BILL NUMBER: AB 156	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

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

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        JANUARY 20, 2015

   An act to  amend Section 39713 of, and to  add
Section 39713.5  to,   to  the Health and
Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 156, as amended, Perea.  California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006: investment plan.   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  to
provide technical assistance to disadvantaged communities to assist
them in developing project proposals for specified projects.
  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 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   39713.  (a) The investment plan developed and submitted to the
Legislature, pursuant to Section 39716, shall allocate a minimum of
25 percent of the available moneys in the fund to projects that
provide benefits to communities described in Section 39711.
   (b) The investment plan shall allocate a minimum of 10 percent of
the available moneys in the fund to projects located within
communities described in Section 39711.
   (c) The allocation pursuant to subdivision (b) may be, but need
not be, for projects included, in whole or in part, in the set of
projects supported by the allocation described in subdivision (a).
   (d) The investment plan shall allocate from the available moneys
in the fund technical assistance moneys to the state board to assist
the communities described in Section 39711 in developing project
proposals for projects described in this section. That allocation of
technical assistance moneys shall not be used to satisfy the
requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b). 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 39713.5
is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
   39713.5.  (a)  Upon   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, consistent with subdivision
(d) of Section 39713,   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. 
   (b) 
    (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
 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.