BILL NUMBER: AB 156	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        JANUARY 20, 2015

   An act to add Section 39713.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 156, as amended, Perea. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund:
technical assistance program.
   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 act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or
sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to
be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be
available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the California
Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities
and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the
state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as
specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law requires the 3-year
investment plan to allocate a minimum of 25% of the available moneys
in the fund to projects that provide benefits to disadvantaged
communities.
   This bill would require the state board to establish a
comprehensive technical assistance program, upon the appropriation of
moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, for eligible
applicants, as specified, assisting disadvantaged communities and
other specified communities.
   This bill would also require the department to include in the
3-year investment plan an allocation to the state board for that
technical assistance program.
   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 39713.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   39713.5.  (a) The investment plan developed and submitted to the
Legislature pursuant to Section 39716 shall allocate from the
available moneys in the fund technical assistance moneys to the state
board to implement this section. That allocation of technical
assistance moneys shall not be used to satisfy the requirements of
subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 39713.
   (b) Upon an appropriation of moneys from the fund, the state board
shall establish a comprehensive technical assistance program for
eligible applicants assisting disadvantaged communities identified
pursuant to Section 39711 and other communities with median incomes
at or below 80 percent of the statewide median income and that the
state board determines require technical assistance. Eligible
applicants include, but are not limited to, regional agencies and
nonprofit organizations coordinating with local governments.
   (c) The program established pursuant to this section shall provide
assistance to eligible applicants with any of the following:
   (1) Identifying state agencies with appropriate grant programs.
   (2) Developing competitive project proposals to apply for moneys
available through state agencies or pursuant to this chapter.
   (3) Coordinating existing local programs to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions with new programs receiving moneys pursuant to this
chapter.
   (4) Conducting community outreach  to residents of
disadvantaged communities identified pursuant to Section 39711 and
other communities with median incomes at or below 80 percent of the
statewide median income and that the state board determines require
technical assistance  on consumer programs receiving state or
local moneys pursuant to this chapter or for other programs that
reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The programs may include, but are
not limited to, programs that also improve air quality, reduce
residential and commercial water use, and increase residential and
commercial energy efficiency.