Bill Text: CA AB2137 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Energy efficiency programs: information available for small businesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2014. [AB2137 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2137-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2137	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act relating to business.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2137, as introduced, Quirk. Small Business Energy Efficiency
Incentive Program.
   Existing law declares that energy and water conservation efforts,
including the promotion of energy efficiency improvements to
residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, or other real
property are necessary to address the issue of global climate change.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of any public agency,
as defined, to determine that it would be convenient and advantageous
to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free
and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments
and make arrangements to finance the installation of distributed
generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements
that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish the Small Business Energy Efficiency
Incentive Program to provide small businesses with incentives to
update or replace their high energy use equipment by providing
financing options for these purposes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish the Small Business Energy Efficiency
Incentive Program to provide small businesses with incentives to
update or replace their high energy use equipment by providing
financing options for these purposes.