Bill Text: NJ A4606 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires State to use 20-year time horizon and most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report when calculating global warming potential to measure global warming impact of greenhouse gases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-16 - Substituted by S3215 (1R) [A4606 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A4606-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 4606

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 18, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ANDREW ZWICKER

District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)

Assemblyman  RAJ MUKHERJI

District 33 (Hudson)

Assemblywoman  LISA SWAIN

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman Vainieri Huttle and Assemblyman Chiaravalloti

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires State to use 20-year time horizon and most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report when calculating global warming potential to measure global warming impact of greenhouse gases.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee on January 24, 2019, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning measurement of the global warming impact of greenhouse gases and supplementing Title 26 of the Revised Statutes. 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  Whenever the Department of Environmental Protection, ¹the¹ Board of Public Utilities, or any other State agency calculates a global warming potential for the purposes of assessing the global warming impact of ¹a¹ greenhouse ¹[gasses] gas¹ , the Department of Environmental Protection, the Board of Public Utilities, or other State agency shall use a 20-year time horizon.

     b.    Whenever relevant to assessing global warming impacts, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Board of Public Utilities, or any other State agency shall use the most recent version of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Assessment Report, or a substantially similar, more recent report that addresses global warming impacts at a comparably rigorous level. 

     c.     Whenever the Department of Environmental Protection, the Board of Public Utilities, or any other State agency performs a ¹[socioeconomic] socio-economic¹ impact analysis pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-4), and that analysis involves the ¹[socioeconomic] socio-economic¹ impact of global warming, the agency shall use the lowest discount rates that are consistent with federal guidelines, including the federal Office of Management and Budget Circular A-94, or successor guidance.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.