Bill Text: CA SB720 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Gas corporations: applications and proceedings: employee organization participation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-22 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Schiavo. [SB720 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB720-Amended.html
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law authorizes GO-Biz, among other things, to make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature on new state policies and to provide data, information, and assistance, as specified.
This bill would require GO-Biz to
create a stakeholder group, as provided, to identify and pursue opportunities to attract and develop sustainable aviation fuel production and infrastructure in the state to help reach the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in California, as specified.
The State Aeronautics Act governs aeronautics in the state for the purpose of furthering and protecting the public interest in aviation and aeronautical progress through identified means. 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. A violation of the State Aeronautics Act is a crime.
This bill would require, as part of an update to its general plan or sustainability plan, or if no plan exists, on or before June 1,
2025, each public or private airport that has more than 50,000 annual takeoffs in a disadvantaged community to submit a report to the State Air Resources Board (state board), for review and approval, as specified. The bill would require, upon approval of a report, as specified, the state
board to notify GO-Biz, as provided.
Because a violation of certain provisions of this bill would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 962 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:962.
For a safety culture investigation proceeding regarding a gas corporation that is opened between January 1, 2023, and January 1, 2025, the commission shall facilitate the participation of an employee organization with party status in that investigation proceeding.(a)(1)The office shall create a stakeholder group to identify and pursue opportunities to attract and develop sustainable aviation fuel production and infrastructure in the state
to help reach the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in California.
(2)The stakeholder group shall consist of representatives of all of the following:
(A)Airports.
(B)Commercial airlines.
(C)Airport infrastructure providers and investors.
(D)General aviation aircraft operators.
(E)Commercial air cargo.
(F)Sustainable aviation fuel producers.
(b)Collaboration between the office and stakeholders shall include both of the following:
(1)Production and infrastructure, including all of the following:
(A)Research and development needs.
(B)Production expansion needs.
(C)Potential sites for conversion or construction of sustainable aviation fuel production facilities.
(D)Infrastructure needs on airport and off airport.
(E)Options for expedited permitting requirements for conversion or construction of facilities to produce sustainable aviation fuel.
(2)Financing, including all of the following:
(A)Eligibility standards.
(B)Grant and loan programs that could be provided or created.
(C)Federal funding options for production, research and development, and infrastructure.
(D)Opportunities to attract private investment.
(a)(1)As part of an update to its general plan or sustainability plan, or if no plan exists, on or before June 1, 2025, each public or private airport that has more than 50,000 annual takeoffs in a disadvantaged community, as defined in Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code, shall submit a report to the State Air Resources Board, for review and
approval on its scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.
(2)A greenhouse gas emissions report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) that is deemed insufficient by the state board shall be resubmitted within 120 days.
(3)To comply with
paragraph (1), an airport may use existing plans or reports on greenhouse gas emissions, including net-zero, carbon neutrality, climate, or sustainability plans, or reporting pursuant to federal Clean Air Act requirements, and third-party data, including emissions data required by the state board to comply with the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations or other applicable greenhouse gas regulations.
(b)Upon approval of a report pursuant to subdivision (a), or the approval of a report submitted by any other airport that opts into the State Air Resources Board approval process in subdivision (a), the state board shall notify
the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), in order to inform the prioritization of assistance provided under Article 17 (commencing with Section 12100.180) of Chapter 1.6 of Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.
