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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 177	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Price

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   An act  relating to energy   to add Section
13985 to the Government Code, relating to economic development 
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	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 177, as amended, Price.  Energy: Green Economy
Inclusion Act of 2009.   Economic development. 

   The Business, Transportation and Housing Agency has various duties
regarding general supervision over the operation of the departments
within the agency, including the Department of Housing and Community
Development.  
   This bill would authorize the agency to develop regional plans and
collaborative efforts in specified fields regarding economic
development.  
   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
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) California's urban communities and neighborhoods within its
largest cities are remarkably diverse in their people, businesses,
and cultural heritage, and provide an enormous unrealized potential
for development of a skilled, educated, and sustainable workforce.
 
   (b) The state has a very high interest in helping urban
communities realize their potential because, among other things,
uplifting these communities generates higher tax revenue, lowers
social costs, and improves the health and overall quality of life for
residents.  
   (c) By supporting public-private partnerships, business,
education, and law enforcement entities in at-risk, underserved
communities, the state ensures a longstanding commitment to economic
self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights.  
   (d) Improving the economy and overall quality of life for the
people in at-risk urban communities requires a concerted,
coordinated, and creative response from leaders at all levels of
government and from the community.  
   (e) The Business, Transportation and Housing Agency has
established the California Urban Communities Collaborative, a
voluntary initiative that includes various pilot projects intended
to, among other things, facilitate collaboration among state and
local government agencies, community-based organizations, and the
private sector for the purpose of identifying, accessing, and
coordinating delivery of public and private resources to at-risk
urban communities within specified metropolitan areas to stabilize
the social structure, increase the living standards and the overall
economic performance, and improve the health of at-risk communities.
 
   (f) Supporting collaborative efforts for the leveraging of private
and nonprofit sector resources with public funds through
collaborative projects that can result in increased employment and a
higher standard of living in California urban communities. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 13985 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   13985.  The Business, Transportation and Housing Agency may
develop regional plans and collaborative efforts that include, but
are not limited to, any of the following:
   (1) Development of locally coordinated efforts that brings
together people, programs, and resources in an efficient
collaboration in the areas of health, education, public safety,
housing, economic development, employment, and job training.
   (2) Identification of public and private resources consistent with
the local community revitalization strategies.
   (3) Analysis of relevant programs and policies of government
agencies to determine what changes, modifications, or innovations
should be considered in state or local programs in the areas of
health, education, public safety, housing, economic development,
employment, or job training, if any, to better serve communities and
neighborhoods.
   (4) Development of short-term, intermediate, and long-term options
for promoting sustainable economic development.
   (5) Recommendations to integrate state initiatives and programs
into the design of sustainable economic and community development
action plans for the state's at-risk urban communities, consistent
with community revitalization plans.
   (6) Development of an annual work plan that details how the
specific goals, objectives, and actions will be achieved. 

  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.