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EPIC monitors and conducts analysis on key energy-related legislation affecting
the San Diego region and California. EPIC's Legislative Center provides a listing and summary of pending energy-related legislation.
2007-2008 California Energy Legislation (Updated 10-6-08)
Bills Signed into Law
The following bills have been signed into law by the Governor.
Click on the bill number to see complete bill information.
CA ENergy Commission
AB 2176 (Caballero) Federal Block Grants for Energy
This bill requires the CA Energy Commission to administer funds received by the state pursuant to the federal Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) and would require not less than 60% of the funds received to be used to provide subgrants to cities and counties of specified population sizes. The bill also requires the remaining 40% to be used to provide grants to entities eligible under EISA. All grants must be prioritized based on cost-effective energy efficiency.
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Climate Change / Greenhouse Gas
SB 375 (Steinberg) Transportation Planning - Sustainable Communities Strategy
With regard to transportation planning, this bill would, among other things: require the commission to maintain guidelines, as specified, for travel demand models used in the development of regional transportation plans by metropolitan planning organizations; require the regional transportation plan for regions of the state with a metropolitan planning organization to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, as part of its regional transportation plan, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks; require CARB to provide each affected region with greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the automobile and light truck sector for 2020 and 2035 by September 30, 2010, to appoint a Regional Targets Advisory Committee to recommend factors and methodologies for setting those targets, and to update those targets every 8 years; require certain transportation planning and programming activities by the metropolitan planning organizations to be consistent with the sustainable communities strategy contained in the regional transportation plan; and require CARB to review each metropolitan planning organization’s sustainable communities strategy and alternative planning strategy to determine whether the strategy, if implemented, would achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.
With regard to planning and zoning, this bill would, among other things: require a city and county general plan programs to set forth a schedule of actions during the planning period, and require each action to have a timetable for implementation; require rezoning of certain sites to accommodate certain housing needs within specified times; under certain conditions, prohibit a local government that fails to complete a required rezoning within the timeframe required from disapproving a housing development project, or from taking various other actions that would render the project infeasible, and would allow the project applicant or any interested person to bring an action to enforce these provisions.
With regard to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this bill would, among other things: exempt from CEQA a transit priority project that meets certain requirements and that is declared by the legislative body of a local jurisdiction to be a sustainable
communities project; provide for limited CEQA review of various other transit priority projects; would exempt the environmental documents for residential or mixed-use residential projects meeting certain requirements, from being required to include certain information regarding growth inducing impacts or impacts from certain vehicle trips; authorize the legislative body of a local jurisdiction to adopt traffic mitigation measures for transit priority projects; and, exempt a transit priority project seeking a land use approval from compliance with additional measures for traffic impacts, if the local jurisdiction has adopted those traffic mitigation measures.
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Distributed Generation
AB 578 (Blakeslee) Distributed Generation Impacts Study
This bill would delete the existing requirement that the CA Energy Commission (CEC) and the CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) evaluate the costs and benefits of having an increased number of operational solar energy systems as part of the electrical system. This bill would require the PUC, on or before January 1, 2010, and biennially thereafter, in consultation with the CA Independent System Operator and the CEC, to study, and submit a report to the Legislature and the Governor, on the impacts of distributed energy generation on the state's distribution and transmission grid. It would require the commission to specifically assess the impacts of the California Solar Initiatives Program, the self-generation incentive program, and the biogas customer-generator net energy metering pilot program.
AB 2791 (Blakeslee) Eligibility under Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act
This bill changes the definition for eligibility of the existing Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Reduction Act, which authorizes the CA Public Utilities Commission to require an electrical corporation to purchase excess electricity, to include customers of the electrical corporation that use a combined heat and power system with a generating capacity of not more than 20 megawatts that is in compliance with the act's requirements and that the customer either be a nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation or be a federal, state, or local government facility. The bill provides that an approval made by the Department of Finance for a state agency to purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire a combined heat and power facility financed through the pay-as-you-save program may not be made sooner than after a specified time written notification is provided to certain Members of the Legislature.
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Energy Efficiency
AB 2404 (Salas) Water Efficiency Programs
In December 2007, a CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) order required pilot water conservation programs within the energy utilities' energy efficiency programs to evaluate, measure, and verify the embedded energy savings in specific water pilot programs. The evaluation projects will quantify the amount of energy needed to bring water supplies to the end-user's facilities in order to determine the energy savings impact of various water saving measures deployed under the pilot programs. This bill requires the PUC to present a report to the legislature by March 31, 2010, of the results of the pilot programs, provide conclusions drawn from the pilot programs, and make recommendations as to whether the electrical and gas corporations would or could achieve cost-effective energy efficiency improvements through water conservation programs.
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Green Building
SB 1473 (Calderon) Revision of Green Building Standard Language
The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) for approval or adoption. This bill would require the CBSC to adopt, approve, codify, update, and publish green building standards for any occupancy for which no state agency has the authority or expertise to propose those standards.
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Green Jobs
AB 2267 (Fuentes) Preference for Job Creating Energy Projects
This bill would state that public interest energy research, demonstration, and development projects should provide economic benefits for California by promoting California-based technology firms, jobs, and businesses. The bill would require the CA Energy Commission to give priority to California-based entities in making awards pursuant to the program. This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission to provide an additional incentive of 20% for the installation of eligible distributed generation resources from a California supplier.
AB 2855 (Hancock) Green Technology Partnership Academies
This bill would establish 2 new categories of partnership academies, the Green Technology Partnership Academies and the Goods Movement Partnership Academies. Commencing with the 2009-10 school year, the State Department of Education, in coordination with the Superintendent, would be required to issue grants for the establishment of 9 partnership academies dedicated to training young people in the emerging environmentally sound technologies related to the design and construction industries, and 4 partnership academies dedicated to training young people in goods movement occupational areas. The bill, in the event a school district applies to convert an existing school program to one of the new types of partnership academies and meets all the specified criteria for that new partnership academy, would authorize the department, in coordination with the Superintendent, to provide that academy with first-year implementation funds.
AB 3018 (Nunez) California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008
This bill would set forth legislative findings and declarations relating to the state's green economy and the increasing demand for a highly skilled and well-trained green collar workforce, and would
enact the California Green Collar Jobs Act of 2008 requiring the California Workforce Investment Board to establish the Green Collar Jobs Council that shall, in consultation with representatives from various public and private groups, develop a comprehensive array of programs, strategies, and resources to address the workforce needs that accompany California's growing green economy and to establish, among other programs, green job training programs for eligible
individuals.
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Rates and Tariffs
AB 1763 (Blakeslee) Residential Electricity and Gas Billing Information
This bill would require each electrical corporation and each gas corporation to disclose, in a timeframe consistent with each corporation's next general rate case, on the residential customer's billing statement specified information on usage and cost, and contact information for the CA Public Utilities Commission Affairs Branch, and to make available online to residential customers specified information on usage and energy conservation measures. The commission would be authorized to modify, adjust, or add to these requirements as the individual circumstances of each electrical corporation or gas corporation merit, or for master-meter customers, as individual circumstances merit. The bill would require the commission, as part of the general rate case of an electrical corporation or gas corporation, to assess opportunities to improve the quality of information contained in the utility's periodic billings. The bill would make various findings and declarations on the need to, and benefits of, providing customers with information regarding their current and historic energy usage, the breakdown of the different costs of their usage, and specific recommendations of measures they can take to reduce their energy consumption.
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Renewable Energy
AB 811 (Levine) Public Financing Districts for Energy Improvements
This bill authorizes a legislative body of any city to determine that it would be in the public interest to designate an area within which authorized city officials and free and willing property owners may enter into contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that are permanently fixed to real property, as specified. The bill would require the resolution of intention to include the kinds of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that may be financed as well as a statement specifying that it is in the public interest to finance those distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements.
AB 2466 (Laird) Government Renewable Energy Producers
This bill would authorize a city, county (whether general law or chartered), special district, school district, political subdivision, or other local public agency, if authorized by law to generate electricity to receive a bill of credit to a designated benefiting account for electricity exported to the electric grid by an eligible renewable generating facility. Additionally, the bill requires the CA Public Utilities Commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account.
