Bill Text: CA SB415 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Air quality: rules and regulations: socioeconomic impacts assessment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB415 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB415-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 10, 2023 |
Introduced by Senator Durazo |
February 09, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would authorize a local air district to contract with a third party to conduct the required assessment of socioeconomic impacts, or portion thereof, as provided. The bill would require a local air district to ensure that a prospective third-party contractor includes in its proposal for the assessment specified information, including, among other things, a conflicts statement and a proposed schedule and budget for the assessment. This bill would expand the definition of “socioeconomic impacts” to include the disproportionate impact, if any, of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the rule or regulation on Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and women. The bill would require a local air district or the third-party contractor, if no
disproportionate impact is identified, to describe the basis for its conclusion that there is no disproportionate impact. By expanding the definition of “socioeconomic impact” for purposes of
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 40728.5 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:40728.5.
(a) Whenever a district intends to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule or regulation that will significantly affect air quality or emissions limitations, the district board shall, to the extent data are available, perform an assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the rule or(7)The disproportionate impact, if any, of the proposed action on Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and women. If no disproportionate impact is identified, the district board or the third-party contractor shall describe the basis for its conclusion that there is no disproportionate impact.
SEC. 2.
Section 40728.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:40728.7.
(a) Whenever the state board intends to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule or regulation that will significantly affect air quality or emissions limitations, the state board shall, to the extent data are available and, consistent with Section 40728.9, perform an assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of the rule or(4)The availability and cost-effectiveness of alternatives to the rule or regulation proposed to be adopted, amended, or repealed.
(5)The emissions reduction potential of the rule or regulation proposed to be adopted, amended, or repealed.
(6)
SEC. 3.
Section 40728.9 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:40728.9.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(3)An analysis of the disproportionate impact, if any, of the proposed action on Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and women. If no disproportionate impact is identified, the state board or the third-party contractor shall describe the basis for its conclusion that there is no disproportionate impact.
(4)
(D)An estimate of the impact that the proposed action will have on state revenues.
(5)
(6)
(7)