Bill Text: CA AB2534 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-19 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2534 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2534-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2534	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 38573 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2534, as introduced, Fuentes. California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: allowance revenues: impacted communities.
   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, and to adopt rules and
regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum
technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission
reductions. The state board is authorized to adopt market-based
compliance mechanisms, as defined, meeting specified requirements to
be used for compliance with those regulations. The state board is
required, before including any market-based compliance mechanism, to
maximize additional environmental and economic benefits for
California, as appropriate.
   This bill would authorize the state board to establish a fund, to
deposit a portion of revenues from the distribution of allowances, as
defined, received pursuant to market-based compliance mechanisms,
for expenditure on communities experiencing increased exposure to air
pollutants to the extent that the state board establishes that the
increased exposure to air pollutants is caused by the implementation
of the market-based compliance mechanism regulation.
   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 38573 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38573.  If the state board allows the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms pursuant to Section 38570, and that use results
in the state receiving revenues from the distribution of allowances,
the state board may establish a fund, and deposit a portion of these
revenues for expenditure on communities experiencing increased
exposure to air pollutants to the extent that the state board
establishes that the increased exposure to air pollutants is caused
by the implementation of the market-based compliance mechanism
regulation. Moneys shall be transferred to communities, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, and shall be used solely for
environmental remediation and to ensure that greenhouse gas emission
reduction measures complement efforts to reduce air pollution and
toxic air contaminants as required by this division.