides transportation fuel to a retailer or
sells transportation fuel to a consumer to include as part of its
transportation fuel sales in the state percentages of very low carbon
transportation fuel to be determined by the state board and measured
in energy equivalent units. The state board may require percentages
of very low carbon transportation fuel as low as one-quarter of 1
percent or as high as 2 percent.
   (c) When the state board determines that very low carbon
transportation fuel sales have reached 2 percent of all
transportation fuel sales in the state, the state board shall notify
the Secretary of State and this section shall be inoperative five
years from that notification. 
   (d) This section does not replace or modify any existing fuel
standards or requirements imposed under the Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
regulation (Subarticle 7 (commencing with Section 95480) of Article 4
of Subchapter 10 of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations).