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



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Amended  IN  Senate  April 24, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 511

Introduced by Senator Blakespear

February 14, 2023

An act to add Section 38561.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to climate change.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 511, as amended, Blakespear. Greenhouse gas emissions inventories.
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, before January 1, 2028, to develop and publish, develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county, and special district, county that requests inclusion in the report, as provided. The bill would require the state board, consistent with the preparation of the updates to the scoping plan and before January 1, 2033, and every 5 years thereafter, to update the inventories inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the subsequent calendar years, as specified. year 2030 and every 5th year thereafter. The bill would authorize the state board to solicit bids and enter into contracts for the development of the inventories. The bill would require the state board, before January 1, 2026, to establish a local government advisory committee to inform its development of the greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories. The bill would allocate, make available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $2,500,000 in the 2024–25 fiscal year for above-described purposes.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


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 emission 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, develop, and publish on its internet website, a report on greenhouse gas emission emissions inventories for the calendar year 2025 for each city, county, or city and county, and special district, 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 emission inventories emissions inventories, for each city, county, or city and county that requests inclusion in the respective update, for the calendar year that is five years after the prior inventories, beginning with the calendar year 2025. 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 emission 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.