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SB-511 Greenhouse gas emissions inventories.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.
 The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:
(a) Local governments play a vital role in meeting the state’s climate goals and greenhouse gas emissions inventories are critical in developing data-informed climate action plans that direct limited local resources to implement climate action measures.
(b) There is a need for the state to support access to necessary data and the conduct of emissions inventories to make additional local resources and capacity available for implementation.

SEC. 2.

 Section 38561.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

38561.1.
 (a) (1) Before January 1, 2028, the state board shall develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the report, consistent with the U.S. Community Protocol for Accounting and Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Version 1.2, July 2019, developed by the ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability USA. The report shall include, at a minimum, electricity and natural gas usage data disaggregated by the residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors for each emissions inventory.
(2) Consistent with the preparation of the update of the scoping plan pursuant to Section 38561, before January 1, 2033, and every five years thereafter, the state board shall update the greenhouse gas emissions inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the calendar year 2030 and every fifth year thereafter.
(b) For purposes of subdivision (a), the state board may collect necessary data from state agencies, special districts, local governments, and electric and gas utilities.
(c) The state board may solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories.
(d) Before January 1, 2026, the state board shall establish a local government advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
SEC. 3.
 Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) shall be available in the 2024–25 fiscal year for purposes of Section 38561.1 of the Health and Safety Code.