SB 380 (Kehoe) Modifications to Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariffs
This bill, which modifies existing renewable energy feed-in tariffs authorized under AB 1969, increases the total statewide capacity limit for all participating renewable energy generation facilities from 250 MW to 500 MW, expands eligibility to include all customers, and increases maxiumum system size to 1.5 MW.
SB 1754 (Kehoe) California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority
The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act established the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The authority is authorized to do all things necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes of the act. The authority is also required to establish a renewable energy program to provide financial assistance to certain specified entities to generate new and renewable energy sources, develop clean and efficient distributed generation, and demonstrate the economic feasibility of new technologies.
This bill would additionally authorize the authority to purchase alternative source energy or projects for sale to a specified participating party and to make a loan to a participating party to purchase alternative source energy or projects. The bill would require the authority to ensure that a financed project is limited to resources that the authority determines support the state's goals for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases. The bill would specify that certain activities performed for projects financed by bonds for power purchase agreements are subject to requirements for public works projects.
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Solar Energy
AB 1062 (Ma) Uniform Standards for Solar on Schools
This bill would require the Division of the State Architect in the Department of General Services (DGS), on or before January 1, 2010, to develop uniform criteria for precheck approval processes for solar design plans for a school facility that comply with the rules and regulations adopted by the department and the applicable requirements of the California Building Standards Code. The DGS would be required to complete review of solar design plan applications submitted by a school district that conform with the standards within 45 calendar days of the receipt of a complete application and to act on corrected complete applications within 10 calendar days of their submission for approval.
AB 1451 (Leno) Tax Exclusion for New Solar System Installations
This bill would modify an exclusion to provide that an active solar energy system used in the production of electricity includes various types of equipment up to the stage of conveyance or use of the electricity, except for an owner of and active solar energy system that does not receive net energy metering, and that is a private energy producer with an electricity purchase agreement to supply specified customers, in which case the active solar energy system also includes transmission and distribution equipment, poles, towers, and structures other than buildings used to convey electricity up to the point of interconnection with the utility transmission or distribution network, as specified. This bill would also specify that, for purposes of this exclusion, "the construction or addition of an active solar energy system" includes the construction of an active solar energy system in a new building in which the owner-builder incorporated an active solar energy system in the initial construction of the new building and the owner-builder does not intend to occupy or use the new building. This bill would provide this exclusion to the initial purchaser of the new building, but only if the owner-builder did not receive the exclusion for the same system and the initial purchaser purchased the new building prior to that building becoming subject to reassessment to the owner-builder, as provided.
This bill would require the State Board of Equalization, in consultation with the California Assessors' Association, to prescribe the manner, documentation, and form for a taxpayer to claim this exclusion. This bill would require the county assessor to reduce the base year value of these residences by the value of the active solar energy system, less the total amount of any rebates for the active solar energy system received by either the owner-builder or the initial purchaser of the new building, as specified. This bill would provide that the changes made by the bill apply prospectively only, beginning with the lien date or the 2008-09 fiscal year. This bill would also extend the active solar energy system exclusion from the definition of "newly constructed" through the 2015-16 fiscal year.
AB 1892 (Smyth) Solar Energy in Common Interest Developments
Existing law provides that any covenant, restriction, or condition contained in any deed, contract, security instrument, or other instrument affecting the transfer or sale of, or any interest in, real property that effectively prohibits or restricts the installation or use of a solar energy system is void and unenforceable, except as specified. This bill applies the above provision regarding the unenforceability of prohibitions or restrictions relating to solar energy systems, in addition, to the governing documents of a common interest development.
AB 2180 (Lieu) Solar Energy Permitting
This bill would require that whenever approval is required for the installation or use of a solar energy system, the application for approval shall be processed and approved or denied in writing by the appropriate approving entity in the same manner as an application for approval of an architectural modification to the property, and shall not be willfully avoided or delayed. The bill would also provide that an application shall be deemed approved unless it has been denied in writing within 60 days from the date of receipt of the application, unless the delay is the result of a reasonable request for additional information. These provisions would apply only to an approving entity that is a homeowners' association, and that is not a public entity.
