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Check this report regularly for information on current bills of interest to the Integrated Waste Management Board. Information on past bills of interest to the Board from prior legislative sessions is available from the archives. Status of Priority Bills, 2007-2008 Session
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| Assembly Bills | Location | Summary |
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| AB 29
(Hancock)
D - El Cerrito |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was H. & C.D. (05/02/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require certain of those funds, upon appropriation, to be made available to the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes of making infrastructure grants for construction or acquisition of capital assets, as defined, to qualifying cities, counties, and cities and counties. The bill would require a project to meet certain, listed criteria in order to be eligible for grant funding. |
| AB 94
(Committee on Utilities and Commerce)
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From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.,U. & C. | This bill would require the amount of electricity generated per year from eligible renewable energy resources to be at least 33% of the total electricity sold to retail customers in California per year by December 31, 2020. |
| AB 109
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | Would require the Energy Commission to implement the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program by regulation pursuant to the rulemaking requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act . The bill would require both this program and the program discussed in (3) below to provide a public competitive process for the allocation of funds . The bill would authorize the Energy Commission to make a single source or sole source award for applied research meeting specified requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 114
(Blakeslee)
R - San Luis Obispo |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require the Energy Commission , on or before November 1, 2009, to submit a report to the Legislature containing recommendations regarding containment, scrubbing, and capture technologies to decrease carbon dioxide emission from thermal powerplants and other industrial processes . The Energy Commission would be required to include the report in its 2009 integrated energy policy report and to share its findings with the State Air Resources Board . |
| AB 218
(Saldana)
D - San Diego |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | This bill would redefine the term "electronic device" in order to expand the scope of products that would be subject to a California sales ban if the device is not in compliance with the European Union (EU) Directive on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). (Note: This bill is an almost identical reintroduction of AB 48 (Saldana) vetoed by the Governor last year.) |
| AB 255
(De Leon)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would create the Clean Air and Energy Independence Fund, and would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund to the state board to be used towards specified purposes, including incentives for purchasers of vehicles powered by clean alternative fuels or other efficient technologies . The bill would require the state board, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to submit an annual report to the Legislature on expenditures from the Clean Air and Energy Independence Fund. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 493
(Ruskin)
D - Los Altos |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last locations was THIRD READING | Would require the state board to create and implement a clean vehicle incentive program meeting specified requirements, that would provide rebates to, and require surcharges from, purchasers of new motor vehicles based on the vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate against emissions of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 501
(Swanson)
D - Oakland |
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. | This bill would require pharmaceutical manufacturers, at the request of a consumer of a prefilled injection device, to arrange to provide either a postage prepaid mail-back sharps container or an approved sharps container for the safe storage of, and transport to a sharps consolidation location or other specified location. |
| AB 558
(Feuer)
D - West Hollywood |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | Would enact the California Chemical Substances Act and would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, to implement the act. The department would be required, by January 1, 2010, to identify and recommend the most accurate and effective methods to use to test for and evaluate the potential hazard traits of chemical substances. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 564
(Brownley)
D - Woodland Hills |
Read second time. To third reading. | Would authorize the district to impose a fee or charge in compliance with Article XIII D of the California Constitution, to pay the costs and expenses of the district, and to carry out the objects or purposes of the act. The bill would require that any fees imposed be levied and collected together with taxes for county purposes, and the revenues paid into the county treasury to the credit of the district. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 575
(Arambula)
D - Fresno |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require the state board to develop guidelines meeting specified requirements for the allocation of the $1,000,000,000 in funding. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, require the state board to allocate funds on a competitive basis to projects and measures that are shown to achieve the greatest emission reductions from activities related to freight movement along California's trade corridors. The projects and measures would be required to result in emission reductions not otherwise required by law or regulation in effect as of November 8, 2006. The bill would specify that the funds only be used to implement strategies described in a required emissions reduction plan to be included in funding applications. The bill would require the state board to report annually to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature in writing and at scheduled legislative informational hearings on the status of the projects and measures being funded. The bill would require the costs the state board in administering the progra m to be paid in an appropriation in the annual Budget Act and would limit those costs to $15,000,000 for the duration of program funding. |
| AB 630
(Price)
D - Inglewood |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require, if certain requirements are met, the state board to expeditiously adopt an emissions standard or requirement proposed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District that requires a waiver or authorization under the federal Clean Air Act, and would require the state board, if necessary, to submit the standard or requirement to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for waiver or authorization. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2015. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 640
(De La Torre)
D - South Gate |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission. | The Water Replenishment District Act provides for the formation of water replenishment districts. The act grants authority to a water replenishment district relating to the replenishment, protection, and preservation of groundwater supplies within that district. The act requires the board of directors of a water replenishment district to prepare annually an engineering survey and report that includes information relating to the groundwater supplies within the district. The act requires the board to make certain determinations in connection with a decision to impose a water replenishment assessment to purchase replenishment water or to remove contaminants from the groundwater supplies of the district. The act requires the water replenishment assessment to be fixed at a uniform rate per acre-foot of groundwater produced within the district. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 657
(Jeffries)
R - Murrieta |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was PRINT (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emission reductions. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions of law. |
| AB 700
(Lieu)
D - El Segundo |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission. | Would require the city to establish a technical advisory committee to evaluate all relevant and appropriate studies and data regarding the airport and, on or before January 1, 2009, prepare and submit to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Legislature a report with recommendations about potential actions that could be taken to reduce the air quality impacts caused by air traffic connected with the airport, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 719
(DeVore)
R - Irvine |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last locations was NAT. RES. | Would create the California Zero Carbon Dioxide Emission Electrical Generation Act of 2007. The bill would repeal that prohibition regarding permitting and certifying nuclear fission thermal powerplants, along with certain other duties of the commission with regard to nuclear fission thermal powerplants. |
| AB 746
(Krekorian)
D - Glendale |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | This bill would require the PUC, by July 1, 2008, in consultation with the CEC, the CARB, air quality management districts, air pollution control districts, electrical corporations, gas corporations, the motor vehicle industry, and the natural gas vehicle and transportation fuel industries, to develop and implement policies and programs that are in the interests of ratepayers, to promote the development and increased use of natural gas as an alternative transportation fuel. |
