Bill Text: CA SB605 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Short-lived climate pollutants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 523, Statutes of 2014. [SB605 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB605-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 605	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 8, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act  to add Section 38561.5   to the Health and
Safety Code,  relating to  school safety  
greenhouse gases  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 605, as amended, Lara.  School safety: persistently
dangerous schools.   California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006: scoping plan.  
    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, as defined, to be achieved by 2020, equivalent to
the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990. The act
requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for
achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The act requires the scoping
plan to be updated at least once every 5 years.  
   This bill would require the state board, when updating the scoping
plan, to include specified criteria. The bill would require all
greenhouse gas emissions reductions be achieved within the state in
areas that are most impacted by greenhouse gas pollutants and other
air pollutants, except as specified.  
   Existing law establishes various laws relating to school safety
and violence prevention, and, among other things, requires each
school district and county office of education to be responsible for
the overall development of all comprehensive school safety plans for
its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12,
inclusive.  
   This bill would express the Legislature's intent to enact
legislation that would establish criteria for, and provide for the
identification of, persistently dangerous schools. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 38561.5 is added to the 
 Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   38561.5.  (a) When updating the scoping plan pursuant to
subdivision (h) of Section 38561, the state board shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Revise the million metric tons of emissions (MMTE) to
emphasize in-state actions that create jobs in the state, including,
but not limited to, retrofits.
   (2) Achieve maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective
emissions reductions in short-lived climate pollutants no later than
December 31, 2015.
   (3) Limit the use of offsets to all of the following:
   (A) Those offsets originating and achieved within the state.
   (B) Those offsets used to offset greenhouse gas emissions in a
location that has greenhouse gas emissions.
   (C) Those offsets occurring at the same time greenhouse gas
emissions are occurring, to the extent possible.
   (4) Adopt a backstop plan in the event a market-based compliance
mechanism adopted by the state board and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard
regulations (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) do not accomplish the goals intended
in the scoping plan.
   (5) Expend special funds, including, but not limited to, funds
derived from market-based compliance mechanisms, the Electric Program
Investment Charge Fund created by Section 25711 of the Public
Resources Code, and the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle
Technology Fund created by Section 44273, for emissions reductions
from sources within the state in furtherance of achieving and
maintaining the limit established pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with
Section 38550).
   (b) All greenhouse gas emissions reductions shall be achieved
within the state in areas that are most impacted by greenhouse gas
pollutants and other air pollutants unless both of the following
occur:
   (1) The state board makes a finding at a public hearing that there
are no technologically feasible and cost-effective emissions
reductions that may be made in areas that are most impacted by
greenhouse gas pollutants within the state, and the state board
submits that finding to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
   (2) Within 30 days of the submission pursuant to paragraph (1),
the Joint Legislative Budget Committee shall concur or nonconcur on
the finding. If, after 30 days, the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee has not concurred or nonconcurred in the finding, the
finding shall be deemed to be concurred.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would establish criteria for, and provide
for the identification of, persistently dangerous schools.