AB 2768 (Levine) Electrical Rate Options for Solar Installations
This bill would delete a provision that authorizes the CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to delay implementation of time-variant pricing for ratepayers with a solar energy system, until the effective date of the rates established in the next general rate case of the state's 3 largest electrical corporations. This bill would delete that authorization to delay implementation and revise those time-variant pricing provisions by deleting the requirement to impose time-variant pricing on ratepayers with a solar energy system and, instead, authorizing the PUC to develop a time-variant tariff.
AB 2804 (Hayashi) California Solar Initiative Program Changes
This bill would authorize a school district or community college district to request the extension from the CA Public Utilities Commission of a reservation expiration date for monetary incentives for a solar energy system, up to a maximum of 3 extensions of 180 calendar days for each extension. The bill would require that the request be made in writing to the program
administrators and contain specified information relating to the need
for additional time.
AB 2863 (Leno) Solar Electrical Generation
This bill would require a master-meter customer to charge each user a rate not to exceed the rate that would be applicable if the user were receiving gas or electricity, or both, directly from the gas or electrical corporation. This bill would additionally create an exception from the
definition of an "electrical corporation" for an independent solar energy producer, as defined. Existing law defines an "electric service provider" as an entity that offers electrical service to customers within the service territory of an electrical corporation, excluding electrical corporations, local publicly owned electric utilities, and certain cogenerators. Provisions of the existing Public Utilities Act restructuring the electrical services industry require that electric service providers register with the commission and provide for the authorization of direct transactions between electric service providers and end-use customers.
SB 1399 (Simitian) Revisions to the CA Solar Shade Control Act
This bill authorizes the owner of property where the solar collector is to be installed to provide, prior to its installation, a written notice by certified mail containing specified information to owners of affected property. The bill further exempts trees and shrubs planted prior to the time of the installation of a solar collector, trees and shrubs that are subject to a local ordinance, or the replacement of trees or shrubs that have been growing before the installation of a solar collector and that are subsequently removed for the protection of public health, safety, or the environment. The bill redefines "solar collector" to be a device or structure used primarily to transform solar energy into thermal, chemical, or electrical energy, or structure on the roof of a building, except it would include the device or structure installed on the ground if it cannot be installed on the roof of the building due to specified conditions, and would exclude a device or structure that is designed and intended to offset more than the building's electricity demand. The bill also repeals the public nuisance violation of the above requirement, and would provide that a tree or shrub maintained in violation of the above requirement is instead a private nuisance if the person who maintains or permits the maintenance of the tree or shrub receives a written notice from the owner of the affected solar collector requesting compliance. The bill provides that a local
ordinance specifying the requirements for tree preservation or solar shade control would govern within the jurisdiction that adopted the ordinance.
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Vetoed Bills
The following bills were vetoed by the Governor.
AB 1755 (Fuentes) Utility Plant Accounting Rules [Veto Message]
This bill would make a nonsubstantive clarifying change to existing law relative to how gain accruing from the sale of property carried in the plant held for future use account is to be allocated between the gas or electrical corporation and ratepayers. This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to review its guidelines for the plant held for future use account and determine whether it needs to open a proceeding to adjust the time period allowed for a property to be held in the account. The bill would require the PUC to consider whether it should amend the guidelines, or add a separate guideline to allow a distinct time period for real property located within a transmission corridor zone designated by the CA Energy Commission. The bill would require that if the PUC amends the existing guidelines, or adds a separate guideline, pursuant to the bill's requirements, that the PUC ensure that any gains or losses from the sale or reassignment of any interest in real property acquired by the electrical corporation that is subject to the amended or new guideline, are allocated between customers and shareholders proportionately to the risks involved.
AB 2179 (Furutani) Renewable Diesel Fuel in State Vehicles [Veto Message]
This bill would require all vehicles owned or leased by an entity of the state on or after January 1, 2010, that require diesel fuel to operate to use renewable biomass-based diesel fuel as determined by the state board, if certain requirements are met. The state board would be required to develop sustainability criteria for renewable biomass-based diesel fuel meeting specified requirements. These provisions would be repealed on January 1, 2012.