| AB 769
(Aghazarian)
R - Stockton |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was REV. & TAX (05/02/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would additionally exempt from that tax fuel that is used to transport biomass, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 786
(Lieu)
D - El Segundo |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require that appropriate credit to also be provided to a commercial bank or investment company that provides reduced rate financing or other financing incentives to assist other entities in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. |
| AB 811
(Levine)
D - Van Nuys |
Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m. | Would additionally authorize a legislative body of any city, as defined, 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, among other things, 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. The bill would further require the report to include, among other things, the types of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements that may be financed through the use of contractual assessments. The bill would authorize a property owner, upon written consent of an authorized city official, to purchase directly the related equipment and materials for the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements and to contract directly for the installation of those sources or improvements. The bill would make findings and a declaration in this regard. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 822
(Levine)
D - Van Nuys |
To inactive file on motion of Senator Perata. | Would require an owner of a multifamily dwelling, defined as a residential facility that consists of 5 or more living units, on or after July 1, 2009, to arrange for recycling services that are appropriate for the multifamily dwelling, consistent with state or local laws or requirements, including a local ordinance or agreement, applicable to the collection, handling, or recycling of solid waste. |
| AB 844
(Berryhill)
R - Modesto |
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . | Would require a junk dealer or recycler to report the information included in those written records to the chief of police or sheriff, as specified, upon request and on a monthly basis. The bill would authorize the chief of police or sheriff to request weekly reports for no more than a 2-month period, except as specified, if there is an ongoing investigation of the junk dealer or recycler concerning possible criminal activity. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 904
(Feuer)
D - West Hollywood |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | This bill would enact the Plastic and Marine Debris Reduction, Recycling, and Composting Act (Act), prohibiting, effective July 1, 2012, takeout food providers from distributing single-use food service packaging to a consumer unless the packaging is either compostable or recyclable. Penalties of not more than $100.00 per day, not to exceed $10,000 annually, would be assessed upon violators, and the CIWMB would be required to annually publish a list of penalties levied. Penalties would be paid into a Marine Debris Reduction Account created by this bill within the Integrated Waste Management Fund and used to offset costs of implementing the Act, to provide public education, and to assist local government efforts to reduce plastic waste and marine debris. As of July 1, 2009, a company that produces single-use food service packagig and distributes it in California would be required, upon request, to provide a list of recyclable or compostable single-use food service packaging available. |
| AB 934
(Duvall)
R - Brea |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was APPR. (06/01/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would modify these provisions to authorize districts to adopt airborne toxic control measures only for nonvehicular stationary sources. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 938
(Calderon, Charles)
D - City of Industry |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would make legislative findings and declarations regarding uncontrolled pollutants in urban runoff, stormwater, and other forms of runoff, and statements of legislative intent regarding the provision of tools to help remedy pollution from these sources. |
| AB 995
(Nava)
D - Santa Barbara |
To inactive file on motion of Senator Ducheny. | Would provide that projects eligible for funding from the Trade Corridors Improvement Fund would receive priority if they meet specified requirements. The bill would require the California Transportation Commission to coordinate with the state board for technical assistance in evaluating project applications. |
| AB 1017
(Ma)
D - San Francisco |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require that appeal to be filed within 30 days of the approval of the project , unless the period for filing the appeals is extended to a maximum of 60 days by the elected decisionmaking body, in which case an appeal would be required to be filed within that extended period. The bill would also extend the deadline for filing specified actions or proceedings until the elected decisionmaking body acts on the appeal. The bill would provide that a notice of an approval or a determination to carry out a project subject to CEQA, or a notice of a determination that a project is not subject to CEQA, would be invalid if the approval of the project is appealed. The bill, following final action by the elected decisionmaking body on the appeal, would require the local lead agency to file a notice of an approval or determination to carry out the project and would authorize the local lead agency to file a notice of a determination that the project is not subject to CEQA. By increasing the duties of a local government with respect to these provisions , the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1064
(Lieber)
D - Mountain View |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would extend until January 1, 2012, the self-generation incentive program for nonsolar distributed generation resources and require the PUC to limit the eligibility for incentives pursuant to the program to distributed generation resources that the PUC determines support the state's goals for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The bill would require that advanced solar thermal distributed technologies displace usage of natural gas, as determined by the PUC, and would require that any incentives authorized by the PUC be performance-based so that incentives are earned based on the actual energy savings. The bill would require that combined heat and power units meet certain efficiency and emissions requirements to receive incentives. The bill would require a customer receiving incentives for a combined heat and power unit to adequately maintain and service the unit so that during operation, the unit continues to meet or exceed the efficiency and emissions requirements. The bill would delete the authorization for the PUC to include in the self-generation incentive grant program other ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation technologies, and to evaluate other public policy interests. The bill would require the commission to ensure that , beginning January 1, 2009, no costs of the self-generation incentive program for distributed generation resources are recovered from residential customers. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1065
(Lieber)
D - Mountain View |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | Would require the commission to adopt standards that would reduce the energy consumption per gross square foot of floorspace of new residential and new nonresidential buildings, from offsite sources, by not less than 20% of the standards adopted in 2003 no later than 2015. The bill would require the commission to have a goal of zero net energy for new residential buildings by 2020 and zero net energy for new nonresidential buildings by 2030 . The commission would be required to review and approve one or more computer programs for use in demonstrating compliance with the commission prescribed energy standards. The commission would also be required to prescribe other specified requirements for compliance software and to review and approve software for use in demonstrating compliance with the adopted building design and construction standards. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 1075
(Cook)
R - Yucaipa |
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 6/16/2008 hearing) | Would define the term "anaerobic digestion" for purposes of the act. The bill would additionally define the term "composting operation" or "composting facility" as an operation or facility that produces compost, including, but not limited to, an entity that produces compost either aerobically or nonaerobically and an operation or facility that utilizes anaerobic digestion. The bill would revise the definition of the term "transformation" to exclude anaerobic digestion. |
| AB 1077
(Lieber)
D - Mountain View |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission. | Would enact the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Leadership Act of 2007. The bill would establish the California Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council, with specified membership, to develop and carry out a strategy of coordination and collaboration between entities and organizations engaged in activities relating to plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The bill would require the council, on or before October 1, 2008, to identify the percentage or number of plug-in hybrid vehicles that could reasonably be added to the state vehicle fleet in the future. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1119
(Fuller)
