Bill Text: CA SB497 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB497 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB497-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 497	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 15, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Walters

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 38597 of, and to add Section 38575 to, the
Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 497, as amended, Walters. California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: fees.
   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 emissions
reductions. The act authorizes the state board to include use of
market-based compliance mechanisms.
   This bill would require the state board to freely allocate
greenhouse gas emissions allowances to the California State
University  and   ,  the University of
California  , and private colleges and universities  for
purposes of any market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the
state board. The bill would prohibit the state board from assessing a
fee on the California State University  or   ,
 the University of California  , or a private college or
university  for purposes of any program or regulation adopted
pursuant to the act.
   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 38575 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   38575.  Notwithstanding Section 38592, the state board shall
freely allocate greenhouse gas emissions allowances to the California
State University  and  ,  the University
of California  , and private colleges and universities  for
any market-based compliance mechanism adopted by the state board.
  SEC. 2.  Section 38597 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
   38597.  (a) The state board may adopt by regulation, after a
public workshop, a schedule of fees to be paid by the sources of
greenhouse gas emissions regulated pursuant to this division,
consistent with Section 57001. The revenues collected pursuant to
this section, shall be deposited into the Air Pollution Control Fund
and are available upon appropriation, by the Legislature, for
purposes of carrying out this division.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), the state board shall not
assess a fee on the California State University  or 
 ,  the University of California  , or a private
college or university  for purposes of any program or regulation
adopted pursuant to this division.