BILL NUMBER: AB 33	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk

                        DECEMBER 1, 2014

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 33, as introduced, Quirk. 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, until January 1, 2020, would require, for purposes of
advising the update of the next scoping plan, the state board to
develop specified information by July 1, 2016. The bill would require
the state board on or before January 1, 2017, to submit a report to
the appropriate committees of the Legislature on the specified
information. The bill would provide that the specified information is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Climate change is a global emissions problem.
   (b) California is responsible for approximately 1 percent of the
world's global greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, needs to address
the problem of climate change with a global perspective.
   (c) Significant technological advances and major policy
initiatives that can be deployed at scale in developed and developing
countries will be necessary to transition away from fossil fuel as
the primary fuel source to allow the developed and developing
countries of the world to achieve low-carbon economic growth.
   (d) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that
greenhouse gas reduction goals are achievable by strategies that
other states and countries could reasonably adopt.
   (e) Demonstrating effective climate change policy can increase the
likelihood that other states and countries will follow California's
lead, which is necessary for the state to have a significant effect
on the global climate change problem.
  SEC. 2.  Section 38561.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   38561.5.  (a) On or before July 1, 2016, for purposes of advising
the update of the next scoping plan pursuant to subdivision (h) of
Section 38561, the state board shall develop a proposal consistent
with Sections 38550 and 38551 that includes all of the following:
   (1) A proposed goal that further reduces greenhouse gas emissions
by 2040.
   (2) A proposed goal that further reduces greenhouse gas emissions
beyond the 2040 goal by 2050.
   (3) A proposed goal for 2030 that includes all of the following:
   (A) An evaluation of the 2030 goal based on what policies and
technologies can be scaled to the rest of the country and the world.
   (B) An economic assessment using the best available economic
models and data of the various greenhouse gas emissions-reduction
strategies required to achieve the 2030 goal. The economic assessment
shall include a marginal cost analysis.
   (C) An analysis of the benefits to the health, safety, and welfare
of state residents, worker safety, the state's environment and
quality of life, and any other benefits associated with the various
greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies to achieve the 2030
goal.
   (D) The establishment of consistent metrics to accurately quantify
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, quantify public health
benefits, and measure the cost-effectiveness of various policies and
technologies.
   (b) (1) On or before January 1, 2017, the state board shall submit
to the appropriate committees of the Legislature the information
developed pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (2) A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
   (c) The information developed pursuant to subdivision (a) is
intended to assist in establishing state policy and does not change
any statute, regulation, or regulatory decision.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2020, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2020, deletes or extends
that date.