R - Bakersfield |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | Would require the state board , in developing eligibility criteria for emission control devices eligible that may be funded under emission reduction grant programs, to take all reasonable steps to consider the number of manufacturers capable of providing verified devices to ensure adequate competition among manufacturers and lower prices for the devices . |
| AB 1127
(Carter)
D - Rialto |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would authorize the department tomake a loan or grant to the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority with moneys from the above- described funds for the purposes of assessing and treating drinking water for perchlorate contamination in and around the Cities of Colton, Fontana, and Rialto, including the identification of perchlorate contamination in drinking water sources, the assessment and identification of inorganic and organic perchlorate in those sources, and the treatment of drinking water to meet primary drinking water standards for the protection of public health. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 1138
(Brownley)
D - Woodland Hills |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was NAT. RES. (05/02/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would require the state board to resolve all questions relating to the boundaries of a district. |
| AB 1183
(Hancock)
D - El Cerrito |
Read second time. To third reading. | Would require DTSC to make available on its public Internet Web site specified information and lists, including a list of all land use restriction instruments and agreements required to be maintained and posted. The State Department of Public Health would be required to make available on its public Internet Web site a list of contaminated public drinking water wells. The board would also be required to make available on its public Internet Web site a list of the sites, facilities, and orders . The board would also be required to make available on its public Internet Web site a list of all land use restriction instruments and agreements required to be maintained and posted. DTSC and the board would be required to ensure that the information made available is current and updated at least annually. The Secretary for Environmental Protection would be required to post appropriate links to the above information on its public Internet Web site and to notify each city and county of the available resources. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1195
(Torrico)
D - Fremont |
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would additionally require the information and education program to promote methods to reduce the amount of used oil generated, and the use of re-refined oil, as defined, in automotive and industrial lubricants. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1209
(Karnette)
D - Long Beach |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would authorize the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue additional distinctive decals, labels, or other identifiers for certain hybrid or alternative fuel vehicles that satisfy specified conditions. |
| AB 1372
(Parra)
D - Bakersfield |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was PUB. S. (05/02/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would add theft of copper materials as a type of theft punishable as grand theft. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1391
(Brownley)
D - Woodland Hills |
Read second time. To third reading. | This bill would require a retail seller of covered electronic devices (CEDs) to provide customers, at the point of sale, with the IWMB’s Website that includes specific information on how to properly dispose of electronic waste in the State. (Note: This is an identical reintroduction of AB 546 (Brownley) from 2007, which was vetoed by the Governor.) |
| AB 1428
(Galgiani)
D - Stockton |
From E.Q.: Not heard. | This bill would require electrical corporations to provide eligible biomass conversion customer-generators with net energy metering under a pilot program. This bill would prescribe conditions under which these customers may participate in the pilot program and would require the electrical corporation to file a standard tariff providing for net energy metering for eligible biomass conversion customer-generators. |
| AB 1455
(Arambula)
D - Fresno |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Held under submission. | Would authorize the State Air Resources Board , on or before January 1, 2017, to designate California Air Quality Zones in the state based on specified air quality and other criteria. |
| AB 1602
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
Referred to Com. on E.Q. | Would establish in the Resources Agency, the Sustainable Communities and Urban Greening Grant Program and would provide that moneys made available by those bond funds may be expended for this program. The bill would require the Resources Agency, in consultation with the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, to develop and administer a program of grants to local public agencies and nonprofit organizations for the purpose of improving the sustainability and livability of communities through the development of green infrastructure that provides multiple benefits, including improved air and water quality, energy and water conservation, climate change mitigation, and recreational and other community benefits. The bill would specify eligible projects. |
| AB 1621
(Smyth)
R - Santa Clarita |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was PRINT (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Existing law makes specified findings and declarations regarding the disposal of agricultural wastes. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations. |
| AB 1719
(Hancock)
D - El Cerrito |
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. (Page 3415.) | Would instead require the department to suspend the requirement to pay the processing fee for any container type with a certain recycling rate for calendar year 2008, if the balance of the fund is more that $150,000,000. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1778
(Ma)
D - San Francisco |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would prohibit a junk dealer or recycler, as defined, in specified jurisdictions, from providing payment for newspaper and for California Redemption Value (CRV) containers unless, except as specified, the payment is made by check and the dealer or recycler obtains certain identifying information, as specified, to be retained by the dealer or recycler for a certain period of time. The bill would specify that this provision does not apply to the payment for newspaper having a value of $50 or less in a single transaction or CRV containers having a value of $100 or less in a single transaction . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1846
(Adams)
R - Claremont |
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would exempt from 75% of that additional fee , transporters of inedible kitchen grease who transport inedible kitchen grease for their own personal, noncommercial use as an alternative fuel, subject to other restrictions, and would require these individuals meet other requirements, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1920
(Huffman)
D - San Rafael |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would replace the definition of "electric service provider" in existing law relative to private energy producers with a definition of "electric utility." The bill would require the ratemaking authority, as defined, for the electric utility to adopt, by July 1, 2009, a net surplus electricity compensation valuation to compensate a net surplus customer-generator, as defined, for the value of net surplus electricity, as defined, generated by an eligible customer-generator and delivered to the grid that is in excess of the amount of electricity that is delivered from the grid to the eligible customer-generator. The bill would require the electric utility to offer a standard contract or tariff to eligible customer-generators that includes compensation for the value of net surplus electricity. The bill would require the electric utility, upon an affirmative election by the eligible customer-generator to receive service pursuant to this contract or tariff, to either: (1) provide net surplus electricity compensation for any net surplus electricity generated in the 12-month period, or (2) allow the eligible customer-generator to apply the net surplus electricity as a credit for kilowatthours consumed during the following 12-month period. The bill would, for an electric utility that is an electrical corporation or electrical cooperative, authorize the commission to adopt requirements for providing notice and the manner by which eligible customer-generators may elect to receive net surplus electricity compensation. The bill would provide that upon adoption of the net surplus electricity compensation rate and the eligible customer-generator electing to receive net surplus electricity compensation, any renewable energy credit, as defined, for net surplus electricity belongs to the electric utility purchasing the electricity and that net surplus electricity counts toward the electric utility's renewables portfolio standard purchasing requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1950
(Lieu)
D - El Segundo |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | Would increase the minimum fine to $1,000. The bill would also allow the moneys in the fund to be used for the abatement and removal of a hulk, derelict, wreck, or parts of any ship, or other watercraft sunk, beached, or allowed to remain in an unseaworthy or dilapidated condition upon municipal or other public corporation property, and for the disposal of a surrendered vessel, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 1972
(DeSaulnier)
D - Martinez |
