AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 19, 2022
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 1, 2022
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
95
CHAPTER 366
Statutes of 2022
[ Approved by Governor September 16, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State September 16, 2022. ]
Introduced by Senator Laird
(Coauthors: Senators Becker, Hertzberg, Kamlager, Limón, McGuire, and Wieckowski)
February 16, 2022
An act to add Section 38560.7 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to climate change.
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 charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. 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 to create, and maintain on its internet website, a greenhouse gas emissions dashboard that provides updated publicly available information regarding how the state is progressing toward meeting its statewide climate change goals.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38560.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
38560.7.
The state board shall create, and maintain on its internet website, a greenhouse gas emissions dashboard that provides updated publicly available information regarding how the state is progressing toward meeting its statewide climate change goals.