AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 16, 2024
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 18, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
95
CHAPTER 595
Statutes of 2024
[ Approved by Governor September 25, 2024. Filed with Secretary of State September 25, 2024. ]
Introduced by Senator Skinner
January 17, 2024
An act to add and repeal Section 38561.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to greenhouse gases.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: yes Local program: no
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.
This bill would require the state board, in its next update to the scoping plan, to include a discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available and a discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are no zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2028, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2029.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38561.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
38561.7.
(a) In the next update to the scoping plan prepared pursuant to Section 38561, the state board shall include both of the following:
(1) A discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available.
(2) A discussion of industrial sources of emissions of greenhouse gases for which there are no zero-emission alternatives currently technologically available.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2028, and, as of January 1, 2029, is repealed.