Read second time. To third reading. | This bill would amend current law that prohibits a person from selling a plastic bag labeled as compostable, biodegradable, or degradable unless it meets the ASTM standard for the term used on the label. This bill would specify that the bag must meet the ASTM Standard Specification for Compostable Plastics (D6400). On similar existing law related to plastic food and beverage containers, the ASTM Standard Specification for Biodegradable Plastics Used as Coatings on Paper and Other Compostable Substrates (D6868) would be added to Specification D6400. |
| AB 2003
(Saldana)
D - San Diego |
In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. | This bill, which is subject to voter approval at the November 4, 2008, general election, would authorize the sale of $2 billion in state general obligation bonds for award to public agencies for energy generating technologies, energy conservation and efficiency programs for low-income communities, and energy efficiency projects targeting state buildings and facilities, and public schools and local educational agency buildings. |
| AB 2013
(Krekorian)
D - Glendale |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | Would require the department, in the next triennial adoption process of the California Building Code that begins on or after January 1, 2009, to propose building standards that authorize the use of water-permeable pavement in the construction of any exterior paved surface in, or related to the construction of, a structure such as a patio, sidewalk, or driveway, or all or a portion of a dwelling unit, hotel, motel, or lodging house. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 2030
(Lieu)
D - El Segundo |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE | Would require the commission to adopt, in collaboration with specified parties, building design and construction standards, and energy and water conservation standards to require new nonresidential constructions commenced on or after January 1, 2030, to be zero net energy buildings. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 2058
(Levine)
D - Van Nuys |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | This bill would, on and after July 1, 2011, prohibit a store from providing plastic carryout bags to customers unless the store demonstrates an increased diversion rate, as defined, of 35% in the number of plastic carryout bags provided by the store during a specified period. The bill would, on and after July 1, 2013, prohibit a store from providing plastic carryout bags to customers unless the store demonstrates an increased diversion rate of 70% in the number of plastic carryout bags provided by the store during a specified period. The bill would authorize a store to sell a plastic carryout bag to a customer at a cost greater than or equal to $0.15 per bag as an alternative to demonstrating the increased diversion rates. This bill would extend the effective date of those provisions until January 1, 2015. |
| AB 2071
(Karnette)
D - Long Beach |
Senate Rule 28.8 and amended. | Would authorize a city, county, or the state to impose civil liability, in specified amounts, for violations of the above provisions and would require any civil penalties collected to be paid to the office of the city attorney, city prosecutor, district attorney, or Attorney General, whichever office brought the action. The bill would authorize any penalties collected by the Attorney General to be expended by the Attorney General, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enforce those provisions. |
| AB 2175
(Laird)
D - Santa Cruz |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020. The bill would require the state to reduce per capita use by at least 5% on or before December 31, 2012, and by 10% on or before December 31, 2015. By December 31, 2020, each urban retail water supplier would be required to achieve a minimum reduction from the base daily per capita water use, as specified. The bill would also require each urban water supplier to achieve at least 25% of the targeted per capita reduction on or before December 31, 2012, and 50% on or before December 31, 2015. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2176
(Caballero)
D - Salinas |
Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6120.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6128.) | Would require the commission to administer funds received by the state pursuant to the federal act 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 would require the remaining funds to be used to provide grants to entities eligible under the federal act. All grants would be prioritized based on cost-effective energy efficiency. The bill would require that no more than 5% of the funds received be expended on administrative expenses. |
| AB 2179
(Furutani)
D - Long Beach |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. | 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 biodiesel fuel , as determined by the state board , if certain requirements are met. T he state board would be required to develop sustainability criteria for biodiesel fuel meeting specified requirements . |
| AB 2224
(De La Torre)
D - South Gate |
Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency , with the assistance of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, Employment Training Panel, and the Workforce Investment Board, to create the California Clean Energy Curriculum and Training Initiative of 2008 to establish standardized curriculum for use at schools and provide outreach, assistance, and guidance to schools on creating clean energy training programs, as provided. The initiative would be implemented when the Legislature makes an appropriation of moneys for that purpose. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2245
(Soto)
D - Ontario |
Chaptered by the Secretary of State, Chapter Number 96, Statutes of 2008 | Would apply this provision to illegal dumping enforcement officers. |
| AB 2267
(Fuentes)
D - Arleta |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | 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 Energy Commission to give priority to California-based entities in making awards pursuant to the program. The bill would define a California-based entity. |
| AB 2286
(Feuer)
D - West Hollywood |
Do pass. | Would require that in addition to any other funding that becomes available, the secretary shall increase the oversight surcharge by an amount necessary to establish the data system, but not to exceed $25 each year for 3 years, to establish the statewide information management system, and would provide that not less than 60% of that funding shall be provided to certified unified program agencies and participating agencies through grant funds for the purposes of the system. The bill would require the secretary to establish milestones to measure the implementation of the information management system and provide periodic status updates to interested parties. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2309
(DeSaulnier)
D - Martinez |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the 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 commission 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 State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), would be required to prioritize energy efficiency measures. The PUC would be required to provide an annual report to the Legislature and to the Energy Commission containing specified information. |
| AB 2347
(Ruskin)
D - Los Altos |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | This bill would enact the Mercury Thermostat Collection Act of 2008 and would require a manufacturer who sold mercury-added thermostats and those that are not mercury-added thermostats during specified dates to establish and maintain a collection and recycling program for out-of-service mercury-added thermostats. |
| AB 2415
(Fuentes)
D - Arleta |
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | Would require the board, in the case where the proposed or existing solid waste facility is located in multiple jurisdictions and an application for, or an application for a revision of, a permit is submitted to the board, to obtain the approval of the designated and certified enforcement agency of each of the jurisdictions in which the facility is located before the issuance or revision of the permit. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 2425
(Coto)
D - San Jose |
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) . | This bill would require pharmaceutical manufacturers to enter into a public-private partnership with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to advance public knowledge about pharmaceuticals in public drinking water supplies. This bill would also require CDPH to post links on its Internet Web site on the proper methods of handling and disposing of pharmaceutical drug waste. |
| AB 2431
(Garcia)
R - Cathedral City |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). Last location was PRINT | Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for the preparation of the state implementation plan required by the Clean Air Act. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision of law. |
| AB 2432
(Laird)
D - Santa Cruz |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would additionally require the Energy Commission, in support of that program, to provide investment in research, development, and demonstration activities to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions . The Energy Commission would be authorized to contract for or enter into interagency agreements to support the program. The Energy Commission would be required to convene state agency decisionmakers responsible for climate change mitigation and adaption activities to provide those decisionmakers with information on current climate change research activities and to receive advice on future research needs. |
| AB 2466
(Laird)
D - Santa Cruz |
