Bill Text: CA AB177 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public contracts: small businesses and disabled veteran

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 342, Statutes of 2010. [AB177 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB177-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 177	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Price

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   An act relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 177, as introduced, Price. Energy: Green Economy Inclusion Act
of 2009.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the
State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the
reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to
monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification
program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions limit equivalent to the statewide GHG emissions
levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state
board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to
achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective GHG
emission reductions.
   This bill would enact the Green Economy Inclusion Act of 2009 and
would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
ensure greater equity and inclusion of all Californians in the future
of developing and implementing climate change, transportation, land
use, and economic stimulus policies to reduce GHG emissions in
California.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  This act shall be known as the Green Economy Inclusion
Act of 2009.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) California communities most impacted by pollution, poor
health, and poverty lack the capacity to fully comprehend and
participate in the complex process of implementing the California
Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
   (b) There are a number of equity groups who are concerned that the
public health and economic benefits of implementing the act,
particularly as those benefits relate to low-income and urban
populations of color, have not been adequately presented, analyzed,
or incorporated into the implementation framework. Those concerns
include, but are not limited to, the costs for consumers and small
businesses, and inclusive standards for carbon offset sales.
   (c) It is critical that adequate opportunity exists for all
Californians to help ensure equitable emission reductions,
cap-and-trade or carbon offset sales program and regulations
development, as well as maximum social and technological innovation
in the future.
   (d) Authoritative data on California's energy, water,
infrastructure, small business, home ownership, vocational training,
and science and engineering workforce deficits attribute the deficits
to a chronic lack of capital, regulatory barriers and costs, and
fragmented approaches to policy implementation and action-oriented
responses.
   (e) The implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions
Act of 2006 presents a tremendous opportunity to stimulate California'
s low-income urban area economies, especially because the state
currently lacks an overall economic development and job creation
strategy.
  SEC. 3.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
to ensure greater equity and inclusion of all Californians in the
future of developing and implementing climate change, transportation,
land use, and economic stimulus policies to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in California.