AB 2269 (Fuentes) Municipal Utility Solar Incentive Programs [Veto Message]
This bill would authorize a local publicly owned electric utility that serves more than 750,000 customers and also conveys water to its customers to provide use monetary incentives pursuant to its solar initiative program for the installation of a solar energy system on any property located in that corporation's service territory, including solar energy systems that are owned by the local publicly owned electric utility, and would authorize the electricity generated by a solar energy system receiving monetary incentives through a solar initiative program to be sold to the local publicly
owned electric utility.
AB 2309 (DeSaulnier) Residential Energy Audits [Veto Message]
This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to determine whether to require electrical corporations to provide in-home owner-requested energy efficiency audits for owner-occupied residential buildings built before January 1, 2006. The PUC would be required, in making its determination, to consider whether the benefits of providing in-home audits exceed the costs of providing those audits. Upon the completion of the owner-occupied residential energy audit, the electric corporation would be required to make recommendations to the owner regarding cost-effective measures that the owner could take to increase the residential building's energy efficiency. The bill would require the PUC to develop a procedure to determine which recommendations have been completed by an owner receiving an energy efficiency audit. The PUC, in consultation with the CA Energy Commission (CEC), would be required to prioritize energy efficiency measures. The PUC would be required to provide a report to the Legislature and to the CEC.
AB 2560 (Lieu) Medium- / Heavy-Duty Motor Vehicle Pollution Assessment [Veto Message]
This bill would require the Department of General Services, in conjunction with the CA Air Resources Board and the CA Energy Commission, to amend the existing "Enhanced Efficiency Costing Methodology for Passenger Cars and Light-Duty Vehicles" established under existing law to medium-duty and heavy-duty motor vehicles. The bill would exempt the department from complying with the criteria for potential procurement for medium-duty and heavy-duty motor vehicles. The bill would require the department, in carrying out the above requirements, to consider, to the extent feasible, the findings of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, once adopted by the board.
AB 2622 (Hayashi) Clean Technology Training [Veto Message]
Existing law requires the Employment Training Panel to establish a 3-year plan that is updated annually to maintain a system to continuously monitor economic and other data required under the plan. Existing law requires that each 3-year plan include the identification of specific industries, production and quality control techniques, and regions of the state where employment training funds would most benefit the state's economy and plans to encourage training in these areas. This bill would additionally require each plan to consider new and emerging industries, such as clean technology.
SB 312 (Kehoe) Internet Access to CPUC Filings [Veto Message]
This bill would require the CA Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to make all documents, testimony, or other materials filed with the PUC in any
ratesetting or quasi-legislative proceedings accessible on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the PUC to implement these requirements by December 31, 2010. The bill would appropriate $270,000 from moneys derived from regulatory fees deposited in the PUC Utilities reimbursement Account to the PUC to implement, during the 2009 calendar year, these provisions. The bill would require the PUC to make each tariff approved by the PUC and filed by a public utility with gross annual revenues of $10,000,000 or more available on its Internet Web site and would authorize the PUC to satisfy this requirement by providing a link from its Internet Web site to the tariff on an Internet Web site maintained by or on behalf of the utility. The bill would authorize the PUC to publish and maintain tariffs approved by the commission and filed by a public utility with gross annual revenue of less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) on the Internet, but if the PUC chooses not to exercise this authority, the PUC would be required to provide an alternative that ensures the availability of those tariffs for public access and inspection. The bill would require that by December 31, 2010, the PUC make advice letters filed by a public utility available on its Internet Web site.
SB 1174 (Lowenthal) Revision of Clean Fuel Vehicles Definition [Veto Message]
This bill would require the CA Energy Commission (CEC) to convene a Quiet Motorized Road Vehicle and Safe Mobility Committee comprised of representatives from specified entities to research, identify, and make recommendations to the commission on strategies to ensure that all motorized road vehicles, regardless of engine type or configuration, emit sound sufficient to be heard and localized by pedestrians who are blind or
visually impaired. The bill would require the committee to conduct the research in a specified manner, including first conducting laboratory research to determine the intensity and spectral characteristics of vehicular sounds, comparing the intensity and spectral characteristics of noise emissions of different types of relatively quiet vehicles and the requirements of blind and visually impaired pedestrians, conducting a synthesis and review of vehicle detection technologies, conducting focus group research, developing prototype vehicular sensing systems, and evaluating these systems.