From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) . | Would authorize a local government, as defined, to receive a bill credit, as defined, to a designated benefiting account, as defined, for electricity supplied to the electric grid by an eligible renewable generating facility, as defined, and requires the commission to adopt a rate tariff for the benefiting account. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2505
(Brownley)
D - Woodland Hills |
Place on APPR. suspense file. | Would prohibit a person, on and after January 1, 2013 , from manufacturing, importing, selling, or distributing in commerce in this state a rigid polyvinyl chloride packaging container, as defined , and would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2015, a person from manufacturing, importing, selling, or distributing in commerce in this state a flexible polyvinyl chloride packaging container, as defined . This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 2512
(Adams)
R - Claremont |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was NAT. RES. | Would require the Southern California Association of Governments to submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2010, a report on potential legislation that would streamline the environmental review process pursuant to CEQA, NEPA, or the environmental impact report requirements to expedite public work projects. Because the Southern California Association of Government is a local agency, the bill would increase the level of service provided by a local agency, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2536
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would additionally, require the agency to develop a rebate program to assist metal plating facilities as described above and would authorize the agency to expend moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to make rebates. |
| AB 2539
(Strickland)
R - Westlake Village |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was B. & P. | Would prohibit a member of a state board or commission from receiving any salary if (1) in 2007 or later, the position of the member on the state board or commission received or would receive a salary totaling at least $100,000 per year, and (2) the members of the state board or commission are required, either by statute or regulation, to meet 2 or less times per month, whichever is greater. This bill would authorize a member of a state board or commission who is prohibited from receiving a salary under these provisions to receive a specified per diem payment. |
| AB 2640
(Huffman)
D - San Rafael |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the board to annually recommend to the Legislature the allocation of the funds that the board should expend to provide the grants and loans authorized by the act. The bill would also require the board to evaluate the feasibility of allowing the use of new nongreen material , including fines, as defined, as alternative daily cover . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2645
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
Referred to Coms. on T. & H. and E.Q. | Would provide that the fuel blend criteria does not apply only to renewable diesel infrastructure, fueling stations, and equipment. The bill would, in addition, provide specified life cycle and multimedia analyses as eligible projects under the program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2678
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the Energy Commission, by March 1, 2009, to establish a regulatory proceeding to develop a comprehensive program to achieve greater energy savings in the state's existing residential and nonresidential building stock. In developing the requirements, the Energy Commission would be required to coordinate with specified entities and to consider certain specified factors. Before adopting the requirements, the Energy Commission would be required to consult with specified entities and to hold at least 3 public hearings. The Energy Commission would be required to periodically update the comprehensive program to improve or refine the program requirements. The Energy Commission would be required to report on the status of the program in the integrated energy policy report. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2679
(Ruskin)
D - Los Altos |
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 7/14/2008 hearing) | Would repeal the definition of disposal site owner and would additionally define the terms "closed disposal site," "composting," "minor violation," " owner," and "solid waste handling activity." The bill would also revise the existing definitions of the terms "disposal," "disposal site," "hazardous waste," "operator," "solid waste disposal," and "solid waste handling" for purposes of the act. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2695
(Niello)
R - Sacramento |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would additionally define "illegal dumping" to mean the act of disposing of solid waste at a location that is not a permitted solid waste facility or is not otherwise authorized for the disposal of solid waste pursuant to the act and regulations adopted by the board . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2724
(Benoit)
R - Riverside |
In committee: Set first hearing. Failed passage. Reconsideration granted. | Would provide that a person convicted of grand theft involving any wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron, or brass of a kind ordinarily used by, or that ordinarily belongs to, a railroad or other transportation, telephone, telegraph, gas, water, or electric light company or city, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of this state engaged in furnishing public utility service, or farm, ranch, industrial facility, or other commercial or residential building, shall, in addition to any punishment for that conviction, be subject to a fine of $100 for a first offense, or $200 for a 2nd or subsequent offense. This bill would require these fines to be deposited in the general fund of the jurisdiction that brought the prosecution, and used for metal theft enforcement efforts by that jurisdiction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2729
(Ruskin)
D - Los Altos |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would additionally authorize the funds in the account to be appropriated to the department for the administration of the successor organizations of those units of the department, the implementation of programs administered by those units, and activities in the department related to pollution prevention and technology development. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2730
(Leno)
D - San Francisco |
Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6120.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6126.) | Would in the alternative, require that a nonprofit convenience zone recycler have operated in the same location for not less than 5 years and be located within one mile of a supermarket that is in a convenience zone that is exempt from the requirement that there be a certified recycling center or location within every convenience zone. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| AB 2820
(Huffman)
D - San Rafael |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was RLS. | Would make findings and declarations with regard to existing law. |
| AB 2829
(Davis)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was NAT. RES. | Would delete that repeal date and additionally require each plastic carryout bag provided by the store, on and after July 1, 2009, to have printed or displayed on the bag an environmental awareness message describing the negative impacts on the environment and wildlife caused by littered plastic carryout bags and encouraging the use of reusable bags. The board would be required by July 1, 2009, to develop that environmental awareness message, in consultation with specified stakeholders. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2855
(Hancock)
D - El Cerrito |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | 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, when funds become available for additional partnership academies, as specified, the Superintendent would be required to issue grants for the establishment of partnership academies in each of the 9 economic regions established by the state, and would be required to give priority to partnership academies dedicated to educating young people in the emerging environmentally sound technologies . The Superintendent would also be required to issue grants for the establishment of partnership academies and give priority to the establishment of partnership academies dedicated to educating young people in goods movement occupational areas until at least one academy is established in each of the 4 transportation corridors established by the state. The selection of school districts to establish the new partnership academies and the planning and development of the new partnership academies would be required to be conducted pursuant to the procedures and requirements established for all partnership academies under existing law. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 2864
(De Leon)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE | Would state the intent of the Legislature to encourage school districts to strive to achieve "grid neutrality" through investments in renewable energy components for new school construction projects. This bill would allow a grant for new construction or a modernization apportionment to be used for the costs of purchase and installation of renewable energy components, including solar panels, power systems, and photovoltaic (PV) systems, as specified. The bill would require the board to review the criteria for funding under the High Performance Schools Grant Program for new construction and modernization projects and the extent to which renewable energy technologies were included in the funded projects. The bill would specify that an amount equal to the savings accrued by a district as a result of renewable energy components shall be transferred into the capital outlay fund of the district until the total cost of the purchase and installation of the component is repaid. |
