Bill Text: CA AB2643 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-22 - Read first time. [AB2643 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2643-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2643	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Logue

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 38570 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to air pollution.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2643, as introduced, Logue. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: market-based compliance mechanisms.
   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
levels 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.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions of law.
   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.  Section 38570 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   38570.  (a) The state board may include in the regulations adopted
pursuant to Section 38562 the use of market-based compliance
mechanisms to comply with the   those 
regulations.
   (b) Prior to the inclusion of  any   a 
market-based compliance mechanism in the regulations, to the extent
feasible and in furtherance of achieving the statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit, the state board shall do all of the following:
   (1) Consider the potential for direct, indirect, and cumulative
emission impacts from these mechanisms, including localized impacts
in communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution.
   (2) Design any market-based compliance mechanism to prevent any
increase in the emissions of toxic air contaminants or criteria air
pollutants.
   (3) Maximize additional environmental and economic benefits for
California, as appropriate.
   (c) The state board shall adopt regulations governing  how
  the manner in which  market-based compliance
mechanisms may be used by regulated entities subject to greenhouse
gas emission limits and mandatory emission reporting requirements to
achieve compliance with their greenhouse gas emissions limits.