The CEC on or before January 1, 2010, would be required to submit a report to the Legislature on the recommendations from the committee. The CEC would be required to implement these requirements using moneys from non-General Fund revenue sources, but would be prohibited from using moneys from the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund. The bill would be repealed by its own terms on January 1, 2011.
SB 1491 (McClintock) Prohibition on Programmable Thermostat Mandate [Veto Message]
Under existing law, the CA Public Utilities Commission is vested with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations.
This bill would prohibit an electric utility from operating a remotely controlled device without a subscriber's consent.
This bill would define the term "biodiesel" and "biodiesel blend," and would provide that an underground storage tank that stores a biodiesel blend on or before July 1, 2008, would be deemed to be in compliance with the requirements imposed upon underground storage tanks storing hazardous substances and petroleum underground storage tanks, if the tank meets certain requirements that are imposed upon an underground storage tank containing diesel. The bill would additionally require, if the tank contains a biodiesel blend higher than B5, but not more than B20, that the local agency determine that the owner or operator employs best management practices. The bill would provide that the above interim standards would be operative only until the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. has established a certification standard for underground storage tanks that contain a biodiesel blend, or until January 1, 2011, whichever date is sooner. The bill would authorize a local agency that determines an
underground storage tank storing a biodiesel blend that is otherwise deemed to be in compliance under the act poses a risk to water quality to take enforcement action with regard to that underground storage tank.
The bill also would require the board to provide information on its Internet Web site to inform operators and owners of underground storage tanks containing a biodiesel blend of the current requirements for storing those fuels and information related to biodiesel storage.
SB 1645 (Wiggins) Update to Energy Aware Planning Guide [Veto Message]
This bill would require the CA Energy Commission, in partnership with the Office of Planning and Research, to update the Energy Aware Planning Guide to include a model for a climate change element and an energy element for local governments' general plans.
This bill would create the Climate Action Team (CAT), consisting of representatives from specified state agencies, that would be responsible for coordinating the state's overall climate policy. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, would be required to prepare, adopt, and present to the Legislature, a strategic research, development, and demonstration plan (plan) that establishes priorities and identifies key expenditure categories for research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds to be expended by the state agencies represented on the CAT for the following fiscal year. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2010, and biennially thereafter, would be required to prepare and adopt a climate change impact adaptation and protection plan that includes specified information. The bill would require research, development, and demonstration funds that are administered by the Department of Transportation and are allocated for clean technology, environmental protection, and public interest energy research to be expended consistent with the plan.
SB 1762 (Perata) California Climate Change Institute [Veto Message]
This bill would request the Regents of the University of
California to establish the California Climate Change Institute to
(A) identify and support, through a merit-based peer-reviewed
competitive grant process, research and education to be undertaken at
academic and research institutions and laboratories throughout the
state, (B) oversee, coordinate, and manage a nonduplicative, targeted
research and development program for the purposes of achieving the
state's targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and
mitigating the effects of those emissions, (C) develop effective
model education pathways, training, model curriculum, and
professional development necessary for emerging green technologies
and industries, and (D) ensure that its climate change research is
conducted in a manner that is targeted and nonduplicative of other
research programs.
This bill would create the California Climate Change Fund in the
State Treasury, with the following accounts: (A) Public Interest GHG
Research Account and (B) GHG Mitigation Fee Trust Account. The bill
would authorize moneys in the fund to be expended by the institute,
upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would provide that
not more than 5% of the fund may be expended for overhead or other
administrative expenses of the institute.
This bill would authorize the PUC to impose a greenhouse gases
emissions mitigation fee, as a nonbypassable usage-based charge on
local distribution service, upon all electricity consumed in the
state within the service territories of an electrical corporation.
This authorization would become inoperable upon the elapse of 10
calendar years from the date a fee is first imposed or until January
1, 2020, whichever date occurs first.
The bill would repeal the provisions relating to the California
Climate Change Institute and the California Climate Change Fund on
January 1, 2020.
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