| AB 2866
(De Leon)
D - Los Angeles |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would on and after July 1, 2009, establish the amount of the fee in an amount of $2 per ton and would require $0.60 of that fee after that date to be available for expenditure by the board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in accordance with a specified schedule. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 2867
(De Leon)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was H. & C.D. | Would require the department, for all new housing construction and rehabilitation programs administered by the department, to prioritize funding for housing projects that utilize sustainable building methods. If the department decides that a prioritization system is not feasible, the department would be required to report the basis of its decision to the Legislature. |
| AB 2916
(Nunez)
D - Los Angeles |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require by January 1, 2015, that the total amount of energy consumed in buildings owned by the state be decreased by 20% of the total amount o f energy used in all state-owned buildings during 2008. The bill would require the California Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission in consultation with the Department of General Services and other state entities , on or before July 1 , 2009, to develop guidelines to ensure that buildings owned or leased by the state are operated and maintained in an energy and resource efficient manner. The bill would require that a proposal for funding infrastructure under the Governor's plan contain a description of the way in which the proposal would achieve energy efficiency and energy and resource conservation consistent with the guidelines developed by the commission. The bill would require the Department of General Services or other state departments, as specified, to assess each building owned or leased by the state pursuant to the guidelines developed by the commission and submit the assess ments to the Legislature . This bill contains other related provisions. |
| AB 2988
(Feuer)
D - West Hollywood |
Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would redefine the term "project" to exclude the approval of a contract for electric power from specified powerplants meeting specified requirements. Because this bill would require a lead agency, which includes a local agency, to determine whether a contract for electric power is a project under CEQA and would require a local agency to provide notice of exemption, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| AB 3025
(Lieber)
D - Mountain View |
Read second time, amended, and to third reading. | Would prohibit on and after January 1, 2012, a wholesaler or manufacturer, as defined, from selling or offering for sale, expanded polystyrene loosefill packaging in this state, unless it is comprised of a specified amount of postconsumer recycled material, as defined, as provided in a schedule that would increase that percentage until January 1, 2017, when the amount would be required to be 100% postconsumer recycled material. |
| AB 3031
(Lieber)
D - Mountain View |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE | Would require the California Environmental Protection Agency to develop an inventory of all available data identifying chemical uses by type, industry sector, and toxicity to show existing hazardous substance flows, changes, and endpoints to assist consumers, policymakers, researchers, and the industry. The bill would require all state agencies to inform the California Environmental Protection Agency of relevant data in their possession and to assist the agency in collecting additional necessary data, and would require the agency to seek data for the inventory from other specified entities. |
| Senate Bills | Location | Summary |
| SB 9
(Lowenthal)
D - Long Beach |
Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. | Would establish a process administered by the California Transportation Commission for allocation of these funds. The bill would designate 4 trade corridors eligible to receive funding. The bill would establish criteria for project selection based on improvement of mobility of freight and improvement of air quality, as specified, and would require a proposed project to be included in a corridor plan developed by affected agencies specified in the bill. The bill would also provide for $50,000,000 to be allocated to projects located o utside of those trade corridors that meet the selection criteria. The bill would require projects to be ready for construction by June 30, 2013. The bill would require the commission to adopt guidelines for the allocation of these funds by April 1, 2008, would require an annual report to the Legislature and Governor beginning on January 1, 2009, and would enact other related provisions. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| SB 19
(Lowenthal)
D - Long Beach |
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. | Would require the state board to implement the Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program. The bill would create eligibility requirements for funding pursuant to this program. The state board would be required to adopt guidelines and funding criteria for the program consistent with certain requirements. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| SB 27
(Simitian)
D - Palo Alto |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would require the Office of Emergency Services to prepare an educational pamphlet for use by appropriate personnel in schools that maintain a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to identify the risks posed by flooding due to levee failure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The office would be required to distribute copies of the pamphlet to the governing board of each school district and community college district in the delta. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 47
(Perata)
D - Oakland |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact provisions governing project eligibility, matching fund requirements, and the application process relative to allocation of bond proceeds to the State-Local Partnership Program. |
| SB 240
(Florez)
D - Fresno |
Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. | Would authorize the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District to increase this fee by up to but not exceeding $30 for incentive-based programs to achieve surplus emissions reductions, as specified . The bill would require the Bureau of State Audits to audit the assessment of fees and expenditure of funds pursuant to these provisions and require the state board to assess the use of these fees in achieving and maintaining state and federal ambient air standards. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 300
(Corbett)
D - San Leandro |
Set, first hearing. Held in committee and under submission. | Would authorize the department to expend $30,000,000 to fund grants that are overseen and awarded by the State Water Resources Control Board to local governments or nonprofit agencies to reduce beverage containers and litter that ends up in the San Francisco Bay through wind or storm drains, thereby making an appropriation. |
| SB 412
(Simitian)
D - Palo Alto |
Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. | Would enact the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Act and would require the Energy Commission, in consultation with affected state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Public Utilities Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the State Lands Commission, the Department of Water Resources, and the California Coastal Commission, to adopt and submit to the Legislature and the Governor, on or before July 1, 2008, the Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report of 2008 that would be incorporated into the integrated energy policy of 2007 and would contain specified information. The Energy Commission would be required to prepare a draft report, on or before April 1, 2008, to solicit public comments in the preparation of the report, and to hold 2 public hearings, one in Los Angeles and the other in the San Francisco Bay area , to consider the results of the liquefied natural gas needs assessment study and to provide an opportunity for public comment. The Energy Commission would be required to include a Liquefied Natural Gas Market Assessment Report in every integrated energy policy report adopted after January 1, 2009. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 463
(Negrete McLeod)
D - Montclair |
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | Would impose a limit on the price for kilowatthours in a purchase agreement. |
| SB 494
(Kehoe)
D - San Diego |
Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 7/9/2007 hearing) | This bill would require the CARB and the CEC, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, to develop and adopt regulations to ensure that, by January 1, 2015, ___ percentage of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California each year are clean alternative vehicles, and that commencing January 1, 2020, 1/2 of new passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks sold in California each year are clean alternative vehicles. |
| SB 509
(Simitian)
D - Palo Alto |
From inactive file to third reading file. | Would exclude from this prohibition a person engaged in the business of wholesale or retail distribution of a product. It would declare that its provisions are severable, and if any provision of the bill is held invalid, that invalidity would not affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and would provide that its provisions shall only be implemented to the extent permitted by federal law. |
| SB 531
(Oropeza)
D - Redondo Beach |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to reform the regulation of emissions of toxic air pollutants. |
| SB 532
(Oropeza)
D - Redondo Beach |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Existing law known as the Oil transfer and Transportation Emission and Risk Reduction Act of 2002 contains legislative findings and declarations relative to the environmental and other effects of the shipment of oil along the California Coast. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. |
| SB 572
(Cogdill)
R - Fresno |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation urging the state board to consider emissions created by catastrophic wildfire, as well as the benefits created by carbon sequestration within forests. |
| SB 577
(Oropeza)
D - Redondo Beach |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would make a nonsubstantive, technical change to that provision. |
| SB 587
(Runner)
R - Lancaster |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last locations was E.Q. | Would also exempt printing, coating, adhesive application, or laminating equipment, as specified, from that permit requirement. The bill would limit this exemption to (1) equipment whose volatile organic compound emissions are no greater than 3 pounds per day or 66 pounds per calendar month, (2) equipment that employs ultraviolet (UV) or electric beam (EB) type materials and the total amount of inks, coatings, adhesives, or organic solvents used in this equipment, including in the cleanup, is no more than 6 gallons per day or 132 gallons per calendar month, and (3) equipment that employs UV or EB type materials that contain no more than 50 grams of volatile organic compounds per liter of material and use cleanup solvents containing no more than 50 grams of volatile organic compounds per liter of material. The bill would also correct an erroneous cross-reference. |
| SB 732
(Steinberg)
D - Sacramento |
Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bass. | Would require the various departments that are to implement the provisions of the initiative, among other things, to develop and adopt guidelines and regulations, consult with other entities, conduct studies, and follow certain procedures for establishing a project, or grant or loan program implementing the initiative. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 763
(Ridley-Thomas)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was B., P. & E.D. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would define various terms for purposes of these programs. It would additionally declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation providing that all economic development programs implemented by the agency should, at the discretion of the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing, adopt specified objectives. |
| SB 817
(Ducheny)
D - Chula Vista |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was E.Q. (05/02/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would additionally include, in the exemption from the requirement for obtaining a hazardous waste facilities permit, a hazardous waste treatment activity in which the generator treats spent photoimaging solutions that are hazardous solely due to their silver content, if specified conditions are met. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 857
(Correa)
D - Santa Ana |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was E.Q. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would authorize the San Joaquin Unified Air Pollution Control District and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to prepare a study and report to the Legislature, as specified, on the dollar amount that would be appropriate to authorize a tax credit for the purchase or replacement of qualified property, as defined, that is placed into service for the purpose of reducing air pollution. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| SB 908
(Simitian)
D - Palo Alto |
In Senate. To enrollment. | This bill would add the topic of “climate change” to an existing list of environmental education topics that must be included in the State Board of Education’s (SBE) and the California Department of Education’s (CDE) science framework. The CIWMB’s Office of Education and the Environment (OEE), in conjunction with Cal/EPA, is in the process of creating an environment-based K-12 curriculum for the science framework, also known as the Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI). |
| SB 932
(Ashburn)
R - Bakersfield |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to prepare, adopt, and revise a listing of wastes that are determined to be hazardous or extremely hazardous, for regulation pursuant to the Hazardous Waste Control Laws. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision. |
| SB 958
(Margett)
R - Glendora |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(3). Last location was RLS. (05/14/2007 marked 2 YEAR) | Would declare that these provisions shall be known, and may be cited as, the Hazardous Waste Control Law. |
| SB 974
(Lowenthal)
D - Long Beach |
From THIRD READING: Passed Assembly to CONCURRENCE. | Would require the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland to collect a user fee from the owner of container cargo moving through the Port of Los Angeles, the Port of Long Beach, or the Port of Oakland at a rate of $30 per twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU). This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1012
(Kehoe)
D - San Diego |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would extend until January 1, 2013, the self-generation incentive program for nonsolar distributed generation resources and requires the commission to limit the eligibility for incentives pursuant to the program to distributed generation resources that the commission determines support the state's goals for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The bill would require that combined heat and power units meet certain efficiency and emissions requirements, including the greenhouse gases emission performance standard, to receive incentives. The bill would require a customer receiving incentives for a combined heat and power unit to adequately maintain and service the unit so that during operation, the unit continues to meet or exceed the efficiency and emissions requirements. The bill would require the commission to ensure that distributed generation resources are made available in the program for all ratepayers. The bill would require the commission to provide from existing program funds, an additional incentive of 20% for the installation of eligible distributed generation resources that are manufactured in California by companies that maintain their principal place of business in California. The bill would prohibit recovery of the costs of the program from ratepayers that participate in the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program. The bill would delete the authorization for the PUC, in administering the program, to adjust the amount of rebates and evaluate other public policy interests and energy efficiency and environmental interests. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1016
(Wiggins)
D - Eureka |
Read second time. To third reading. | This bill would enact the Alternative Diversion Compliance System Act, which would require each city, county, and regional agency to implement the diversion programs in the source reduction and recycling element and to prevent an increase in the countywide total tonnage of solid waste disposed by the cities in a county, and unincorporated area of the county, as compared to the base tonnage year. The CIWMB would be required to determine the tonnage of solid waste disposed of in each county and each regional agency, at least once every 2 years to determine whether or not the county has met these requirements. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| SB 1020
(Padilla)
D - Van Nuys |
Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 8/30/2007 hearing) | This bill would require that, on and after January 1, 2012, a city or county must divert from landfill disposal or transformation no less than 75% of all solid waste, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities. |
| SB 1165
(Kuehl)
D - Los Angeles |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was THIRD READING | Would authorize a person to submit information or other comments to the lead agency and require the lead agency to consider and retain communications made to the lead agency or its consultants. The bill would require the lead agency to retain, in the ordinary course of business, administrative drafts, as defined, of its EIR, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declarations that are circulated among the project applicant and any public agencies when the draft EIR, negative declaration, or mitigated negative declaration is available for public comment. The bill would require the lead agency, which includes a local agency, to retain any administrative draft, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by requiring an increase in the level of service provided by a local agency. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1174
(Lowenthal)
D - Long Beach |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission 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 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. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| SB 1240
(Kehoe)
D - San Diego |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would require the state board to adopt, implement, and enforce a low-carbon fuel standard by regulation that achieves the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels, and at least a 10% reduction in the carbon intensity of transportation fuels by January 1, 2020. The low-carbon fuel standard would apply to all refiners, blenders, producers, and importers of transportation fuels to the extent permitted by law. The state board, in consultation with other specified state agencies, would be required to develop environmental reporting requirements to be imposed upon those subject to the low-carbon fuel standard. The State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission would be required to issue a report on the impacts of the low-carbon fuel standard. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1277
(Maldonado)
R - San Luis Obispo |
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. | Would require, on or before September 1, 2010, the Integrated Waste Management Board, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and the State Department of Public Health , to prepare and provide to the Legislature and post on the board's Internet Web site a study on the effects of synthetic turf and natural turf on the environment and public health . |
| SB 1278
(Maldonado)
R - San Luis Obispo |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(11). Last location was E. U., & C. | Would establish the Green Neighborhood Grant Act, to be administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Under the act, up to 3 grants would be awarded annually to private developers for residential development projects that have been certified by the Building Industry Institute as complying with the California Green Builder Program. Each grant would reimburse the developer for up to 1.5% of the total development cost of a certified residential development project. No more than one grant would be awarded annually to a developer for a residential development project located in a city with a population of greater than 1,000,000. Money for the grants would be paid from the General Fund, upon an appropriation by the Legislature. |
| SB 1321
(Correa)
D - Santa Ana |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would express findings and declarations of the Legislature with respect to the potential benefits of school recycling programs. The bill would , until January 1, 2012, require each school district to consult with the local Community Conservation Corps to obtain information in order to establish a beverage container recycling program at each school campus and public office of that school district, but only to the extent that the district does not incur costs. Under the bill, a school district would be authorized to choose whether to operate its own beverage container recycling program, to contact its local Community Conservation Corps or another recycler to collect the beverage containers, to provide a beverage container collection program as a fundraising activity for the school district, or to continue a recycling program in existence on January 1, 2009. Because the bill would impose new duties on school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1324
(Battin)
R - Moreno Valley |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). Last location was RLS. | The Public Utilities Act imposes various duties and responsibilities on the Public Utilities Commission with respect to the purchase of electricity and requires the commission to review and adopt a procurement plan and a renewable energy procurement plan for each electrical corporation pursuant to the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (renewable portfolio standard). The renewables portfolio standard program requires that a retail seller of electricity, including electrical corporations, community choice aggregators, and electric service providers, purchase a specified minimum percentage of electricity generated by eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, in any given year as a specified percentage of total kilowatthours sold to retail end-use customers each calendar year. This bill would make a technical and nonsubstantive change in the above-described renewables portfolio standard program requirements. |
| SB 1357
(Padilla)
D - Van Nuys |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would additionally authorize the department to expend up to $20,000,000 from July 1, 2009, through January 1, 2012, for either grants for beverage container recycling and litter reduction programs or focused, regional community beverage container recycling and litter reduction programs that meet specified requirements, thereby making an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1358
(Oropeza)
D - Redondo Beach |
Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(6). Last location was RLS. | Under existing law, various state agencies administer programs relating to public health and the environment. This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to public health and the environment. |
| SB 1391
(Padilla)
D - Van Nuys |
From committee: Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) | Would require the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt a statewide recycled water policy by January 31, 2009, and to make related recommendations . |
| SB 1405
(Padilla)
D - Van Nuys |
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. | Would revise the conditions under which the board is required to issue those loans to require the board to expend at least 50% of the amount available annually in the subaccount for loan amounts that are not more than 3/4 of the cost of the project or not more than $2,000,000 for the project, whichever is less. The board would be required to expend not more than 50% of the amount available annually in the subaccount for loans under which the maximum loan amount is limited to 3/4 of the cost of each project or not more than $5,000,000 for each project, whichever is less, and the project is for the diversion of priority materials from landfill disposal, as determined by the board. The bill would make an appropriation by changing the conditions under which the board may expend moneys from a continuously appropriated fund. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1426
(Calderon)
D - Montebello |
From Consent Calendar. Placed on inactive file on request of Assembly Member Torrico. | This bill is intended to provide manufacturers of recycled carpet additional methods to show compliance with the Department of General Services’ (DGS) current minimum content standard for recycled carpet. |
| SB 1473
(Calderon)
D - Montebello |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would require each city, county, or city and county to collect a fee from any applicant for a building permit, assessed at the rate of $4 per $100,000 in valuation, as determined by the local building official, with appropriate fractions thereof, but not less than $1. The bill would authorize the city, county, or city and county to retain not more than 10% of the fees collected for related administrative costs and for code enforcement education, including certifications in the voluntary construction inspector certification program. The bill would require the city, county, or city and county to transmit the remainder to the commission for deposit in the Building Standards Administration Special Revolving Fund which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would establish a state-mandated local program by imposing additional duties on local government. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1625
(Corbett)
D - San Leandro |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would rename the act as the California Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act. The bill would define the term "plastic bottle" as an individual rigid or semirigid container with a body consisting primarily of plastic and with a neck narrower than the body in which one gallon or less of any nonbeverage product is sold. The bill would define the term "CRV container" to mean a beverage container or a plastic bottle and would provide that the term "beverage container," when used in the act, means a CRV container. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. |
| SB 1663
(Denham)
R - Modesto |
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. | Would additionally require the tire recycling program to include the awarding of grants to cities, counties, and other local government and nonprofit entities to provide assistance to owners of farm property used for specified agricultural activities. The bill would require the grants to be expended only for the purposes of facilitating compliance with the requirements imposed upon the transportation of used and waste tires and for the removal of illegally disposed tires. The bill would make this grant program inoperative on June 20, 2012, and would repeal the provisions authorizing the program on January 1, 2013. This bill contains other existing laws. |
| SB 1670
(Kehoe)
D - San Diego |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | if approved by the voters at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, would enact the Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction State Building Trust Fund Act of 2008 to authorize the issuance of $2 billion in state general obligation bonds . The proceeds from the bonds sold would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used for the implementation of programs to reduce the energy used by state entities for state-owned and long-term leased buildings; to assist state entities in retrocommissioning and recommissioning state-funded buildings with the goal of ensuring that energy and resource consuming equipment with a United States Environmental Protection ENERGY STAR rating of at least 75 are installed and operated at optimal efficiency; and to assist public colleges and universities in financing energy efficiency measures consistent with the Green Building Action Plan. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| SB 1672
(Steinberg)
D - Sacramento |
Placed on APPR. suspense file. | Would create the Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Career Technical Education, and Clean Technology Job Creation Council comprised of 5 members. The council would be required to issue guidelines to implement the purposes of this act. |
| SB 1754
(Kehoe)
D - San Diego |
Do pass. | 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 make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions. |
| SB 1759 |